ashn
@ashn-dot-dev.bsky.social
crashed-out cottagecore compiler dev and casual cooking enthusiast
personal website + blog + recipes: www.ashn.dev
personal website + blog + recipes: www.ashn.dev
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"Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features."
Should absolutely be the default. Say NO to slop.
"Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features."
Should absolutely be the default. Say NO to slop.
December 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
mastodon.social/@firefoxwebd...
"Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features."
Should absolutely be the default. Say NO to slop.
"Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features."
Should absolutely be the default. Say NO to slop.
Reposted by ashn
December 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My wife dropped the hardest line last night outta nowhere: “You don’t want to be perceived, but you do want to be remembered.”
December 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
My wife dropped the hardest line last night outta nowhere: “You don’t want to be perceived, but you do want to be remembered.”
Reposted by ashn
Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies up on the recipe blog: www.ashn.dev/recipes/swee...
#cooking #cookingsky #recipe
#cooking #cookingsky #recipe
December 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies up on the recipe blog: www.ashn.dev/recipes/swee...
#cooking #cookingsky #recipe
#cooking #cookingsky #recipe
First snow of the season, so we made Cat Shit Cookies! 🍪
We were missing a bunch of the ingredients, so we substituted coconut milk for the whole milk, and used 1 cup of raw honey instead of 2 cups of sugar.
We were missing a bunch of the ingredients, so we substituted coconut milk for the whole milk, and used 1 cup of raw honey instead of 2 cups of sugar.
December 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
First snow of the season, so we made Cat Shit Cookies! 🍪
We were missing a bunch of the ingredients, so we substituted coconut milk for the whole milk, and used 1 cup of raw honey instead of 2 cups of sugar.
We were missing a bunch of the ingredients, so we substituted coconut milk for the whole milk, and used 1 cup of raw honey instead of 2 cups of sugar.
December 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
WSL2 is like the singular good thing on Windows 11, and today it has crashed twice running my relatively vanilla Ubuntu install. 😞
Very excited for the new year when I will have the time to completely wipe Windows off of this machine and go back to running Debian.
Very excited for the new year when I will have the time to completely wipe Windows off of this machine and go back to running Debian.
December 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
WSL2 is like the singular good thing on Windows 11, and today it has crashed twice running my relatively vanilla Ubuntu install. 😞
Very excited for the new year when I will have the time to completely wipe Windows off of this machine and go back to running Debian.
Very excited for the new year when I will have the time to completely wipe Windows off of this machine and go back to running Debian.
Reposted by ashn
Adding onto this a bit, Jonathan Blow is a hero turned villain for some programming language developers. I know of at least a few people (myself included) whose interest in programming language design and development can be directly traced back to Jon's talks on PL development for games.
Additionally, in recent years it has become increasingly clear that Jon’s beliefs/priorities and mine are not aligned. He’s adversarial to people talking about privilege and representation, is dismissive of diversity efforts, has dabbled in covid trutherism, and is pro-MAGA.
December 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Adding onto this a bit, Jonathan Blow is a hero turned villain for some programming language developers. I know of at least a few people (myself included) whose interest in programming language design and development can be directly traced back to Jon's talks on PL development for games.
Welp, by the arbitrary rules I made up in my head, this officially means I probably need to learn Rust again if I want to be employable for systems programming-type jobs in the future. 🥲
Congrats to the Rust for Linux team! 🎉🥳
Congrats to the Rust for Linux team! 🎉🥳
🐧 The end of the kernel Rust experiment
> Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
It is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay.
So the "experimental" tag will be coming off
Congratulations are in order for all of the Rust for #Linux team
lwn.net/Articles/104...
#rustlang
> Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
It is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay.
So the "experimental" tag will be coming off
Congratulations are in order for all of the Rust for #Linux team
lwn.net/Articles/104...
#rustlang
December 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Welp, by the arbitrary rules I made up in my head, this officially means I probably need to learn Rust again if I want to be employable for systems programming-type jobs in the future. 🥲
Congrats to the Rust for Linux team! 🎉🥳
Congrats to the Rust for Linux team! 🎉🥳
Reposted by ashn
so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!
August 31, 2025 at 7:01 AM
so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!
Today’s the day!!!
I'm playing the original Guild Wars game in 2025, wild throwback to 2007 when I started playing! We released an update with some improvements to the game, and in particular make it work great on Streamdecks! www.guildwars.com/en/
Guild Wars Reforged | Play with No Subscription Fee
Experience Guild Wars Reforged®: The award-winning online roleplaying game enjoyed by millions, now re-energized with system enhancements.
www.guildwars.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Today’s the day!!!
