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Published the first version of a D&D 5e crate, “dnd”:

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crates.io/crates/dn…

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I’m working on a silly side project to hook up a Raspberry Pi Pico + eInk display to show basic character stats during a game without needing to have other distracting tech (phone/tablet/etc) present.

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Fun! A Rust + WASM implementation of “Game of Life”:\ngithub.com/matanlure…

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I tried this a few years ago, and the Rust ecosystem is a lot more mature now - got lots setup, including test coverage running in Node/Chrome - in <1 hour.

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120 FPS, ~9kb Brotli compressed.

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Made a little micro Rust library to interpret and create process exit codes that are usable cross platform and std-optional: crates.io/crates/pr…

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OOP isn’t bad - types are better than primitives, and subtyping is a useful way to evolve an API and allow customization. The “bad parts” are often just bad design choices (deep object hierarchies, unintended inheritance patterns).

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It’s self-defeating to demand changes (i.e. to a software project) that you personally want to see, but reject others (that you don’t want to see). Teams and projects can be taught to embrace change or be resistant to it, but nobody will ever see eye to exactly with your exact philosophy.

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This entire time I could have been using retro-style codepage 437 glyphs as icons??? This changes … something.

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You don’t always need to use codegen (or custom lints) in your apps or packages.

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Just write a test.

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For example, I have a Codepage437Icons class, where I need to (manually) include a string-based representation of the icons, so I wrote a test to check I don’t forget any!

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@matan.wtf Welcome!

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@spydon.dev Am I missing something? This doesn’t do anything in parallel unless the convert function itself runs in parallel?

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@codefu.bsky.social Who could possibly have predicted an infra flakiness issue we’ve ignored for a year might pop up???!?

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One thing I particularly like about GitHub Co-Pilot is that it pushes you towards DAMP solutions (by nature of the tool, it doesn’t refactor your code) - which is great (personally) at making me avoid needless abstraction.

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We call this “the cat house” (yes - have seen animal control out here before)

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@vogueandcode.bsky.social This is extremely cool!

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@aoc.bsky.social I learned a LOT about organizing and community from working in hospitality.

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    If you have 40 people who come to your spot and 1 disruptive jerk & don’t do anything, the 40 won’t come back

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    You need to maintain a fun and welcoming atmosphere even if you have regulars, that’s what helps you grow

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How do folks who still use Twitter and Mastodon and Bluesky … keep up? I don’t need to read every post by every author but logging into 3 separate apps a day to scroll is too much for me.

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I have mixed thoughts about how effective full remote work is, but “gaslight our employees back into the office” isn’t going to work folks (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-13/remote-work-comes-with-daytime-drug-and-drinking-habits).

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@vicvijayakumar.com This is the dumbest shit I’ve read this week and I’m (still) a New York Times subscriber.

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Donut Man!

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@ericajoy.astrel.la 🍌

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@vicvijayakumar.com Looks great!

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@byronwoodfork.bsky.social How important is your relationship with your manager, and how do you balance influence on others with pleasing your management chain (which is not always the same thing)

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@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com My take would have been “run”

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@seanlarkin.dev Failed: Invalid: Parameter.

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One thing I am appreciating about Wing Span (seen here on my Steam Deck - what a great purchase) is the deliberate timing, i.e. “when activated” instead of having to interpret game text.

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I can say first hand this is a failure of “office culture”, not a fix. If you’re asking folks to commute in to sit in a soundproof box, let them stay home.

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San Jose… Wild.

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The computer history museum is great.

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Software is the last thing you should write: matan.wtf

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Ludum Dare 52: matan.wtf

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I’ve really enjoyed the “Nobody Playlists” <www.youtube.com/@nobodypl…> on YouTube as background, reading, or coding music. One of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3TOVBNSJDA.

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One thing I appreciate about Rust is the ease of tooling.

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If I have an idea for a package, I just type “cargo new –lib”, and open the folder in VSCode. No ceremony, no Java UI wizard, no trying to configure prettier, typescript, eslint, etc. Everything just works.

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I spent a few minutes (hours?) cataloging different text-based UIs, patterns, games, and some tutorials. I’ll add to it as I see fit, but this might be a useful reference for others: https://github.com/matanlurey/tui-game-inspo.

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Challenge of generic text-based games: matan.wtf

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