ashn
@ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social
crashed-out cottagecore compiler dev and casual cooking enthusiast
personal website + blog + recipes: www.ashn.dev
personal website + blog + recipes: www.ashn.dev
Today’s the day!!!
I'm playing the original Guild Wars game in 2025, wild throwback to 2007 when I started playing! We released an update with some improvements to the game, and in particular make it work great on Streamdecks! www.guildwars.com/en/
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www.guildwars.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Today’s the day!!!
December 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Meal prep day! Egg bytes with veggies and bacon, and red lentil soup with potatoes, mushrooms, and zucchini!
November 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Meal prep day! Egg bytes with veggies and bacon, and red lentil soup with potatoes, mushrooms, and zucchini!
Spooky trying to sneak a bite of turkey. 🍗🐈⬛
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Spooky trying to sneak a bite of turkey. 🍗🐈⬛
Reposted by ashn
I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
This is 100% accurate, and it kills me a little bit inside.
Working for a SaaS company and then logging into bsky is a surreal experience because bsky is all "no one wants AI, ever" and in the meantime like 90% of real customer feedback I read at my real job is like "where the heck is your AI? I'll cancel if you don't add it by next week"
There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are:
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is 100% accurate, and it kills me a little bit inside.
@gregcons.bsky.social has a lovely CppCon talk from… *checks YouTube* …ten years ago (god I feel old) that lays a great foundation for how to teach newcomers C++ by skipping all the warts from C and “legacy C++” (some big air quotes there) because those C-isms and older patterns are just bad C++.
I know it's more complicated than this but it would genuinely be a better first approximation to tell newcomers that C/C++ does not have strings or arrays
"if you pass an array to a function it can no longer tell how big it is, you have to tell the function how big the array is in advance" - they made the language wrong then!
(i am joking but it is funny finding out how much harder this is than c# or python)
(i am joking but it is funny finding out how much harder this is than c# or python)
November 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
@gregcons.bsky.social has a lovely CppCon talk from… *checks YouTube* …ten years ago (god I feel old) that lays a great foundation for how to teach newcomers C++ by skipping all the warts from C and “legacy C++” (some big air quotes there) because those C-isms and older patterns are just bad C++.
I did not have original Guild Wars enhancements on my bingo card for this year, but I am genuinely so excited to see development effort coming into the game! I was planning on doing another full playthrough soon, so this is dropping at the perfect time! 🥳🎉
www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/news/a...
www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/news/a...
Announcing Guild Wars Reforged! – GuildWars2.com
The game that launched the Guild Wars franchise is about to be better than ever.
www.guildwars2.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I did not have original Guild Wars enhancements on my bingo card for this year, but I am genuinely so excited to see development effort coming into the game! I was planning on doing another full playthrough soon, so this is dropping at the perfect time! 🥳🎉
www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/news/a...
www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/news/a...
Reposted by ashn
C++ is for little worms
November 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
C++ is for little worms
How to Export and Rig an Old School RuneScape Character Model with Creator's Kit, Blender, and Mixamo: www.ashn.dev/blog/2025-11...
A beginner-friendly tutorial on exporting and rigging an OSRS player character model for use in Blender and other 3D creation tools.
#osrs #b3d
A beginner-friendly tutorial on exporting and rigging an OSRS player character model for use in Blender and other 3D creation tools.
#osrs #b3d
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 AM
How to Export and Rig an Old School RuneScape Character Model with Creator's Kit, Blender, and Mixamo: www.ashn.dev/blog/2025-11...
A beginner-friendly tutorial on exporting and rigging an OSRS player character model for use in Blender and other 3D creation tools.
#osrs #b3d
A beginner-friendly tutorial on exporting and rigging an OSRS player character model for use in Blender and other 3D creation tools.
#osrs #b3d
Oh hey I worked on this! Bonus fun fact: this feature accidentally ended up being really easy to implement due to completely unrelated work normalizing the behavior of VCL function calls. A great example how the right data structures and algorithms can allow your compiler to do more with less.
hellooo i wrote a blog post about some compiler stuff i helped work on. it's stuff you might take for granted in other ... normal languages. i'm extremely proud of the work we did! PLEASE LIKE IT
www.fastly.com/blog/vcl-sup...
www.fastly.com/blog/vcl-sup...
VCL Support for Parameters in Custom Subs | Fastly
Learn about Fastly's VCL syntax updates, including return values and parameters for custom subroutines, enabling better code reuse and abstraction.
www.fastly.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Oh hey I worked on this! Bonus fun fact: this feature accidentally ended up being really easy to implement due to completely unrelated work normalizing the behavior of VCL function calls. A great example how the right data structures and algorithms can allow your compiler to do more with less.
