Finn @relsqui@mastodon.social

most of the stuff I've been working on the last couple of days has been under the hood, apart from one of the most satisfying #gamedev gifs I've ever recorded

pro tip: stay out of their way. or, at the very least, get something else between you and them. #gamedev

the black phoebe on the left really wanted to get its portrait taken that day, it sat on the lowest wire right outside my front door and posed for several minutes.

I guess the green heron is kinda the opposite, it would probably have preferred not to be seen, on account of it was hungry

more bird friends through my phone camera and tiny zoom!

first photo is a small black songbird with a gray belly perched on a metal chimney (a black phoebe, I think)

second is a female goldeneye, a brown patterned duck with a severe beak and a huge yellow eye, swimming.

third is a group of four mallards, the common ducks with green heads and brown bodies, on the water

last is a black and white duck (bufflehead I think?) on the water, wings outstretched and head back like it's about to burst into song

oh I forgot to include the one I'm actually having trouble with, which is the duck on the left here. it hangs out with the mallards but doesn't look like a mallard. (not even a lady mallard, like the photo on the right.) best guess I've got from photos is lady redhead but I know those aren't common so I'm not confident in it. who knows #ducks?

I bought a tiny zoom lens for my phone -- it's just a cheap telescope and a cheaper plastic clamp. not expecting to take art photos with it, but I've been dabbling in birding and thought it might be handy for faraway IDs. I took it out for practice yesterday and mostly learned that distance is not usually the limiting factor (position/movement and lighting are) but still had fun learning to use the thing. #birds #photography

still waiting to see who's going to make America great for the first time

#streaming some #hearthstone because I feel like it! #gameing https://twitch.tv/relsqui

this is blatantly false honestly, the two companies I was thinking of are Nearly Free Speech (which is intentionally barebones webhosting to keep costs down, and their FAQ is pretty good) and You Need a Budget (which puts a lot of work into documenting their extremely confusing product, they just put a lot of it in places like videos and workshops where I'll never see it)

if your support page links to your user forum, you are not prioritizing documentation enough