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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am on the search for work trials! I have compiled some projects covering tools, libraries, graphics, Rust and JavaScript. If you have opportunities or leads, please get in contact! kaleidawave-public-pages.val.run/r/ben-portfo...

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Highlights on Ezno, Tools, Libraries, Mathematics, Graphics and more

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

On Ezno: the JavaScript type-checker and compiler. Progress has been few and far between for a while. There are still fixes to be made, ideas to share and features to tidy up. But I currently do not have the energy it deserves. So until then the project is paused.

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Samual @samual.uk · 11/09/2026

I got made redundant this week. I'm a very passionate web developer. I got very used to wearing many hats from being fullstack, to sys-admin, to technical lead. DM me

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Recently learned about OSC command support in Ghossty. The clipboard API OSC52 ghostty.org/docs/vt/osc/52 looks useful, but 7 and 9 also good.

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

kaleidawave-public-pages.val.run/@/mathematic...

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Working on building my dream perfect command line argument handling library. Made some progress on the derive side. What feature/functionality would you like to see in this Rust crate? github.com/kaleidawave/...

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I recently wrote a `sha1` function in Rust based on pseudo-code from wikipedia. And more recently I changed it out to not allocate and take `std::io::Read`!! github.com/kaleidawave/...

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

for something named *regular* expressions, they sure do have a lot of quirks

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I have started a WAYWO (what are you working on) channel in the compiler club Discord. Join for pure work-in-progress demos and discussion on a range of projects from a range of contributors! kaleidawave-public-pages.val.run/r/cc-discord

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Join the compiler club Discord Server!

Talk on compilers and related technology. Unspecific to any project. Giving this server a 3 month run... | 9 members

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Wrote about the largest experiment in Ezno: recording and replaying events kaleidawave.blog/posts/record...

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Recording and replaying events

and side-effects of the experiment

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Any ideas for emulating a thin material (e.g. paper) in Blender. Want the shadow / light projected onto both sides of the plane.

I want the backface of a plane to be illuminated as if it was the front face. Is it possible to copy the light paths?

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

GitHub actions have been running really fast recently!

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

There should be a 'number of subdivisions' input here (like icosphere etc)

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Released a new version of spectra. My favourite new feature is `--infill` which generates expected cases from a program. (here generating for an `uppercase` program). More features and fixes coming soon. Would also like to hear suggestions for the testing tool. github.com/kaleidawave/...

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Blender @blender.org · 17/03/2026

Blender Foundation and the online community proudly present Blender 5.1! 🎉 Rock solid, feature-packed, and a performance beast on all fronts, from animation to modeling and compositing. 🎁What's New: www.blender.org/download/rel... 📺Watch Recap: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r3x... #b3d #DevFund

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5.1 — Blender

Built for speed. Performance meets stability in Blender 5.1.

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Has anyone written a fork of `Vec` in the Rust standard library which allows for custom length & capacity types. It could reduce memory here by 1/3 given that these vectors are unlikely to have more than 2**32 entries.

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Anyone else have Blender (5.0.0) go into a mode where it freezes roughly every 30 frames

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Fun JavaScript quiz, do either of these parse? If so, which ones

Case 1. `for (using = 0; using < 2; using += 1) console.log(0, using)`

Case 2. `for (await using; using < 4; using += 1) console.log(1, using)`

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Released depict 0.2.0 (deterministic evaluation of performance via instruction counting tool) github.com/kaleidawave/... I have recently been using it to identify overhead in Ezno's parser! There are a few issues with it. But if it looks interesting or useful be sure to share feedback on it!

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Working on a project using Hono JSX. Great for development

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

`mv blog/src/posts/the-wrong-optimisations.md blog/private/posts-that-will-get-me-in-trouble`

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Anybody know how in Blender to sample a compositor input at a pixel.? The input exists in shader nodes but not compositor nodes?

Compositor node editor on the left. Shader node editor on the right. Shader texture node has vector input. Compositor *texture* node does not?

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Achievement alert, JSON parsing in Rust now under 250 LOC *. Will write a post this week, so LMK any details that would be interesting!!

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 24/12/2025

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

congratulations everyone, we have successfully asked all the questions

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

productive afternoon 🙃

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Is there are faster way that `cargo check` to update local entries in the Cargo lockfile? `cargo generate-lockfile` seems to update all dependency entries, even under `--offline`

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Anybody know what these files generated by Cargo (Rust) are?

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MichiganTypeScript @michigantypescript.com · 11/12/2025

⚔️introducing TypeSlayer⚔️ A #typescript type performance benchmarking and analysis tool. A summation of everything learned from the benchmarking required to make the Doom project happen. It's got MCP support, Perfetto, Speedscope, Treemap, duplicate package detection, and more.

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

May have got working on ARM64!!

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

no `option_include_str!` in standard library 😞 a crate exists docs.rs/include_opti... 😀 it has a known bug because of a Rust limitation to proc-macro caching 😞 there is a fix in nightly 😀

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

where '\'`"\\/`\\\'"\`"\`'|

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

SoundCloud but playlists can be sorted by recently added first

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Not related to any recent events

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Working on adding Rust dynamic libraries as a spectra test runner

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Rust Language @rust-lang.org · 17/11/2025

It is time for the annual State of Rust Survey! 📝✨️️ Whether you've just begun using Rust, are an experienced Rust user, stopped using Rust, or might use Rust in the future, we'd like to hear from you! 🦀 Available in ten languages and open until December 17th: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/11/17/l...

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Launching the 2025 State of Rust Survey | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

all fun and games until I have seven regions to try and understand how they parse

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Ben @kaleidawave.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

we already have declarations in conditionals at home

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