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Hi, I'm Sean! I have lots of opinions about software, games, and life.

Let's be kind to each other and build stronger connections.

https://snen.dev
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Bevy 0.17 is out now! It features Raytracing, Improved Observers / Events, UI Widgets, Rust Hotpatching, Light Textures, DLSS, Tilemap Chunks, Web Assets, Reflect Auto-Registration, UI Gradients, Raymarched Atmosphere, Virtual Geometry BVH Culling, and more!

bevy.org/news/bevy-0-17
Bevy 0.17
Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!
bevy.org
September 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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What are the latest developments in the developer experience of experienced developers developing experiences?
July 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
does anyone know the actual name of the genre that only comes into my brain as "pixar jazz"
July 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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The bigger issue here is that phones and touchscreen devices in general encourage informational passivity.

They invite you to consume, not to do research & creative knowledge work (breaking down informational sources, combining disparate pieces of info from different sources, reconstituting)
See, I think this is exactly the reason kids need to learn file systems, both analog and digital.

Creative knowledge work isn't just knowing how to FIND information, it's understanding how to organize and sort & reconstitute information in new ways.

Systematic categorization is a key part of that.
But, as the article points out, if everything has a search function now, doesn’t that render the concept of folders obsolete? Why do they need to learn to use an outdated filing system?
July 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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New blog post + cargo-semver-checks v0.42 is out ✨

I found some unexspected sharp edges in the `#[target_feature]` attribute. They are getting fixed (teamwork! 🤜🤛), and cargo-semver-checks now also has lints to save you from footguns!
predr.ag/blog/unsound...
Unsoundness and accidental features in the #[target_feature] attribute
Making Rust better for everyone while working on `cargo-semver-checks`
predr.ag
July 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I would like to formally request that all apps please stop being everything apps and be, instead, only-one-thing apps
June 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Bummer - I'm traveling during the #bevyjam this year :( good luck to all participants!
May 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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In April, Coinbase announced changes to its user agreement that added two clauses limiting class action lawsuits and requiring lawsuits to be filed in New York. The changes apply to disputes initiated after May 15.

On May 14, Coinbase disclosed a data breach.
May 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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every single AI reporter has to watch this youtu.be/fJGNqnq-aCA?...
AI Has Us Between a Rock and a Hard Place
YouTube video by Internet of Bugs
youtu.be
May 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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May 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Said goodbye in a call with my parents and waved at nothing in real life.

On a crowded street.

🫠
April 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Bevy 0.16 is out now! It features GPU-Driven Rendering, Procedural Atmospheric Scattering, Decals, Occlusion Culling, Relationships, Better Spawning, Unified Error Handling, `no_std`, Faster Transform Propagation, and more!

bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-...
Bevy 0.16
Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!
bevyengine.org
April 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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here we gooooo
April 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Atuin just keeps shipping pure gold 🔥📈
here we gooooo
April 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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I wrote about this recently for Noema! That time was also defined by the fruits of an activist, interventionist and progressive government — one that changes the market, not with tariffs, but with research and guidelines that make life in consumer society better. www.noemamag.com/the-good-soc...
The Good Society Department | NOEMA
Once upon a time, there was a federal government department that helped design and distribute tools for living the good life. What happened to that vision?
www.noemamag.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Was looking at the #bevy 0.16 milestone last night. really cool stuff in there. I toyed with the new relationship derive attributes and the new spawn APIs -- such huge convenience boosts
April 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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a major issue with video games is that they produce a bunch of people who consider themselves brain geniuses for solving problems that were designed to be solvable. as a remedy, we should be making more games that are actively and irreconcilably hostile to the player. thank you
April 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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I still have to confirm this but it looks optically right and yall…this is insane.
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
this is, this breaks my brain. writing the alt text for this broke my brain. it's broken.

#nintendo #switch2
April 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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David is completely right here. I think this is also why there's so much distrust & resentment of institutions in general. There is a constant claim that institutions are a bulwark, that they must be saved/preserved/respected and yet many of them either fold to power or can't provide accountability
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
Dereliction of responsibility by the court. It is so flagrantly illegal. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-wis...
March 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
#fatalfury #cotw is really fun so I'm gonna stream it for a bit today

www.twitch.tv/snendev
March 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.

Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
arstechnica.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Along with all of the other things that this is, it is also the direct & inevitable consequence of the failure to put a lot more senior executive branch officials in jail for a very long time for Watergate, Iran-Contra, torture, & all of the other things in the last 50 years.
Boasberg: So the president's foreign-affairs power exists once the plane crosses but not before that?

US: That's when his power is at its strongest

Boasberg: The president has extra powers over a plane once it's crossed into international territory?
March 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
dang would be really cool if someone could chase away all the snakes right about now
March 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM