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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 28/09/2026

My eldest has been dying to play “the video console” ever since I brought out my Gameboy Advance to show her older cousin. Yesterday I introduced her to a couple of games, one more of a classic than the other.

A Gameboy Advance DS (closed) sitting next to game cartridges for Lilo & Stitch and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past / Four Swords.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 25/09/2026

Social media is weird. I follow @aliettedebodard.com because I really enjoyed a book they wrote. Today I realised I’ve been mis-gendering K1 in my head since always. But I don’t know these people. But I feel like a know them a little bit. Weird. Anyway, sorry about that, it should be a compliment.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 21/09/2026

First time I’ve seen Bluesky mentioned in popular media. It’s from “Casi un Millón de Horas” by Juan González Mesa (who appears not to be on Bluesky himself).

Photo of text from a book (in Spanish), the word Bluesky is highlighted:

Mientras el perito trabajaba en el informe, Loren se centró en el control de la plataforma de Detective Público.
En cinco minutos, el vídeo de Valeria descubriéndose sin gorra, lentillas ni maquillaje había sido descargado y subido a YouTube, X, Bluesky, Tiktok, Instagram...; a todas partes.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 21/09/2026

I've read 3 good blog posts on this topic in the last couple of weeks. - @bcantrill.bsky.social: bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/t... - @charity.wtf: charity.wtf/p/confession... - @terriblesoftware.org: terriblesoftware.org/2026/09/10/a...

bcantrill.dtrace.org

The revolt of the reader | The Observation Deck

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 18/09/2026

Do you manage a team working with Rust and some other language? Any other programming language. I’d be interested to know how that’s working out with respect to motivation to work on each part of the project. I’d love to hear stories! Let me know!

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 17/09/2026

This definitely checks out in my experience.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 16/09/2026

I have never regretted buying a larger switch.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 11/09/2026

That’s a wonderful idea! (no irony here, I really mean it)

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 08/09/2026

That’s a very broad statement (which I don’t necessarily believe is wrong, but I don’t have direct experience to say).

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 08/09/2026

Congrats! Important stuff! Will also allow you to save a fortune on tertiary tuition fees.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 03/09/2026

We have a delivery company that regularly uses “handed to reception” to mean they threw the parcel over the fence. We live in a single family dwelling, so of course there is no reception…

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 22/08/2026

Bigger than ours, hope you’re well!

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 18/08/2026

Yes, thankfully. Although a family member’s apartment and the building itself is suffering damage. A ceiling in the entryway has fallen in. It’s “just” plaster, but all the same.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 18/08/2026

This morning we’ve had a 4.7, 4.0, and 4.2 magnitude earthquakes all within 8 Km. So it’s shaping up to be an interesting day, but not in the best way.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 07/08/2026

For the programmers amongst you, stitch goblins are a close relative of code elves, who do the same thing to your code. Of course the kids these days call it AI programming, but it’s been happening long before that was a thing.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 07/08/2026

Stitch goblins, they sneak in while you’re looking the other way and steal stitches. Then they take them and add them to someone else’s project. #knitting

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 02/08/2026

On one hand, this is first rate trolling, but I’m not sure that’s what you want from an LLM chat bot.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 31/07/2026

From memory, in The Diamond Age (an early Neal Stephenson book), the accepted term in some future was Pseudo Intelligence, and they laughed about the hubris of the “original” term Artificial Intelligence.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 19/07/2026

Spain has only ever won the men’s (football) World Cup when I’ve been a resident. Just sayin’

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 14/07/2026

I’m not much for spectator sports, so I’m following the semi-final mostly by checking the score after I hear our neighbours cheering. #LaRoja

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 06/07/2026

…they also called it 6. In fact, they call anything that looks like a numeral, 6. So that’s one crisis averted, for now. 2/2

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 06/07/2026

Child 2 (1.5y) recently recognised and named the numeral 6, entirely out of context. They then did the same thing with a hand written numeral a few days later. With great trepidation, I wrote a 7… 1/2

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 05/07/2026

I remember that from His Dark Materials. Do you have any other examples? I’m curious.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 04/07/2026

Snails really are noisy eaters. I read somewhere that they have a lot of teeth, maybe that’s why.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 03/07/2026

I mean, and Spain. But that’s for personal reasons.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 01/07/2026

I dug into the future case in this post, but much of it should work for other generic parameters too: hegdenu.net/posts/how-bi... A custom lint like the clippy one for futures could really help. 3/3

hegdenu.net

how big is your future? - hēg denu - Hayden Stainsby

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 01/07/2026

Because if you try to factor that out into common code, you might already be too deep. Take away is, look at anything in the public api that takes a generic parameter. 2/3

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 01/07/2026

Tokio auto boxes “large” futures (threshold for large is different between debug and release builds). The most important thing in that context is to do it as early as possible. Ideally you’re boxing in the function that’s in the public API. 1/3

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 01/07/2026

And now there are N+1 whatevers.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 01/07/2026

We have a portable shell scripting language at home Tim. **Tim gets home** It’s Perl 5.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 01/07/2026

I might have just turned my first heel. I might have to frog tomorrow. Who knows? 🤷‍♀️ #knitting #socks

A partially completed knitted sock still on circular needles. Knitted toe up with a contrasting heel, which is as far as it’s gotten.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 22/06/2026

We’ve got the sort of temperature today that once you finish hanging out a load of washing you can start taking it in again as it’s already dry. #hot

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 21/06/2026

I’m not sure it is, but it’s considered the first day of summer here, so it has some significance. And in a way it is a global event.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 16/06/2026

@penny-arcade.com I am thoroughly enjoying the List of the Forgotten. What about Jesus swearing about Mario Kart?

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 14/06/2026

This is great! Follow the link for more!

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 12/06/2026

Look at these cool Rust async tide and surf stickers that I had at home! The tide one was used to cover up a corporate sticker on a laptop that’s going to our nephew. Lucky him!

2 stickers sitting on a table top. One shaped like a surfboard with a smiling face and small text “rustasync/surf” and another shaped like a wave with a smiling face and small text “rustasync/tide”.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 10/06/2026

Child 1 got a sewing machine for their birthday. So now I have a new hobby. And TikTok knows I have a new hobby. Which is fine, it’s cool to see a new culture. I am a little baffled by the guy in the cowboy hat though… (great content, but why the hat?)

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 07/06/2026

The Eternal Software Initiative reminds me a bit of Collapse OS. collapseos.org

collapseos.org

Collapse OS — Bootstrap post-collapse technology

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 04/06/2026

This is actually the jj origin story.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 28/05/2026

It's actually pretty incredible to open up a file in your own (domain specific) language and see in-line diagnostics and be able to jump to references. Wow!

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 28/05/2026

I started reading it, but haven’t had the time to finish. But I thought I’d dive in anyway. I should probably go back to it.

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 27/05/2026

Yes. Thank you. That clears everything up!

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 27/05/2026

If I were to submit a talk, what is the difference between the “description” (limited to 2000 characters, which isn’t very long) and the “short description”? And are the reviews blind? Thanks! I hope I’m asking the right person!

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Hayden (he/him) @hds.cafe · 27/05/2026

Is `jj new` what I use instead of `git switch` or am I holding it wrong?

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