Abdu
@bluemix.bsky.social
Software engineer trying to figure out life and my self
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Blender 5.0 Released https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-0/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45972519)
Blender 5.0 Released
www.blender.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Blender 5.0 Released https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-0/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45972519)
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New blog post, some thought experiments about learning from incident write-ups: surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/04/t...
Two thought experiments
Here’s a thought experiment that John Allspaw related to me, in paraphrased form (John tells me that he will eventually capture this in a blog post of his own, at which time I’ll put a …
surfingcomplexity.blog
October 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
New blog post, some thought experiments about learning from incident write-ups: surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/04/t...
Learned a lot!
October 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Learned a lot!
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BTD - Director Michael Powell - THE THIEF OF BAGDAD - 1940 - Japanese release poster
September 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
BTD - Director Michael Powell - THE THIEF OF BAGDAD - 1940 - Japanese release poster
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A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet https://messenger.abeto.co/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45396441)
Messenger
It's a small planet, but someone's gotta make the deliveries.
messenger.abeto.co
September 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet https://messenger.abeto.co/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45396441)
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Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor brutalita.com (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4534...)
Brutalita Sans
Brutalita is an experimental font and font editor, edit in your browser and download OTF.
brutalita.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor brutalita.com (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4534...)
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The Dutch school run.
An endless stream of pupils starting their day in a social, active, fun and healthy way.
🚲 🚲 🚲
An endless stream of pupils starting their day in a social, active, fun and healthy way.
🚲 🚲 🚲
September 16, 2025 at 6:46 AM
The Dutch school run.
An endless stream of pupils starting their day in a social, active, fun and healthy way.
🚲 🚲 🚲
An endless stream of pupils starting their day in a social, active, fun and healthy way.
🚲 🚲 🚲
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Swissquote has launched official support for GrapheneOS for their main app instead of it only being available for Yuh:
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
> What’s new
> - We now officially support GrapheneOS!
> - Bug fixes and minor improvements
They're verifying GrapheneOS via hardware attestation.
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
> What’s new
> - We now officially support GrapheneOS!
> - Bug fixes and minor improvements
They're verifying GrapheneOS via hardware attestation.
Swissquote - Apps on Google Play
Trade, invest and bank! Your all-in-one banking solution for smarter finances.
play.google.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Swissquote has launched official support for GrapheneOS for their main app instead of it only being available for Yuh:
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
> What’s new
> - We now officially support GrapheneOS!
> - Bug fixes and minor improvements
They're verifying GrapheneOS via hardware attestation.
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
> What’s new
> - We now officially support GrapheneOS!
> - Bug fixes and minor improvements
They're verifying GrapheneOS via hardware attestation.
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People do not believe that adding supply reduces housing prices www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4491...)
The Folk Economics of Housing
(Summer 2025) - Why is housing supply so severely restricted in US cities and suburbs? Urban economists offer two primary hypotheses: homeowner self-interest and political fragmentation. Homeowners,…
www.aeaweb.org
August 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
People do not believe that adding supply reduces housing prices www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4491...)
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Our first indie studio game is out! It's only a small project we worked on for a couple weeks. It's a fighting game about various flour sacks dishin' it out. Check it out please!
oomostudio.itch.io/sack-em
#indiegame #2danimation #oomostudio #SACKEM #pixelart
oomostudio.itch.io/sack-em
#indiegame #2danimation #oomostudio #SACKEM #pixelart
Sack 'Em by OOMOStudio
Beat the Sack out of these bags in this 2D fighting game all about various sacks.
oomostudio.itch.io
August 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Our first indie studio game is out! It's only a small project we worked on for a couple weeks. It's a fighting game about various flour sacks dishin' it out. Check it out please!
oomostudio.itch.io/sack-em
#indiegame #2danimation #oomostudio #SACKEM #pixelart
oomostudio.itch.io/sack-em
#indiegame #2danimation #oomostudio #SACKEM #pixelart
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I've been seeing a lot of these across Berlin. Are US brands feeling nervous about their American image? 🤔🤔🤔
August 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I've been seeing a lot of these across Berlin. Are US brands feeling nervous about their American image? 🤔🤔🤔
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Bad Day in Bagdad!
August 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Bad Day in Bagdad!
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Also big tech companies aren't building for people at all. They're building for advertisers. They're building for investors. They're trying to get government contracts. Facebook's business is "what would you pay to get billions of people to do what you want them to do?"
He can’t building anything compelling because he has no idea what life is like for ordinary everyday people. To have an insight is to have a life that delivers that insight.
All they have to sell at this point is surveillance and magical thinking.
July 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Also big tech companies aren't building for people at all. They're building for advertisers. They're building for investors. They're trying to get government contracts. Facebook's business is "what would you pay to get billions of people to do what you want them to do?"
