Soviet Union in C

Rust program management, July 2026: new Project Goals! new Comprehensibility team! committee on LLM policy? Rust for Linux & CPython! program management meta? All Hands 2027!

Autistically walking in circles in the kitchen while snatching potato wedges from the fridge one by one and putting mayo on them is realigning all of them chis and chakras and yin yangs inside of me

Ship of Theseus has nothing on hearing Laura Shigihara's voice at the end of Deltarune Chapter 1 after many, many years since finishing Plants vs. Zombies for the first time

Bevy 0.19 is out now! It features Next Generation Scenes, Render Bigger Scenes Faster, Contact Shadows, More Feathers Widgets, Text Input, Richer Text, App Settings, Post Processing Effects, Improved Skinned Mesh Culling, and more! bevy.org/news/bevy-0-19

Oh! There was a directly related talk at RustWeek. At 33:44, someone brings up GhostCell; earlier, at 28:05, @aapoalas.trynova.dev talks about a similar approach in gc-arena, and the speaker also mentions Haskell's ST monad, which expresses the same idea. See also: the generativity crate.

Rust program management, May 2026... RustWeek! Video interviews! Project Goals! Funding! Mirroring! Rust for Linux! More meeting notes!

I'm still sort of shocked that I got to watch like a third of them live...

TECHNICAL RELATIONSHIPS ARE VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS.

Thanks to the GhostCell paper for teaching me branded types in Rust via invariant lifetimes. This has been *awesome* for eliminating pretty much all bounds and length checks in my indexing-heavy code (and enforcing more subtle invariants).

The Rust Project has been messing with my dreams. Last time, I was in a Sims-like where Project Goals were people and I took care of them. Today, I drowned myself in a flooded room to reveal a nested dream hinting at a key (shard 🙄) to a chest hidden on an archipelago, and it was somehow relevant.

Rust Project goals, end of 2025H2

April in Rust program management

TIL that since Rust 1.79 (god I'm old) these trait bounds: ~~~ Foo: Bar, <Foo as Bar>::Baz: Qux, ~~~ can be collapsed into: ~~~ Foo: Bar<Baz: Qux>, ~~~ Types and traits get massive in my project because of const generics and const traits, so this is really satisfying <3

Throwback to the Tarot cards I pulled while building a line clipping library. The Five of Wands represents undifferentiated input line segments, while the Four and Eight of Wands show their progressive differentiation into the four quadrants and then the eight octants (see Bresenham's algorithm).

March in program management #rustlang

Something about allocators as symbols of the Great Mother, the heap as the womb, and the stack as the Father.

February in Rust program management

Brought five really vivid dreams from the last two nights into analysis today, and even returned to a couple of much older ones. I'm so happy I get to talk about them with someone for an hour twice a week.

Got through my first month doing program management work for Rust. So grateful for the support I've gotten, and I hope I get to do this for a long time :-)

I wrote an article on the Great Mouravi - Giorgi Saakadze - a little earlier this month. It took 3 months of research and covers his life, the legacy of his legend, and the statue to him in Tbilisi today. I try to answer - was he a traitor or hero of Georgia? #sakartvelo #writing #georgianhistory

My February 2023 agony over Disco Elysium foreshadowed my current devastation over Heated Rivalry.

Result::не_влезай_убьет

Jitter-free movement on a pixel grid #gamedev #indiedev

Carton of Egg's (for @eggbreus.bsky.social's blog) #pixelart

Grids and geometry are first-class citizens in my game engine. Same zero-cost APIs are used for graphics, level editor, collision detection, world maps. There's no difference between querying solids in an area and checking if a sprite has pixels of a color along a line. #rustlang #gamedev #indiedev

Oh hey, another Rust release I contributed to (stabilized strict arithmetic, which panics on overflow)

Some dried blood on a cotton pad smiled at me after a nosebleed yesterday. #pixel #art

My @obsidian.md vault has 3 note types: daily logs (yellow), events (blue/purple), and atoms (green). They follow some linking rules: - daily log -> daily log (previous day) - daily log -> event (exactly one per event) - event -> event (towards the past) - atom -> atom - atom -> event (as examples)

It is viscerally satisfying to massage #rustlang libraries into being const, no_std, alloc-free, and as minimal as possible, with binaries managing the rest. It reminds me of the "functional core, imperative shell" pattern, and Hard Mode Rust (matklad). I wish to see more programs written like this.

Blitting images to a pixel buffer with clipping and a moving camera. About to extend this for animation and text rendering. Dogfooding crates.io/crates/clipline for line drawing helps improve the library as well :) #rustlang #gamedev #pixelart #graphics

@buttplug.io puts the embedded in embedded systems.

First #rustlang release I contributed to. I stabilized uN::*_sub_signed and the const floating-point rounding methods. Exciting!

Got a text from the police chief in my hometown. My dad (no contact since 2021) tried to report me missing after years of stalking. I had to send a video saying I'm fine and don't want contact with relatives. I thought the officer would pressure me, but he was really respectful! I'm relieved.

Just published clipline v4, a rewrite of my line rasterization crate with pixel-perfect clipping! Star it on GitHub: github.com/nxsaken/clip... Read the docs: docs.rs/clipline/lat... #rustlang #pixelart #graphics #rendering #gamedev 🎵: cuddlemeta by lianhua

More CPU graphics #rustlang #pixelart #graphics #gamedev

CPU graphics #rustlang #gamedev #pixelart

My new substack essay about the philosophy of love in WALL-E (2008) is finally out! #Pixar #Disney #Moviereview

#rustlang is the usual vehicle for my #INFJ Ni-Ti loops, so seeing this in the mirror really struck me.

Sped up my line-drawing #rustlang crate by pairing const-generic clipping functions with fully runtime iterator states. I expected the opposite, but v3’s generic states actually slowed iteration! Early v4's runtime flags improved iteration, but made clipping twice as slow. Friendship wins!

On a recent rewatch, I noticed that when #SailorMoon changes her pose between her MSHA and RMHA attacks, it mirrors the pose of The Magician in the #Tarot. It kind of makes sense: she literally channels the Holy Grail into the new attack. I've never seen this pointed out, wondering if there's more.

Mother, I binge-read #rustlang discussions until 4am again.

Playing with pixel grids #rustlang #graphics #procedural #pixelart #gamedev