December 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Meal prep day! Egg bytes with veggies and bacon, and red lentil soup with potatoes, mushrooms, and zucchini!
November 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Meal prep day! Egg bytes with veggies and bacon, and red lentil soup with potatoes, mushrooms, and zucchini!
Spooky trying to sneak a bite of turkey. 🍗🐈⬛
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Spooky trying to sneak a bite of turkey. 🍗🐈⬛
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I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
This is 100% accurate, and it kills me a little bit inside.
Working for a SaaS company and then logging into bsky is a surreal experience because bsky is all "no one wants AI, ever" and in the meantime like 90% of real customer feedback I read at my real job is like "where the heck is your AI? I'll cancel if you don't add it by next week"
There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are:
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is 100% accurate, and it kills me a little bit inside.
@gregcons.bsky.social has a lovely CppCon talk from… *checks YouTube* …ten years ago (god I feel old) that lays a great foundation for how to teach newcomers C++ by skipping all the warts from C and “legacy C++” (some big air quotes there) because those C-isms and older patterns are just bad C++.
I know it's more complicated than this but it would genuinely be a better first approximation to tell newcomers that C/C++ does not have strings or arrays
"if you pass an array to a function it can no longer tell how big it is, you have to tell the function how big the array is in advance" - they made the language wrong then!
(i am joking but it is funny finding out how much harder this is than c# or python)
(i am joking but it is funny finding out how much harder this is than c# or python)
November 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
@gregcons.bsky.social has a lovely CppCon talk from… *checks YouTube* …ten years ago (god I feel old) that lays a great foundation for how to teach newcomers C++ by skipping all the warts from C and “legacy C++” (some big air quotes there) because those C-isms and older patterns are just bad C++.
I did not have original Guild Wars enhancements on my bingo card for this year, but I am genuinely so excited to see development effort coming into the game! I was planning on doing another full playthrough soon, so this is dropping at the perfect time! 🥳🎉
www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/news/a...
www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/news/a...
Announcing Guild Wars Reforged! – GuildWars2.com
The game that launched the Guild Wars franchise is about to be better than ever.
www.guildwars2.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I did not have original Guild Wars enhancements on my bingo card for this year, but I am genuinely so excited to see development effort coming into the game! I was planning on doing another full playthrough soon, so this is dropping at the perfect time! 🥳🎉
www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/news/a...
www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/news/a...
Reposted by ashn
C++ is for little worms
November 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
C++ is for little worms
How to Export and Rig an Old School RuneScape Character Model with Creator's Kit, Blender, and Mixamo: www.ashn.dev/blog/2025-11...
A beginner-friendly tutorial on exporting and rigging an OSRS player character model for use in Blender and other 3D creation tools.
#osrs #b3d
A beginner-friendly tutorial on exporting and rigging an OSRS player character model for use in Blender and other 3D creation tools.
#osrs #b3d
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 AM
How to Export and Rig an Old School RuneScape Character Model with Creator's Kit, Blender, and Mixamo: www.ashn.dev/blog/2025-11...
A beginner-friendly tutorial on exporting and rigging an OSRS player character model for use in Blender and other 3D creation tools.
#osrs #b3d
A beginner-friendly tutorial on exporting and rigging an OSRS player character model for use in Blender and other 3D creation tools.
#osrs #b3d
Oh hey I worked on this! Bonus fun fact: this feature accidentally ended up being really easy to implement due to completely unrelated work normalizing the behavior of VCL function calls. A great example how the right data structures and algorithms can allow your compiler to do more with less.
hellooo i wrote a blog post about some compiler stuff i helped work on. it's stuff you might take for granted in other ... normal languages. i'm extremely proud of the work we did! PLEASE LIKE IT
www.fastly.com/blog/vcl-sup...
www.fastly.com/blog/vcl-sup...
VCL Support for Parameters in Custom Subs | Fastly
Learn about Fastly's VCL syntax updates, including return values and parameters for custom subroutines, enabling better code reuse and abstraction.
www.fastly.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Oh hey I worked on this! Bonus fun fact: this feature accidentally ended up being really easy to implement due to completely unrelated work normalizing the behavior of VCL function calls. A great example how the right data structures and algorithms can allow your compiler to do more with less.