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Apple's Liquid Glass: When Aesthetics Beat Function https://www.maxvanijsselmuiden.nl/liquid-glass (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44658103)
Apple's Liquid Glass: When Aesthetics Beat Function
www.maxvanijsselmuiden.nl
July 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Apple's Liquid Glass: When Aesthetics Beat Function https://www.maxvanijsselmuiden.nl/liquid-glass (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44658103)
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In disc phyllotaxis, like Fibonacci256, lighting every N LEDs from the center produces a pattern. If N is from the Fibonacci sequence a spiral (or mesh of spirals) is produced because the divergence (angle of succession in a single spiral arrangement) approaches the golden ratio.
evlgeni.us/f256hdr
evlgeni.us/f256hdr
July 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
In disc phyllotaxis, like Fibonacci256, lighting every N LEDs from the center produces a pattern. If N is from the Fibonacci sequence a spiral (or mesh of spirals) is produced because the divergence (angle of succession in a single spiral arrangement) approaches the golden ratio.
evlgeni.us/f256hdr
evlgeni.us/f256hdr
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A really old joke coded/drawn with HTML and CSS using (some) trigonometry functions –yes, CSS has a few of those too.
Source code and live demo available at #CodePen: codepen.io/alvaromontor...
#css #cssart
Source code and live demo available at #CodePen: codepen.io/alvaromontor...
#css #cssart
July 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
A really old joke coded/drawn with HTML and CSS using (some) trigonometry functions –yes, CSS has a few of those too.
Source code and live demo available at #CodePen: codepen.io/alvaromontor...
#css #cssart
Source code and live demo available at #CodePen: codepen.io/alvaromontor...
#css #cssart
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now would be a good time to invest in a new GPU: web frontend designers/developers will soon learn about physically based rendering, global illumination and ray-tracing!
SVG filters provide a basic lighting system you can sync with a little JavaScript and use in your web apps 💡
... not as powerful as MacOS implementation but pretty cool
... not as powerful as MacOS implementation but pretty cool
July 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
now would be a good time to invest in a new GPU: web frontend designers/developers will soon learn about physically based rendering, global illumination and ray-tracing!
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Read two books by Dorian Lynskey this year and really dug both of them. So personably written you don't mind being absolutely buried in context. Kinda what I aspire for my video essays to be.
July 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Read two books by Dorian Lynskey this year and really dug both of them. So personably written you don't mind being absolutely buried in context. Kinda what I aspire for my video essays to be.
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I don't know why George RR Martin takes so long to write his books, but I'll give you an example of why *I* am so slow.
Lemme tell you how I just finished an entire day of work by wanting to bang my head against the desk.
(AI-generated "portrait" of frustrated GRRM—so lousy, but love the 3 legs)
Lemme tell you how I just finished an entire day of work by wanting to bang my head against the desk.
(AI-generated "portrait" of frustrated GRRM—so lousy, but love the 3 legs)
May 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I don't know why George RR Martin takes so long to write his books, but I'll give you an example of why *I* am so slow.
Lemme tell you how I just finished an entire day of work by wanting to bang my head against the desk.
(AI-generated "portrait" of frustrated GRRM—so lousy, but love the 3 legs)
Lemme tell you how I just finished an entire day of work by wanting to bang my head against the desk.
(AI-generated "portrait" of frustrated GRRM—so lousy, but love the 3 legs)
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(1) I have long wanted to translate this 1997 interview with Keita Amemiya concerning the production of Nanatsu Kaze no Shima Monogatari. I did my best to maintain the format in which it is presented in Enix's 1997 artbook "Picture Imagination Book". archive.org/details/keit...
Keita Amemiya interview translation from "Nanatsu Kaze no Shima Monogatari Picture Imagination Book" : ENIX : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
English translation of the Keita Amemiya interview included in Nanatsu Kaze no Shima Monogatari - Picture Imagination Book published by Enix in Japan, 1997.
archive.org
May 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
(1) I have long wanted to translate this 1997 interview with Keita Amemiya concerning the production of Nanatsu Kaze no Shima Monogatari. I did my best to maintain the format in which it is presented in Enix's 1997 artbook "Picture Imagination Book". archive.org/details/keit...
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The Cannae Problem https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-cannae-problem/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43869288)
The Cannae Problem
It's August 2, 216 BCE. The Roman army stands in formation under the blistering Italian sun. Eight legions strong—the largest force Rome has ever fielded—nearly 80,000 men await the order to advance. Across the plain at Cannae stands Hannibal's army, outnumbered almost two-to-one. The Roman commanders, Consuls
www.joanwestenberg.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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📡 Broadcasting a new signal
On the eve of #WorldPressFreedomDay, R.E.M. is proud to announce Radio Free Europe 2025—a five-track benefit EP saluting 75 years of RFE/RL’s fearless journalism. Watch the full Dispatch video + learn more about Jacknife Lee and Mitch Easter RFE remixes
ffm.to/remrfe2025
On the eve of #WorldPressFreedomDay, R.E.M. is proud to announce Radio Free Europe 2025—a five-track benefit EP saluting 75 years of RFE/RL’s fearless journalism. Watch the full Dispatch video + learn more about Jacknife Lee and Mitch Easter RFE remixes
ffm.to/remrfe2025
May 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
📡 Broadcasting a new signal
On the eve of #WorldPressFreedomDay, R.E.M. is proud to announce Radio Free Europe 2025—a five-track benefit EP saluting 75 years of RFE/RL’s fearless journalism. Watch the full Dispatch video + learn more about Jacknife Lee and Mitch Easter RFE remixes
ffm.to/remrfe2025
On the eve of #WorldPressFreedomDay, R.E.M. is proud to announce Radio Free Europe 2025—a five-track benefit EP saluting 75 years of RFE/RL’s fearless journalism. Watch the full Dispatch video + learn more about Jacknife Lee and Mitch Easter RFE remixes
ffm.to/remrfe2025