Think I've about hit the end of a run through X4: Foundations and I'm struck by two things: 1) there needs to be a genre descriptor grouping X4 and Bannerlord because they speak to similar fantasies and 2) the first person perspective makes for some remarkable screenshots.
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Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.
Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol
Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Love Babylon 5. Glad to see something new happening. cordcuttersnews.com/warner-bros-...
Warner Bros. Discovery Launches an Official Babylon 5 YouTube Channel With Creator J. Michael Straczynski | Cord Cutters News
Warner Bros. Discovery has officially launched a dedicated YouTube channel for the classic 1990s science fiction series Babylon 5, marking a significant new chapter for one of television’s most influe...
cordcuttersnews.com
“…the airline said in a statement[:] ‘For the foreseeable future, the guest will not be permitted to travel on our flights.’” … “She said she wants to contact an attorney and intends to continue preaching on planes.” www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2026/...
Preflight sermon gets plane preacher kicked off Alaska Airlines flight
Florida evangelist Whitney Lynn shared clips of her removal on social media and racked up millions of views.
washingtonpost.com
whoa, the Cascades has a bsky!
Potential chances to see the new Amtrak Cascades trainset! Tentative schedule may change: Monday, 8/3: Depart SEA @6:20 a.m. - PDX 9:42 a.m. Depart PDX @10:50 a.m.; arrive in Seattle 2:57 p.m. Thursday, 8/6: Same tentative schedule. Again, test schedule is subject to change. #Train #Seattle #PDX
Great article covering what to do to make a trait "dyn compatible" (previously called "object safe"). I'll add my own "3 Things to Try When You Can't Make a Trait Object," which covers two techniques that don't involve modifying the trait itself.
3 Things to Try When You Can’t Make a Trait Object
Trait objects are Rust’s usual mechanism for dynamic dispatch, and when they work they’re wonderful, but many Rust programmers have struggled with the question of when a trait can become a trait objec...
possiblerust.com
Great in-depth explanation on how Rust's "dyn" work, and understanding and fixing the dreaded "the trait is not dyn compatible" compiler error. corrode.dev/blog/dyn-com...
Daily reminder that GDscript supports the Sumerian clay table alphabet, Akkadian cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia. This is perfectly valid code you can write in your game:
Nice. #GleamLang 1.18 is out. And focuses on tooling with #UX of development. Like #LSP go to magic. ✨ May not seem as much, but this is what makes using a language a joy versus dying from a thousand paper cuts. I'm liking gleam more and more. 😎
A field day for Gleam’s language server | Gleam programming language
News post: Gleam v1.18.0 released!
gleam.run
The Framework Laptop 13 Pro is almost everything we hoped for. @superantonio64.bsky.social says it has "the best haptic trackpad not made by Apple." Great battery life too. But that price... www.theverge.com/tech/971160/...
This is oh-so close to my perfect MacBook Pro alternative — then RAMageddon struck
The modular laptop meets Pro quality — and RAMageddon pricing.
theverge.com
The Framework Laptop 13 Pro and the Steam Machine are canaries for a society wide problem which feels comically unfair because they both would be two of the most interesting pieces of hardware in years at their original price points.
funny how literally every comment on this is “lol vibecoding” when this is literally because llms are finding the shitton of vulnerabilities that’ve been in codebases forever
GOOGLE, MICROSOFT REPORT RECORD NUMBER OF SOFTWARE BUGS AS US SAYS KNOWN CYBER VULNERABILITIES SET TO FAR EXCEED 2025 TOTAL
Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.
I’ve been working on an Exaclidraw fork for about a week that syncs your drawings to your Atmosphere account as well as uses Iroh for realtime encrypted end to end collaborative work. I feel like it’s at a stage where I can share it. Meet lexidraw.app!
Lexidraw, an Excalidraw fork where your drawings follow you
Lexidraw is an Excalidraw fork where your drawings follow you. Share publicly with the Atmosphere or privately with iroh.
lexidraw.app
framework desktop ceo going "we need a broad coalition" when it came to this guy is fucking baffling still ngl.
world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-s... like genuine CW: racism 😭
Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%
between passkeys and webp i’m starting to think that software consumers just hate good things
Nobody ever explained to me what a passkey is or how they work. Websites just started asking me for passkeys like it's something we talked about.
Workflow changes I've made in the past 12 months, and am very happy with: tmux → zellij vim → neovim git → jujutsu notion → obsidian Of those, #jujutsu is the biggest improvement. If you use `git rebase` or `git stash` regularly, you're probably the kind of person who would love it too.
Said something interesting to a friend today when they asked about different open social web protocols. It might be a little bit controversial, but: I think that ActivityPub is decentralized in principle, whereas AT Protocol is decentralized in practice. 🧵
New blog post: Jujutsu tutorial I wrote the tutorial I wish I had. neugierig.org/software/blo...
Tech Notes: Jujutsu tutorial
I wrote the tutorial I wish I had.
neugierig.org
Three years ago, trying to use Rust for web apps was crazy talk. Today is very different than three years ago. Announcing Topcoat, a batteries-included Rust framework for building reactive web applications: tokio.rs/blog/2026-07...
Announcing Topcoat: a framework for building full-stack reactive web apps with Rust | Tokio - An asynchronous Rust runtime
Tokio is a runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. It provides async I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, and more.
tokio.rs
I replay DOOM about once a year. After playing the Dark Ages expansion I’m Doom pilled to the max so it’s about time for the annual run. I went with one of my favorite console versions, the PS1 port. Obviously on shoot hardware on a CRT.
pckt.blog/b/atprotopro... Introducing my webcomic project to try and making the atmosphere less scary to users using cute original characters ft. @offprint.app @leaflet.pub and @pckt.blog if you're an artist that wants to get involved let me know! #ocsky
The ATprotOC project: A comic about the atmosphere turning projects into characters to make tech less scary - The AtprotOC project
Because it worked for windows-tan
pckt.blog
check this shit out motherfucker [I recompile & run my program, it's 5x slower, it's not clear what kind of point I was trying to make]