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Alice I Cecile
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Full-time engine dev for Bevy: an open source Rust game engine.

I design games, make all manner of things, and occasionally go outside ;) Once upon a time I was a plant ecologist!
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The line count is high, as expected for a vendoring PR. Really thorough review: love to see the beautiful histograms from a *reviewer*. Code is good, and the initial improvements are nice.

Approving and pinging maintainers for a "speak now or forever hold your peace'.
A histogram of frame times showing a reduction in variance but not overall frametime. This is expected despite speedups in various subcomponents as the frame time overall is still rendering bound.
October 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
alice-i-cecile.bsky.social
5. github.com/bevyengine/b...

A classic programming optimization: invert your containers based on the expected structure of them to save lookups in the tight loop. 30% speedup on a stress test: I like to see those kind of perf numbers!
A flame graph showing an improvement from 140 microseconds on average to 97 microseconds on average following this change.
September 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Last Thursday I took a day off work to go blackberry picking on Vancouver Island. What a lovely decision that was! They are *everywhere*: growing wild in all of the marginal spaces around town. I picked two quarts in a couple hours, dropped one off for a local friend, and then quickly ate the rest!
Blackberries growing wild over a fence at an unused lot. A huge blackberry bush, laden with ripe and unripe berries. A full quart of juicy blackberries, sitting on the back of a bicycle. Freshly picked blackberries sitting in a bowl at home.
July 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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This PR (which is D-Trivial, and only needed 1 approval), has accumulated not one, not two, but *more than 50* approvals. Why? Who knows! The community has spoken, and I'm pretty sure Francois was *forced* to merge this in.

Let this be a lesson: you too can review and approve Bevy PRs!
A screenshot of the "don't normalize twice for no reason" PR showing an absurdly long list of approvals.
July 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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12. github.com/bevyengin...

More widgets! This time, a scrollbar! I even have a janky screenshot of a video recording of it for you! Very pleased about this: scrollbars are incredibly useful for both games and tools.

And more widget types are key to evaluating bigger-scale changes to UI paradigms.
July 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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A polished commercial #visualnovel? In #rust?! Made with #bevy?! Better believe it :D

Long Story 2 looks super cute, and I'm beyond happy that our #opensource engine could play a role in bringing it to life. Check it out at store.steampowered.c...
June 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Vacation has been lovely: family, nature, #photography and a spot of light #bikepacking. I spent a night on Gabriola Island, which TBH is basically Stardew Valley IRL. Now it's time to show the in-laws around BC :D
A orange bike in front of a green hammock covered by an orange tarp at a campsite. The tarp is too small! A beautiful view of a wooded trail looking out onto an ocean cove at sunset. A rocky beach at dawn, with a lone sailboat on the water. A delicious looking pile of French toast, with powdered sugar and fruit compote.
April 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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And humans! I'm really more of a nature photographer but it's nice to take shots of my loved ones and myself from time to time.
A beautiful woman dressed in hiking gear (that's my partner Sixfold!) looks out over an almost-as-beautiful strait with sunlit clouds beside a hiking sign. A smiling woman (Sixfold!) with an orange hat, orange pants and funky purple sunglasses is leaning on a set of wooden stairs as the camera looks along a rocky coastline. A woman in silhouette (me!) gazes out moodily across the strait as the sun sets, casting a beautiful reflection on the calm water. A grinning woman with wild hair (me) kneels in front of a white flower with yellow stamen. It appears to be a selfie!
April 2, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Another beautiful little #bc hike today, this time to Jack Point. And the #photography to back it up. Nature first.
A tree stands alone beside a gravel path beside the ocean over a strait. Mountains and low clouds can be seen in the background a sunbeam pierces the shot from the left. An artsy shot of a nearby wide and stout tree as it casts its shadow on a gravel path. You can see the ocean and mountains in the background. A dark and moody shot of a gnarly dead tree leaning out over the water. Four bald eagles sit in a tree beside a composting facility. A bright orange traffic cone can be found in the bottom left on the side of the road.
April 2, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Vancouver Island is astonishingly beautiful. So much nature! I'm really happy here :D #photography
A tall stump beside a stream in a PNW forest. There's little eyes carved into the stump, forming a funny little dude. A serene shot of a lake with mountains in the background. A shot over the suburbs with the Rockies and the Pacific Ocean in the background. An unidentified (please help!) scraggly shrub covered with light pink dangling flowers.
March 31, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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I was run over by a truck as a kid and ended up in a wheelchair for some formative years of my life, and let me tell you: damn it feels good to have wheels again!

