Weather systems, item rarity beams... Making some progress. Actively working on: - Generated equipment models working on a rigged character... No idea how to guide the agent to do this properly, so I am having one agent look at the results, explain why it's terrible and what to do about it, and then having the other agent follow that advice. "Make no mistakes." - More natural placement of environment/scenery on the tactical maps so it's not a forest from a grid of identical trees. I'll likely start getting my @MacerusRPG account automated via @claudeai to post via @BrandGhostAI the status updates it makes as it's working through the day.

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I use both unit tests and functional/integration tests as tools in my development I like both approaches. I use both approaches. They're separate tools for separate situations in my development process. I know from many conversations (especially online where we have plenty of strong opinions) that people seem to gravitate to one or the other. Unit tests are too brittle. They don't offer value. You can't refactor code with them. Functional tests are too much work to setup. They're too complicated. They aren't granular enough to catch issues in a helpful way. Instead of focusing on all of the reasons why not... Try thinking about situations where these can be helpful tools. Watch the full video here: piped.video/watch?v=6so35iZN…

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You might not know of some of these tricks when downloading files in C#... When we download files in C#, using an HttpClient will have default behavior that we stream the entire contents of the file into memory. Depending on what you're trying to do, pulling in a big file into memory could be disastrous. I put together a series of videos that walk through different thoughts for downloading files in C#. Best of all? We can avoid pulling the whole thing into memory. Even more bestest of all? I have benchmarks to prove it. Check out these videos: - Header Property Selection: piped.video/PAXDf6j9rZQ - Making a File Downloader Class: piped.video/KPYVdRdY1k4 - Benchmarks: piped.video/QfVHmj1r8Lo Remember: The Internet has TONS of awesome cat videos, and if you can't store them all on your hard drive... You can bet that they aren't going to fit into memory either. Avoid allocating more than you need to! Do it for the cats. #csharp #dotnet #tutorial #coding

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