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Xor @xordev.com · 4d

Neat article on code golfing. Many techniques that I use:
blog.pkh.me/p/45-code-go...

Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity

blog.pkh.me

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Jonathan. 🎃 Boo's Complement 🎃 @twoscomplement.brnz.org · 4d

😁

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Remedy Entertainment @remedygames.com · 6d

🔻 Update Control: Ultimate Edition on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S now to get:

Three previously locked outfits
Unlocked frame rate
HDR support
PSSR support (PS5 Pro)
And more!

Update notes: https://controlgame.com/control-ultimate-edition-october-2025-update-notes-console/

📸 hellacoreshots

A screenshot from Control. Jesse Faden floats below a starry sky. Virtual photograph taken by hellacoreshots

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Jonathan. 🎃 Boo's Complement 🎃 @twoscomplement.brnz.org · 7d

On the one hand, super excited. On the other hand,

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Jonathan. 🎃 Boo's Complement 🎃 @twoscomplement.brnz.org · 7d

I'm a registered voter again 🥹

Seal of the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk with the words "Official Ballot" beneath.

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🦇🩸Hexavier🩸🦇 @xavierck.com · 8d

Game idea:

You fund development and I make a game.

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Jonathan. 🎃 Boo's Complement 🎃 @twoscomplement.brnz.org · 8d

Welp bsky.app/profile/laur...

LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 8d

DDR5 is unstable garbage.

 Max out your memory channels? Flaky.
Temperature a bit too hot? Silent Throttle with no logs.
Too “Dense” of a stick? Good luck training.

Last gen was rock solid by comparison. Here's what happened.

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Jonathan. 🎃 Boo's Complement 🎃 @twoscomplement.brnz.org · 9d

// Accepting limits. And crimes against syntax 😁
auto hyperfactorial=[](unsigned k)
{return(k&7)[(long[]){1,1,4,108,27648,
86400000,4031078400000,3319766398771200000}];};

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Jonathan. 🎃 Boo's Complement 🎃 @twoscomplement.brnz.org · 10d

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Jonathan. 🎃 Boo's Complement 🎃 @twoscomplement.brnz.org · 12d

// update, inspired by bsky.app/profile/mcog...
// because I want to remember that neat (s>n)-(s
enum Kind { deficient = -1, perfect = 0, abundant = 1 };

auto whatKindOfNumber(int n) {
int s = 1;
for (int i = 2; i <= (n / 2); ++i)
s += !(n % i) * i;
return (s > n) - (s < n);
}

Marco @mcognetta.bsky.social · 20d

```
def f(n): ["perfect", "abundant", "deficient"][((s:=sum(i * (n % i == 0) for i in range(1, n))) > n) - (s < n)]
```

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 12d

meet the terminal emulator wizardzines.com/comics/meet-...

(from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, out now! (wizardzines.com/zines/termin...)

your terminal emulator has two main jobs

turn your actions (typing & clicking) into bytes and send them
receive bytes and display them visually

Illustration of a terminal emulator, with a winking cursor face, and a program, represented by a box with a smiley face. The program has a heart above it, and there are arrows going back and forth between them labelled “bytes”
a little bit of history

it’s called an “emulator” because in the 80s a “terminal” was a separate machine from the computer

Illustration of a bulky old monitor, with a keyboard attached with a spiral cord, and a wire running to a panl of buttons and displays, labelld “mainframe”. There are arrows going back and forth between them labelled “bytes”

We still use the same 80s protocol!
what are these “bytes”?

the bytes are either:

text (like cat blah.txt)
escape codes (for example to tell the terminal what colour to display the text in)
control characters example Ctrl+C is the byte 3)

it’s in charge of copy and paste

your terminal emulator lets you select text and copy/paste it (usually with Ctrl+Shift+C (Linux) or Cmd+C (Mac))

(copy & paste tips on page 18!)
it manages colours and fonts!

some terminal emulators come with a big theme library of different colourschemes!

if yours doesn’t, this site has colourschemes for many terminal emulators: iterm2colorschemes.com
fun fact: how Ctrl-X gets translated to bytes

Ctrl-A => 1
Ctrl-B => 2
...
Ctrl-Z => 26

Ctrl is the only modifier key I trust in the terminal, all of the others can work differently depending on the situation

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🦇🩸Hexavier🩸🦇 @xavierck.com · 12d

Hey!

Need 3D character art for your project? I'm opening up for freelance and commissions in October!

With almost 15 years of experience across over a dozen games, I'm comfortable in both stylized and realistic work, as well as mobile and VR

Drop me a line!

🎨 xavierck.com
💌 [email protected]

A highly detailed corduroy jacket in Unreal 5 on the Quinn model

A stylized knight in red armor with his helmet off, showing rough textural and painterly detail

The Spider-Punk suit from Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)

Over 30 individual avatars I created for Creature Crew

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Earl Grey: 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 @earlgreymemes.club · 13d

What if every TNG character had a signature maneuver? (thread)

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Jonathan. 🎃 Boo's Complement 🎃 @twoscomplement.brnz.org · 13d

Tasha, noooo!!!

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Jonathan. 🎃 Boo's Complement 🎃 @twoscomplement.brnz.org · 13d

// rough C++, branch free (loop notwithstanding)
// clang -O2 adds a bunch of branches ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

enum Kind { deficient, perfect, abundant };

Kind whatKindOfNumber(int n) {
int sum = 1;
for (int i = 2; i <= (n / 2); ++i)
sum += !(n % i) * i;
return (((sum - n) >> 31) | (n != sum)) + 1;
}

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Jonathan. 🎃 Boo's Complement 🎃 @twoscomplement.brnz.org · 14d

how do you feel about other rhythm games? :)

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Jonathan. 🎃 Boo's Complement 🎃 @twoscomplement.brnz.org · 14d

Saved posts (bookmarking) is great and all, but several posts I bookmarked were subsequently deleted and all I have are anonymous tombstones in my saved posts :(

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Dr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. ! @tomvii.bsky.social · 14d

After 3D printing my first file handle, I realized my missed opportunity and bought a second file so that I could correct my error

An orange 3D-printed handle for a metal file, labeled “stderr”

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Jonathan. 🎃 Boo's Complement 🎃 @twoscomplement.brnz.org · 14d

Good ep, nice to hear the War Pigs cover in there :)

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Jonathan. 🎃 Boo's Complement 🎃 @twoscomplement.brnz.org · 14d

This turned out to be an easier fix(?) than I expected: enable memory training at boot, currently into the third full memtest86 pass and no problems found. Cool?

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Xor @xordev.com · 15d

"Turbine"
for(float i,z,d,s;i++<1e2;o+=vec4(z,1,s,1)/s/d){vec3 p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy),a;p.z+=5.;a.x--;a=mix(dot(a,p)*a,p,sin(s-=t-z))+cos(s)*cross(a,p);for(d=1.;d++<9.;a+=sin(ceil(a*d)-t).yzx/d);s=sqrt(length(a.yz));z+=d=length(sin(a))*s/2e1;}o=tanh(o/5e3);

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mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 16d

im going to develop it in public! the repo is here github.com/plinkysynth/... i dont yet know where this will go but let's see. thanks to @boggo.bsky.social and @todepond.com for inspiring me to fall into this particular rabbit hole.

GitHub - plinkysynth/ginkgo: live coding music visuals maybe

live coding music visuals maybe. Contribute to plinkysynth/ginkgo development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 16d

i started to make a live coding environment for myself! its currently basically shadertoy but on my mac with compiled c for the audio. its not a particularly unique wheel, but it's *my* wheel, so I am mostly experimenting with the details to see what makes me feel productive & creative.

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Jonathan. 🎃 Boo's Complement 🎃 @twoscomplement.brnz.org · 16d

First entirely new pc in a very long time, up and running for weeks, no apparent problems. Installed some updates, rebooted, system is unstable. Uninstalled some updates, system is still unstable. Run memtest for a few hours, memory faults galore. 😞.

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Jonathan. 🎃 Boo's Complement 🎃 @twoscomplement.brnz.org · 17d

Good album, thanks for the recommendation!

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