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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 17/09/2026

The wonderful crew of the #golang Scheduler Cafe! #golangsyd

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 17/09/2026

I wonder what will happen at #golangsyd tonight? #golang

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 20/08/2026

Next up on #golangsyd: Kieren on building Stackql with #golang

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 16/06/2026

Jesus. Reality needs to stop snooping into my WIPs. I wrote this a year ago for Mode Collapse, my second novel. (the Voss of Elara/Elias are a cult that features quite a bit in the later parts of the story)

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 10/06/2026

What bullshit. I literally fixed this conflict in a text editor locally on my machine (it was THREE LINES!!!) followed by a force push. I ain't gonna need copilot to fix this for me. WTF. Is this how dire it is that Github'd nerf the web editor to promote copilot use??

A screenshot on Github during a PR merge. There's a conflict that prevents a merge.

The text on screen says "These conflicts are too complex to resolve in the web editor" and the button that suggestively follows says "Fix with Copilot"

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 09/06/2026

And for today's #WIPSnips, I present to you the most chaotically unreadable piece of #scifi I have ever written. An experimental piece/practice on writing POV for interchangable characters with specific histories. 🌟 for whoever figures out the topic. #sffwriters #writingcommunity #writersky

They surf the innards of my skin, disrupting the idyllic floating peace of
the Man II and many more. Amongst the disrupted many emerged what must
seem to themself (if indeed they have a self), a hero. A leader of the pack. A
GalT — John, I shall call them — spins, and bores a hole in the outer shell of
one of the invading IgG. Then, seemingly in cooperation, the Man II packed a
passing sugar into the borehole. The warmth of such a vigorous activity spreads through my skin, inspiring more vim and vigour amongst the Man II and the GalT into yet more action.

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 02/06/2026

Logged into GitHub after nearly a year. I'm trying to login to the GitHub mobile app here.

Screenshot of me trying to login to the GitHub mobile app while the instructions tell me the 2FA code has been sent to the GitHub mobile app (which requires login to receive said 2FA)

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 21/05/2026

And now at #golangsyd, Pranav Raja on How to Avoid Writing JavaScript with #golang

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 21/05/2026

And now at #golangsyd, Pranav Raja on How to Avoid Writing JavaScript with #golanf

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 21/05/2026

And now at #golangsyd: Bruce Smith on Generating Gleam Bindings for a Typescript Library with #golang

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 21/05/2026

On tonight's #golangsyd, we have David Ackroyd on Automating Cloud Tagging with #golang

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 21/05/2026

This #WIPSnips shows up in the opening of my short, A Prompt, Summary Execution. Those who know the maths, please do not spoil it thanks :). #writingcommunity #scifiwriting #writesky

You are Emma Moore-Santee, statistician. And you just did the impossi-
ble. Generations of mathematicians, computer scientists and even physicists
since Shannon had deemed it impossible—a folly to even attempt. Yet here
you were, defying the gods of probability. Of course you didn’t do it alone.
Through thought-prompting discussions with your long-time partner Travis,
you had proved a most astounding theorem about statistical moments, laid out
as follows:
Given the kth moment of a density function f (x) is defined as follows:
[maths formula]

The infiniteth moment of S — a concept so abstract it had never been mea-
sured — was not just a statistical curiosity but a window into the fundamental
symmetries of probability itself. Specifically it describes the total-tailedness
of the density function’s distribution. For the mathematically-challenged, this
meant nothing. But they should take heed. The implication of this proof was
nothing short of world changing.

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 20/05/2026

I showed this to my wife. She says I've got a problem. This black screenshot is really hard to guess and I don't wanna lose my streak tho. #doctorwho

A screenshot of the Time-Space visualizer

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 19/05/2026

The story is about a game developer who, through the mechanics of his game, discovers that the (real) world is ending, mirroring what happens in his game. And while we're still on #WIPSnips, here's another snip (same story) with more compsci nerdery (scene about verifying the end of the world)

Yoshiko rubbed her temples as she waited for Coq to complete its run
through her sequents. Her derivation trees had grown so monstrously large that it’d take an hour for the prover to run through the forest of lollipops and whynots.

