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Welcome IAmA! This is a place where people make posts and other people can then ask them questions

This version of the community is oriented towards topics relevant to the programming.dev communities

example post title: I am a game developer for X video game company, ask me anything

All posts must contain some form of proof showing that you are actually who you claim to be by connecting you to your lemmy username (if youre not famous that could just be editing your github or making a mastodon post in an account you use and then linking it as a minimum)

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I'm Ategon, one of the admins on programming.dev and developer for Pangora, AMA! (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey everyone! been a bit since I ran my last AMA so am running a new one. Feel free to throw down some questions below and ill answer them. (my AMAs are more asynchonous but everyone should get answers)

I'm a student in university and typically do both web and game development. Youll likely have seen me in the instance doing things related to community management to make sure things are running smoothly

Pangora is the name of the programming.dev lemmy fork thats been getting built up slowly with pangora-ui being the new frontend being made (very early alpha is up at https://beta.pangora.social and community on programming.dev is at [email protected] )

Other misc topics I can answer about: I compose music & make pixel art, my favorite games are minecraft, SCP:SL, everhood, battlerite, and metal slug 3, and recent games ive been playing are Mistward, Revita, and Puzzmo

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Just commenting here to thank you the mods. I use this instance to browse lemmy at work since the url looks professional enough for IT.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah no problem, thanks for using it! Credit goes to snowe for getting the url and starting this place up

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

And credit goes to you for continuing to keep it running. 🙏

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What improvements would you like to see to the backend to make developing the front end better?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Ive been finding the link between backend and frontend is fine for me to make frontend features pretty easily so dont know what improvements can be made on that front. This main things hindering development for me is the fact the backend is in rust which this is the first time im using it for a project and theres some niche things I want for certain features that need to be developed in the backend (being able to query for posts from multiple communities at once, having things in the modlog not be in separate categories and instead be returned together, etc.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just curious, which year are you?(guessing you are doing bachelor).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

im in my fourth year at the university but the uni considers me third year due to me being in a co-op program since they dont have a fifth year standing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you afraid of crunch in the gaming industry?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah crunch in gamedev tends to be pretty bad. (Although there's also fun crunch in gamejams I bring upon myself but thats less of a job)

The game industry in general is something I'm likely going to avoid for a primary job due to low pay and stress and just be something I do as a hobby. Been enjoying doing web dev in internships

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How was ur thanksgiving

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm in canada so last week wasn't Thanksgiving for me, it was in October

But it was pretty good, visited some family in Toronto

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Damn that's cool. What do u mean thanksgiving was in October?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Each country has their own date they celebrate thanksgiving on. In Canadas case its early october since that lines up with the end of the harvest season and it avoids cold weather that usually arrives end of october/november. Just assumed you asked the question cause most peoples thanksgiving just happened

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Where is canada