Reposted by ashn
since we’ll be heading into squash and sweet potato season soon, here’s a really tastey spice mix to enhance those veggies!!!! #spicemix #glutenfree #squash #potato #chicken #marceline
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
since we’ll be heading into squash and sweet potato season soon, here’s a really tastey spice mix to enhance those veggies!!!! #spicemix #glutenfree #squash #potato #chicken #marceline
Reposted by ashn
halloween is MY thanksgiving!!!! literally the best holiday. stay safe out there ghoulies 🥰🎃👻🧡🖤
October 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
halloween is MY thanksgiving!!!! literally the best holiday. stay safe out there ghoulies 🥰🎃👻🧡🖤
Lovely visualizations from the SpiderMonkey team. Really beautiful representations of the compiler internals, and an excellent walkthrough of the layout algorithm!
spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/10...
spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/10...
Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?
Exploring a new layout algorithm for control flow graphs.
spidermonkey.dev
October 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Lovely visualizations from the SpiderMonkey team. Really beautiful representations of the compiler internals, and an excellent walkthrough of the layout algorithm!
spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/10...
spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/10...
The Mellifera Master Plan to Improve Performance and Portability: www.ashn.dev/blog/2025-10...
The Python-based Mellifera reference interpreter is slow as hell and terrible to deploy outside of a Unix desktop environment. See the plan to fix those problems and more with an interpreter port to Go.
The Python-based Mellifera reference interpreter is slow as hell and terrible to deploy outside of a Unix desktop environment. See the plan to fix those problems and more with an interpreter port to Go.
The Mellifera Master Plan to Improve Performance and Portability
www.ashn.dev
October 26, 2025 at 3:35 AM
The Mellifera Master Plan to Improve Performance and Portability: www.ashn.dev/blog/2025-10...
The Python-based Mellifera reference interpreter is slow as hell and terrible to deploy outside of a Unix desktop environment. See the plan to fix those problems and more with an interpreter port to Go.
The Python-based Mellifera reference interpreter is slow as hell and terrible to deploy outside of a Unix desktop environment. See the plan to fix those problems and more with an interpreter port to Go.
Reposted by ashn
cohost.org is gone, but this post will never die:
![[by hystericempress]
Reflecting on it, the reason I think the OceanGate situation has become such a flashpoint for anger is because it's such a perfect microcosm of the problem with everything right now. Decisions are not made based on safety, reasonable caution, or concern for human life. Every decision is instead made from a default assumption of 'what if the bad thing just DIDN'T happen?' We are given pie-in-the-sky promises and sizzle reels and an endless PR hype-cycle for every new innovation and inevitably it fails to work, harms people, and then is maybe barely apologized for before the next bad idea comes down the pike. OceanGate's underengineered, undercooked, doomed submarine isn't merely a metaphor for the hubris of the wealthy, it is a scale model of the way the wealthy dictate our reality. All consequences can be ignored, all blowback can be forestalled, let the end-user eat the cost.
I am not angry because the submarine was badly-made. I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:752y77nxqoruw2serahdltgh/bafkreidtk34sqj3c62rjr743xrtkoghce5wyh35gtpoonbjp62xrwytt2e@jpeg)
October 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
cohost.org is gone, but this post will never die:
Really neat blog post. I did not realize how easy it was to set up custom Syntax highlighting with Rouge, and I think the custom styling here is quite readable. Although I do not have the spoons to set up custom syntax highlighting on my blog right now, I am definitely bookmarking this for later!
Doing my own syntax highlighting (finally): alexwlchan.net/2025/syntax-...
I’ve redesigned the syntax highlighting on my blog to use a smaller colour palette, so I wrote a bit about what I’ve changed, how it works, and why I think it’s better.
I’ve redesigned the syntax highlighting on my blog to use a smaller colour palette, so I wrote a bit about what I’ve changed, how it works, and why I think it’s better.
Doing my own syntax highlighting (finally)
I've redesigned my syntax highlighting scheme to use a smaller colour palette. Here's what I've changed, how it works, and why I think it's better.
alexwlchan.net
October 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Really neat blog post. I did not realize how easy it was to set up custom Syntax highlighting with Rouge, and I think the custom styling here is quite readable. Although I do not have the spoons to set up custom syntax highlighting on my blog right now, I am definitely bookmarking this for later!
I can confirm this is yummy af 🤤🍑🥣
🍑✨gluten free peach cobbler over night oats recipe (1 serving, easily vegan) ✨🍑
[full video on the gram]
[full video on the gram]
October 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I can confirm this is yummy af 🤤🍑🥣
Having a quiet morning with Cynthia. She is a good girlie
October 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Having a quiet morning with Cynthia. She is a good girlie
“Eating this grapefruit is masochistic.”
- wife
- wife
October 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
“Eating this grapefruit is masochistic.”
- wife
- wife
POV: You tried to take a 15 minute nap…
October 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
POV: You tried to take a 15 minute nap…
Our beeg boy Spooky likes watching DOOM gameplay.
October 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Our beeg boy Spooky likes watching DOOM gameplay.