RJ
@metabrew.com
Enthusiastic cook, BEAM-appreciator, rust gamedev hobbyist, tinkerer, home-automation DIYer, @lastfm, @irccloud founder.
I'm getting hooked on Minecraft (because of my kids). It's fun. I know I'm late to this party. ⛏️
September 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I'm getting hooked on Minecraft (because of my kids). It's fun. I know I'm late to this party. ⛏️
What's the least effort way of destroying a load of old hard drives? I don't want to power them up. Is there someone who will drive an industrial shredder to my house so I can toss them in?
August 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
What's the least effort way of destroying a load of old hard drives? I don't want to power them up. Is there someone who will drive an industrial shredder to my house so I can toss them in?
trying to learn Minecraft with the 7yo is making me feel *old*
July 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
trying to learn Minecraft with the 7yo is making me feel *old*
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those of us who were born in 1982 grew up in a unique time and have had some really interesting life experiences, but what really makes me laugh is when people born before or after 1982 claim that they’ve also had life experiences. get serious. no you haven’t
June 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
those of us who were born in 1982 grew up in a unique time and have had some really interesting life experiences, but what really makes me laugh is when people born before or after 1982 claim that they’ve also had life experiences. get serious. no you haven’t
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I recently caught someone talking smack about how many people use MusicBrainz, and it made me go check. Just to reassure myself...
To my delight, I was reminded that our editors are killing it!!
~700 releases added /day in 2020, up to ~1,800 in 2025: beta.musicbrainz.org/statistics/t...
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To my delight, I was reminded that our editors are killing it!!
~700 releases added /day in 2020, up to ~1,800 in 2025: beta.musicbrainz.org/statistics/t...
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April 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I recently caught someone talking smack about how many people use MusicBrainz, and it made me go check. Just to reassure myself...
To my delight, I was reminded that our editors are killing it!!
~700 releases added /day in 2020, up to ~1,800 in 2025: beta.musicbrainz.org/statistics/t...
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To my delight, I was reminded that our editors are killing it!!
~700 releases added /day in 2020, up to ~1,800 in 2025: beta.musicbrainz.org/statistics/t...
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Check out this excellent interactive blog post demonstrating bevy_behave, my #rust behaviour tree crate for @bevyengine.org Good use of compiling to wasm and embedding bevy in a webpage ⭐
www.hankruiger.com/posts/bevy-b...
www.hankruiger.com/posts/bevy-b...
Modelling Agent Behaviour with Bevy Behave
Interactive blog post about modelling agent behaviour with Bevy Behave
www.hankruiger.com
April 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Check out this excellent interactive blog post demonstrating bevy_behave, my #rust behaviour tree crate for @bevyengine.org Good use of compiling to wasm and embedding bevy in a webpage ⭐
www.hankruiger.com/posts/bevy-b...
www.hankruiger.com/posts/bevy-b...
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the 15th anniversary remaster cover for the fat of the land just adding more crabs is one of the funniest album covers I’ve ever seen. i think about it all the time
March 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
the 15th anniversary remaster cover for the fat of the land just adding more crabs is one of the funniest album covers I’ve ever seen. i think about it all the time
Replaced a faulty microchip-reading catflap. Didn't even have to grab that cat and shove him through to train it this time: used my Flipper Zero to read and then emulate his rfid chip, and configure the catflap while he was snoozing
March 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Replaced a faulty microchip-reading catflap. Didn't even have to grab that cat and shove him through to train it this time: used my Flipper Zero to read and then emulate his rfid chip, and configure the catflap while he was snoozing
Wrote a low-overhead behaviour tree crate for @bevyengine.org that does dynamic spawning for tasks.
Here's the chase demo from the repo running 100k behaviour trees (second video in the README)
www.github.com/RJ/bevy_behave
Here's the chase demo from the repo running 100k behaviour trees (second video in the README)
www.github.com/RJ/bevy_behave
February 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Wrote a low-overhead behaviour tree crate for @bevyengine.org that does dynamic spawning for tasks.
Here's the chase demo from the repo running 100k behaviour trees (second video in the README)
www.github.com/RJ/bevy_behave
Here's the chase demo from the repo running 100k behaviour trees (second video in the README)
www.github.com/RJ/bevy_behave
realised i had around 500GB in ~/src/*/target directories from random old rust projects.. very happy to reclaim that space.
January 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
realised i had around 500GB in ~/src/*/target directories from random old rust projects.. very happy to reclaim that space.
Love getting dissed by the fancy AI code editor autocomplete suggesting:
"// TODO: this is a bit of a mess"
"// TODO: this is a bit of a mess"
January 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Love getting dissed by the fancy AI code editor autocomplete suggesting:
"// TODO: this is a bit of a mess"
"// TODO: this is a bit of a mess"
I thought timezones sucked, but then I read about how astrophysicists represent time 😵💫
www.howtocodeit.com/articles/rus...
www.howtocodeit.com/articles/rus...
Rust In Space! How Rust is Powering Next-Generation Space Mission Simulators
Learn to model 13 billion years of time in Rust with an inside look at a European Space Agency mission simulator.
www.howtocodeit.com
January 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I thought timezones sucked, but then I read about how astrophysicists represent time 😵💫
www.howtocodeit.com/articles/rus...
www.howtocodeit.com/articles/rus...
fascinating review of goings on in database-land this past year
This article is wild as a not-database person www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...
Databases in 2024: A Year in Review
Andy rises from the ashes of his dead startup and discusses what happened in 2024 in the database game.
www.cs.cmu.edu
January 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
fascinating review of goings on in database-land this past year
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hey chat, i need your help for a bit of fiction i’m writing.
what would you say is the onomatopoeia of a modem connecting?
please feel free to be as elaborate as possible.
what would you say is the onomatopoeia of a modem connecting?
please feel free to be as elaborate as possible.
December 27, 2024 at 12:25 AM
hey chat, i need your help for a bit of fiction i’m writing.
what would you say is the onomatopoeia of a modem connecting?
please feel free to be as elaborate as possible.
what would you say is the onomatopoeia of a modem connecting?
please feel free to be as elaborate as possible.
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Rare opportunity right now to hire a Jonty
So I've been notified that my role is at risk. Would anybody like to hire a me.
I've spent the last 7 years as chief architect, which realistically meant doing every job from infrastructure to product and occasionally acting CTO.
I am interested in everything, and curious to try new things.
I've spent the last 7 years as chief architect, which realistically meant doing every job from infrastructure to product and occasionally acting CTO.
I am interested in everything, and curious to try new things.
December 12, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Rare opportunity right now to hire a Jonty
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every site needs a version of somethingawful's "we can just ban you" policy to use against bad actors who make a game of ruining the site while making sure to always stay 1% shy of violating the rules as-written
December 13, 2024 at 9:14 PM
every site needs a version of somethingawful's "we can just ban you" policy to use against bad actors who make a game of ruining the site while making sure to always stay 1% shy of violating the rules as-written
No one will ever know how many failed workflow runs i deleted from github. Obviously I got it right first time 😇
December 13, 2024 at 9:57 AM
No one will ever know how many failed workflow runs i deleted from github. Obviously I got it right first time 😇
Wrote about my experiments selecting a netcode model for a multiplayer asteroids game, and how to deploy @bevyengine.org gameservers on Edgegap
www.metabrew.com/article/rock...
www.metabrew.com/article/bevy...
www.metabrew.com/article/rock...
www.metabrew.com/article/bevy...
Rock and Rollback: Realtime multiplayer in the browser, with rust and bevy
How hard it is to build a realtime multiplayer browser game? Like asteroids, but multiplayer. Retro vibes with modern netcode 🚀.
www.metabrew.com
December 9, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Wrote about my experiments selecting a netcode model for a multiplayer asteroids game, and how to deploy @bevyengine.org gameservers on Edgegap
www.metabrew.com/article/rock...
www.metabrew.com/article/bevy...
www.metabrew.com/article/rock...
www.metabrew.com/article/bevy...
Quora was good, briefly. one day I flagged something for being easy to answer with a Google search, mods allowed it, last time I ever posted. Etsy was best when it was just handmade stuff by small creators. Many such examples.
The constant enshittification means that the only way to have decent platforms is hoping someone copies the *original* sentiment a company had before they got ruined by trying to achieve perpetual growth
December 7, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Quora was good, briefly. one day I flagged something for being easy to answer with a Google search, mods allowed it, last time I ever posted. Etsy was best when it was just handmade stuff by small creators. Many such examples.
hmm, need to check my list of domain names for novelty bsky accounts
November 27, 2024 at 6:52 PM
hmm, need to check my list of domain names for novelty bsky accounts
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Paprika, the best app ever, is having their annual sale
www.paprikaapp.com
www.paprikaapp.com
Paprika Recipe Manager for iOS, Mac, Android, and Windows
www.paprikaapp.com
November 24, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Paprika, the best app ever, is having their annual sale
www.paprikaapp.com
www.paprikaapp.com
Bemused, flabbergasted, and bamboozled by whatever the github search thingamabob is doing here. I'm searching for a word, not doing a cryptic crossword.
November 24, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Bemused, flabbergasted, and bamboozled by whatever the github search thingamabob is doing here. I'm searching for a word, not doing a cryptic crossword.
🎶🎵 We built this city
🎶🎵 We built this city on .. sqlite
🎶🎵 We built this city on .. sqlite
November 19, 2024 at 3:31 PM
🎶🎵 We built this city
🎶🎵 We built this city on .. sqlite
🎶🎵 We built this city on .. sqlite
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Oh, I never posted my gotofail story on here.
Early 2014, someone came to me about a catastrophic vulnerability in Apple's TLS implementation.
I shit you not, they'd overheard someone at a bar drunkenly bragging about how they were going to sell it to a FVEY intelligence agency for six figures.
Early 2014, someone came to me about a catastrophic vulnerability in Apple's TLS implementation.
I shit you not, they'd overheard someone at a bar drunkenly bragging about how they were going to sell it to a FVEY intelligence agency for six figures.
November 17, 2024 at 11:22 PM
Oh, I never posted my gotofail story on here.
Early 2014, someone came to me about a catastrophic vulnerability in Apple's TLS implementation.
I shit you not, they'd overheard someone at a bar drunkenly bragging about how they were going to sell it to a FVEY intelligence agency for six figures.
Early 2014, someone came to me about a catastrophic vulnerability in Apple's TLS implementation.
I shit you not, they'd overheard someone at a bar drunkenly bragging about how they were going to sell it to a FVEY intelligence agency for six figures.