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Very true. I am old and crusty so OSRS is my jam, but maybe this will capture the hearts and minds of the next generation of gamers 🤔

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 6h

I mean, I still haven't picked up Dragonwilds and I have never played RS3, mostly because I am at a point in my life where I barely have enough time for one account in one MMO / "forever game". I'll keep an open mind, but this project definitely does not feel like it is for me 🤷‍♀️

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(define kebab-case “best case”)

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That is so cool! Amazing work!

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Woah, where did you find this RSC client? I didn't know there was a custom Godot client.

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yea I can't remember the last time I actually mined pure essence. I'm sure it's not a top priority for them, but it does seem like another case where PvM is still better for skilling than actual skilling.

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This would have been the death of any possible RC training on the UIM. So glad they did not end up going with that design 😅

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I turned the Git repository for Mellifera, my scripting language with mutable value semantics, into a physical printed book! The script that generates the book is, of course, written in Mellifera itself. You can just do things! 🐝 #mellifera

A paperback book titled "The Mellifera Programming Language" sitting inside the package it was just unboxed from. The book in 8.5x11 inches with about an inch (~250 pages) of depth, has a plain tan background, and features a cover image of Melli, a rotund cute looking cartoon bee with tiny wings who is smiling. The cover features subtitles with the commit SHA (9d7db45aa2df8d4b668c374a49c552bcc3a80c61) and the commit date (2026-09-01) used for the source code of the book.

A look inside "The Mellifera Programming Language" book showing a section of the primary Mellifera interpreter, written in Go. These particular pages show some utility functions, as well as the CombEncoder data structure used to serialize Mellifera values.

A look inside "The Mellifera Programming Language" book showing the tail end of the mf-test testing tool for the language, as well as the basic types and values example program written in Mellifera.

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Looks like you had a good run. Fs in chat.

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spooky tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

how your message finds me

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Linux desktops putting effort into accessibility get peanuts while the AI slop dotfile distro cobbled together by an independently wealthy racist douchbag gets showered in cash. Make it make sense! 😭

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today is a special day of the year, and Spooky the cat is vybin’ 😎 #cats #catsofbluesky

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Entire kiwi is edible and tastes good? Or entire kiwi is edible by technicality? I have many kiwis ripening in my kitchen counter, and this information is relevant to me. 👀

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think you are correct on both counts. I also think that type punning with a union is not longer UB (I forget her whether it's in C11 or C23), so having something like `union integer32` with signed and unsigned 32-bit integer members is also legal for using non-UB unsigned arithmetic.

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

(2) In assembly function pointers are just pointers so converting `func(value: *T) Foo` to `func(value: *any) Foo` and calling that function was fine (e.g. implementing generic interfaces), but in C it is technically undefined behavior, meaning that Sunder's "hello world" technically has UB 🤦‍♀️

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Implicit function-to-function casts allow for undefined behavior in generated C · Issue #143 · ashn-dot-dev/sunder

Sunder allows implicit casting of a function with parameter types and/or a return type of type *T to a function type where those same parameter types and/or return type are of type *any. In the ori...

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is basically what I ended up doing for my language. I had Linux x64 support, and then I got an ARM laptop and it was just easier to switch to emitting C rather than learn ARM assembly and maintain another translation layer. Two annoying things that ended up being a big bummer though:

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What lovely news! This is going to be my evening reading! So excited for my MNT Reform Next to arrive this fall! <3

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Please verify your details in a sketchy way… Please add 2FA… Want to use email as your 2FA since you don’t want your phone to be the bottleneck in accessing your accounts, well too bad, SMS only…

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

That terrible thing: CEOs realize this is hugely expensive and are losing money, so they want a pause in order to avoid responsibility when the market catches up.

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Can I just get an 8 AM shock so that every day I know that I can still feel something?

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kyn @kyn-n.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

the moment i saw this it took over my brain like a parasite

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And his AI slop security hole nightmare dotfiles at that 🤦‍♀️

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Mom, the systemd is broken again, can I go outside and play?

