sewer56.dev/blog/2025/11... A quick blog post with some cool stats on Reloaded-II mods I collected a while back. Sample size 2197. Ever curious about the file size/count stats of mods at scale? Here's the basic numbers.

Quick post about an experiment from 2 months ago; trying to optimise LLMs on superfast (>1000t/s) chips with Multi(Read/Write/Edit) tools. sewer56.dev/blog/2025/09... Written entirely by me, of course. Don't usually talk about AI: grifters and slop, but figured I'd share; it'd be a waste otherwise

Back in July I tried out NixOS, and have been daily driving it since. Here's a weird reason you don't want to store your config in /etc/nixos if you're using home-manager. sewer56.dev/blog/2025/11... tl;dr `nix shell` will cause your configs to disappear because /etc/nixos is not remapped.

mrrp,., mrrp,,, mrrrow :3

I have never before seen a website require a $7 monthly paid subscription to enable 2FA-

Arrow Lake 275HX ``` cargo bench -p dxt-lossless-transform-bc1 --bench transform_standard --features bench ``` Linux E-Core: 50GiB/s Windows (Any Core): 25GiB/s Linux P-Core: 3.3GiB/s WTF? This doesn't make any sense- and I'm not hallucinating, I doublechecked!! github.com/Sewer56/dxt-...

Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

My mods in an official Sonic post? Way past cool! 💙 Sonic Riders deserves all the love.

How does ROLLBACK NETCODE work, why is it so difficult to program, and why is it the gold standard for fighting games? A whirlwind tour of different solutions #pixelart #gamedev #AnimationVERSUS The setup: you have a video game with couch co-op and want to add online multiplayer. Easy, right...? 🧵

Unfortunately, servers are too expensive for starving indie devs (e.g. Nintendo), so it's worth exploring other options.

Here's how this setup looks like for reference. I do work from here (remotely), and my non-work code stuff right after. Maybe I'll game on this one day 😅, I'm always coding soooo much; ahahaha, so often that's a pipe dream! Oh and I'll eventually need some wall decor that's not certificates.

No GPU (yet); but today marks the first day in 11 years that I'm running current gen hardware on my PC. - 9950X3D w/ Arctic Liquid Freezer III - 96GB DDR5 6000MHz, CL30 - x870e Nova Wifi MB - 4TB 9100 Pro NVMe - G95NC (7680x2160@240Hz) - Flux Pro Case - Kanto Ora Speakers - G502X Plus Arch btw

POV you watch a 'Finale 4 Skip' video and @notnite.com appears in a screenshot.

Anduril tried recruiting on the nixos discourse lol

bsky.app/profile/sewe... Single feed's probably overrated anyway, don't want to mix memes with IRL images when you're showing your family. Or it could be 'cope' from my end, who knows :v

Question of the day: Is there no good way to view photos/videos remotely on Android? Notes in thread. My setup: pCloud <-> NAS (Home) <-- PC / Phone When in my house I NAS via FTP/NFS; when outside I talk with pCloud, which is bisynced with NAS (local RasPi 4B, rclone bisync, 5 min cron job).

Ended up getting the Kanto Ora speakers. Really happy with those on the other hand, work like gold. Monitor needed a small raise, due to height with stand, but it works out.

To be fair, a Big Rigs tier solution for Big Rigs is as Big Rigs as it Big RIgs.

bsky.app/profile/sewe... In the end I refunded the speaker, and bought a regular set of speakers; as god intended. If I ever need anything 'more', I'd wire up to a wiim pro-like device, so I can get both a good DAC and the 'smart' stuff at the same time.

bsky.app/profile/sewe... And to endlessly keep adding insult to injury. I can't even get a good listening experience with Tidal. You can't 'Tidal Connect' to the device from PC or Web for some reason. Not via Sonos or via Alexa (US Only?). Spotify works well, but it's 320Kbit/s limited. Bleh!

bsky.app/profile/sewe... Living beside a motorway without a noise barrier isn't very good either 😅. It's a trade-off between constant car noise vs unventilated room.

In order to stop using headphones as much (earwax), I bought a Sonos Era 100 speaker. Speaker is good, but damn I wish I could use it... as a speaker. 20 million ways to play audio and NOT A SINGLE GOOD ONE for your PC. It's 2025 and we can't transfer a mere 1.4Mbit/s for lossless CD audio?????

Time machine?

Learn Dependabot with the UK Government!!

A mysterious Tokyo Xtreme Racer package arrived!

I got interviewed by @pcgamer.com about FFXIV account IDs! www.pcgamer.com/games/final-...

can someone help me im trying to play undertale on windows 7 but i keep having this really annoying bug

me: what sort of things can you do? my printer:

What the fuck store.steampowered.com/app/3598130/...

Thanks @ Samsung 😅

Come on down to the White House Tesla Auto Mall!

github.com/libratbag/li... Added support for G502X Plus (including LED) to libratbag. Bought one, came in today, couldn't rebind it on Linux. Well, it's now later in the day, and now I can.

github.com/Sewer56/stru... I made a tool for creating and testing 'lossless transforms' that reorganize binary data for maximum compression efficiency. Like the BC1-BC3 texture ones I made a while back: sewer56.dev/blog/2025/01... 'Generic marketing chart' for memes included.

In my early days of modding I've stopped working on some games for this reason entirely. It was a waste of time.

closed source modding projects stifles innovation and removes future proofing projects that are closed source can't be updated to work around limitations under the FreeMyXe environment FreeMyXe can't have certain features added because the features are from things that are closed source

github.com/hedge-dev/Un... A Recompilation of Sonic Unleashed, to Windows and Linux. Neato.

Uh oh. Swollen phone battery. Always a first time 😅. Dangerous!!

Another blog post coming later today. After... well... a month. Not quite BC7 lossless transforms yet, but something that will make it much easier to build. And something you could use, too! Not just for improving compression of files, but also e.g. network packets.

Tú por qué tienes una foto de mi y @sewer56.dev

Here's the follow up to that (2nd post): bsky.app/profile/sewe... How can we quickly find out if data is more compressible after a transformation? And how does that relate to BC7?

I just wrote my first ever blog post today: sewer56.dev/blog/2025/01... Shrinking DXT1-5 Texture Sizes by 10%. 1 Thread. 4 Year old CPU. 60GB/s.

Two functions. One implemented in high level Rust (left), one in Assembly (right). They both generate the same assembly, but the Rust one is 4x faster when benchmarking; why?🧵

It's not spoken often enough out there, but sometimes 'Ultra' / 'Max' settings are not suitable for the user's resolution. For instance, I've seen games where 16K shadow maps had a negligible effect on a 1080p screen, but massive performance degradation.