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Matt Godbolt @matt.godbolt.org · 17/10/2025

One of my favourite talks to have seen in person just got published: youtube.com/watch?v=sIZU... go check out Walter's brilliant presentation!

youtube.com

In Search of the Perfect Return: A C++ Programming Journey

YouTube video by Chicago C++ User Group

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

The attack surface expands considerably when relaying data through a plant pot. And that bird is definitely up to something. arxiv.org/html/2510.07...

arxiv.org

What is Quantum Computer Security?

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

The deeper I go with plugin architectures, the more I realise that the Dunning-Kruger graph for linking is actually a sin wave.

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Guy Davidson 🌈 @hatcat01.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I’m very sad to report the passing of Rainer Grimm. I can’t possibly say how great a contribution he made to the C++ community; fortunately, his blog can. www.modernescpp.com/index.php/my...

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Spent the evening resurrecting my old C++ build system Nozzle (written in Nix, but you define libraries and builds from source files like in Bazel). It works very nicely. Would be interesting to see if I could add support for rust too.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

GitHub is moving at 0.964c relative to you. This is why a CI run that GitHub Actions says took 8 minutes actually felt like 30 minutes.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Just one more domain bro it's a cool name bro you're gonna have a blog bro and actually post more than once a year bro I promise bro

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I don't know what the default Bluesky Discover feed is based on, but it was the worst part about coming to this platform. Just found skyfeed's Discover feed which is based on likes and is far more relevant to me. With that and a huge list of muted words and accounts, bluesky is kind of alright.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I've just invented the words emulatorics and emulatician, and I'm absolutely going to use them for anything emulator related as often as possible.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

It is now officially Aran sweater weather. Just thought you should know.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Went to see a one-man (and 10 ironing board) show called The Ironing Board Man tonight. Man meets ironing board, they marry, man loses ironing board, man regains ironing board, they have kids, ironing board gets shot, man seeks revenge. It was hilarious. Looked like a hell of an effort too.

The co-stars, including guest stars ironing board Margret Thatcher, ironing board Geri Halliwell, ironing board Donald Trump, and General Starch.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I have a pi cluster microk8s for things like the family photo album, fileshare, etc. But it keeps crashing out and I've basically abandoned it. I think immich is too much for them. Today I had a revelation that I have an old Alienware laptop that I could totally repurpose as a node. Thoughts?

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Powys Castle - making the most of a surprisingly beautiful Sunday afternoon after a stormy Saturday.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

This is today: rsgb.org/main/coding-... Amateur Radio is a great entrypoint to technology. It teaches electronics, physics, engineering, programming, all in a fun and addictive way. It's a lifelong hobby of collaborative learning. I can't wait to introduce it to my kids when they're old enough.

rsgb.org

RSGB LoRa balloon challenge - Radio Society of Great Britain - Main Site : Radio Society of Great Britain – Main Site

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

From now on, whenever anyone asks me what I do for a living, this will be my answer. youtu.be/yGAZHJkinPE

youtu.be

The Day Job | Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping | Channel 4 Comedy

YouTube video by Channel 4 Comedy

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Just glad his name isn't Rob or Roger.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I have spent years actively maintaining a productive environment, with everything "just so" so I can zone out from my physical being and mentally teleport to a realm of code. I cannot express the level to which my new quiet PC fans are messing with my vibe. I feels like I'm at altitude.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Hot chocolate weather is early this year.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

My dev rig is still going strong after 8 years, though the only thing that is the same inside the chassis is the motherboard, the CPU (Threadripper 1950x, still 💯), and, until today, the fans. Replaced them with thermalright 140mm fans, cheap as chips. They're so quiet it's insane.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

ChatGPT on Quantum Error Correction, Eastin-Knill, and some challenges associated with scale. I lol'd.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

My spaniel is a dog of little brain but of great nose. She lost her ball in the garden, and she opted for a random walk: darting in every direction until she finds it by chance. She was running around like this for 20 minutes, no luck. I turned the outside lights off. She found it in 2 minutes.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

An early September Sunday has no right to be this drab.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Always remember to provide adequate cooling for your CPU

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Kartik @k4rtik.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I'm at IEEE Quantum Week. Talk to me about GuppyLang, QIR, and quantum programming languages & compilers in general. #IEEEQuantumWeek

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Me: Do you have a moment to speak about our lord and saviour Dwarf Metal?

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I just don't understand how Apple Music's recommendation algorithm is so bad, considering Apple's reputation for, you know, being pretty good with music.

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 01/03/2025

Just hit escape

A funny flowchart for preventing carpal tunnel syndrome. The "NO" path shows an incorrect posture with slouched shoulders and bent wrists at a computer leading to more pain. The "YES" path humorously suggests "Running into woods. Never to be seen again" as a solution.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

If at first you don't succeed, you're not a budgie.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This place really needs a way to mute reposts from various accounts. You know, the ones that post great content about [cool topic you're interested in], but repost [weird topic that you're highly disinterested in] at 50x the rate.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I cannot tell you how disappointed I am that this wasn't a printer. I mean, an AI rig is cool, don't get me wrong, but I can get GPU compute easily. What I can't do is get a printer to work.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Took longer than most, but I've hit my limit with Twitter for the time being. Here for some good, solid, hardcore dev content.

media.tenor.com

a man in a suit and tie is waving his hand in the air .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is waving his hand in the air .

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