Ok real talk Sicily, what is wrong with toilet seats? Do you have them or something?

Caponata is the better ratatouille don't @ me.

Ordered some business cards online. Glad I double checked the sample because their embedded "QR code generator" would insert a redirect through _their_ website in the link it generates. I imported a manually made JPG instead but that stuff should be illegal.

Graphics people, can anyone tell me if there's still any value in sending vertex buffers with defined attribute descriptions compared to using GL_EXT_buffer_reference with std430 layout and completely skipping the need to describe the input on the CPU side? I can't see the tradeoffs.

I can't help them with PR but I do game performance consulting...

Surprise surprise, all those conservatives and libs talking about "free speech" are all too happy to have the government arrest you or go after your livelihood for expressing negative opinion of their favorite debate podcaster or settler colonial genocidal state.

Amazing how the calls for Civil War vanish from my timeline as soon as it's revealed this episode was yet another instance of Conservative Thunderdome.

I know it's a free market and all that but trying to sell me a glass of Gamay that can't even afford the Beaujolais appellation for 13€ should be a crime.

Hey Android can stop changing the entire UI every release? I got an update and now my phone looks like the previous one was redesigned to accommodate young children.

My most polite take on current events is that neither murder nor pushing fascist ideas should be something we tolerate in modern society.

C++ Modules Update, 2025: it almost totally works for this one set of headers you guys. As long as you're willing to use MSVC with IntelliSense screaming errors everywhere because it can't parse your module imports and you basically lose all autocomplete. 🙃

The modern Alien Franchise is really sustained by a plethora of idiotic engineers and scientists who cannot design a safety feature or procedure to save their lives.

The fact that the most boring, memberberries filled flashback episode of Alien: Earth is the most popular so far is making me think we don't deserve good TV or movies anymore.

You need an app to apply to visit the UK now. I hate the future.

I love it when a game has several wikis and the top result on google is the one that's out of date.

Fun fact, if you try to withdraw an invite on LinkedIn to redo with actual words, it blocks from doing so for 3 weeks. Ladies and gentlemen, the peak of corporate social media.

As an elder millennial I thought our generation would be safe from AI but now my housing association is asking ChatGPT which contractor/offer we should go for 😫

I have been mulling over those thoughts on performance and what it means for different people for a while now. Hopefully I managed to turn them into a digestible blog post! mropert.github.io/2025/08/27/t...

Just ran into someone in the street wearing a shirt saying "Collaboration Saves Lives". I'm begging those "coaches" to read about history and what their words may conjure.

"We tried to deliver your parcel, but could not leave it without a signature." UPS no you didn't. I was home all day.

Instagram is the worst thing that happened to LinkedIn. I will not elaborate.

I don't understand. Please tell how is this invalid. I'm merely trying to come up with words as I'm forced to create an account for single player game I bought on Steam.

Doom Eternal isn't a bad game but you know what would have been roughly 152 times better? The same game without the stupid jumping puzzles. I'm playing Doom, not Tomb Raider!

Can we talk about how those top level AI generated answers still can't figure out something as basic the concept of a year? Here's an event that happened in 2024 and has not announced any 2025 plans, despite AI confidently saying it will happen, citing "sources".

It's hard enough to teach ppl how (and when) to use polymorphism but now they have to teach AI and vibe coders?

I watched Jawan (2023) and I don't know about about the director's claim saying it's "empowering women". The plot is like 4h too long for a 3h movie and has way too many unnecessary flashbacks. On the plus side it portrays direct action that works which beats most of Hollywood.

Excuse me what Gandi?

The issue of calling a talk "Heaps Don't Lie" is that when people google it they get served a certain music video unless they put quotes around the query. Wait did I say "issue"? I meant "undocumented feature".

LLMs are statistical predictor models. The tone shift about Palestine is simply an indicator of the narrative shifting in the training dataset. It's a mirror of the average opinion in trusted sources. It follows the recent flip in tone as governments find the position untenable.

Engineer here, cloud storage is a rounding error in power consumption compared to AI compute.

Doing 120 on the highway standing up because Flygbussarna can't count the amount of seats available.

When you name an airport just to fuck with people

Game developers, I see you, but respectfully, you are absolutely insane if you side with this one. 1:1 object relationship is first year CS course material. Stop acting like you're a unicorn and you have to jump through those hoops because "no one else ever ship". It's just bad software.

@kevlin.bsky.social 's rule apply even here in the new world of Montréal.

Poutine is kind of mid, I have to say

Ex coworker of mine publicly announced he got SAFe certified on LinkedIn. I replied "my condolences".

They have pokemon I didn't know about in Québec

A UX story

So much this, thanks Tom Sellek for your talk @cppnorth.bsky.social

Michelle D'Souza talking about cache locality. Great energy to wake up the audience in an early talk at @cppnorth.bsky.social.

I should have made the connection when the speaker started mentioning a movie that didn't exist. I thought maybe they misremembered. Then it hit me... Who uses a lot of em-dashes and hallucinate things?

Three em dashes in one slide. We all know what it means... 🤖

This projector help widget is a marvel of environmental storytelling about bad engineering. #CppNorth

Hotels asking for either 10 bucks a day or signup for their loyalty program on a link that doesn't work to get WiFi sounds like the kind of thing the government should regulate.

After ordering a really mid hot dog and getting free mayo in Toronto I can now declare that Canada is a civilized place according to the only metric that matters.

I watched Bon Cop Bad Cop in the plane I'm ready for @cppnorth.bsky.social

Two thoughts: 1/ The staff in France can't be fired nearly as easily because of unions and labour laws. This is why you want them. 2/ Cutting off 200 "non core" staff after a big release smells a lot like contract work in disguise. www.virtuosgames.com/news/adaptin...

New Episode of "What Makes A Game Tick?" is out. Today: Multithreading Models! mropert.github.io/2025/07/15/m...

Jailed for their crimes