"substituting X for Y" is an English construction that _always_ trips me up

you know you've been computering for too long when you can recognise what this is

Air Powered Segment Display: 3D Printed Microfluidic RAM? YouTube video by soiboi soft

The sound this thing makes is so cool. What a clever idea.

youtu.be/E1BLGpE5zH0?...

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

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Reimplement decompiler integration by k4lizen · Pull Request #3401 · pwndbg/pwndbg Okay this is a chonker. See the docs/tutorials/decompiler-integration.md for some overview. And docs/assets/caps/decomp_integration_ex.png for an image example vs previous implementation pros we d...

Happy New Year's Eve! Our tool for placing decompilation (symbols, source, types) into the debugger (gdb) is now officially integrated into pwndbg! You will have access to it (decomp2dbg) in your next default install of pwndbg 🎉

Happy hacking:

Well, my year started about a year ago.

Happy New Year’s Eve!

Painting a Landscape with Mathematics YouTube video by Inigo Quilez

This video is a pedagogical masterpiece. I am speechless. I can’t even begin to imagine the effort and love that went into this.

youtu.be/BFld4EBO2RE?...

Just saw #TheLongWalk. Intense and gripping. Would recommend

Fair warning though, it is _violent_

GitHub - csmith-project/creduce: C-Reduce, a C and C++ program reducer C-Reduce, a C and C++ program reducer. Contribute to csmith-project/creduce development by creating an account on GitHub.

Oh and link to creduce: github.com/csmith-proje...

GitHub - jaybosamiya/inline-crate: Inline an entire crate into a single file Inline an entire crate into a single file. Contribute to jaybosamiya/inline-crate development by creating an account on GitHub.

Today’s case: minimising a failure case for rustdoc so I can submit a nicer bug report. It’s already cut through 90+% of this crate already.

Especially with inline-crate (github.com/jaybosamiya/...), I don’t even need to cut down to a single file by myself, I can just let it handle it all

I am once again extolling the virtues of creduce. It has saved me so much debugging time in so many scenarios. Doesn’t even matter if what I’m reducing is not C, it just munches through it and simplifies inputs like crazy

something something Knuth’s Art of Computer Programming something something

Software developer cleared of murder after defence lawyer proves victim invoked undefined behaviour

Persons of Story A review of KATHAPURUSHAN (1995), and some thoughts on personhood, of story and otherwise.

I simply have not yet found writing of @vajra.me’s that I did not find nourishing & moving to action & change, & this essay is no exception.

“There is such a thing as the least you can do, and too many people do not bother to find out what that is, much less exceed it.”

Ooh this is a neat idea!

i think this is how i finally learn how to make music

Ira Glass on Storytelling UPDATE 2021: I've been told that this video has hit Vimeo's upper bandwidth limit and so I've had to find ways to limit the bleed by either making…

There’s a beautiful kinetic typography video of the quote that is etched in my mind (partly since I rewatch it every couple of years): vimeo.com/24715531

Ira Glass on Storytelling UPDATE 2021: I've been told that this video has hit Vimeo's upper bandwidth limit and so I've had to find ways to limit the bleed by either making…

There’s a beautiful kinetic typography video of the quote that is etched in my mind (partly since I rewatch it every couple of years): vimeo.com/24715531

Neat! Just this past week I was running nextest in a while-true zsh loop to try to trigger a subtle rare race condition in my research prototype. This should help greatly, ty!

some legal requirement about things being conspicuous

so technically the following options could probably work too:

- tHe SoFtWaRe iS pRoViDeD “aS Is” …
- ‼️⚠️the software is provided “as is” …⚠️‼️
- 👏the👏software👏…
- (☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞ 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓸𝓯𝓽𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓲𝓼 ...

Coordinate Spaces for 2D Game Developers YouTube video by Kai Sassnowski

Still super proud of this video I made 2 years ago. Views have kinda flat-lined so I'm posting it again because dammit I want people to see it!

(The video title is probably not helping its popularity but I don't know what else to call it)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=otO3...

Good video, well paced and explained in a very understandable way

There’s also the pragmatic solution of “make the spatter a child of the goblin / sibling of the goblin sprite” but yeah the Math behind the transformations was explained beautifully

> I really hate that this all makes sense. I hoped that when I started to look into this that it'd be something so obviously wrong. I wasn't able to find that, and that realization disturbs me.

Xe’s post is well worth the read.

15/21. I knew a bunch of these but was still surprised by others. Neat quiz

This is such good product advice and not just for games

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.