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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hoping the new Castlevania lives up to this next month!

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I do a considerable amount of my Rust dev with CARGO_TARGET_DIR pointed at a 16 or 32GB ramdisk and that has similarly helped my mood a bit. (Viable on MacOS/Linux both!) Not entirely tenable for some hefty dependency trees, though, and I run cargo-sweep more often than daily out of necessity now.

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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Expanse: A Little Death trade paperback collection is now available for pre-order! Co-written by fan-favorite series actor Wes Chatham ("Amos Burton") and myself, with art by Francesco Pisa and cover art by Christian Ward.

#TheExpanse A Little Death cover art by Christian Ward

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

All it does is signal "we think disclosing this makes us feel we are being sufficiently ethical about it and will not introspect on that topic any further" 🫠

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

well, it's not like we can reasonably or accurately assume one word from this pair based on the other, since they coincide so rarely...

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I suspect that in the long term we'll realize applying "just be Extra Careful and review everything super thoroughly and you'll be fine" attitudes to bot-authored code will be just as ineffectual as it has been for all of the load-bearing, long-lived C code.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Kendra: "nah I think I'm done with this" Patrick: "you know what, me too"

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

From the outside looking in, most atproto builders seem to be excessively hustle-brained

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter Culture (2004)

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

sanderson, or did someone else do it recently?

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If the machine coding topic doesn't bother you there a few other prolific writers who embrace it and are easily discovered. The first-party WWDC videos were also a great starting point for me, as they are are more narrative/task-centric than the Developer docs site is wont to be. HTH!

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Some sources I have appreciated so far that don't skew too far into aye eye practices for my tastes: swiftwithmajid.com (huge backlog with lots of detail!) nilcoalescing.com/blog/ (great too) www.hackingwithswift.com (also has a YT channel) www.swiftwithvincent.com (posts frequently on bsky also)

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Advanced beginner here, as I am proficient in other tech stacks and SWE generally. Honestly quite a lot of the teaching culture surrounding this tech stack is IME disproportionately hustle-heavy, very often trying to sell me a course or a book or a newsletter. I don't love that about it at all.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Laughs in "Robert Jordan with his 700 characters in the same 1-2 factions specifically starting with S and ending in a vowel"

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Most popular form of torment nexus by a wide margin

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Your readme could benefit from a quick compare + contrast to eg tracing + tracing-subscriber, if you're so inclined

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Sadly I don't think any of these are going to be especially quick & light for CI though, if you're on a "runs in a container image" type of platform like GHA or GitLab. It's not good odds to be in platforms hot caches or preinstalled, and xtask would be sensitive to all the same cargo caching steps.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Next up, nushell has great support for structured data files, and a semver type: www.nushell.sh/cookbook/fil... www.nushell.sh/commands/doc...

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

You possibly could use the toml-edit crate directly if you're doing programmatic stuff, perhaps inside a cargo-xtask. github.com/matklad/carg... toml-edit preserves as much as it can of existing structure, order, comments and formatting, which will be nice for minimizing unnecessary diffs.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Minor correction of attribution: Caves is developed by Freehold Games, including @unormal.bsky.social and @jfg.land . Kitfox is only a publisher for this one and only became formally involved by 2024 for its 1.0 release. It had already been on Steam as early access for nearly 10 years at that point.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Not the first or best to do it by a wide margin, but some examples of prior art from the BEAM ecosystem that I found quite useful in my past, to help demonstrate its utility as a formal effort: Package revisions diff.hex.pm/diff/ecto/3.... Result of codegen: www.phoenixdiff.org/compare/1.8....

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ecto 3.13.6..3.14.0 | hexdiff

Web based diffs of Hex packages

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

As an overrated creation from the 80s I'm obliged to agree

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

You can try "cargo tree -p <that new crate> -e features" to see if the new library toggled any build-time settings in something within bevy itself or its dependency tree, which is the main case where this would be intentional and correct behavior.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

AI certainly makes it WAY worse, but every role I've held included encounters with the specific flavor of "Why Can't You Just..." question from coworkers. Rough shape goes: This is a tough, complex topic, but did you try this thing that occurred to me after pondering the problem for all of 30 sec?

