opeik
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systems & games programming • unicode • rust
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If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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I ran into some ghosts when compiling Rust:
- `cargo-semver-checks` said the code didn't compile.
- `cargo check` said it was fine.
What better day to talk about it than Halloween? 🎃👻
predr.ag/blog/ghosts-...
- `cargo-semver-checks` said the code didn't compile.
- `cargo check` said it was fine.
What better day to talk about it than Halloween? 🎃👻
predr.ag/blog/ghosts-...
Ghosts in the Compilation
When two tools disagree whether a crate compiles or not
predr.ag
October 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I ran into some ghosts when compiling Rust:
- `cargo-semver-checks` said the code didn't compile.
- `cargo check` said it was fine.
What better day to talk about it than Halloween? 🎃👻
predr.ag/blog/ghosts-...
- `cargo-semver-checks` said the code didn't compile.
- `cargo check` said it was fine.
What better day to talk about it than Halloween? 🎃👻
predr.ag/blog/ghosts-...
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It is genuinely shocking how bad executives are allowed to be at their jobs
October 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
It is genuinely shocking how bad executives are allowed to be at their jobs
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My friend who did market research for them would always tell me that they would literally never listen to what they’d say and just blindly follow through with what they wanted to believe. And yep, exactly
October 29, 2025 at 1:26 AM
My friend who did market research for them would always tell me that they would literally never listen to what they’d say and just blindly follow through with what they wanted to believe. And yep, exactly
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The royal 'we' feels like it applies here too. They probably had a thousand people telling them exactly why Steam was as popular as it is but the Very Smart Money People almost certainly refused to listen.
Dude straight-up says 'We had more money so we thought we'd win automatically'.
Dude straight-up says 'We had more money so we thought we'd win automatically'.
October 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The royal 'we' feels like it applies here too. They probably had a thousand people telling them exactly why Steam was as popular as it is but the Very Smart Money People almost certainly refused to listen.
Dude straight-up says 'We had more money so we thought we'd win automatically'.
Dude straight-up says 'We had more money so we thought we'd win automatically'.
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you could not waterboard this out of me. “we didn’t understand why people use steam”
I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.
October 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
you could not waterboard this out of me. “we didn’t understand why people use steam”
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it's just weird how we phrase it as "remote doesn't work" despite all the evidence pointing otherwise, rather than an abject failure of management "i can only run teams if i can physically touch them" and "three hours of traffic and wearing headphones all day is peak productivity"
October 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
it's just weird how we phrase it as "remote doesn't work" despite all the evidence pointing otherwise, rather than an abject failure of management "i can only run teams if i can physically touch them" and "three hours of traffic and wearing headphones all day is peak productivity"
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it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
October 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
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Sometimes you receive a commission so powerful, you could stare at it for hours.
Thank you @hiimbleep.bsky.social for this vision.
Thank you @hiimbleep.bsky.social for this vision.
September 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Sometimes you receive a commission so powerful, you could stare at it for hours.
Thank you @hiimbleep.bsky.social for this vision.
Thank you @hiimbleep.bsky.social for this vision.
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Whoops I got annoyed at C advocates again
September 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Whoops I got annoyed at C advocates again
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Australians, spread this petition far and wide. Demands Parliament “open anti-trust investigations and penalize the unregulated monopoly of a key part of everyday infrastructure,” as “payment processors are not there to regulate what legal content people consume.”
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
September 6, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Australians, spread this petition far and wide. Demands Parliament “open anti-trust investigations and penalize the unregulated monopoly of a key part of everyday infrastructure,” as “payment processors are not there to regulate what legal content people consume.”
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
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here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
August 31, 2025 at 12:07 AM
here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
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If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it:
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
August 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it:
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
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Remember when GitHub was about hosting code with a nice interface to work on it collaboratively? I would love it if they could do something useful like showing diffs across force pushes to PRs. The enshittification must continue and Satya’s investment in OpenAI must be justified to the board
GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft, as CEO Thomas Dohmke resigns. GitHub is now moving to Microsoft's AI engineering team, CoreAI, with a new structure for GitHub's leadership team. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/757461/...
GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team
www.theverge.com
August 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Remember when GitHub was about hosting code with a nice interface to work on it collaboratively? I would love it if they could do something useful like showing diffs across force pushes to PRs. The enshittification must continue and Satya’s investment in OpenAI must be justified to the board
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hey friends if you put scrolling text in your game, and it does this
Happy birt
Happy
birthday!
then you have fucked up. You have fucked up real bad and i am going to notice every time it happens and i will be so very sad about it
Happy birt
Happy
birthday!
then you have fucked up. You have fucked up real bad and i am going to notice every time it happens and i will be so very sad about it
August 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
hey friends if you put scrolling text in your game, and it does this
Happy birt
Happy
birthday!
then you have fucked up. You have fucked up real bad and i am going to notice every time it happens and i will be so very sad about it
Happy birt
Happy
birthday!
then you have fucked up. You have fucked up real bad and i am going to notice every time it happens and i will be so very sad about it
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![Edited screenshot from Disco Elysium that reads:
RHETORIC [Heroic: Failure] -- Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about video games. Scratch that, to coming up with *the* question about video games, the alpha and omega of video games questions, and that question is:
1. - (Whisper.) "Are games art?"
2. - Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v5vxd243huv5hwsr5ndayzg5/bafkreicudb35rekzllkc5eziojnfoxneeb27tibhnjy7u5picuc5y7z25u@jpeg)
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will this get me in trouble
gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b…
gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b…
Bluesky's UK age assurance sucks, here's how to work around it.
Bluesky's UK age assurance sucks, here's how to work around it. - bluesky-osa.md
gist.github.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
will this get me in trouble
gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b…
gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b…
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This battle will keep playing out over and over again until they achieve something that their own citizens have made it clear they don’t want. www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030
The EU Commission unveiled the first step in its security strategy to ensure "lawful and effective" law enforcement access to data
www.techradar.com
July 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This battle will keep playing out over and over again until they achieve something that their own citizens have made it clear they don’t want. www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
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I feel like there would be a HUGE amount of ecosystem value for Rust and async/await, if there was funding and the right dev(s) available to focus on improving:
* Memory usage + copies of futures/async fns: particularly wrt overlapping data across yield
* Improving codegen size/perf
* opt-footguns
* Memory usage + copies of futures/async fns: particularly wrt overlapping data across yield
* Improving codegen size/perf
* opt-footguns
June 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I feel like there would be a HUGE amount of ecosystem value for Rust and async/await, if there was funding and the right dev(s) available to focus on improving:
* Memory usage + copies of futures/async fns: particularly wrt overlapping data across yield
* Improving codegen size/perf
* opt-footguns
* Memory usage + copies of futures/async fns: particularly wrt overlapping data across yield
* Improving codegen size/perf
* opt-footguns
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I got to talk to Ross on my Stream a while back about the Stop Killing Games initiative, and it's a shame the traction has stopped, so even if I'm a relatively tiny streamer, let's see if we can't give this another push?
If you're in an EU citizen, it'll take 2 mins:
www.stopkillinggames.com/eci
If you're in an EU citizen, it'll take 2 mins:
www.stopkillinggames.com/eci
June 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I got to talk to Ross on my Stream a while back about the Stop Killing Games initiative, and it's a shame the traction has stopped, so even if I'm a relatively tiny streamer, let's see if we can't give this another push?
If you're in an EU citizen, it'll take 2 mins:
www.stopkillinggames.com/eci
If you're in an EU citizen, it'll take 2 mins:
www.stopkillinggames.com/eci
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what’s your favorite unhinged programming language feature? something that seemed ok to whoever designed it but is truly the stuff of nightmares
June 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
what’s your favorite unhinged programming language feature? something that seemed ok to whoever designed it but is truly the stuff of nightmares
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Rob Pike blocked me on here for this comment about nil pointers 🙃 deer.social/profile/did:...
June 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Rob Pike blocked me on here for this comment about nil pointers 🙃 deer.social/profile/did:...
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Feels like the post would be more aptly titled "Putting the 'Go' back into 'Go Fuck Yourselves'"?
"For the foreseeable future, the #golang team will stop pursuing syntactic language changes for error handling. We will also close all open and incoming proposals that concern themselves primarily with the syntax of error handling, without further investigation."
go.dev/blog/error-s...
go.dev/blog/error-s...
[ On | No ] syntactic support for error handling - The Go Programming Language
Go team plans around error handling support
go.dev
June 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Feels like the post would be more aptly titled "Putting the 'Go' back into 'Go Fuck Yourselves'"?