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RJ

@metabrew.com

Enthusiastic cook, BEAM-appreciator, rust gamedev hobbyist, tinkerer, home-automation DIYer, @lastfm, @irccloud founder.

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absolutely

24.02.2026 22:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Devastating news, Rob was one of a kind πŸ’”

24.02.2026 22:13 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ah i see, yeah. too bad they won't just stream you the raw audio bytes... pretty sure an old version of the api did that, and one of the ancient playdar plugins used it.

23.01.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

cool :) are you using the js framework to integrate with spotify (and if so, how nice is it to use?)

23.01.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

do me!

22.01.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm also optimistic, not to mention amazed, at how useful ai coding tools are. many caveats, but still an incredible productivity boost.

11.01.2026 13:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Driving test touts offer instructors Β£250 monthly kickbacks Touts use instructor login details to bulk-book tests and sell them at a huge mark-up, the BBC finds.

I don't understand why driving tests are transferrable.. just link the booked test to the provisional license used to book it? What am I missing here, it doesn't sound that difficult to stop touts when everyone has to present ID anyway.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

06.12.2025 10:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

yikes

13.11.2025 15:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I set up policy based routing on my pfsense router at home, so now traffic to imgur egresses via tailscale on a cheap german vm. All that so the embeded screenshots load while i'm browsing minecraft mods.. The state of the UK internet is heartbreaking.

12.11.2025 21:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mad Max: Solar Punk

06.11.2025 13:17 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
piles of old hard drives next to big drill

piles of old hard drives next to big drill

Mission accomplished. Got the Big Drill out. Goodbye old hard drives 🫑

05.11.2025 14:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm getting hooked on Minecraft (because of my kids). It's fun. I know I'm late to this party. ⛏️

05.09.2025 16:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

now do the uk

22.08.2025 20:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

good old fashioned percussive data removal techniques are always an option..

12.08.2025 11:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

not really. also now I think about it, I'd like some kind of visual confirmation of data destruction.. magnets might not be trustworthy πŸ˜’

12.08.2025 11:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm going to have to hit them all with a large hammer aren't I

12.08.2025 10:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What's the least effort way of destroying a load of old hard drives? I don't want to power them up. Is there someone who will drive an industrial shredder to my house so I can toss them in?

12.08.2025 10:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

trying to learn Minecraft with the 7yo is making me feel *old*

07.07.2025 16:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

a few more years and a robot could make it for you!

19.06.2025 14:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

those of us who were born in 1982 grew up in a unique time and have had some really interesting life experiences, but what really makes me laugh is when people born before or after 1982 claim that they’ve also had life experiences. get serious. no you haven’t

04.06.2025 14:59 πŸ‘ 2739 πŸ” 267 πŸ’¬ 106 πŸ“Œ 27

git trenchcoat βœ…

27.04.2025 22:10 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot of MusicBrainz’ Release rate of change graph, from 2020 to 2025, which jumps from about 700 releases being added a day to ~1,800

A screenshot of MusicBrainz’ Release rate of change graph, from 2020 to 2025, which jumps from about 700 releases being added a day to ~1,800

I recently caught someone talking smack about how many people use MusicBrainz, and it made me go check. Just to reassure myself...

To my delight, I was reminded that our editors are killing it!!

~700 releases added /day in 2020, up to ~1,800 in 2025: beta.musicbrainz.org/statistics/t...
-a

23.04.2025 09:42 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Modelling Agent Behaviour with Bevy Behave Interactive blog post about modelling agent behaviour with Bevy Behave

Check out this excellent interactive blog post demonstrating bevy_behave, my #rust behaviour tree crate for @bevyengine.org Good use of compiling to wasm and embedding bevy in a webpage ⭐

www.hankruiger.com/posts/bevy-b...

11.04.2025 18:28 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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the 15th anniversary remaster cover for the fat of the land just adding more crabs is one of the funniest album covers I’ve ever seen. i think about it all the time

08.03.2025 16:06 πŸ‘ 10363 πŸ” 3122 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 93

also, i'm now fully ready to steal the identity of all the neighbourhood cats

05.03.2025 08:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Replaced a faulty microchip-reading catflap. Didn't even have to grab that cat and shove him through to train it this time: used my Flipper Zero to read and then emulate his rfid chip, and configure the catflap while he was snoozing

05.03.2025 08:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wrote a low-overhead behaviour tree crate for @bevyengine.org that does dynamic spawning for tasks.

Here's the chase demo from the repo running 100k behaviour trees (second video in the README)

www.github.com/RJ/bevy_behave

05.02.2025 15:02 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

my Amazon account is more than 18 years old, and I still had to produce ID when getting a small knife delivered..

23.01.2025 23:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

realised i had around 500GB in ~/src/*/target directories from random old rust projects.. very happy to reclaim that space.

18.01.2025 16:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love getting dissed by the fancy AI code editor autocomplete suggesting:
"// TODO: this is a bit of a mess"

11.01.2025 10:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0