Wheelchairs (and crutches) were always about personal freedom and fucking around to me: biking gives me exactly the same feeling <3
An orange hardtail mountain e-bike is posed on a ledge in a beautiful Pacific Northwest forest.
March 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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I was run over by a truck as a kid and ended up in a wheelchair for some formative years of my life, and let me tell you: damn it feels good to have wheels again!

Wheelchairs (and crutches) were always about personal freedom and fucking around to me: biking gives me exactly the same feeling <3
An orange hardtail mountain e-bike is posed on a ledge in a beautiful Pacific Northwest forest.
March 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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12. github.com/bevyengine/b...

Honestly, this is the sort of thing that will blow your mind if you've been playing with #rustlang or simply #programming for a while.

Bevy 0.16's docs are going to ship with color-coded tags for key traits. Just a bit of HTML! Now with `Relationship`! Merging :D
A screenshot of rustdoc showing a struct with color-coded tags for the critical Bevy-centric traits it implements: Event, Plugin, Resource, etc. Now with `Relationship`!
March 4, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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This weekend's little hike took us out to the Cable Bay Trail, where we spontaneously followed the sound of sea lions to find them resting on floating logs in the bay!
A beautiful view onto a bay, surrounded by forest on both sides. Moss and lichen overgrowing a small dead tree branch. Sea lions resting on a raft of floating logs.
January 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I think I might like it here. This is Ammonite Falls, BC. I can go outside even in the winter!
A rather wet Alice is smiling in front of a tree under her rain jacket, with a waterfall in the background.
January 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
alice-i-cecile.bsky.social
Alright, basic camera following is a go. smooth_nudge is great :D

I want to do more, but I'm being summoned to go make dinner and it's the end of the work day. Bah! See you next week, unless I sneak in more :p
A basic platformer level, with the camera behind the player character.
December 9, 2024 at 1:19 AM
alice-i-cecile.bsky.social
Oh hey, that was easy. My little dude is walking around! Well, floating. I think that the offset from the capsule isn't correct / needed? Radius is also a bit big.

Well, I just fell through the floor after removing that offset. Hmm.
The little dude from the last post is floating over a platforming test level.
December 8, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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Okay, in order for any of this to make sense, it's time for a better character model. I really need something that's at least orientable :( Here's a quick-and-dirty little dude that will do for now:
A very very low polygon "character" with legs, a body and a red head. Shown in Blender. Kinda like a blocky Rayman??
December 8, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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Alright, sweet: I have a little character controller demo scene up and running! Thanks @jondolf.bsky.social :D Feels pretty good TBH. Time to set up Git LFS and commit this. After that, some basic code hygiene stuff to start defining the initial project structure 😅
A boxy green-and-brown level with ramps. There's a crate to push around and a capsule for the player character.
December 8, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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Some breathtaking #photography from my early morning bike ride. Did I miss an appointment because my phone died and I got lost? Yes. Was it worth it? Yes!
A beautiful pink foggy sky above a bike path. There are conifer trees on the right, and a highway to the left. A view of a wooded stream from a pedestrian bridge.
December 5, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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What a lovely day exploring Nanaimo. Lots of car dominated suburbs, but still shockingly beautiful, friendly and not covered in snow. This is going to be fun!
A small modern library nestled between conifer trees. A waffle covered with blueberry sauce and whipped cream. You feel hungry just looking at it. A beautiful view of a playing field surrounded by trees. The afternoon sun is beating down and there's a mist shrouded mountain in the background. A macro photo of a wall covered in moss. Purple berries with red stems are growing on top.
December 4, 2024 at 12:13 AM