Michael Walter Van Der Velden

A "rocketship" made of flowers within oldschool runescape

The internet will never change...

I just completed "Playground" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/8

I really need to remember to press the share button each day

I've completed "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/7

I just completed "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/5

I just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/3

I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/2

I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1

Been getting an increased amount of spam tagging me in bluesky these past few days. Not entirely sure what to make of it...

Shutting Down Not Another CV A few years ago I excitedly launched a new personal project, called NotAnotherCV. It was a web app that was designed to be a place where you could manage your CV and track which companies downloaded i...

I've shutdown my CV management tool

mikevdv.dev/blog/2025-11...

I'm like 45% of the way through a really important set of fixes for the player controller in Mirrorstone.

A key benefit is that the player puppets will also work for NPCs.

#gamedev #rust #bevy #mirrorstone #indeidev #rustlang #bevyengine #mmo #rpg #mmorpg

My god writers, that would make the guy a white hat himself or at least somewhat grey.

Not to mention the fact that if you're hacking someone because of an ethical disagreement, you're not white hat...

😂 I'm sure that anyone in biology has similar issues with DNA sampling in TV or the something...

"I wanted to protect him from the white hats...ethical super hackers that disagreed with him"
"So you wanted to protect him from hackers by hacking him..."

They plug in a usb stick and it had "malware that breached our firewall, I'm running every antivirus I can think of" 🤢

My suspension of disbelief can only work so hard...

While I typically hate trash TV, my guilty pleasure is crappy police consultant procedurals.

However, as someone who works in tech, whenever the - somehow compulsory - topical tech episode comes up I immediately glaze over...

Added the ability to check any player's stats on the in progress website.

Today is my first day back at work after the wedding. That means I won't be doing any game dev probably until Monday evening.

Oh I love these sprites. They're so pretty 😍

Potentially very useful. I'll have to take a look...

Getting married tomorrow. Ain't that an interesting turn of events. Only 2 years of planning with my best friend and love of my life to get to this point.

The mirrorstone site designed for 4/3

Really think that designing the website for 4/3 is a great idea for my retro online rpg.

First time doing a website exclusively using rust too so that's been interesting.

Yes I'm getting married on saturday, im staying calm.

#mirrorstone #rpg #mmo #mmorpg #gamedev #indiedev #rust #rustlang

Pixel art ui test

Doing a quick test to see if I can make the website look like the game's UI.

#mirrorstone #pixelart #webdev #rust #rustlang #mmo #mmorpg #rpg

While I do respect it and i understand the reasoning. I've also had to deal with enough bug reports caused by the over zealous use of adblock ( combined with the misuse of tag manager ) that I can't do this out of respect for other developers 😅

I'll post about it here.
Same bat time! Same bat channel!

Decided I'm going to use Dioxus for the mirrorstone site so i can have it share some code with the game for stuff like avatar rendering and authentication.

dioxuslabs.com

Rust code showing the error messages supported by my orpg's networking protocol

Supports the following error messages for now. I figure this should cover me for the time being.

For way, way to long. If there's an error on login it would crash the dev build of the game. This is now resolved.

#gamedev #indiedev #mirrorstone #bevy #rust #rustlang #mmo #rpg #mmorpg

Using public transport for school trips should be considered a war crime. What do you mean there's 30 kids on a train carriage on a peak time train...

And that's it. I'm off work for my wedding next week 👋🏻

10 days left till my wedding

I feel like a kid who's counting down to their birthday 🎈