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@skinchanger.dev
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- Hobbyist Programmer & Game Developer - Democratic Market Socialist - Old Internet Revivalist - Public Domain Enthusiast - systemd Hater

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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 20/09/2026
Trump is slowly turning D.C. into an Arma 3 map. www.npr.org/2026/09/20/n...
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Trump says his D.C. arch will serve as 'military complex' with snipers and drones
President Trump has claimed that military operations are needed at his proposed triumphal arch in Washington D.C., in order to protect national security. A federal court is weighing the arch's legalit...
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 15/09/2026
A "come and take it" flag, except instead of a firearm in the center there is a clip-art depiction of a piece of mail being put in a ballot box.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 09/09/2026
The scariest part of my horror lit class was learning that Fall Guys was six years ago.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 02/09/2026
I think, therefore I must pay a reoccurring monthly subscription fee to the metaphysical fabric of existence.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 02/09/2026
Dumb idea I just had: what if we called the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency the "Hostmaster General" instead.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 27/08/2026
Genuine question: what is the point of this? What does Trump think this will accomplish? People are still going to call it Lake Ontario, just like people still call it the Gulf of Mexico. All this does is make the executive branch look like a bunch of whiny toddlers.
A screenshot of a tweet from the official White House twitter account. It reads "EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: Lake Ontario is renamed to LAKE AMERICA! 🇺🇸"
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 18/08/2026
Big desk doesn't want you to know this, but you can just use a plastic folding table for a desk. I've used mine for years now and I haven't had any issues with it whatsoever. Plus it's got a lot of desk space and leg room.
A plastic folding table being used as a desk. The desk has two monitors, several computer peripherals, some books, and a few other items on top.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 15/08/2026
I don't understand how windows users can tolerate this shit. Genuinely why the fuck does this operating system need to spend several minutes applying updates on boot instead of just applying them while running. Pretty much every modern UNIX-like doesn't do this.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 14/08/2026
Fun fact: the United States National Security Agency has a GitHub account. github.com/NationalSecu...
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National Security Agency
Official organization account for the National Security Agency (NSA) - National Security Agency
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 06/08/2026
I felt bored, so I wrote a few Genmon scripts in Lua to spice up my taskbar by tracking CPU and memory usage. They're in the public domain if you want to use them for something yourself. github.com/skinchangerd...
The right side of a task bar in the XFCE desktop environment containing 3 Genmon (general monitor) items and several other panel items. The 3 Gemon items track CPU, swap space, and memory usage in percentages.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 06/08/2026
Just spent ~3 hours debugging some quaternion math in an Unreal Engine project only to fix the issue by using Euler angles instead.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 03/08/2026
Look Elon, clang-format has allowed me to be incredibly productive when working on my codebase! Just look at how many lines of code I've changed in a matter of minutes! I'm totally a 100x developer who is making substantial positive changes which matter to users!
A summary of a git commit showing that 62 files have been changed, with 842 lines added and 1076 lines deleted.

This commit was created using clang-format, a formatting tool for code which does not affect it's meaning or logic.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 28/07/2026
A quantum wave-trolley approaches a plate with a double slit. On the other end of each slit is a crystal that will split the wave-trolley into an entangled pair of wave trolleys with half the energy of the original. You stand next to a lever that operates seven wave-trolley detectors. These detectors are placed on the tracks that the entangled pairs will go through. Right after the detectors, people are tied down to the track, placed inside a box transparent only to the trolley frequency of the EM spectrum (this means you can't know if they are dead or alive until the box opens). If you activate the detectors, you will force the trolley's wave function to collapse into a single trolley-particle by revealing which slit it went through. This would instantly kill one of the two persons in front of the detectors on one side, but also have a 50% chance of killing a single person on the other end, or a 25% chance of either killing 4, or none, depending the final direction that the particle-trolley goes through.

If you do nothing, you might kill everyone or no one, or some in some worlds and some in others. But you don't know which is it, because you haven't figured out whether the correct interpretation is Copenhagen, or Many Worlds or Pilot Wave or any other.

