Nurzhan Saken
@saken.me
programmer (rustlang, kotlin) • github.com/nxsaken
It's a tragedy that an unsigned numeric type cannot express the size of its own domain.
November 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
It's a tragedy that an unsigned numeric type cannot express the size of its own domain.
Carton of Egg's (for @eggbreus.bsky.social's blog) #pixelart
November 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Carton of Egg's (for @eggbreus.bsky.social's blog) #pixelart
Grids and geometry are first-class citizens in my game engine. Same zero-cost APIs are used for graphics, level editor, collision detection, world maps. There's no difference between querying solids in an area and checking if a sprite has pixels of a color along a line. #rustlang #gamedev #indiedev
October 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Oh hey, another Rust release I contributed to (stabilized strict arithmetic, which panics on overflow)
Rust 1.91.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀
This version brings you tier 1 support for aarch64-pc-windows-msvc, warnings for dangling pointers to locals, new methods on AtomicPtr, array::repeat, BTreeMap::extract_if, const TypeId::of, and more!
Check out the announcement: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/10/30/R...
This version brings you tier 1 support for aarch64-pc-windows-msvc, warnings for dangling pointers to locals, new methods on AtomicPtr, array::repeat, BTreeMap::extract_if, const TypeId::of, and more!
Check out the announcement: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/10/30/R...
Announcing Rust 1.91.0 | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
blog.rust-lang.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Oh hey, another Rust release I contributed to (stabilized strict arithmetic, which panics on overflow)
My @obsidian.md vault has 3 note types: daily logs (yellow), events (blue/purple), and atoms (green). They follow some linking rules:
- daily log -> daily log (previous day)
- daily log -> event (exactly one per event)
- event -> event (towards the past)
- atom -> atom
- atom -> event (as examples)
- daily log -> daily log (previous day)
- daily log -> event (exactly one per event)
- event -> event (towards the past)
- atom -> atom
- atom -> event (as examples)
October 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
My @obsidian.md vault has 3 note types: daily logs (yellow), events (blue/purple), and atoms (green). They follow some linking rules:
- daily log -> daily log (previous day)
- daily log -> event (exactly one per event)
- event -> event (towards the past)
- atom -> atom
- atom -> event (as examples)
- daily log -> daily log (previous day)
- daily log -> event (exactly one per event)
- event -> event (towards the past)
- atom -> atom
- atom -> event (as examples)
It is viscerally satisfying to massage #rustlang libraries into being const, no_std, alloc-free, and as minimal as possible, with binaries managing the rest. It reminds me of the "functional core, imperative shell" pattern, and Hard Mode Rust (matklad). I wish to see more programs written like this.
Hard Mode Rust
This post is a case study of writing a Rust application using only minimal, artificially constrained API (eg, no dynamic memory allocation).
It assumes a fair bit of familiarity with the language.
matklad.github.io
October 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
It is viscerally satisfying to massage #rustlang libraries into being const, no_std, alloc-free, and as minimal as possible, with binaries managing the rest. It reminds me of the "functional core, imperative shell" pattern, and Hard Mode Rust (matklad). I wish to see more programs written like this.
Blitting images to a pixel buffer with clipping and a moving camera. About to extend this for animation and text rendering. Dogfooding crates.io/crates/clipline for line drawing helps improve the library as well :)
#rustlang #gamedev #pixelart #graphics
#rustlang #gamedev #pixelart #graphics
October 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Blitting images to a pixel buffer with clipping and a moving camera. About to extend this for animation and text rendering. Dogfooding crates.io/crates/clipline for line drawing helps improve the library as well :)
#rustlang #gamedev #pixelart #graphics
#rustlang #gamedev #pixelart #graphics
@buttplug.io puts the embedded in embedded systems.
October 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
@buttplug.io puts the embedded in embedded systems.
First #rustlang release I contributed to. I stabilized uN::*_sub_signed and the const floating-point rounding methods. Exciting!
Rust 1.90.0 has been released! ✨🦀
This release makes LLD the default linker on x86-64 linux-gnu and adds `cargo publish --workspace` to publish an entire workspace all at once!
Check out the blog post and release notes for more: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/18/R...
