Michael Belousov

Generalist programmer. Ex-blender head.

[Michael Belousov @BigDecafEnergy]

My wife just remembered that cookie brand as "Chop's a-hue"

[Michael Belousov @BigDecafEnergy]

@ItsRoboki @saltyAom Google search people. DVUI exists and it's very good
https://t.co/XnO5kUP24f

[Michael Belousov @BigDecafEnergy]

@saltyAom Have you not seen dvui? We made https://t.co/XnO5kUP24f in 100% zig (wasm on web and we have apps for all desktop OSes with native integrations)

Last week I even started a dvui backend to render zig DVUI apps into blender

[Simon Willison @simonw]

The Zig project's rationale for their blanket ban on AI-assisted contributions makes a lot of sense to me - for them, time spent reviewing PRs isn't about the code, it's about growing new contributors for the future of the project https://t.co/9DoJqBGphp

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Universal basic ads

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Every engineering fever dream starts with a rewrite

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@volvocars who thought that it's a good idea in your software update to take up 2 square inches of screen space for "strong signal strength". My phone is inside the car. Not to mention the other 10sq in. of waste...

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Is there a hypothetical future where the people storm a data center like the bastille?

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Cherry picking from agent work trees is OP

[Michael Belousov @BigDecafEnergy]

Mcp was dead on arrival

[Michael Belousov @BigDecafEnergy]

I am BEYOND upset that Claude code sucks on my termux ssh'd into my arch box with tmux.

Time to try opencode with Gemini or something.

[Michael Belousov @BigDecafEnergy]

sometimes to be a builder you have to be a destroyer

[Michael Belousov @BigDecafEnergy]

video game preservation is important because I won't have time to play any video games for ~20years and the ones I want to play now (including old ones) had better still be around by then

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I feel bad I still haven't tried nix. Should I try nix? I decided not to a while ago after reading a bad review.

[Michael Belousov @BigDecafEnergy]

today I finally googled for claude hooks. Awesome.
Also awesome that on many linux distribs you can just do `notify-send $(jq .message)`

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Do startups do internships?

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Should you treat your customers as pets or cattle?

[Michael Belousov @BigDecafEnergy]

Is there an English LSP yet?

[Michael Belousov @BigDecafEnergy]

goddamn it unreal why do you gotta produce invalid XML for datasmith