Rusty XYZ
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finding x, asking y, putting the z in disruption
an engineer, slighty rusty 🦀
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Rusty XYZ
@rustyxyz.bsky.social
· Sep 1
I want to like the Rust programming language. I just <can’t> impl Love for its::Syntax<Oh, My, God> 🤪.
I want to like the Swift programming language. I just c@n't do it.
It's not Love if what you care about is how they look, that's Lust.
Love is when you care about what's inside, that's Rust
#compsci truths
Love is when you care about what's inside, that's Rust
#compsci truths
anyone who thinks writing rust is hard? try writing a book, thats HARD. Human language is hard, explaining is hard, selling it is hard, and then you sell two copies, and three of those were you.
November 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
anyone who thinks writing rust is hard? try writing a book, thats HARD. Human language is hard, explaining is hard, selling it is hard, and then you sell two copies, and three of those were you.
Finally got around to moving of Hey.com. so no more money for DHH or people like him.
i'll be moving of hey.com for email because of this, ty
A delightfully fresh take on email + calendar, from 37signals
Gmail, Outlook, and Apple got complacent and took their eye off the ball. Then along came HEY.
hey.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Finally got around to moving of Hey.com. so no more money for DHH or people like him.
Today I kept hitting the shannon barrier trying to beat entropy, zstd is unreasonably effective at laughing at my pathethic attempts to create clever optimization structures vs naive sorted data in zstd.
October 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Today I kept hitting the shannon barrier trying to beat entropy, zstd is unreasonably effective at laughing at my pathethic attempts to create clever optimization structures vs naive sorted data in zstd.
Doing something wrong in Bevy, trying to add FpsOverlayPlugin and at runtime I get:
DrawFunctions<bevy_ui_render::render_pass::TransparentUi> must be added to the world as a resource before adding render commands to it
DrawFunctions<bevy_ui_render::render_pass::TransparentUi> must be added to the world as a resource before adding render commands to it
October 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Doing something wrong in Bevy, trying to add FpsOverlayPlugin and at runtime I get:
DrawFunctions<bevy_ui_render::render_pass::TransparentUi> must be added to the world as a resource before adding render commands to it
DrawFunctions<bevy_ui_render::render_pass::TransparentUi> must be added to the world as a resource before adding render commands to it
you see a Ham, but you yourself won't Act
you see a ham burgering in the hot sun, but you're not helping. why is that?
you can lead a ham to burger but you can't make it help
October 15, 2025 at 6:07 AM
you see a Ham, but you yourself won't Act
Decided "Bevy" is too long to write, so now using a numeronym.
Welcome to "b2y", and lucky its very unique and does not clash with anything.. great its written in r2t.l, i use it on w1l2
Welcome to "b2y", and lucky its very unique and does not clash with anything.. great its written in r2t.l, i use it on w1l2
October 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Decided "Bevy" is too long to write, so now using a numeronym.
Welcome to "b2y", and lucky its very unique and does not clash with anything.. great its written in r2t.l, i use it on w1l2
Welcome to "b2y", and lucky its very unique and does not clash with anything.. great its written in r2t.l, i use it on w1l2
Retired bevy_polyline (thank you for your work) for drawing lines with advent of retained gizmos in bevy. I also started to use colour based on feature rather than location (debug).
October 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Retired bevy_polyline (thank you for your work) for drawing lines with advent of retained gizmos in bevy. I also started to use colour based on feature rather than location (debug).
In Rust {:?} is the "Debug Monster" (look sideways), it eats your variable and the output is a stream of text
October 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
In Rust {:?} is the "Debug Monster" (look sideways), it eats your variable and the output is a stream of text
After reconsidering, maybe I am a Robot?
