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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Readership with Erasmus ended. I return to friendship with Zola and the last six of his Rougon-Macquart. La Terre, at the moment.

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 15/10/2026

Kenney Shape is now FREE! (and it'll remain free, forever) ✨ Previously a paid tool, I'm releasing it as a gift to the community. Today's update will be the final one, with no further updates planned. That way I can focus on new software & projects! kenney.itch.io/kenney-shape

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My kid has rediscovered his Wheeljack Transformer

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I was very generously exaggerating 😬 But it does feel like a lot at the moment.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Omg DD2 Dark Arisen is out, must resist the urge!!! Then again, there's reading week... next week... But I have about 55 assignments due 😵‍💫, along with midterm prep. At least I'm finally making games/prototypes

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Amen to "There's no place in my life for that bullshit." My hope is that by the time I finish CompSci (next year), the hype will have died down about this "miracle". But as I've told other colleagues, I'll either be making games or I'll be flipping burgers. TBD where that approach gets me 🫠

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Tim Holman @aussie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Probably one of the prettiest things I've made, a musical lullaby on a river musical.toys/toys/willowm...

musical.toys

Willowmere - Musical Toys

An ascii art lullaby on a slow river.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Then again, why would you want to do anything else

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Self-sufficiency = "that which on its own makes life worthy of choice and lacking in nothing" - Aristotle, Book_1 of Nicomachean Ethics #sundayRemembrance #philosophy (working on an ethics assignment and found this note from my past readings) (maybe I'll post some Kant later)

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Very nice observation! Thanks a lot for the feedback and repost!

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey that's amazing, thanks so much!

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dragon's Dismay, a prototype I made for my #gamedesign course! It's a short text-based RPG where the stats are not item-based, but affect-based. Momentum plays a part and so do your decisions in how to confront the dragon. Playtest it! -Works on mobile -No AI bernardbr.itch.io/dragons-dismay

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

5th is so cool, my fav by far

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Behind-the-scenes of the upcoming prototype 1. Context: we have to do weekly prototypes for our #gamedesign course. Playable link, up soon.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another cycle, Every new holds previous Same, also different #haiku #SameBenchEverySeason #phonePic

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

But when a direction is chosen freely and followed wholeheartedly, it may seem that all things further the going.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lying down in the car I looked up An angle was looking back (slapped a stormy filter on the phone pic)

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I usually appreciate your posts, but I especially appreciated this one, the final verse really crowned the whole scansion of it.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Went to BanQ and got smitten by tall cosmos in the wind. (slapped a blush filter on the phone pic) #montreal #weekendBreak

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New semester, new struggles

Two stacks of books, one on numerical methods, one on game design

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Whoa is that scripted or random?

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today's loaf turned out pretty mighty. I think I gave it a bit less water? Pretty stoked for tomorrow's toasts. #glutenFree #celiac (in the background, my Kindle is charging on top of my unplugged toaster, which feels a bit like manual memory manangement)

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

River. With a score composed by Richard Tognetti. Willem Dafoe narrates a script from award-winning author Robert Macfarlane. The film also features additional music from William Barton, Jonny Greenwood and Radiohead. Stunning in every way. youtu.be/efHe-VYtHzY

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Been playing #GRIS (2018). A girl goes through grief and the colors go out of the world. Then gradually start coming back. And a lot of the puzzle themes are about the (natural) ways in which she learns to trust the world again. It's been very very touching, here's some shots. PS5, physical disk

The world is grey and her reflection is black&white

Blue comes out in the hands of a giant statue destroyed above the nose (aka no eyes); blue, like tears, like crying and like the life-giving rain

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That's very kind of you, thanks!

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Some of the topics: - xorshifting - switch-case versus array branching - data-oriented design testing - bitpacking - profiling and inlining

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Something different from my usual fare: the story of my last few months of programming & optimization in C++, as I tried to learn and master the language. With a little sophistication at the end, which finally got me over the vaunted line of 10x performance gain. 100% human-written, now verifiable.

interfacesofplay.substack.com

Between Orders of Magnitude

A journey of data mapping in C++

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I enjoyed these with giddiness.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Before Shogun fame, see Cosmo Jarvis already being good in Nocturnal (2019). Wasn't sure what to expect, but flick turned out to be a visual treat, and an accomplished reflection on the blending between different types of love as complicity. I like finding these small gems. #movieReview #cinema

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ah ok, involuntary humidifier cosplay

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It seems very equivalent, if I got the code down right

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What a clean line of horizon!