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was trying to get through to one of the staff of this site yesterday but like, this is psychosis. The people who run this site think AI is alive. How do you come back from this

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My baby boy Spooky will play bite, my hand/arm, and then immediately lick the spot after as if to say “jk I’m not actually trying to hurt you 👈👉“ It took him two years to get to that spot, but he now knows to only bite hard if he is overstimulated and wants out.

Spooky the cat under white bedsheets with his head and front paws sticking out.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yet another occasion has arisen for me to repeat to fellow researchers that genAI illustration will repel me away from your work, and that I will not share a thread you have chosen to illustrate with genAI.

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If I see AI generated art in a blog post, technical article, or video essay, I immediately close the page. AI art looks laughable unserious, so its very inclusion in what would otherwise be serious technical content signals to me that the author has poor taste, and should not be considered reliable.

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Saw a cool looking mushroom on my walk to the train station 🍄

Close up photo of a white mushroom with a cap that looks like a dome, almost like a sphere, with a white stalk.

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Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton was what a lot of billionaires only can pretend to be. A person of gold conscience and character with strongly held convictions she didn't waver on, who put her money where her ideals were without self aggrandizement. They'll never be a tenth of who she was and remains.

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Victory screen from the run:

COMPLETED THE GAME!
Gold: ∞
Time: 10:39:17
Depth: 0m
Places visited: 63
Enemies slain: 2417
Max HP: 3906
Items found: 288
Orbs collected: 11
Streaks: 1
Total deaths: 51
Total wins: 1

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Got my first victory in Noita! Ping-pong path plus luminous drill was so busted that I was able to turn the playthrough into an 11 orb run. Just after completing The Work, you can see me fire off my multi-nuke-wipe-the-entire-screen wand 🧙‍♂️🪄☢️✨

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Seems nice from a cursory look. I think it would take 1-2 backed implementations to see if the API feels good in the hands, but that's par for the course. Do you have any specific values/instructions for UNREACHABLE or POISON as a way to allow for a backend to emit code triggering a fault or abort?

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Name a more iconic duo then LLVM and not actually abstracting over your backends 🤝 :p

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

May I ask what the IR generator specifically needs to know about imports? Is this like a symbol thing or optimization boundary thing or something else?

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

IIRC (it was a long time ago) I think I did something similar in my toy language, where there was the module symbol table and a separate export table. Importing directories went something like “merge all export symbols of sub-files into the current module symbol table while not touching exports”.

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

New blog post - Calculating The Average Commit Time Of Day Using The Circular Mean And Mellifera: ashn.dev/blog/2026-06... Using a circular mean to calculate the average time of day in a modular number system like a 24 hour clock, seen here to find when my average Git commit occurs during the day.

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Calculating The Average Commit Time Of Day Using The Circular Mean And Mellifera

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Programming is inaccessible to the average Joe! That is why I developed Joelang™, a new Joe-based programming language (aka joegramming language). Joelang™ adds joebject-oriented capabilities on top of the industry-tested Brainfuck language, creating a new language that even Joe Mama will love!

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Critically though, I did not fill out the Hall of Monuments. In my current playthrough (when I pick it back up) I intend to go through all three campaigns and then finish with EotN. I haven't actually played GW2 since launch, so maybe this would dovetale into that game.

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I did do EotN, but the order for me was start Prophesies (w/ LDoA), get to Lion's Arch, do the entirety of the EotN story, continue Prophesies from Lion's Arch, then do Factions, and then finish with Nightfall. I wanted to make a busted Elementalist build with heros to sweep the campaigns.

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Also FWIW, I only finished the campaigns for the first time in 2022 (ashn.dev/blog/2022-09...). I also had never really opened Factions or Nightfall, and had a blast with both. The game still holds up really well!

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Completing All Of The Guild Wars Campaigns

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

💯💯💯 Hit me up if you ever want to do some missions in post-searing 😎

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

That is a bold undertaking! What starting campaign / profession are you attempting it with?

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

No freaking way?! I thought this was a joke at first until I looked it up in the App Store :o I started a Prophecies mesmer back when reforged (re?)launched, but put the character on hold after Getting to Yak’s Bend. I’ve been looking for a way to resume and this is perfect! 😍

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ashn @ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

“Is my baby boy blocking or is he just mad that I only gave him one Churu yesterday?”

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