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Adam Chalmers

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Texan (prev Australian). Father (prev gamer). Pynchon fan (prev illiterate). Building a new programming language for CAD at zoo.dev. Built a lot of Cloudflare Tunnel. I run austinsystems.org and love reading sci-fi and history.

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It's getting to the point where I should either trim my beard or really commit to growing it out.

11.03.2026 02:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Let the record show I started reading it before Dwarkesh's interview with the author dropped.

11.03.2026 02:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

obviously the moderator was @steveklabnik.com

10.03.2026 20:59 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"is luddism compatible with communism", the greatest thread in the history of labor relations, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

10.03.2026 20:58 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

I'm pretty sure an LLM can spit out a minesweeper clone in a few minutes. JS or even native desktop.

10.03.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
NBC News poll

Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

10.03.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 15296 πŸ” 3180 πŸ’¬ 284 πŸ“Œ 227

having my two-year-old look for me to give me a big hug when she wakes up in the morning, or gets home in the afternoon, is just so, so, so, so, so good.

10.03.2026 18:17 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds like a great read! I might try to get the local library to buy a copy.

10.03.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My daughter said her first three word sentence today: "where daddy go?" ❀️❀️❀️

(I was in the bathroom and she was looking for me in the bedroom)

10.03.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I love Jews and being Jewish and doing Jewish stuff

09.03.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah lmk how you find it. It should be pretty simple, just `brew install rv` or check our download page, then rvx to use whatever gems you want.

09.03.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Concept: I train for decades to become the strongest man in the world, until the only person strong enough to challenge me is myself, so I get so drunk I can no longer tell who I am, and then fight with myself, killing myself with a powerful blow to the heart.

09.03.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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I built a procedural medieval island map generator using Wave Function Collapse on hex grids. 4,100 cells, 900 possible states per cell, 60fps on mobile. Wrote up the whole process with lessons learned. Links below πŸ‘‡ #threejs #webgpu

09.03.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 244 πŸ” 53 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 5

β€œthis whole thing smacks of a gender” i holler as i overturn the global economy and turn the down jones industrial average into the industrial shit

07.04.2025 13:38 πŸ‘ 1565 πŸ” 324 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 3

When people talk about "Western civilization" they mean California. When they talk about the inscrutable East, they're talking about Nantucket.

07.03.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

Rats are stronger together than alone. Hell yeah.

07.03.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When people talk about "Western civilization" they mean California. When they talk about the inscrutable East, they're talking about Nantucket.

07.03.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

Hell yeah

07.03.2026 13:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Shabbat dinner. Pasta with a meat and brocolini sauce. Tomato with burrata. Kale salad.

07.03.2026 05:15 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The cylinder (target) and the rectangle (tool) before splitting

The cylinder (target) and the rectangle (tool) before splitting

Splitting the cylinder where it intersected the rectangle, then using all 3 parts separately.

Splitting the cylinder where it intersected the rectangle, then using all 3 parts separately.

Surface modeling is very cool. Big improvements in Zoo.

You can now split one solid (the cylinder) where it borders another solid (the thin rectangle)!

Then you can use all the separate pieces separately (moving them around for an exploded view in the second pic).

06.03.2026 23:32 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good question, idk yet. "Write a program that processes this big file the fastest", 1hr time limit, prizes for best performance, cleanest code, dumbest hack, etc?

06.03.2026 23:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly

06.03.2026 23:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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zoo CLI gets better every week.

06.03.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We don’t want cost to be a blocker to attend TokioConf.

If you build with Tokio, we want you there.

For every full-price ticket purchased before the end of March, we’ll add another Community Access ticket so someone else in the community can attend.

06.03.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

should we do this for Austin Systems?

06.03.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I think I saw that, didn't know who he was or that it was intended to be '"""""""joking""""""""

06.03.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A splash of vinegar is such a good seasoning.

06.03.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I wish it was on mobile. It's a perfect mobile game. That's how I played the original.

06.03.2026 15:06 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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** Speaker announcement ** Know all about why constraint solvers are useful, and how to implement the math behind them in Rust?Β You can, thanks to Adam Chalmers, at RustWeek 2026!

Info & tickets: buff.ly/ng4KHlm

See you in Utrecht May 18-23, 2026!

@adamchalmers.com

#rustweek2026 #rustlang

06.03.2026 13:07 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think I'd like to crash out. It looks like so much fun when people on here do it. Does anyone have any suggestions for a first time online meltdown?

06.03.2026 05:49 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1