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Finished a MSc in CS at University of Helsinki 🎉 Senior SWE at Cactos, battery energy storage systems. Previously Senior SWE at Garden, SRE at Webflow. Recreational computer graphics, Rust, photography, cycling. He/him. Mastodon (Twitter) @anotherwalther
ECMAScript Euphoria! 🎉
We don't always post when a single proposal advances, but when we do, it's Temporal -> Stage 4.
Just days shy of 9 years from Stage 1, a herculean effort on the part of many champions, delegates, invited experts, and contributors, past and present. Thank you all! 🙌
I really like rust's usage of the `return` keyword. It feels much more intentional than JavaScript.
Oh, regular reminder: we're about to start the awkward weeks where US and EU (and probably other) daylight savings time don't agree.
Double check your usual meeting times this week, especially if the person that scheduled it is in another country!
Okay what the hell how do you even
www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Ib...
Rust 1.94.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀✨
A few highlights are array_windows() and element_offset() on slices, Peekable::next_if_map(), LazyCell::get and friends, and the new `include` key in config.toml to include other toml files!
Check out the blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/05/R...
Windows 14 rumored to have a free trial with no limit on playtime all the way up to level 70, including the award winning expansions "Heavensward" and "Stormblood," sources say.
if you meet the buddha on the road, kiss him
Here's a tiny bit of hopium:
In 2024 we were planning on adding 160 GW of renewable energy to the grid by 2030.
As of the start of this year, we had added 100 GW and are planning on adding 220 GW more by 2030.
(In 2022 we planned for 60 GW in 2030. We hit that by the end of 2023)
a doodle cat with narrowed eyes and a grumpy face. underneath, the handwritten text reads “GRRRRR”
the cat is stretching his leg, the handwritten caption below says “going for a walk”
the cat is now less grumpy, the text above and below it reads: “heck yeah. life is beautiful”
going for a silly little walk for my silly mental health
i have a habit that when something quippy comes into my head, i search for it to see if anybody has said it already. and if they have, then i don't post it. it's good. lets me get things out of my head and just *drop* them without being attached. recommend this if you're at all plagued by thoughts
"the word is prehensile. careful, it might grab you"
Okay, take 2: here are all the *checks notes* 16 convex non-chiral uniform polyhedra with only 3, 4, 6 and 8-gons as faces!
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
I...might've gotten a wee bit sidetracked into modelling uniform polyhedra for a random idea 😅
At least now I know what a rhombicuboctahedron is (the chonky fella on the right)
A crow says "I just want to"
"Focus" Crow is now very detailed and crouching down
ooh pretty!
sorry but the game boy absolutely has an associated sound
Into is such a ridiculous trait. "yeah i just want to call a function that turns into type into another. no, i don't want to specify which types"
cartoon drawing of someone trying to clean their glasses on their shirt. she holds it to the light. still dirty. frowning. “no” “may your enemies’ glasses be always smudged, and their shirts the wrong type of fabric ♥️”
a mundane curse #comic
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
normalize and celebrate saying “I may not know enough about this topic to be able to comment, so I won’t.”
::)
Outer Wilds, if you haven't played it yet, is one of the best games of all time. It's a fun space exploration game with a timeloop twist, and 90% of all game progress happens in your head, as you learn things about the universe and your situation.
Absolutely play it if you haven't yet.
i kinda see code bloat the same way i see entropy. it's an inevitable losing battle, but that doesn't mean it's not worth fighting to slow it down as much as possible.
just because you can't build a bridge to last a billion years doesn't mean you shouldn't build it to last a century.
c projects have just as many, often more, dependencies than projects in other languages do. the difference is that c projects don’t tell you about them
Tfw you still have some edge cases to fix in your procedural locomotion system #gamedev
I got a great question on my Ramadan thread: do Muslims also need to avoid consumption by proxy in videogames? Does consuming in-game food or drink break the fast? Basically: does your character have to go fast?
The answer is no, unless you happen to be playing Sonic the Hedgehog.
university of helsinki has this free/open online course haskell.mooc.fi
four stick figures on sleds, one is sliding face first, face down, marked "skeleton", diagonally opposite to it is one sliding feet first, face up, marked "luge". The other two combinations are drawn and labeled with question marks
given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports
