At work, everything is named after cold things. The engine is called Frostbite, and we have tools with names like Avalanche, Blizzard, Frosting, Icepick...

A few months ago I created a service that acts as a broker between several computers, and I named it... >> Icebroker <<

This pun is what I'm most proud of in my entire career.

Just so you know, "git -amend" doesn't amend anything.

It gets parsed as: git -a -m 'end'

That is, it commits all modified files with a message that just says "end"

I suffer so you don't have to ?♂️

Hey #MeetTheDev and fediverse!

I'm Jon Valdés, and I've been working as a graphics programmer at the Frostbite "Image Quality" group for the last 2.5 years.

Somehow, I've always managed to work a lot on game tech, and only very little on the games themselves, but this means good chunks of my code have now permeated to almost all Frostbite games in production!

Instead of having an "I worked on that" moment every 2-5 years, I have "my code's in there" ones several times a year ?

"They didn't need precision. Only technology, and patience.

The plan was simple: they would track his phone's position, and send telemarketer calls to cars approaching the same intersection as him.

Some of those would pick up the phone. Some of those wouldn't see him coming. One of those would kill him.

And nobody would suspect them"

#microfiction #DeathByGoogle #writing

I'm writing some microfiction stories of ways Google could use its technology to assassinate people. Anyone wanna join?
#DeathByGoogle #writing #microfiction

It's called __Angry__ Birds.
The central bird is laughing.
Why.

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