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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Get the duo so the void stays filled twice as long

Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So, what kinda job does one go into in their mid 30s after spending an entire career as a programmer? Looking around, everything even close in salary range obviously requires prior experience or degrees in different fields. I’m under no illusion that I’m badly specced, but where do my skills work?

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That’s how good his tool is!

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Given that everyone in and around tech has gone insane, I propose we turn the internet off for a week and all go touch grass.

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Are we not all standing on chairs at 3am switching those batteries?! There is no way I’d let that thing beep all night.

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just type the file contents into duckduckgo, ez and works on all platforms

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am in absolute awe by the sheer amount of assets shown and what it must take to get all of that on screen. I also deeply regret not owning a console.

Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The Apple developer site is so good. When you log in it requires a code send by SMS and then gives you a prompt asking if you want to trust this browser. That prompt does nothing, you will still be auto logged out and have to enter the SMS MFA code again. Trillion dollar company!

Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I also wonder if putting a lot of distance/hierarchy between everyone including the customer isn’t partially to blame. We do become blind to issues that don’t directly affect us and it gets easier to give everything the Excel spreadsheet treatment. But it’s also unavoidable when growing big

Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Yet the crowd that deluded itself into thinking they are mountain climbers will eagerly tell you that it is in fact you who has taken the crazy pills. I would love to live in a world where the only goal wasn’t “number go up”.

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Is that why I’m smelling burned toast? iOS BlueSky client?

Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We have a telnet server in our engine that’s used heavily to script/auto test stuff. But it can also run other commands like ‘shader reload X’, which the shader compiler can issue. Just in case you were looking for a way to avoid watching file changes while also throwing out simplicity.

Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I’m just glad we’ve always had hot summers or I would start to seriously worry

Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Average wall outside of a game dev studio these days

Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We might have better healthcare on paper, but only so long as you aren’t planning on seeing a doctor. No shade at the doctors here, they are great, there just aren’t enough. I’ve lived here for 8 years and am still on the waitlist for a family doctor.

Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In hindsight this is blindingly obvious and I feel like an absolute idiot, yet somehow I never considered that this obviously works. Probably common knowledge to everyone already, but I only cosplay as a senior C++ developer so this revelation only just hit me.

Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I was today years old when I realized that you can specify the overload std::clamp() and co should pick. I've always done something like std::clamp(foo, int16_t(0), int16_t(bar + 1)), but std::clamp<int16_t>(foo, 0, bar) gets rid of all the ugly casts from type promotion.

Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Takes quite a bit of guts to claim its a-okay to inhale every piece of human content ever made without paying for it and then turn around and cry foul when somebody else distills the resulting product into their own.

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s also showing everyone that you can get away with it too. Imho a very dangerous lesson to be teaching whoever is coming next. As someone from the outside, who grew up in a world where the US projected a lot of power, it’s also absolutely mind blowing how happily that’s being thrown away.

Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thank you, your thoughts and prayers mean a lot to me in these trying times 🙏😇 #blessed

Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Sad Vulkan noises. Actually there is an extension that, in theory, allows extracting vendor crash dump data. AMD does not support that feature.

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

No shade at AMD (okay maybe a little), but before putting an MCP server into RGD, it’d be real nice to actually make RGD functional. I have not been able to catch one device loss with it, ever. Also the fact that it can’t be embedded like Aftermath for in the field diagnostics isn’t helping either.

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Yeah the analogy doesn’t fully work. But there seems to be a general fear of “smaller budget, smaller return”. It’s got to make billions or its just not worth even entertaining. Which means the budget needs to be eye watering high as well.

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This feels similar to Hollywood where the small to mid sized budget comedy has almost gone completely away. It’s only big blockbuster productions and the 80th iteration of the same movie because taking any risk is unacceptable and it has to return $$$.

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Serves me right for checking BlueSky while hungry. Those look amazing!

Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If games are so good how come they never made games 2? Check mate game devs

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Tangential question, sorry (loving the improvements though!). Is there a reason I can’t see the battery page in the iOS app without an account? That being said, the account login doesn’t appear to work and I have yet to see the battery page.

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Probably the greatest bit of satire I’ve read in a long time: nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/i...

nesbitt.io

Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM

A series of unfortunate agents.

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Classic, that's how they want you to make feel good. I bet it was just a 4kb memory page. Sure, technically "free range". I really wish lawmakers would take a stance against pointer cruelty.

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Are they organic though? I hate industrially farmed dangling pointers, they always keep them in tiny malloc zones and cram as many as possible in there.

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It's always tragic to see what lifelong C use does to the human brain;

Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Local graphics programmer discovers this one weird trick for fast tracking merge requests that Big Code Review doesn't want you to know about.

Anyways, 300 characters is rough, but I'm happy to have an honest discussion over a beer or two. I can certainly see arguments for AI and I'm not in the business of gatekeeping, but I also fully understand why people reject it. Two things can be true at the same time.

I'm cynical enough to agree that it's a foregone conclusion given the market forces though. Doesn't mean everyone must be excited about it. Most aren't excited about the foregone conclusion that they will die either, just to throw in a logical extreme.

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Ultimately though, the push for AI for most comes from above where it 100% is driven by "number must go up". I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with wanting to reject that, I also don't think the Luddites were inherently wrong rejecting the loom even though I'm benefiting from it today

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But I do think that AI is not free of problems, just like previous technological advancements have had their fair share of issues, a lot of which are still impacting us today. "Just embrace it, it's going to happen eventually anyways" is not the compelling argument that it's made out to be.

No and I don't believe I passed a value judgment on AI or its users at any point here. As with most problems that we are facing these days, the underlying issue is that nothing is just black and white and that there is a lot more nuance than fits in 300 characters.

And also, I know number needs to go up, but come on thats unsustainable. Okay cool, you get a productivity boost out of it while alienating the very people you want to have the boost. All for what, line goes up? And you wonder why people who are in it for the love of creativity reject it?

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Most games very publicly advertise their tooling, I don’t think anyone ever got fired for choosing fmod. But taking two steps back here, one, the very technology that you are saying is going to make gaming better is currently pricing the consumer out of gaming. Who is left to buy the games?

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Maybe this should tell you something about the proposal at hand though. If the backlash is strong for something, maybe pushing harder for it while trying to hide it is not the right path forward?

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Jb Evain @jb.evain.net · 24/06/2026

For years I’ve done ptr[n] in the immediate window and walked the array by hand like an animal

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Reposted by Sidney

(fun fact only slightly related that not everyone seems to know, you can also use: `ptr,10` to view a pointer as an array of 10 elements)

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This is life changing news 🤯

Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Two Vulkan variable shading rate gotchas: On Nvidia, shading rate attachments get cleared to 0 after a dynamic rendering pass. On AMD, enabling pipeline shading rates disables MSAA completely even if the rate is set to 1x1. In unrelated news, guess who shipped VRS with MSAA and dynamic rendering.