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Adrian Marius Popa
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Game developer

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thestudyofwar.bsky.social
NEW: The Russian military command appears to be prioritizing the seizure of Pokrovsk over efforts to close the wider Ukrainian pocket in the Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad area.🧵(1/4)

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 14, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar111425

November 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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blowdart.me
I blame @swiftonsecurity.com for this genius idea
A back of a door show holder filled with cables and cable ties
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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charlie.daft.games
Some people run Debian on their raspberry pi.

Not me. I'm running it on a Pico. Not that I can log in due to how slow this is. 😆

(Okay, it's an rp2350 stamp, but...)
October 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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polpo.org
Are you ready for #PicoIDE? It seems to be telling me it's ready. Coming soon: ATAPI optical disc emulation and IDE hard drive emulation. picoide.com
A beige computer front with a PicoIDE (also in beige) in the 3.5" drive bay. The PicoIDE has a OLED screen showing the PicoIDE logo, a full progress bar, and the text "Ready!" There is a LED showing a cyan color, up/down/cancel/ok buttons, a microSD slot, and a 3.5" headphone jack.
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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lorak.bsky.social
Data centers are concentrated in these states- and here's how that is effecting electricity prices: www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/d...
Data centers are concentrated in these states. Here's what's happening to electricity prices
Residential utility bills rose 6% on average nationwide in August compared with the same period last year, according to the Energy Information Administration.
www.cnbc.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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visualstudio.com
CppCon 2025 brought the energy! From deep dives into C++ tooling to hallway chats that sparked new ideas, this year’s event was packed with insights and inspiration. If you missed it, check out the trip report from the Microsoft C++ team. msft.it/63325tzh5X
#CppCon #CPlusPlus
Microsoft C++ Team at CppCon 2025: Trip Report - C++ Team Blog
Another year and another CppCon is all wrapped up! Microsoft was pleased to once again be an exhibitor and to have several of our employees present sessions at the conference. Here are my major takeaways from the keynotes, sessions, conversations, and the general vibe. AI tooling is finding a footing with the C++ community. The […]
msft.it
November 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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skeet.best
BABIES ARE BORN WORSHIPPING UNKNOWN GODS — DWARF FORTRESS, BUG REPORT #13172
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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steveklabnik.com
“We adopted #rustlang for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density ... with Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one.”

security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...
Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in ...
security.googleblog.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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simonwillison.net
Some notes on GPT-5.1, which is now available in the OpenAI API

The new reasoning options are interesting, but the pelican feels like a bit of a regression from GPT-5 simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/13/...
Introducing GPT-5.1 for developers
OpenAI announced GPT-5.1 yesterday, calling it a smarter, more conversational ChatGPT. Today they've added it to their API. We actually got four new models today: gpt-5.1 gpt-5.1-chat-latest gpt-5.1-c...
simonwillison.net
November 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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arter.dev
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October 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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developers.google.com
🌟 Announcing a significant upgrade to the Gemini CLI user experience, making your terminal interactions more robust, intuitive, and visually stable.

It’s the same powerful Gemini CLI, just dramatically smoother!

See all the new upgrades here → goo.gle/3WV68ws
November 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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sungkim.bsky.social
Connect VS Code notebooks directly to Google Colab runtimes.

developers.googleblog.com/en/google-co...
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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aschilling.bsky.social
The DDR5 market goes crazy right now. On the German market, memory kits are sometimes twice as expensive as they were when they were launched a few months ago (or not available at all). This has also led to some memory manufacturers deciding not to launch new series at all.
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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theverge.com
For comparison, here's the second-generation Steam Controller (left) compared to its first-gen counterpart (right).
www.theverge.com/games/815061...
the second gen steam controller next to the old one. The new one is laid out more like a traditional game controller (centered joysticks) with Steam Deck-like touchpads underneath the joysticks. The more concave-ish old controller by comparison only has one joystick, two circular touchpads and buttons where a right joystick would usually be.
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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crobertcargill.bsky.social
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?

It's the Pope in 1982.
Exactly what it says on the label: The Pope in 1982. He's wearing a black hat, dark RayBans, and looks like he's a member of the Blues Brothers.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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timkellogg.me
Gemini 3 on par with experts

this riveting (surprise!) tale from a determined 18th-19th century historian explains

1. OCR can be difficult, excruciatingly difficult

2. Gemini 3 seems to do true reasoning to decipher old hand written ledgers, beyond GPT-5-Pro

open.substack.com/pub/generati...
If this behaviour proves reliable and replicable, it points to something profound that the labs are also starting to admit: that true reasoning may not require explicit rules or symbolic scaffolding to arise, but can instead emerge from scale, multimodality, and exposure to enough structured complexity. In that case, the sugar-loaf entry is more than a remarkable transcription, it is a small but clear (and I think unambiguous) sign that the line between pattern recognition and genuine understanding is beginning to blur.
November 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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valvesoftware.com
Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026:

Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame. 

Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Hardware
The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.
steampowered.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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noelreports.com
A Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter crew took down a Russian Shahed-136 kamikaze drone using onboard fire from an M134 Minigun.
November 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
"Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024."

#ClimateEmergency
Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence
Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenod...
essd.copernicus.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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markgongloff.bsky.social
In his moronic crusade for an outdated version of energy dominance, Trump has handed true energy dominance to the country’s biggest geopolitical rival

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/c...
A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned

Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)

What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts

www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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lauriewired.bsky.social
Shader systems are ridiculously powerful if you’re clever enough. 



Most people use them to create visual effects. You know what’s cooler?

Running Linux.

Inside an emulated RISC-V CPU. Inside a pixel shader. Inside of VRChat...
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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bboreham.bsky.social
This made me smile.

tabloid.vercel.app
Tabloid: the clickbait headline programming language
Tabloid is a real, turing complete programming language written in JavaScript, inspired by cilckbait headlines.
tabloid.vercel.app
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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lorak.bsky.social
Not a single one of these goals that Elon Musk has to hit in order to get his pay — totally unprecedented largesse — is pegged to a clear humanitarian or environmental goal. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/t...
Tesla says shareholders approve Musk's $1 trillion pay plan with over 75% voting in favor
Tesla shareholders approved CEO Elon Musk's historic pay package at the company's annual shareholders meeting in Austin, Texas.
www.cnbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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boterjan.com
Autogame Deluxe has been in development for over 10 years now.
"Is the game THAT big?!" well no, but stuff happens.
I started the prototype when I was still a dev duo with @thomasjager.nl.
Since then, I've added and removed soo much. People say "make a lot of small games", well this can work too...🧵
Ten people are sitting in front of large red arcade buttons in the main atrium of the Forum building in Groningen. In front of them is a large screen that has the lobby of Autogame Deluxe on. Around the players are more people standing and watching or visiting the Forum. All ten cars on the large screen are selected and in the center of the screen it says "Get Ready"
November 22, 2024 at 2:20 PM