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Caer
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I'm a researcher and creator who tells stories about a.i., robotics, and interactive media with code and care.

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Watchtowr’s latest research makes for a fun read, and also a PSA on … *checks notes* … pasting credentials into online code formatters?

labs.watchtowr.com/stop-putting...

#cybersecurity #coding
Stop Putting Your Passwords Into Random Websites (Yes, Seriously, You Are The Problem)
Welcome to watchTowr vs the Internet, part 68. That feeling you’re experiencing? Dread. You should be used to it by now. As is fast becoming an unofficial and, apparently, frowned upon tradition - w...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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I found a #bug in my #zsa Voyager. I'm not sure how to patch it... 🤔

#keyboards #mechanicalkeyboards
A close-up view of a Ladybug embedded beneath a keycap on a ZSA Voyager keyboard.
November 3, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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The results for my #LDJam game are in: I ranked 60th in mood and 82nd in audio out of 1391 games. This was my first time composing music, my second time using my own #rust engine, and a huge leap from my last jam!

You can try the game for yourself on the web: caer.cc/app/ld58

#indiedev #gamedev
Poster for Caer's Ludum Dare #58 game, titled "recollect". The poster lists several of the games rankings: 60th in mood, 82nd in audio, 136th in innovation, and 397th overall out of 1,391 submitted games. The poster contains a brief description of the game: "In a world without sound, guide recco and collect records of music from a civilization long since past." The poster contains summary accolades from several of the Ludum Dare reviewers, including the following statements: "a rare and beautiful audio experience", "a moody abstraction of exploring the unknown", and "an atmospheric buildup akin to 'Outer Wilds'".
October 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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I made another (tiny) game with my custom #rust engine as part of the 72-hour Ludum Dare Game Jam!

"re:collect: In a world without sound, play as Recco, and gather lost records of music from a civilization long since past."

ldjam.com/events/ludum... #LDJam #indiedev #gamedev
October 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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It's been a bit, Bluesky! Last month, I made my first-ever game during @ludumdare.com #LD57: Layered. It's a puzzler inspired by deep neural networks' hidden layers, built using my own #rust engine based on #macroquad. Now I'm working on "finishing" it~

Read more and try it @ caer.cc/logs/ldjam-57/
A poster for a game titled "Layered", submitted as part of the 57th Ludum Dare Game Jam. The poster shows a screenshot of the game's colorful isometric tiles, captioned with: "guide a wandering data through the hidden layers of a deep neural network in this isometric puzzle game". The poster displays a series of accolades: The game placed 529th overall out of 1599 entries, placed 238th for most innovative, and 249th for most fun. Players described the game as "innovative and well executed", "a satisfying challenge", and "cute, moody, and soothing". The bottom of the poster contains a link for more information (https://www.caer.cc/logs/ldjam-57/), and the developer's "With Caer" logo mark.
May 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Pro Tip: When you get an unexpected and "time sensitive" training email at work, report it as Phishing to your security team!

Now you're an ethical procrastinator in the name of #cybersecurity. Or a corporate rebel. Or both. ❤️
January 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Happy New year, Bluesky! My New Year's resolution is a crisp 160x144px. hbu?

#nails #electronics #cryptography
Image of a circuitboard with an E-Ink display showing a 160x144px image of Caer's logo, accompanied by the HEX-encoded text of the BLAKE3 hash of a super-secret message. The text is 611AB930A7E69D35BDA24280FCCCA3956E628E328D5DB0CA0579D1A2C669597E. Can you guess what it's the hash of? The hands holding the circuitboard in frame have painted nails, some are painted brown with gold flaking, and another is painted periwinkle with golden flaking. In the background, a ceramic coffee mug with a fox is visible, along with the Alicorn Systems logo, a book, and a card.
January 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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I soldered my first header pins today! Thanks @adafruit.com for the lovely parts and tutorials that gave me the confidence to give this a go~

#making #opensource #electronics
Image of an Adafruit Monochrome 200x200px E-Paper display (model SSD1681) with freshly soldered header pins. Image of an Adafruit Feather S3 w/ 2MB PSRAM with freshly soldered header pins.
December 30, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning
Diagram with large number: 2.7.123 First “2” is commented: Proud version. Bump when you are proud of the release Second “7” is commented: Default version. Just normal/okay releases Third “123” is commented: Shame version. Bump when fixing things too embarrassing to admit
December 21, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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Want to try an unstable Rust feature without installing an entire Nightly toolchain? Use `RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP=1 cargo` instead of `cargo +nightly`!*

*This flag disables `rustc`'s stability guarantees. Sharks might eat your binary. But it sure is nifty!

#rust #rustlang #code #programming #opensource
Image of a text editor showing two commands, both of which run the Rust Cargo test command with JSON output enabled. However, the first command required a dedicated nightly toolchain, whereas the second command uses the users' default toolchain, but with stability guarantees disabled.
December 12, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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I’m making a 2.5D game engine in Rust for fun, and got super confused when the isometric cube I drew didn’t look “right”.

Today I learned: Most “Isometric” game art is actually drawn in a 2:1 “Dimetric” projection.

(real artists: plz correct me if I’m wrong)
Picture showing the difference in the mathematical dimensions for isometric and dimetric drawings, highlighting that dimetric drawings can be designed such that a “floor” tile has a ratio of 2:1. Picture showing an isometric cube overlapping a 2:1 dimetric cube, highlighting the width difference between the two projections.
November 28, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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"Rhetoric" is a word that gets...lots of use. Although I'm a coder, one of my degrees is in rhetoric—so I wrote a log on where this word comes from, and what it means: www.caer.cc/logs/makers-...

I'd love to hear the community's thoughts ❤️

#writing #writers #rhetoric
A Maker's Guide to Rhetoric
'It's a rhetorical question'—this statement comes up a lot, but do you know what 'Rhetoric' actually is? Let's seize the Exigency, and find out.
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November 10, 2024 at 1:26 AM
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I've competed in countless rounds of #DevOps mortal combat with #TensorFlow, #PyTorch, and wonky #ONNX runtimes—Burn looks like a lovely alternative for making production-ready #DeepLearning models!

What do other #MLOps and #DataScience friends think?
orhun.dev Orhun Parmaksız @orhun.dev · Oct 24
Do you want to train data and visualize the output in the terminal? I got you.
🔥 burn: A deep learning framework.
🦀 Written in Rust & uses Ratatui
⭐ GitHub: github.com/tracel-ai/burn
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #machinelearning #terminal #deeplearning #visualization #data #commandline
October 24, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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Hi Bluesky! I'm Caer; I #code and I write about code.

For my first post, here's my favorite #RustLang hack: Combine `#![doc]` with `include_str!()` in `lib.rs` to reuse a `README.md` as a crate's docs. ❤️

#rust #programming #opensource
Snippet of Rust code showing a module-level "doc" attribute using the "include_str!" macro to import a README.md as docs for a module.
October 22, 2024 at 3:29 AM