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Autumn breeze whispers through the trees, But flowers wear their aging youth And find ways to dance gingerly, In defiance. #photography | #dslr | #imageAndVerse (Notice how each verse fits its respective picture?!?!) (edits in Shotwell Viewer) (I dislike these parentheses & can't stop using them)

Oriented portrait, the picture tells the story of how wild pastures (in the foreground) become groves become forests (in the middle), as they are led by the vanishing point in the background, a glimpse of the last light of day, as it illuminates a far-off tall canopy which is revealing its first colorations of fall; a cycle of birth, growth, maturity, decay... and rebirth

Two cosmos are talking to each other, the purple is bigger and its petals slightly shriven as it faces us, while the orange one is smaller and perky, but we only see it from behind; the background is blurred out but resembles a mix of greenery and grey asphalt

Hm. A rather darkened setting in which a large patch of yellow flowers mixed with purple-tinged puffs (hawksbeard or sow-thisle, unsure) are bending to the violence of Notos, bringer of storms and rain; most importantly, there is a sense in which this flowery multitude is swaying in a Brownian fashion, too complex to understand; in the background, a shadowed hint of firs

Two woodland sunflowers are framed in the photo, both having grown to full maturity; the one in the foreground is still in full bloom, while the one in the back has lost much of its inflorescence; the photo is rather dark, taken in very low-light and showing artifacts characteristic of high ISO by the camera; in far background, tall trees in shadow frame the scene, while a smidge of dusk-light comes through from the upper left corner

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Omg I didn't know about the suffix syntax. And it's very neat how thing2 works because it just auto-casts by cutting out the higher order bits, I love that! I wonder if manually casting vs just using another var is "faster", although var2 has to be fetched/stored to, and that costs time.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm busted! 😆 For some reason I'm always aware that I should write ALT, but often I don't have the extra energy to write them as I would want to. So then I don't. And I get on block lists: oh, well.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Today: my day off from optimization. ALSO TODAY: A Casey Muratori 3-hour conference on the history of optimization! ... It doesn't count, OK? I'm just watching a video.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Me: I will take a one-day break from bitpacking optimization Zeus, Aegis-Bearer, Gatherer of Clouds: I grant you favorable omen #photography | #dlsr | #walking (and yeah, I felt like some alt text)

Beyond the darkened silhouettes of park trees and shadowed grass, a luminous breakout over the horizon is only so wide before grey-blue clouds smother it from above

A half-half picture, the lower half pitch-dark shapes of canopies, while above a circular clearing sky lets pass the golden rays of a dying sun, promises of tomorrow's rebirth

A clearing sky behind a darkened silhouette of tree groves is veiled by porous, ethereal matter illuminated in orange from the setting sun; in the background, breaking clouds are darkened against the backdrop of pale blue and yellow blending

From the ground, the camera captures a grey covered sky, but in the foreground a red-tinted 30 degree arc of a rainbow, as if invisible but to the precise angle of the photographer standing straight and receiving the somber sky's salutation

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

But I am somewhat bothered by it just because of the reputation of C(++) as a kind of "let's you do anything" language; I guess I'm wisening up to reality. P.S. You have gorgeous cat(s).

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thanks! It's very kind of you to take the time for this! I have skimmed the document and I'm not sure how to use it in the future, but it's surely a good thing to have on deck. Thinking about it, it does make sense ? to promote the size of an operand to make sure the operation is uniformly applied.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Like pearls from the bottom of the ocean, but arisen from the earth and fed by the sun. I feel like a hoarder goblin. My SHINIES #gardening pays off, this is maybe a quarter of the bean harvest. Now to decide which gods to give sacrifice to.

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Sometimes it seems to me that clouds are like a language/music, they always find a new way to arrange themselves and give form to meaning. (Disclaimer, I've put a filter on these pics but they really looked something similar.)

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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Why would I even use 8-bit ints? I'M GLAD YOU ASKED! Long-form answer coming in a few days if I ever get clear of these NASTY surprises. -fsanitize=address, you were right after all, sorry! gdb, nice knowing you valgrind, you can still be my friend

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