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 19/05/2026

I've not done one of these #WIPSnips in a while. Here's my entry. Lots of easter eggs for programmers and computer scientists. More so if you know about @barryjay.bsky.social 's Tree Calculus. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #scifiwriting #scifi

Code unfolded before him like a forest, each function a tree, each tree a monad of Liebnizian simplicity. The calculus that underlay the Tree Engine was a thing of beauty: operations on binary trees recast as computations suddenly gave rise to reflective computation. A computation that was able to examine its own structure and state reflected not mere reality, but the possibilities beyond, limited only by the programmer’s imagination. Players the world over craved something like that. He’d deliver it to them. They deserved it.

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 08/05/2026

In Korea. Finally played a game of #go These old people play #baduk so well. I'm not even in the same league. But then again, I am a pretty crappy #weiqi player.

A picture of old people playing Baduk in a park

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 11/04/2026

Uh YouTube you OK? I'm not American but that is clearly @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social not Eric Adams.

A screenshot of YouTube AI summary saying "Mayor Eric Adams and John Wilson explore..." While the video image clearly shows mamdani

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 30/03/2026

I've been getting nothing but prefab kits in the sparkling ripples of #pokopia for two days now. I guess the game is pitying me for having the aesthetic sensibilities that lead to clown house designs being built

Ditto in front of a partially completed block house that looks suitable only for clowns. Or Mr Mime

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 27/03/2026

"Make me a waterfall," says Piplup. "Just spit water from up there." It turns out "up there" was underspecified; as a result I flooded my houses. #pokopia

Ditto standing in front of the two flooded houses

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 10/03/2026

My #haskell GHC is sooooo out of date, all my llvm-related stuff I wrote 2 years ago no longer works. Sigh.

A screenshot of the gchup TUI. My current version of ghc is 8.10.7 while the latest version is 9.14.1

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 04/03/2026

It's ~40 years since Grothendieck wrote Recoltes and Semailles. Still no English translations in a physical volume. Surely the people who did the Girard book on Proofs and Types could translate Grothendieck? #maths #math

A screenshot of an Amazon site, showing the search results for recoltes et semailles. The first result is the French copy of the book. The second is a German biography of Grothendieck.

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 20/12/2025

In attempt to escape the fuzz, Not-Lady-Jacinthe hides out by living the pleb life, trying her hand at shopkeeping. It's a hard knock life for this one. #PokemonZA

A screenshot of the Pokemon Legends: ZA game. The player character is in a kiosk, selling sundry items.

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 20/12/2025

Yes, you're being robbed. I am Lady Jacinthe of the Société de Battle Connoisseurs and you best do well to remember that name! #PokemonZA

A screenshot of Pokemon ZA. The player character is undergoing the Lumiose Museum Heist mission. The NPC on the left says "Help! Help! We're being robbed!". The NPC on the right says "Not the ancient Sinnohan garb on the second floor!"

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 20/11/2025

And the next talk at #golangsyd, Miguel talks about Go Singleflight, about dealing with cache misses #golang

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 20/11/2025

And the next talk at #golangsyd, Miguel talks about Go Singleflight, about dealing with cache misses #golang

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 20/11/2025

In tonight's #golangsyd, we have @intermer.net on Sense and Sensibility Writing a Hardware Sensor Driver in #tinygo #golang

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 03/11/2025

And for some self-promotion, here's a snippet of my #scifi short story that also featured #Go/#baduk/#weiqi (Neil rejected it lol, so it may not be good). It's about the discovery that the world is running out of a particular fundamental resource. #writing #scifiwriting #writesky #sff

“Now look,” she said, taking control of the left player and entered the hut.
Dust motes swirled in slanted sunbeams from the lone grimy window. A single chair sat beneath a cobwebbed joist. She climbed onto the chair, pulled out the build menu and built a ladder from stones in her inventory. A net hung crookedly on a nail. She snagged it, cast it over the ladder’s top rungs. Finally,
she crafted a white pebble which she immediately threw in a hole on the chair.
The interior of the cabin dissolved into a vast, impossibly smooth wooden board. Black lines etched themselves into a grid across its surface. Stones of every colour sat poised at their intersections. The castle’s courtyard had vanished; on the right, a different section of the same board now sprawled, its stones arranged in a stark, geometric dance.
“Like it?” Yhiwotdar beamed, utterly unbothered by the two men staring like they’d been handed a live octopus. “I created that rule. Took bloody ages.”
“Is this a… Go board?” Ikaris asked. The words felt clumsy, alien in his
mouth. What the hell. It’s the most complex transformation I’ve ever seen, he thought, and I’ve seen the engine render a snowflake in 127,000 shades of olo. It wasn’t that Yhiwotdar had recreated the Japanese board game in 箱!World, but rather 箱!World itself became the game of Go. This was a game doing things no game should do.
“Yep. An infinite Go board. With as many colours as there are players.”
“But why— OK. So the adaptive encoding works?” Ikaris was confused. He stole a look at Hiden and saw nothing but proud beaming of a parent watching their prodigious three-year-old master the timing of a quick-time event.

