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...

Just spent ~3 hours debugging some quaternion math in an Unreal Engine project only to fix the issue by using Euler angles instead.

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!

I hope it had a horrible fucking anniversary

Ian / Sìne@vonaether.bsky.social · 2w ago

Happy 45th anniversary to MS-DOS!

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.

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is a really excellent benchmark, pointing to some serious missing capabilities in coding agents: arxiv.org/abs/2603.247.... They don't write code with an eye towards maintenance!

"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."

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.

What do they think Canada is gonna do, turn on a magic weather machine? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Fires are also blazing across the US and the Trump administration has repealed several climate protections

theguardian.com

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.

The blood sacrifice of Lindsey Graham has revived Mitch McConnell www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...

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 ...

nytimes.com

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.

So whatever happened to that "Peace Deal"? www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/w...

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...

cnn.com

I knew our civics education was bad, I just didn't realize it was this bad. www.npr.org/2026/07/03/n...

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.

npr.org

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.

The flag of the United States, according to Donald Trump.

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...

Xbox layoff plans reportedly include closing Arkane, canceling Blade - Engadget

The cuts will apparently start next week.

engadget.com

The intrusive thoughts are telling me to post a 1984 quote about war being peace. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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

theguardian.com

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.

The Reflecting Pool really doesn't matter that much, but it's incredibly funny to watch the POTUS crash out about algae.

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.

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...

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.

Roses are red Violets are blue I don't use Arch And you shouldn't too www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Li...

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.

phoronix.com

Sometimes I have good days. Other times I remember that UTF-16 exists.

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.

No, you aren't getting a tuna sandwich.

fuck cocaine I'm on 100% passed unit tests