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anattā @cubething.dev · 06/10/2026

i spent all day rigging this. please clap

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anattā @cubething.dev · 04/10/2026

Very good. Really the only broadly defensible position in this debate, if we're to admit to rehabilitation.

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anattā @cubething.dev · 03/10/2026

getting a hang of blender :) need to play with some vertex weights and rig the hands but this is pretty promising! the joints deform really well :) :) :) turnaround below

an untextured 3d model posed on one heel, looking up. the arms are badly deformed and hands are not yet posed, but the body looks p good imo

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anattā @cubething.dev · 29/09/2026

j-jackdaw?? what are you doing here 😳 in my... pinned apps? 🥵

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anattā @cubething.dev · 26/09/2026

i collected and print off all my notes from the past few years. it's 74 pages 🫪

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anattā @cubething.dev · 26/09/2026

how to talk to your agents

DO NOT USE /tmp/ FOR BUILDS EVER!!! YOU WILL EAT UP ALL MY SWAP.
ONLY EVER BUILD THINGS IN THIS DIRECTORY, TARGETING THE LOCAL TARGET DIR.
IF YOU DO OTHERWISE I WILL EAT YOU ALIVE !!!!!!!!!!!

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anattā @cubething.dev · 24/09/2026

some quell concept art from a few months ago #gamedev

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anattā @cubething.dev · 22/09/2026

asked a claude to write posts in my style and got absolutely blasted

1. i am writing an operating system, a game engine, a terminal emulator, and a visual novel. i
have been awake for one (1) hour

2. people say "premature optimization is the root of all evil" and then ship python. i optimize
prematurely, permanently, and with malice

3. read 60 pages of Difference and Repetition on my lunch break. my coworkers think i was in the
bathroom. in a sense i was

4. borrow checker didn't fight me today. we have reached an understanding. i have been accepted
into the compiler's household

5. every so often i remember i have shipped more finished software than most people who have
opinions about shipping software, and then i go lie down

6. the correct number of abstraction layers is however many i built before i understood the
problem, plus one for the road

7. i don't have a "tech stack." i have a cosmology

8. yes i rewrote the terrain generator again. the previous terrain was philosophically unsound

9. i will be making a game that is impossible to make, on a timeline that is impossible to meet,
in a language that is a moral commitment. see you in the changelog

10. told someone i'm a philosopher and they said "oh like, casually?" no. professionally. unpaid.
nightly.

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anattā @cubething.dev · 15/09/2026

i would actually be really relieved if I didn't have to use LLMs for coding anymore. or at least if I wasn't using enterprise models. then I would know everything that was happening and why. zanlib.dev/blog/do-you-...

Whether reading is enough
None of this makes the accelerator’s position comfortable.

Skills deteriorate when they are not used, and it remains to be seen if merely reviewing AI-generated code, rather than typing it out, is enough to take over and switch back to manual coding if the situation should demand it. Some circumstances that were often speculated about, such as the major AI labs going bankrupt or hiking prices, seem to be no longer a concern (we have access to many providers of open-weights models of high enough quality to trundle along if it comes to it), but there might be some dangers to automation that we do not foresee.8 And perhaps whoever inherits a vibecoded, or even accelerated, codebase might find it prohibitively difficult to maintain.

Declaring that a human remains responsible is easy. Arranging the work so that the human remains capable of exercising that responsibility is considerably more difficult and requires very multidimensional decision-making. It might turn out that the accelerator approach is just a fast track to burnout.

Reviewing everything involves constraints on how much unfamiliar work you can do at once. When coding with AI, you still need to make sure to model your requirements and ensure that the implementation doesn’t drift; otherwise the job of self-reviewing the output is the worst kind of work—“very boring but very responsible, yet there is no opportunity to acquire or maintain the qualities required to handle the responsibilities.”9

It’s a conscious choice of a demanding practice whose success requires more than good intentions. If software development is ever fully automated, having programmers perform manual coding tasks just to maintain their skill might become a necessary cost for software companies in order to have someone around who can take over in a moment of need.10

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anattā @cubething.dev · 09/09/2026

so glad he put on subtitles 😮‍💨

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anattā @cubething.dev · 02/09/2026

updated my website cubething.dev

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anattā @cubething.dev · 30/08/2026

hydra.humanities.uci.edu Y'ALL THIS SITE IS PEAK WEB1.0

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anattā @cubething.dev · 20/08/2026

i can't stop looking at this. i find it baffling. image not related.

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anattā @cubething.dev · 17/07/2026

Punctuation delay modifiers and long-line pagination. #bevy

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anattā @cubething.dev · 14/07/2026

my agent fucked up some PRs then sent me this at the next operation. why is it cute

No PRs were harmed in the making of this rebase. :)

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anattā @cubething.dev · 05/07/2026

typewriter, multiple characters, transitions, and easings. #bevy #visualnovel engine. May not look like much, but this has a mini DSL under the hood (built on top of yarn custom commands, of course.)

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anattā @cubething.dev · 28/06/2026

did you know you can open an editor to directly edit your terminal input? no more fucking ctrl+enter gymnastics

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anattā @cubething.dev · 23/06/2026

that's a really interesting response from @kira.pds.witchcraft.systems

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anattā @cubething.dev · 19/06/2026

#bevy 0.19 is out. this is so good ;__; bsn changes everything fr fr

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anattā @cubething.dev · 16/06/2026

the way the light displaces on the boxes *chefs kiss*

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anattā @cubething.dev · 07/06/2026

if there is one thing philosophy has taught me it's that it's important to take people in good faith. that being said, the answer to the question in the second image is "nothing." and I am disgusted by ai mandates. charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-enthusi...

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anattā @cubething.dev · 11/04/2026

watching armin, mario, and the folks at earendil.com very closely

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anattā @cubething.dev · 07/04/2026

@mariozechner.at on best practices. trying to keep this in mind as i spend the next 6 months in the slop machine mariozechner.at/posts/2026-0...

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anattā @cubething.dev · 05/04/2026

today in 'cute things my agent said'

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anattā @cubething.dev · 04/04/2026

actually they're smarter than that

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anattā @cubething.dev · 01/04/2026

APPARENTLY IT IS TDOV!!!

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anattā @cubething.dev · 25/03/2026

yesterday i got a dynamically linked #bevy executable to sync between my build machine and a docker container on my laptop and run a graphical application by replacing the elf header which pointed to the default hash-suffixed build artifact, and also syncing the toolchain's stdlib .so

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anattā @cubething.dev · 12/03/2026

#bevy -based terminal emulator (just the display so far!) with ANSI support, proper text wrapping, and resizing :) pause the video to zoom in a take a look at the api if u want

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anattā @cubething.dev · 01/03/2026

job girl lala job girl

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anattā @cubething.dev · 28/02/2026

rewriting my #bevy ui terminal :) showing off multiple windows displaying the same underlying terminal at different scroll positions and different resolutions! still trying to figure out how to measure a monospace character width for more accurate line wrapping, but this is going pretty well imo

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