“For this transformation, yes. The controls were encoded in the chair, ladder and net. When transformed into the Go board, they are converted into this pattern over here.” Yhiwotdar directed their attention to the top right corner of the left window. A collection of black and white stones were arranged in a peculiar pattern of concentric walls of white stones and black stones surrounding one another.
Yhiwotdar took control of the right player and navigated to the same patch of the board as the left player. Then, taking turns as right and left players, she expertly placed black and white stones. First a group of five white stones were captured. Then after several moves, two black stones fell. As she posed to place the last white stone as a throw-in, Hiden asked,
“Wait, is this one of the eternal life ko things?”
“Er, could be?” she said shrugging. “I don’t actually play Go.”
Hiden nodded knowingly and explained, “A ko is a pattern that repeats
itself. The pattern on the board. It’s the same as before she started making all
the moves.”
Of course he knows it, the smug bastard, Ikaris thought. And of course she’s a suck up. Shame she’s legit talented.
Click. Yhiwotdar placed a black stone, capturing the white throw-in.
The stones settled. A single breath on the screen. And the scene on both windows restored themselves to the lakeside cabin once more.

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 03/11/2025

The first story of this month's @clarkesworldmagazine.com is exactly my jam. #go/#baduk/#weiqi in a #scifi story. Here's what the first few described moves show (aliens are black) - the white stone circled in red is where I'd play next. FWIW, first move at tengen is a supremely bad move.

A picture of a goban depicting the moves described in the story

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 24/10/2025

Presented without comment. #pokemonza

A screenshot of pokemon legend za. It shows two undercover police officers blending in with a group of pokemon trainers.

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 22/09/2025

hey @merriam-webster.com, I'm sure "gaol" (pronounced "jail") don't actually rhyme with "whole".

A screenshot of Merriam-Webster's rhyme zone, where it's stated "gaol" rhymes with "whole"

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 22/08/2025

Did I mention how much I love using #emacs for #writing prose? Wanted to export a version of my #scifi short story without the fancy cultural trappings of strange symbols. So I wrote a small bit of code, et voila! Bet your scrivener/msword can't do that. #SFFWriting #writingcommunity #writesky

$A screenshot of my emacs buffer. These are the two lines in it: # Uncomment the following for WASPy "I can't handle reading non-latin alphabet" readers # +BIND: chewxy/story-symbol-replacements (("\\ruby{高}{こう}\\ruby{次}{じ}\\ruby{元}{もと} \\ruby{秘}{ひ}\\ruby{伝}{でん} [fn:: Pronounced Kojimoto Hiden]"$

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 21/08/2025

And now a talk about @temporal.io (a Durable function platform) at #golangsyd. Before tonight I hadn't heard of it. Suddenly so many people are recommending I try it. #golang

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 21/08/2025

Yay. Surprise Barbara Liskov. #golangsyd #golang

Ivan introducing the Liskov Substitution Principle

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 21/08/2025

Surprise twist. Ivan was talking about Limbo, not #golang. #golangsyd

Ivan in front of his slide revealing he's actually talking about Limbo

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 21/08/2025

And #golangsyd starts with Ivan's talk on #golang interfaces

A picture of Ivan in front of his title slide

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 14/08/2025

It's 2025. This is what you get when you search "cute Japanese fonts" What the hell?

A screenshot of listing of typefaces with the heading showing "Japanese fonts" but the fonts shown are decidedly NOT Japanese

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 25/07/2025

I damn near spat out my coffee at the 21-ish minute mark at @acollierastro.bsky.social 's latest video as crazy emails from vibe physics was a since-removed plot point from my latest short story (the convo below is a vestige of said plot point)

Yoshiko had been amused at first, but her amusement soon turned to annoyance.
“Don’t you have better things to do?” she asked. “Go make some new
games!”
Hiden would love to make new games. The only problem: his brain didn’t seem to have the capacity for generating new ideas anymore. This dearth of ideas wasn’t new— part of the reason why he had pitched Tsubitsu!World was his hope that a smallish, narratively light game would jog some of his brain cells into becoming more creative. Look how that turned out.
“Is there any point, when the universe is running out of bits?” he asked.
“It’s now in the low 11-digit range you know.”
“There’s a good chance you’ll be long dead before the universe runs out of bits,” Yoshiko replied. Something in her voice hinted at an unsurety.
Hiden pounced on that immediately, “You’re telling yourself, or telling me?”
“Mostly you. You can’t be trolling the forums all day. You know the amount
of queries the physics department received has more than doubled? And the creepy kooks who vibe physics’d a theory of everything despite not having a physics education? They’re now in my inbox more than anything.”
“How’s that my fault?”
“Well, if you didn’t egg them on, they wouldn’t be sending inane theories to physics conferences around the world. It’s bad enough we have AI slop papers. Now we have to deal with crackpot papers too.”
“Oh, I’m sorry,” Hiden said softly. Looking across his desk, he noticed
Yoshiko’s furrowed brow. “Whatcha working on?”
She closed her laptop lid, removed her glasses and rubbed her eyes, replying,
“Ironically, your H_ArbourBridge() problem. The crazies have bugged us so much that ISRQI has decided to colocate with PLanQC on a special session andworkshop on the topic of computing the bits of the universe early next year. I am the only one with access to the original Tree Engine source code and so the area chair has asked me and Allen Garrick for a monograph on

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 23/07/2025

I address this in my fiction novel, Diagonalization of the Meta. Plot twist: language is in fact conscious and has been in a long-protracted war using humans, language models and other tools to enact its will. The spiritual sequel to this book, Mode Collapse explores more of this idea.

“The underlying dataset is written language on the Internet. The written language is generated by linguistic rules and vocabulary, which are largely determined by human society. We say that a language model learns the linguistic rules and vocbulary, and generates sentences in a language. That’s what a language model does — it models languages. So, if you are saying a language model is conscious, you are also saying language itself is conscious.”
The music stopped just as a waitress arrived with the hot chips for the table. Mort and Zelotes found the same chip, and Mort let him have it. Mort took a different chip, dipped it in sweet chilli and sour cream and took a bite. Another call from Alex. Another rejection.
Another questioning look from Zach. Mort pocketed his phone.
“Languages being conscious — strange concept,” murmured Zach.

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 17/07/2025

Our intrepid lightning speakers at #golangsyd presenting their work #golang

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 17/07/2025

Facts. Cgo documentation is scattered. #golangsyd #golang

A slide saying CGo documentation is scattered. Followed by three URLs to various CGo documentation

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 17/07/2025

At #golangsyd - Cgo, upside down (i.e. calling Go functions from C) by Jason #golang

A photo of Jason in front of his title slide

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 14/07/2025

Word of the day for #WIPSnips: rumble This is from the opening page of my latest hard #scifi short about Hiden Kojimoto, a game designer and the course of developing his latest game. The gun-blade is of course Checkov. Mad Cricket is obviously a reference. IYKYK. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Ikaris walked over to the wall where a row of model guns were arrayed on shelves with dramatic lighting. He picked up a particularly harmless looking gun from the display shelf, pressed a button at the side, whereupon a shiny blade slid out from the nozzle of the gun with a sharp schiing. He prodded the sharp metal tip, “I prefer the game’s sound effect.”
“The next one over there has onboard sound and rumble effects. If there are batteries in it. A fan made the one you’re holding, and I really like it. The level of artistry and expertise that went into it far outstrips the commercially produced one.”
Ikaris retracted the blade and replaced the model gun on the display shelf.
“Mad Cricket, right? Shame Vapor Spy killed him—”
“Most players couldn’t wait a week so they kill Mad Cricket. In the canonical version of the story, Mad Cricket commits suicide after waiting seven days in real time for Vapor Spy’s response. He couldn’t convince Vapor Spy that they’re both game characters. And the burden of knowledge was too much to bear—”
“See, that’s what I’m talking about. How bout this: add a story element in To Bits World—

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 29/05/2025

Nanik Telaram explaining how proof-of-work security works #golangsyd #golang

Nanik in front of his slide explaining how proof-of-work security works.

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Chewxy @bsky.chewxy.com · 29/05/2025

At #golangsyd our talk numbers start at 2, with Nanik on web security and #golang (something about using proof of work?) No crypto involved (maybe Anubis?)

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