There is one last problem: You are a virtue ethicist, and so you are probably unaware of any developments after Aristotle, and you're only vaguely aware that the 20th century happened, because you might have read Macintyre or Anscombe so you have no idea what any of this means or how to approach it.
What do you do?
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 28/07/2026
I hope it had a horrible fucking anniversary
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 28/07/2026
It feels amazing to have a benchmark like this which more closely mirrors the software development lifecycle. AI won't replace human programmers anytime soon, and this benchmark demonstrates that.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 21/07/2026
"Oh, you think Bash is your ally, but you merely adopted the terminal, Claude Code. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't use a GUI until I was already a man."
Bane choking Batman from the Dark Knight Rises, with the Claude logo over Batman's face.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 20/07/2026
I got an ad today for an AI vibe-coding game development app while I was developing my own 100% human-made passion project of a game. I'm beginning to think that AI bros shouldn't have the right to use a computer.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 18/07/2026
What do they think Canada is gonna do, turn on a magic weather machine? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Republicans threaten Canada with sanctions over drifting wildfire smoke
Fires are also blazing across the US and the Trump administration has repealed several climate protections
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 15/07/2026
Being mildly interested in British politics is so funny as an American. You'll look away for one second only to see some bullshit like the Prime Minister endorsing Count Binface.
A Picture of Count Binface, a British satirical candidate.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 13/07/2026
The blood sacrifice of Lindsey Graham has revived Mitch McConnell www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...
nytimes.com
After Weeks of Silence, McConnell Says He Is Recovering From a Fall
The Republican senator denied that he had suffered a heart attack and said he had left the hospital and moved to a physical rehabilitation center. He did not give a timetable for returning to Capitol ...
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 12/07/2026
Epic Games is a confusing corporation because one day they'll be creating a digital consumerist hellscape (Fortnite) and the next day they'll be open sourcing a next-generation version control system they created (Lore) under the MIT license.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 09/07/2026
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 08/07/2026
So whatever happened to that "Peace Deal"? www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/w...
cnn.com
Live updates: US hits more than 80 Iran targets and reimposes sanctions | CNN
The US has launched a “series of powerful strikes against Iran,” US Central Command said in a statement Tuesday. The Trump administration also reimposed sanctions on Iranian oil sales in retaliation f...
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Antifa Snack Coordinator 💯% safe 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐈🐕 @waffa.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 04/07/2026
I knew our civics education was bad, I just didn't realize it was this bad. www.npr.org/2026/07/03/n...
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Nearly half of Americans surveyed don't know what America 250 commemorates
A new national poll reveals a striking paradox in public sentiment ahead of America's 250th anniversary: a disconnect between Americans' strong patriotic pride and their lack of civic knowledge.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 03/07/2026
Been trying out Godot recently, and while It has a really interesting design it also ruins it for me with a scripting environment that makes me want to tear my hair out. Also, there's at least 4 ways to do C++ game code and they all suck.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 02/07/2026
The flag of the United States, according to Donald Trump.
An American flag with the background of the upper right corner colored algae green instead of dark blue.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 01/07/2026
If Microslop closes Arkane I'm going to go high chaos mode. They're pretty much the last major studio left making new Immersive Sims. www.engadget.com/2205451/xbox...
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Xbox layoff plans reportedly include closing Arkane, canceling Blade - Engadget
The cuts will apparently start next week.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 29/06/2026
The intrusive thoughts are telling me to post a 1984 quote about war being peace. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
theguardian.com
Escalating US-Iran strikes threaten interim peace agreement
Tehran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait amid efforts to open strait of Hormuz without Iran’s direct oversight
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 26/06/2026
I try using a build of Unreal 5.8 compiled from source. It crashes. I try using a pre-compiled build of Unreal 5.8. It crashes. I try using O3DE. It crashes. I try an older version of O3DE. That fails to compile. I finally get a fix for Unreal 5.8, and now it only freezes instead. fuck my life.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 23/06/2026
The Reflecting Pool really doesn't matter that much, but it's incredibly funny to watch the POTUS crash out about algae.
Algae floats on the surface of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, blocking the reflection of the water with green sludge. The Washington monument can be seen in the distance.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 22/06/2026
We should fund efforts to create element 121 solely so that we can forever ruin full-length periodic table posters by forcing them to display g-block elements.
An extended periodic table, with the g-block elements (purple) between s-block (pink) and f-block (green).
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 22/06/2026
I've finally gotten the first iteration this project I've been working on over the finish line. It's a DAP client for Textadept, and I'm a bit burnt out of working on it. It's not very good, but it is a start. I'm gonna go work on something else now. skinchanger.dev/blogs/introd...
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Introducing textadept-dap
A Debug Adapter Protocol client for Textadept
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 18/06/2026
Sometimes I really wish we still had big box physical games for PC. Even if I've never owned one, I can't help but view them incredibly fondly. Don't let physical media die for other platforms.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 14/06/2026
Roses are red Violets are blue I don't use Arch And you shouldn't too www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Li...
phoronix.com
Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware
The Arch Linux User Repository 'AUR' was hit by a large-scale malware campaign this week with more than 400 of these user-supplied packages being compromised.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 13/06/2026
Sometimes I have good days. Other times I remember that UTF-16 exists.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 08/06/2026
Really hate how people complain that Unreal Engine 5 is "unoptimized" based on their experience with the latest AAA slop that uses it and completely ignore other UE5 games that can run on decade-old hardware, e.g. DRG Rouge Core.
The minimum and recommended system requirements for Deep Rock Galactic: Rouge Core.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 05/06/2026
No, you aren't getting a tuna sandwich.
A picture of a cat on top of a stool on the other side of a counter from the camera, where there are the ingredients for a tuna sandwich on a cutting board.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 02/06/2026
fuck cocaine I'm on 100% passed unit tests
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 01/06/2026
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 29/05/2026
Sean Murray turned me into a royalist it's so joever
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 29/05/2026
Writing lua scripts for textadept has made me realize just how needlessly complex most scripting languages are. If lua isn't enough for your usecase, you probably shouldn't be using a scripting language in the first place.
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Phirmth @phirmth.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Help, I bought my son the Fisher Price Cybertruck and now he keeps getting in trouble at school for unprompted rants about the correlation between Paw Patrol and white fertility rates
Tesla’s $1500 Cybertruck for Kids
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 17/05/2026
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 16/05/2026
Yeah screw this I'm gonna go write my own kernel (once I get done creating my own language (I am only half joking))
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 12/05/2026
I really hate it when non-tech people talk about AI like it's this completely new thing, glossing over the fact that there's been AI systems since the 1940s and commercial use of AI since the 1980s.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 12/05/2026
Immersive Sim is the worst name for a genre of games ever, because everybody thinks you're talking about farming simulator unless they are already an immersive sim fan. Really need to start calling them some along the lines of "Shock-likes" or something. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersi...
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Immersive sim - Wikipedia
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 11/05/2026
We really need more people learning the dark arcane knowledge of how to use a command line interface. I feel like I'm the only person in so many of my classes that knows how to use one.
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SkinChangerDev 🔻 @skinchanger.dev · 08/05/2026
I'd like to welcome you all to the bottom. Nobody in the political elite cares about fair elections anymore. It's all just one giant power grab at the expense of our democracy. I'm disgusted gerrymandering has gotten to this point, no matter which party is doing it.
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