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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 19/08/2026

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

Photo of a man speaking into an NBA branded microphone, with his hands spread in front of him. Caption reads "GET READY TO INSTALL LINUX BUDDY. ADAM SILVER TO KYRIE IRVING"

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 07/07/2026

My mom would ream me if she saw this job application

Screenshot reads: WHY APPLY
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys technology, problem-solving, and protecting organizations from cyber threats.

Cover Letter (Optional)
Technology, problem-solving, and protecting organizations from cyber threats are my passion.

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 11/06/2026

Why are we making Conway's Game of Life this complicated? Full disclosure, I haven't tested my version yet but dang if I don't feel like I did this right Simply the most confusing match statement possible. The catch-all "otherwise" in the example code will always evaluate to Cell:Dead🤨 #rustlang

Screenshot of two rust language match statements, labeled "my code" and "the tutorial's code". They both calculate the next state of a cell in Conway's Game of Life given the current alive/dead status of the cell. The one labeled "my code" has two match patterns that are both very clear and concise. The match statement labeled "the tutorial's code" has five match patterns that are a mess.

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 04/06/2026

Are you talking about "move"? Otherwise I have yet to encounter what you're talking about.

Screenshot of a terminal demonstrating a compiler error for "value borrowed after move".

x is declared as a String, then y is declared and assigned the value in x.

Since String does not implement Copy, the value in x is moved into y and is no longer available in x. When println!() is called on x it throws a compiler error.

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 21/05/2026

Ben Wimsett has passed away after an 11 year battle with cancer. His game, Lumbermill, was never completed, but many of us loved his dev logs on YouTube (BWDev) His family put together a lovely fairwell video and a fundraiser for his favorite charity: www.justgiving.com/page/david-w...

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 14/05/2026

I was going crazy thinking the search feature I wrote was returning extraneous results Here are the moby dick sections with "rope". Are you smarter than a LeaveSteve'th grader?

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 08/05/2026

You're so right! I remembered seeing this note about rights to Ferris on the website and fully forgot that it was a cc-0 declaration 😂 glad you checked.

Screenshot contains CC-0 Public Domain icon and the following text:
To the extent possible under law, Karen Rustad Tölva has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to Ferris the Rustacean. This work is published from: United States.

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 03/05/2026

I love a tutorial that was very definitely not written by an ai

In this tutorial I gonna show you how you

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 30/04/2026

K folks, who thinks I could represent Framework well enough to sell a bunch of laptops? Wish me luck 🫡 @frame.work Your move 😁

You have successfully applied to Sales Development Representative

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 08/04/2026

I have a new TTRPG game dev project I've been thinking a lot about. I'm going live at: 4PM UTC 12PM EDT (UTC-4) 9AM PDT (UTC-7) 2AM AEST (UTC+10) I'm gonna take the barest of first steps into both ECS and #fyrox, just seeing if I can import a mesh at runtime. LeaveSteve on #youtube or #twitch.

From left to right, a cube with zero subdivisions, then one, then two, then three, looking gradually more spherical but with the same basic wireframe topology.

Each shape is white, and floating, casting a shadow on the white environment background below.

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 08/02/2026

I'm just implementing stuff I think is interesting to get a feel for things. Which of these do we like better? I think the second one, because both Some and None are handled by the map. In the first one, it's kind of ugly and split up between the Some call and the ? operator. #rustlang

Two implementations of the add operator on a CheckedU8 type. The first uses the ? operator to return early if the result of checked_add on the internal u8 is None. The second implementation uses the Option::map function to avoid unwrapping at all.

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 06/02/2026

Your LLM can only generate DOOM because it's read the code for DOOM. It will only ever generate things that are explained to it through the docs of a library, or that it has read the code for already (or as the kids are calling it, stealing).

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 06/02/2026

Whenever somebody writes DOOM, the impressive part is getting the (semblance of) 3D graphics going, without libraries. You're saying, here's this game that requires spacial imagery, and yet I can render it just using polygons. The value the dev added is their notion of how space becomes polygons.

DOOM running on a TI-83 Plus calculator. It's polygons. It looks 3D.

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 02/02/2026

It occurred to me today that while Linked Lists are generally unsafe, the one used by a brainf tape only ever references/navigates the tape at one point. Here is a brainf tape implemented as a pair of stacks in Rust. I'll do a ring buffer implementation next if I'm feeling zealous.

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 26/12/2025

I'm taking deliberate steps to transition from being an Ideas Guy to a Doer Guy. The two main barriers are holding on to ideas long enough, and feeling like doing them. I've spent a long time by now arranging my life so I feel like doing things, and now I'm tracking a bunch of stuff in Obsidian.

A screenshot of a list of files in Obsidian, including a journal folder, projects, and life strategies.

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 05/09/2025

When I tell my phone specifically to not stop going off until I wake up, I'm doing it because I know I'm about to get ambitiously little sleep, as far as waking up is concerned. So to wake up to a silent phone, hours later, feels like we went wrong somewhere

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 14/08/2025

It might just be java or jvm or some other name that starts with a j and was written by Oracle

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 08/07/2025

Doing a little rain dance over here #mcdev

A screenshot of the in-game minecraft chat. It reads:
LeaveSteve: ☔✘
LeaveSteve: ☀✔
Set the weather to clear

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 14/06/2025

That's awesome I love it I'm totally here for doing this in minecraft but if you're curious about the Blender thing, these are two visualizations I generated with their python api. The dice one uses a physics sim on the surface of a sphere, and the other randomly chose a point for orientation

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 05/06/2025

"It begins" is such an understatement

A screenshot of a youtube thumnail from 14 years ago. The video is "Let's Play Minecraft - Episode 1: It Begins!" by EthosLab

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 31/03/2025

The most recent update to Distant Horizons, adding serverside support to what was already one of the very best mods, is just incredible. modrinth.com/mod/distanth... #mcdev

A minecraft screenshot from a high vantage point in the overworld, showing an incredible viewing distance. Upon close examination, the parts of the world farther in the distance are in lower detail.

6 renderings of the same chunk. The first level of detail is the vanilla rendering. The next one over, the first Distant Horizons rendering, replace the texture of every block with the average color of its face. In each of the following chunks, detail level decreases by combining shapes for larger swaths of color. By the sixth rendering, the chunk is a solid pillar, almost one color entirely except for the dark green of the tree's leaves at the top.

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 06/03/2025

Good news and bad news! The good news is I'm updating Cursed Iron to 1.20, so we're gonna have armor trims! #mcdev

A minecraft player stands facing the camera in creative mode, wearing a netherite chestplate trimmed with diamond. The rest of the armor renders as the signature purple of a missing or broken texture.

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 17/02/2025

I tried to fight the ender dragon on skyblock yesterday and it was the most raw fear I have ever felt I recorded it and the video is just a few minutes of me saying how scared I am and then I die Spoiler alert ⚠️: Quite scared #minecraft

A view of the end dimension in minecraft during the end dragon fight. Having been launched into the sky, the player looks downward at the obsidian pillars, but where there should be an island of end stone there is the void of a skyblock world. The dragon is turning in midair near where the player was just launched from.

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 14/02/2025

Ghast The returning fireball mechanic is too glitchy and unweildy for me to support it. I used to play on laggy connections, but even now, it's bad. Also they may have drops and xp but half the time it's straight into lava so...

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 14/02/2025

Strider These are great, but they're missing something to make them intuitive in the flow of the game. How are we supposed to know to feed them blue mushrooms? Or to put a saddle on them? These aren't like overworld mobs where we have ideas coming in.

Minecraft strider just standing there with its resting grumpy face. Blank background.

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 14/02/2025

Bat Just, we can do better, you know? Bats hang out together, for one thing. Even if there's no resource incentive to kill them, make them interact with the game *somehow*

Minecraft bat in flight. Blank background.

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 12/02/2025

About to go live, developing a game simulation in Godot for training this little Goib:) twitch.tv/LeaveSteve

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 31/01/2025

Forgery Mod allows you to make an item that appears to be another item in every way. This includes item model, name, lore, and enchantment glint. Useful I assume mostly for role playing, when you might assign a specific item particular meaning. Obviously also useful for practical jokes #mcdev

A pixel art chameleon. I could have done a better job. I give it a six or seven out of ten.

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 31/01/2025

Trader Announcement is a data pack that plays a goat horn to any player near a newly spawned wandering trader. Especially useful in skyblock, when missing a wandering trader can mean days of delay advancing. #mcdev

A wandering trader blowing into a goat horn in front of a green background. This is an edited image, not a screenshot of the game.

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 31/01/2025

Factory Block started as a total joke but turned out to be huge fun. It just makes item duping an intended feature of the game. This encourages adventuring to get access to each item, and allows you to build whatever you want without having to farm or grind for supplies. #mcdev

Blurry, scaled up image texture of one side of a factory block. It looks mechanical, possibly with gears and buttons or a display. If you were describing it, you wouldn't know either.

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 31/01/2025

ChainsPlus modifies the vanilla chain block to push and pull blocks when used with a piston. The chain can change shape to connect to any number of the adjacent blocks, making slime machines much more straightforward. I did not program this from scratch, it's an update of a mod by Lettas_ . #mcdev

A piston pushing a lantern, connected by an obscure path of chain blocks.

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 31/01/2025

Soul Pearl adds a variant of ender pearls that can teleport other entities. Used with a dispenser. Hand a pearl to your friend that you've tied to yourself and they'll be able to summon you when they get where they're going. #mcdev

An item similar to an ender pearl, but with a brown outline and a blue firey center.

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LeaveSteve @leavesteve.birdswithlegs.nl · 31/01/2025

If you've never seen my mods before you can check them out at modrinth.com/user/LeaveSt... I'm most proud of Soul Pearl, but I like all of them. One more coming in the next week, and another on the way 😉 #mcdev

Screenshot of the page at the link in the post.
List of projects by LeaveSteve: Soul Pearl, ChainsPlus, FactoryBlock, Trader Announcement, Forgery.
Each project has an icon, a brief description, tags, and metadata about downloads, followers, and last updated date.

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