October 9, 2025 at 6:26 AM
After reconsidering, maybe I am a Robot?
upgrade to 0.17.x with default-features=false, got "pink screen", probably related to the crates refactoring to enable more selective builds
Leaving this here for future adventures "Bevy Pink Screen" ™
# bevy go all pink if we miss these
# bevy.org/learn/migrat...
"tonemapping_luts", "zstd_rust"
Leaving this here for future adventures "Bevy Pink Screen" ™
# bevy go all pink if we miss these
# bevy.org/learn/migrat...
"tonemapping_luts", "zstd_rust"
October 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
upgrade to 0.17.x with default-features=false, got "pink screen", probably related to the crates refactoring to enable more selective builds
Leaving this here for future adventures "Bevy Pink Screen" ™
# bevy go all pink if we miss these
# bevy.org/learn/migrat...
"tonemapping_luts", "zstd_rust"
Leaving this here for future adventures "Bevy Pink Screen" ™
# bevy go all pink if we miss these
# bevy.org/learn/migrat...
"tonemapping_luts", "zstd_rust"
render gone wrong, but then strangely actually looks quite interesting. bevy open streetmap.
October 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
render gone wrong, but then strangely actually looks quite interesting. bevy open streetmap.
@edzitron.com noice
How a British-born hobbyist blogger became one of Big Tech’s punchiest critics: on.ft.com/473tnt1
Ed Zitron is mad as hell
How a British-born hobbyist blogger became one of Big Tech’s punchiest critics
on.ft.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
@edzitron.com noice
let us = eat.parse::<Ly>()?;
Rust herb of the day
Rust herb of the day
September 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
let us = eat.parse::<Ly>()?;
Rust herb of the day
Rust herb of the day
I did something bad (no not Taylor Swift)
September 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I did something bad (no not Taylor Swift)
yesterday realizing had twice as many objects than i needed to actual render the view in bevy
September 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
yesterday realizing had twice as many objects than i needed to actual render the view in bevy
It's not Love if what you care about is how they look, that's Lust.
Love is when you care about what's inside, that's Rust
#compsci truths
Love is when you care about what's inside, that's Rust
#compsci truths
I want to like the Rust programming language. I just <can’t> impl Love for its::Syntax<Oh, My, God> 🤪.
I want to like the Swift programming language. I just c@n't do it.
September 1, 2025 at 7:40 AM
It's not Love if what you care about is how they look, that's Lust.
Love is when you care about what's inside, that's Rust
#compsci truths
Love is when you care about what's inside, that's Rust
#compsci truths
not the way to start your day
September 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
not the way to start your day
Fun fact, when ordering a coffee if they ask for your name i always say "Sparkles", just for the little joy of having "Sparkles" shouted later. Now there is another reason.
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September 1, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Fun fact, when ordering a coffee if they ask for your name i always say "Sparkles", just for the little joy of having "Sparkles" shouted later. Now there is another reason.
Tom Clancy's Autobiography
Tom Clancy’s The Bible
Ruin a book by adding “Tom Clancy’s” to the title
Tom Clancy’s Atlas Shrugged
...oh wait that book is already terrible
Tom Clancy’s Atlas Shrugged
...oh wait that book is already terrible
August 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Tom Clancy's Autobiography
micro-optimization: when you spend hours trying to make some code go much faster without success, when you really should just use a different algorithm.
[my day so far, also embarrassing when the replacement is 100x and replaces 100loc with 4 lines]
[my day so far, also embarrassing when the replacement is 100x and replaces 100loc with 4 lines]
August 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
micro-optimization: when you spend hours trying to make some code go much faster without success, when you really should just use a different algorithm.
[my day so far, also embarrassing when the replacement is 100x and replaces 100loc with 4 lines]
[my day so far, also embarrassing when the replacement is 100x and replaces 100loc with 4 lines]
I'ved signed up as a gold sponser of @bevy.org, since its a great game engine and a welcoming community - also its keeping me out of trouble at weekends with building my own toy :-)
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#bevy
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#bevy
Bevy Engine
Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!
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August 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM