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Sean Carroll
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Software engineer | Chicago | Film | Video Games
Slowly working on Doctavious - Dev Portal
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musicboxtheatre.bsky.social
Ladies and gentlemen, the Music Box house organist, Mr. Dennis Scott🎶🎶

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Dennis Scott is the man who makes the Music Box sing
The organist has soundtracked Christmas for 30-plus years.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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noclipvideo.bsky.social
🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️

The Making of Disco Elysium - Part One: Foundations
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After over 18 months of research, interviews & editing our Disco Elysium series is here.

In this first episode we focus on the cultural and personal foundations of the world of Elysium.
The Making of Disco Elysium - Part One: Foundations
YouTube video by /noclip
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November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
scarroll.bsky.social
Saw this randomly in theaters and was pleasantly surprised. Worth a watch this Christmas
foundfootagefan.bsky.social Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.social · 2d
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) 🎥
Directed by Jalmari Helander

Young Pietari lives with his reindeer-herding father in artic Finland.
On the eve of Christmas, a nearby excavation makes a frightening discovery and an evil Santa Claus is unleashed...

#FilmSky
November 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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fasterthanli.me
Okay, I made a GitHub issue about a tentative design to track spans when deserializing JSON/TOML/YAML/béchamel

Your feedback is WARMLY sollicited:

github.com/facet-rs/fac...
Design: deserializing while tracking (and recording) span info · Issue #930 · facet-rs/facet
You can do: #[derive(Facet)] struct Blah { field: u32, } But then when you do facet_yaml::from_str(...) then the Blah value you hold after that doesn't have any positional information. Now, let's a...
github.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
scarroll.bsky.social
Love that the Simpsons is using the plot of Trap
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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gunnarmorling.dev
📺 "Distributed Systems 6.2: Raft"

Enjoyed this intro to the Raft consensus algorithm, part of a larger DistSys lecture series by @martin.kleppmann.com. The pseudo-code makes it actually digestible really well. Great watch!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXEY...
Distributed Systems 6.2: Raft
YouTube video by Martin Kleppmann
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November 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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noclipvideo.bsky.social
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November 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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timclicks.dev
Productivity tip for people using #rustlang: The rustup command can generate shell completions for your shell:
Terminal snippet showing shell commands to add shell completions for Rust using the bash shell. Provides commands and a help note for other shells.
November 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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razzball.bsky.social
Curb music plays
Sowing Still sowing Reaping
November 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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mara.bsky.social
🦀 I've improved the implementation behind all the string formatting macros in Rust: println, panic, format, write, log::info, etc. (Everything using format_args!().) They will compile a bit faster, use a bit less memory while compiling, result in smaller binaries, and produce more efficient code! 🎉
The source of the standard Rust Hello World program with the generated assembly before and after the change. The before version has 11 instructions and stores 56 bytes on the stack. The after version has 3 instructions and stores no data on the stack.
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
scarroll.bsky.social
@andyrichter.co you were great on DWTS! Sad to see you go. Traitors when?
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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damianedwards.com
aspire.dev!
Aspire—Your Stack, Streamlined
Aspire streamlines your development workflow with code-first control, modularity, and observability for distributed applications.
aspire.dev
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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duendesoftware.com
Congratulations Microsoft with the #dotnet 10 release! devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/annou...

Who's upgrading, when? (We're on it for our SDKs)
Announcing .NET 10 - .NET Blog
Announcing the release of .NET 10, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C# 14, .NET MAUI, Aspire, and so much more.
devblogs.microsoft.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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rust-lang.org
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...
Announcing Rust 1.91.0 | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
blog.rust-lang.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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musicboxtheatre.bsky.social
Spend Halloween night with Kiyoshi Kurosawa's psychological thriller CURE, presented by MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS!

This Friday October 31st at 9pm
Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
October 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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was.tl
Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more:
adventofcode.com/2025/about#f...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
scarroll.bsky.social
More support for Minocqua Brewing while watching football and doing chores
Love Wins beer by Minocqua Brewing
October 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
scarroll.bsky.social
But behind in my Spooktober movies Watched Bring Her Back which had a number of chilling scenes. Not sure if i lean more Talk To Me person or not but they are close. Also just finished The Substance. Demi Moore was great. Had a good long conversation about the themes.
October 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
scarroll.bsky.social
Spent some time earlier this week at Acadia National Park. Random pic near Thunder Hole
Acadia National Park shoreline near Thunder Hole
October 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
scarroll.bsky.social
Ready to see some magic at the Chicago Theater #pennandtellerlive
Picture of the Chicago Theater stage for Penn and Teller live 50th anniversary
October 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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musicboxtheatre.bsky.social
Join us for one of the great treasures of the Ozploitation wave, the ghost story/giallo/psychological thriller NEXT OF KIN!

Co-presented by Synth History

This Sunday at 8:40pm - This screening is FREE for Music Box Members!
Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
October 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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doomcube.bsky.social
The Séance of Blake Manor is part of the Steam Next Fest. Check out the demo if you haven't already.

The game is launching on the 27th of Oct!

Play now: bit.ly/47Pm8XA

#indiegames
October 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
scarroll.bsky.social
Finally finished Terrifier 3. Ooff….that was a lot.
October 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
scarroll.bsky.social
Just heard The Great North was cancelled. Damn 😞
October 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM