Michael Bartnett

Anti-(pointless+harmful tech here)!
Engine/Audio programmer @Diablo IV; Prev @EverQuestII, @eppygames;

see pinned tweet for alt socials
elon broke bio links

[Michael Bartnett @michaelbartnett]

New pin, adding bsky
My backup socials are mastochostsky

bsky: https://t.co/7hI4TKT3fm
Mastodon: https://t.co/vYmyw52LBS
Cohost: https://t.co/0RuzAXBTpE

[Michael Bartnett @michaelbartnett]

Combining this into one tweet now. My backup socials are mastochost

Mastodon: https://t.co/vYmyw5jODS

Cohost: https://t.co/0RuzAXjKbw

[Michael Bartnett @michaelbartnett]

@DoorDash canceled dash pass bc of your stupid trump skit

[Michael Bartnett @michaelbartnett]

@nyuniversity Give that kid his fucking degree you ghouls. I'm ashamed to be an alumnus of an institution that implicitly endorses genocide

[Michael Bartnett @michaelbartnett]

@JetBrains_Fleet Ah I see now with the partial search, it shows up if I type "z" or "zi". That did it. Thanks!

[Michael Bartnett @michaelbartnett]

@JetBrains_Fleet Other languages seem to be working fine, and I do see plugins when I leave the search field empty

[Michael Bartnett @michaelbartnett]

I personally wouldn't trust them much after this 🤷‍♂️

thanks for contributing to the enshittification of the internet

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[Michael Bartnett @michaelbartnett]

This is intended to be a reply to the other tweet chain but I'm rate limited on replies because I managed to not exfiltrate my phone number from this cursed site

[Michael Bartnett @michaelbartnett]

In case it isn't clear: I still waffle on the relative value of the Rust vs Zig design ethos for the stuff I work on. In the meantime I just find Zig fun and am just perpetually overflowing with thoughts about what it does well vs what I chaff against

[Michael Bartnett @michaelbartnett]

It's not *as* nice as automatic destructors but it's close. I think if you try to manage complex structures in Zig without some kind of comptime automation you're asking for bugs. So why Zig? Zig makes writing that kind of code straightforward and the end result is very readable

[Michael Bartnett @michaelbartnett]

Cool thing about Zig is I found it easy to write an `autoDeinit` function with Zig's typeInfo api to achieve exactly this. I do think it badly needs named generic type params, attributes, *some* way of declaring & enforcing interface constraints, and an iteration protocol tho

[Hoshino Lina / 星乃リナ 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!! @Lina_Hoshino]

@basit_ayantunde The Zig approach really doesn't scale for complex data structures. You can't have a generic vector or map, and just destroy it. You need to write explicit code to iterate through it and destroy every element. That's a real major pain...

[Michael Bartnett @michaelbartnett]

I'm also not just pontificating with toy code here, my pet project is a game editor + asset pipeline in Zig with reference counting on resources, it has to automatically clean up allocated memory and call deinit hooks for specific resource types

[Michael Bartnett @michaelbartnett]

this dumb website thinks i like seeing big game personalities bully randos

[Michael Bartnett @michaelbartnett]

Love getting texts asking if I'm getting laid off because it's unclear if we're having more fucking layoffs or if journos are just watching the WARN Act website waiting for the opportunity to write bait articles

[melissa kelly 💙 @_mlktea]

Leadership is fucking exhausting. When teams fall short of the arbitrary number execs make for us to hit, the people who made those goals and plans are never held responsible. Just the folks tasked with carrying it out.

Can't wait for my turn in the slaughter house <3

[Michael Bartnett @michaelbartnett]

I would really love for windows, discord, zoom, teams, etc. to stop fucking with app volume

Or even just do the bare minimum and actually obey the settings when I disa le that behavior in control panel and the apps

[Michael Bartnett @michaelbartnett]

@ocornut I hadn't cobsidered you'd need to pace adoption, but that makes total sense, Dearimgui is such a joy to use.

And your attention to stability and upgrade paths is very noticeable and very appreciated.

Here's to 10 more years and many more sponsors in the future! 🍻

[Omar 🍋 @ocornut]

I wrote a thing...
"10 years of Dear ImGui" (long post) 🎉
https://t.co/aRx5iNj790

[Michael Bartnett @michaelbartnett]

Nobody took you seriously before, now this is just exacerbating the problem

[Irvine Police Department @IrvinePolice]

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[Michael Bartnett @michaelbartnett]

Unicorn Overlord just deployed the phrase "a throng of unmagicked octogenarians"