This release makes LLD the default linker on x86-64 linux-gnu and adds `cargo publish --workspace` to publish an entire workspace all at once!
Check out the blog post and release notes for more: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/18/R...
Announcing Rust 1.90.0 | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
blog.rust-lang.org
September 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
First #rustlang release I contributed to. I stabilized uN::*_sub_signed and the const floating-point rounding methods. Exciting!
Got a text from the police chief in my hometown. My dad (no contact since 2021) tried to report me missing after years of stalking. I had to send a video saying I'm fine and don't want contact with relatives. I thought the officer would pressure me, but he was really respectful! I'm relieved.
August 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Got a text from the police chief in my hometown. My dad (no contact since 2021) tried to report me missing after years of stalking. I had to send a video saying I'm fine and don't want contact with relatives. I thought the officer would pressure me, but he was really respectful! I'm relieved.
Just published clipline v4, a rewrite of my line rasterization crate with pixel-perfect clipping!
Star it on GitHub: github.com/nxsaken/clip...
Read the docs: docs.rs/clipline/lat...
#rustlang #pixelart #graphics #rendering #gamedev
🎵: cuddlemeta by lianhua
Star it on GitHub: github.com/nxsaken/clip...
Read the docs: docs.rs/clipline/lat...
#rustlang #pixelart #graphics #rendering #gamedev
🎵: cuddlemeta by lianhua
July 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Just published clipline v4, a rewrite of my line rasterization crate with pixel-perfect clipping!
Star it on GitHub: github.com/nxsaken/clip...
Read the docs: docs.rs/clipline/lat...
#rustlang #pixelart #graphics #rendering #gamedev
🎵: cuddlemeta by lianhua
Star it on GitHub: github.com/nxsaken/clip...
Read the docs: docs.rs/clipline/lat...
#rustlang #pixelart #graphics #rendering #gamedev
🎵: cuddlemeta by lianhua
Reposted by Nurzhan Saken
My new substack essay about the philosophy of love in WALL-E (2008) is finally out!
#Pixar #Disney #Moviereview
#Pixar #Disney #Moviereview
WALL-E-cology
How WALL-E changes everything he touches
open.substack.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
My new substack essay about the philosophy of love in WALL-E (2008) is finally out!
#Pixar #Disney #Moviereview
#Pixar #Disney #Moviereview
Sped up my line-drawing #rustlang crate by pairing const-generic clipping functions with fully runtime iterator states. I expected the opposite, but v3’s generic states actually slowed iteration! Early v4's runtime flags improved iteration, but made clipping twice as slow. Friendship wins!
May 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Sped up my line-drawing #rustlang crate by pairing const-generic clipping functions with fully runtime iterator states. I expected the opposite, but v3’s generic states actually slowed iteration! Early v4's runtime flags improved iteration, but made clipping twice as slow. Friendship wins!
On a recent rewatch, I noticed that when #SailorMoon changes her pose between her MSHA and RMHA attacks, it mirrors the pose of The Magician in the #Tarot. It kind of makes sense: she literally channels the Holy Grail into the new attack. I've never seen this pointed out, wondering if there's more.
May 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
On a recent rewatch, I noticed that when #SailorMoon changes her pose between her MSHA and RMHA attacks, it mirrors the pose of The Magician in the #Tarot. It kind of makes sense: she literally channels the Holy Grail into the new attack. I've never seen this pointed out, wondering if there's more.
I want a reversible Bresenham iterator, but there’s an issue. Same line segments in opposite octants can be off by one pixel, i.e. iterating (0,0)→(8,3) vs (8,3)→(0,0) yields (4,2) vs (4,1). Fixing it is not required, but could make the reversed iterator easier.
Thought of that scene in Zoolander.
Thought of that scene in Zoolander.
a close up of a man 's face in front of a crowd
Alt: Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson locked in a slow-motion stare-down (scene from Zoolander).
media.tenor.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I want a reversible Bresenham iterator, but there’s an issue. Same line segments in opposite octants can be off by one pixel, i.e. iterating (0,0)→(8,3) vs (8,3)→(0,0) yields (4,2) vs (4,1). Fixing it is not required, but could make the reversed iterator easier.
Thought of that scene in Zoolander.
Thought of that scene in Zoolander.
April 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM