Sean Barrett
nothings.bsky.social
Sean Barrett
@nothings.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈 ally, BLM, gamedev (Thief, Promesst), Indie Game Jam cofounder, popularized C header-file-only libs w/stb. he/him

Larry, I'm on DuckTales.

https://nothings.org
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I’m going to keep sharing this PSA: although the MMR is usually given at 12 and 18 months, your baby can get a first dose as early as 6 months. They will still need the other two doses, because immunity doesn’t stick at that age, and insurance may not cover it. But it’s protection.
February 16, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Has anyone ever mentioned the terrible off-by-one bug in AM/PM time:

9 am
10 am
11 am
12 pm
1 pm

or

10 pm
11 pm
12 am
1 am

like, come ON.

I usually use "noon" and "midnight" to avoid potential ambiguity/confusion, but the same situation applies if you go 11:57, 11:59, 12:01, 12:03.
February 16, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 15, 2026 at 2:11 PM
anybody have any advice for how to mount/hang a keyboard on a wall? I have a feeling my 3M Command Strips won't be strong enough.
February 16, 2026 at 1:18 AM
GPU voxel programming stream at 6:15 pm PST, 9:15 pm EST, 02:15 UTC. twitch.tv/nothings2
February 15, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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ICE has completely broken our social contract.

They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 14, 2026 at 10:55 PM
streaming more rasterized voxels with GPU assist on twitch.tv/nothings2
February 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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*rubs temples*

As I've spent the better part of the day explaining why I don't think Newsom should be the Democratic nominee for president, it pains me to "defend" this, but...

The governor of California is legally obligated to proclaim each Feb 6 Reagan Day per a 2010 state law.
February 14, 2026 at 12:47 AM
8 hour stream, I did some fun stuff with GPU compute. Nothing like complexity final version will be, and probably half the time was spent wrestling with nothing displaying because of some dumb graphics API mistake, but multiple steps that felt like nice accomplishments. VOD up, YouTube coming.
February 14, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Stream at 8am PST 11am EST 16:00 UTC twitch.tv/nothings2
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February 13, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Why do all the OBS Twitch chat overlays require giving the vendor access to my account? The browser based ones want to authenticate & be able to access stream key, change stream title, etc; the one plugin I looked at also wanted stream key. It's CHAT. It's the one thing you can get w/o logging in.
February 13, 2026 at 4:25 AM
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In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
February 12, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*)

The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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Local immigrant defense networks were deluged with life and death cases. They put a call out for private lawyers to step in and provide pro bono help.

My firm did. And since we joined the effort on January 14, it’s been some of the hardest, most exhausting, most depressing month of my life.

8/
February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
New twitch programming stream starting at 8:30 AM PST, 16:30 UTC. twitch.tv/nothings2

introducing Voxel Fridays (on Thursday).

Programming a new voxel engine, plus discussion about importance of sticking to one project and not haring off into whatever random idea catches your fancy in the moment.
February 12, 2026 at 1:27 PM
My desktop is plenty wide for 2 monitors, but it's tough to fit 3. But I really want a real-time image of the stream (outgoing, not coming back from Twitch) in my field of view, which means a dedicated 3rd monitor for the streaming machine on the desk.

This ludicrous arrangement is best I've found:
February 12, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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It's really instructive when you replace "Millennials" with "middle-aged adults" in headlines.

'"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'
February 11, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Streaming on twitch.tv/nothings2

Just some followup on the last stream, probably no programming, just a little more demoing of stuff and some more detail on the stuff from last time.
Twitch
Twitch is the world
twitch.tv
February 11, 2026 at 5:18 PM
this Aimee Mann lyric from 1995 is still one of my absolute favorites, even if it's dated because answering machines went the way of the dodo

"
As much as I would like to stay
The message light just blinks away
And while I'm here you won't push play
"
February 11, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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the people who spread the “female brains are bad at math and spatial reasoning” lies should be tried at the Hague
Another fun wrinkle from that period (that might still exist): I was good at math and loved it and then my geometry teacher told me that I'd probably struggle because female brains were bad at spatial thinking. I kept loving math & being good at it but assumed that would end so I ended it first.
Those who weren’t resigned to the Math Idiot Garbage Bin as kids may not grasp how much “if you’re bad at math, you’ll die in a ditch and all will be better off for it” sentiment was floating around in the 90s and 2000s, but it sure felt real to me.

(my parents are great! It didn’t come from them!)
February 11, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.
February 10, 2026 at 6:10 AM
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February 10, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Got so many comments on this I decided to reply/heart some of them. Creators get a special interface to just see unresponded comments, which is great (other than the AI slop), *BUT* there's no way to hide comments you DON'T want to reply/like/delete from that screen: www.reddit.com/r/NewTubers/...
February 10, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM