Apple UX designers please stop overloading swipe gestures challenge (difficulty: impossible)

Thinking about finally migrating off of mastodon.social with the whole Meta federation thing, but I’m noticing most of the tech/gamedev-focussed instances are still federated with Threads too.

Any tips on a nice, left-leaning tech/gamedev instance with sensible moderation?

(Also I’m happy to throw a few bucks towards the upkeep of whatever instance I land on)

Who would have guessed the fastest pathfinding library would be written in Javascript?

https://mikolalysenko.github.io/l1-path-finder/www/#benchmarks

Always nice to see someone who has gone deep enough on the algorithm front to fully erase the overhead of a managed language

I want to offer a cloud sync for an app, *without* requiring the user to create an account/login. i.e. they have some sort of generated token that they can share out-of-band to their other devices.

Anyone know of existing schemes for this?

Reinstalling rustup from scratch appears to have fixed things, but I can't say I'm thrilled that my operating system decided to spontaneously excommunicate my compiler toolchain

I guess a stealth MacOS update decided I don't get to use #rustlang anymore... How's your Monday?

One part of me says “this is the primary tool of my trade, amortised $1,000/year is damn cheap”. The less rational part says “if I were a carpenter, many of my tools would outlive me”

There’s a voice in my head suggesting a $4,000 MacBook upgrade to… be able to build machine learning docker images without hating my life. Feels like we took a wrong turn somewhere along the way

Some days I wish I had stockpiled a few single-board computers in the before times. What does one do for low-powered local compute now that things like the raspberry PI are going for several hundred dollars?