What was the library that did this? [Looks at my crates; looks at their dependencies.] I don't see it anywhere. Oh wait, was it gag?

https://crates.io/users/shanecelis

An interesting essay for anyone maintaining an open source project.

https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html

OLD CASHIER, sees my kids, grumbles: They [kids] aren’t worth it in my experience.

ME, later to my kids: That man was a transactionalist and probably a bad parent.

THE LAST QUESTION circa 1956: How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?

THE ACTUAL LAST QUESTION circa 2030: How many paperclips can be made?

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html

New issue. Small 9-slice sprite texture behavior changed for worse.

https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/25971 #bevyengine

Why not. Here are my nine games.

https://my9games.net/en/edit

I’m starting to think the internet is going to become an AI-infested malware bot net ecosystem. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Everybody working on computers ought to watch the Black Hat talk on the Hugging Face attack. It is eye-opening for what's possible now and for what's coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY

A sobering look at AI from a software game developer with 30 years experience. Pro: Eight times as fast. Con: Everything else.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1wo5asm/ai_models_have_caught_up_with_unity_dev_my/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

Bevy's Sprite is finally getting its own shader extension mechanism destined for 0.20 release. Woohoo!

https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/25415 #bevyengine #gamedev

1/ The new Terminator movie is gonna be hype. After it savages your house, catches you, it asks, “John Connor, I must know whether you prefer Coca Cola to Pepsi. One has a classic taste only diverting from the original formula twice. A short stint with a new formula and a long stint with high fructose corn syrup. And the other claims to be the choice of the next generation. What is your answer?”

“What The fuck. Uh, coke?”

The Terminator turns and leaves; its query answer in toe…
#microfiction

Funny how the first technologically reified collective consciousness isn’t.