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@mike_acton

Leadership. Video game development. Family. Engine Programming.

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  1. 9 hours ago

    The distance between 2021 and Star Wars is the same as the distance between 1980 and The Great Depression. A reminder in case you’re talking to a younger person who doesn’t know or care who Luke Skywalker is, for example.

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    Jun 3

    Oh look it's me! I did a interview with and to participate in their Early Career Showcase! I talk a bit about making video games in and what it's like to be breaking into the industry while being a 💜 ((link in comments))

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  3. Retweeted
    May 31

    It was a great pleasure to talk to on these topics that are close to his heart. He has been a huge inspiration throughout these years with all the knowledge he has shared.

    Episode 2 is now live: Talking about leadership in game development with Mike Acton, VP of DOTS at Unity. Video Interview: Links to listen on your favorite podcast app:
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  4. May 31

    Early Career Showcase S1E1 with Kai Nyame () ⁦(interview with me and ⁦⁩)

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  5. May 29

    Turns out debugging skills are transferable. Decided to dig in and found the root cause of an electrical problem in family car (random 5amp spikes when car off draining battery) It was ultimately caused by the decidedly non electrical bike rack. That was a fun one.

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  6. May 28

    Don’t know what kind of post pandemic party this lady is throwing but it seems fun.

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  7. May 23

    To my friends working in auto looking for that next hot new sensor to add to their car of the future, let me suggest the “you left something on the roof sensor.” You can have that idea for free.

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    May 4

    it's almost time...

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  9. Apr 22

    I’m sure I meant something helpful whenever I wrote this note for myself. But right now, I have no idea what that might’ve been.

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  10. Apr 3

    After now having used it for a while, my opinion is that MagSafe charging is substantially worse than using a cable. Finickiness (lack of predictability) undermines usability.

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  11. Mar 27

    When you accidentally stumble into Evolutionary Biologist Twitter.

    Here's a relatable question that's sure to go viral: 💀 What animals are on your skull list? 💀 (as in, you'd collect the corpse to preserve no matter how gross the process because it's too cool to leave behind)
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  12. Mar 24

    This was a talk I gave in Tehran and was such a great experience. I hope to return there one day and wish all the people I met there the best, especially those that are struggling with the choices of their government.

    Real Engineering with
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    Mar 17

    Potentially useful: scientists at the Department of Defense have created a free web tool that draws on a extensive research to give you exact caffeine dosing schedules to maintain optimal alertness given any level of sleep deprivation you select. 👁☕️👁

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    Mar 14

    35 years ago ( 1986 ) I was in the early stages of developing my first commerical shoot-em-up game 'Galaforce' for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. A couple of years ago I made the full 6502 assembly source code for the game available on GitHub.

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  15. Mar 14

    4yo (while eating at the table): “Dad, now I’m not getting distracted. I just need to use these [imaginary] shoes to test the [imaginary] path for [imaginary] traps. Then I can go over there and deactivate the system. So, that’s not getting distracted [from eating.]” ¯\(°_o)/¯

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  16. Mar 13

    * you’re

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  17. Mar 13

    “Over 90% of consumers have green eyes. (See the report.)” The market for obviously and self-evidently fake bullshit is pretty strong. I mean if your already investing in Bitcoin and NFTs, and you’re looking for some new opportunities.

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    29 Dec 2020

    Our amazing RNA structure drawing program is now on-line! Extensive annotations, pair/unpair bases, pivot stems, add/subtract sequence, color by SHAPE, search for alternative pairings, etc., and downloads to SVG or PPT as separate objects. Check it out at

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  19. Mar 13

    I am now officially this many years old.

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    Mar 5

    Today I've been dealing with a framerate dip where literally 50% of the wasted time was spent in strcmp().

    Evergreen tip: don’t use sscanf(). Or strlen(). Or strings.
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