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Dad and software geek. Ex-Canoncial. Ex-Cacophony. Maintainer of IMAPClient for Python. @menn0@mastodon.nzoss.nz

Christchurch, New Zealand
Joined August 2008
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In my tiny building game, I want your creations to exist in a world that feels alive. As a first step, I tackled ivy 🌿 As time passes, ivy grows on walls, bringing a bit of life with it✨ Brief tech overview in the🧵 #screenshotsaturday #indiegamedev #rustlang 🦀 #bevyengine
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In Poland, there is a LARP group that roleplays as contemporary Americans. Here they are doing “Ohio.”
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PSA To all of #KiwiPyCon generous sponsors: the sponsorship prospectus release is imminent (the designers have it). Sixteen (16) sponsorship opportunities with extras. Bespoke sponsorships too. If you are unsure whether you are in our distribution list email [email protected]
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Our greatest release ever! - Generics - Fuzzing - Module workspaces - debug/buildinfo (SBOM) - net/netip - ARM64 & PPC64 regabi (+15% performance)
🎊 Go go1.18 is released! 📝 Release notes: go.dev/doc/go1.18 ⬇️ Download: go.dev/dl/#go1.18 #golang
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Cleric: Good sir, we heard that your village has befallen a terrible lycantropic curse. Villager: The werewolves did it. They say they can remove it but they're asking for 100 bitecoins. Cleric: Oh, no. Tell me it's not what I think it is. Villager: Yep. Ransomwere. #dnd
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A tip for those learning Rust: if you don't know which crate to use, start by looking through the list of stdx. github.com/brson/stdx
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Omg, this is too good!
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A batshit crazy antivaxxer “health coach” with 1000’s of followers shared this map of “non discriminatory” businesses all over Aotearoa - they’re sharing it so they support them, I’m sharing it so we can avoid & report them 🤢😷 google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid…
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DEAR UNITED KINGDOM, I HERALD GOOD NEWS *bugle plays dramatically* Rust in Action, a leading #rustlang book, is now available from @AmazonUK amazon.co.uk/Rust-Action-Tim…
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Replying to @farmgeek
Made this for my BIL in response to that exact comment. Told him I'm not telling you what to do, but here's the effectiveness data vs. other vaccines (and picked mostly ones people our age got in school so he'd recognise them). 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Aleksey (matklad)'s blog post on "fast rust builds" is Very Good. matklad.github.io/2021/09/04…
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I feel like I need to apologise to Astra for this.... but it was too good a joke to ignore.
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Replying to @waltermasterson
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Check out the awesome final reel from the #DynamicMachines challenge. Super difficult to take your eyes off. Full version: 80.lv/articles/dynamic-machi… #3dart #3d #rendering #render #cgart
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Replying to @Qantas
@Qantas I was supposed to receive a refund in Nov 2020 but nothing happened until I finally received an email on June 22 2021(!) saying the refund had been processed. The money still hasn't arrived however. I've spent 15+ cumulative hours on hold without anyone answering. Help!
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Scientists: 1970s: We’re seeing concerning patterns. 1980s: Yep, definitely worrisome. 1990s: Seriously folks, this could get bad. 2000s: Do we need to explain this another way? We’re very alarmed. 2010s: *marching in the streets in lab coats* 2020s: bbc.com/news/science-environ…
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This is neat, @cube0x8 has x64 support working for loadlibrary! That allows a native Linux process to dlopen() a 64-bit dll, really useful for fuzzing. Let us know if you want to help test. github.com/cube0x8/loadlibra…
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The Mash Report, a comedy program critical of the government has been axed by the state broadcaster, reportedly for political reasons, and at the behest of a director general appointed by the government. Finally, a stone cold example of what 'cancel culture' looks like.
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Comparing the size of known asteroids in the Solar System to New York City. Credit: MetaBallStudios (YouTube)
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