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Feels like you could print a small greeting card run of sentiments like "Your project got posted to HN, and I'm sorry they were predictably very Hacker News about it" and dispense them all within a month or two.

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Iroh @iroh.computer · 15/06/2026

We just released the first stable version of iroh, v1.0! Read about it: www.iroh.computer/blog/v1 We're super proud of where we landed with iroh's 1.0. Since version 0.35 it feels like we've entirely replaced the "engine underneath". Are you a fellow key-dialer? Come tell us how you use iroh!

iroh.computer

Iroh 1.0 - Dial Keys, not IPs

Iroh 1.0 is out. Now is the time to build.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I have achieved levels of caffeination that can only be accompanied by ~2000-2012 punk albums played at painfully high volume. Otherwise, what are Fridays even *for*?

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

One of my last dead mice would double- or triple-click from one press during its final few weeks. Fun/funny for gaming, often very inconvenient for regular software! Been using one MXVert after another for like... 10 years now, so I'll be curious how you like the new one!

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I don't super care that people make or play horny games it's just stupid and obvious when they try to dissemble about it

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The first one already looked like such a gooner game to start with 🙅

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I was a sysadmin and now work as a programmer, so I'm capable of doing any of the technological alternatives to subscribing for it, but I was glad to pay for something reliable and no-fuss.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

there's like 101 legitimate reasons it might not be suitable for you, but I am generally pretty happy with the official obsidian sync product. I use it to access and write with my iPhone and iPad. All of the plugins and themes I've personally used still worked fine after sync to iOS, too.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

If it's clear a thing could/will be made regardless, I just wait for a generally available retail release. My understanding from casual convos with a couple designers is that this is in fact counterproductive for them when they wanted preorders to forecast demand for physical production quantities.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Hard no, personally. I find this antithetical to the purpose of the platform or of crowdfunding in general. Some large established studios do it serially but that doesn't make it okay. For the players it's just traditional preorders with unwieldy extra steps and 0 consumer protections included.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The only assumption I'm consciously making was to expand the word sustainable to mean "sustainable to work on while needing regular food and housing". Not whether the code or project would experience longevity. Since if maintainers can't make ends meet, it's probably doomed in the long term.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Am I reading this right, the second ever board-approved project being funded by the Rust Foundation via their Innovation Lab is some AI thing created directly by two of the five Project Directors of the Foundation? Coolcoolcoolcool no doubt no doubt. Absolutely love that for us.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

OSS doesn't seem very sustainable for devs who don't do it on the side from their generous day job, or AS their day job. It's certainly nowhere near as lucrative as an average full-time SWE position for most maintainers - it's mostly synonymous with "volunteer" for people with less exceptional luck.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I have many more friends who like fantasy genre stuff than ones who don't, but so far I'm pretty sure I have not convinced a single one of them to try reading or watching Frieren and that bums me out. It was one of my top entertainment experiences last year. Even the dub is solid!

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Count me out of the "big tent" worldview for tech community if it means hanging out with military/"defense" tech people whatsoever. I don't care how you rationalize it - more contributions, funding, clout, mindshare, whatever. No reward is worth the cost of helping people do a better job of killing.

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Ky @ky.fyi · 24/04/2026

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

ky.fyi

Do I belong in tech anymore?

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

did you ever see the live action Harriet the Spy movie from the 90s? oh, no reason

tiny baby Michelle Trachtenberg in the 1990s in a yellow rain jacket

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

In the 15(!) years since Martin last published a mainline novel, one of my favorite speculative series began, completed by published 9 excellent books plus short stories, received a 6-season and enjoyable TV adaptation, a robust set of graphic novels, and will get its second video game next year.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Of course Andy Weir doesn't want to see a sci-fi franchise evolve with real society, he's effectively written the same mid book three times in a row and keeps getting rewarded for it.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Everything I've learned about mogging and maxxing has been against my will

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

while the Wheel of Time show was airing the various WoT subreddits were all pretty draconian in how you could talk about the show, in a similar vein to this.

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