Matt Keeter

hi friends I'm very excited to announce Halfspace, my experimental cross-platform IDE for solid modeling with distance fields! This has been in progress since midway through last year, and it's finally "done enough" to make it more public.

slackbot told me to cross-dress for halloween, which is certainly a bold recommendation

uhhhhhh did Dreamhost get popped?

I interviewed at a place that said they had a Fortran and python code base and when I was like “oh you have Python bindings for the Fortran?” They explained that it was the other way around

Similarly, I worked on a project with a C++ core (written by the software team), which called Python scripts (written by a different team), which called a Go binary (because Python was too slow for heavy data processing)

you may not like it, but this is what peak API design looks like

watching Black Panther 2 in a Boston-area theater was hilarious – you could feel the crowd getting rowdier and rowdier during the city-warping car chase, then a whale jumps out of the Charles River (upstream of the dam) and everyone just lost it

rust library design advice be like

My "We are not forking TypeScript!" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

you can c everything: a guide to the c programming language

A joke so deadpan that it shows up in the Google search suggestions:

Welcome back, weird-ass OpenAI nonprofit structure!

as always, one should read Ra (qntm.org/ra)

I love discovering a New Weird Rust Function:

I am NOT beating the allegations (of being @adamchalmers.com's alt account)

I'm glad they had the previous WR holder on the couch for commentary

“Should people preemptively block 404 Media for their own safety” is definitely the kind of question that one wants associated with their media brand, great work.

Awesome

Desktop environment: 2 GB Chrome tabs: 4 GB Expert cache: 186 GB someone help me budget this, my RAM is dying

Encouraging the baby to drink from a straw cup: “Try hard. Do a breakthrough.”

someone needs to turn the "places adjacent" infobox on Wikipedia into a really bad text adventure game YOU ARE IN MARTIN'S LOCATION > LOOK THERE ARE TWO PEOPLE HERE (ACCORDING TO THE 2020 CENSUS). TO THE EAST IS A GRAVEL PATH LEADING TO BEAN'S PURCHASE. > NORTH YOU WALK NORTH. YOU ARE NOW IN GORHAM

I have since privately received information that the lack of credit was in bad faith, and that this was a blatant and intentional ripoff. I'm not the only one disheartened by the lack of due credit.

“Hey buddy, did you install the windows on the side of the house yet?” “Sure did boss, real fuckin’ disconcerting just like you asked”

I love a good register allocator writeup: hexrat.cc/pages/blog/2...

On the way home from the farmers’ market, we walked through an urban sketching event in Union Square, Somerville. I counted five people sketching, two doing watercolor, one oil painting, and the clear winner of the event: a man painting his urban scene onto a medium-sized pumpkin.

Tired: Undisclosed AI usage is fine, stop using Pangram on my Substack articles. Wired: Undisclosed AI usage is bad because it plagiarizes from everyone in the training data. Inspired: Undisclosed AI usage is bad because it plagiarizes from Claude, who is a moral actor.

no one understands my genius

@jonbois.bsky.social watching baseball

there's a lot of ruin in a natural monopoly

Each r-pop band produces roughly 5,000 songs over the course of two weeks, in the hopes that one song will become a hit

it's a new season for technology & for technologists, and our labor and its impact to the world are both more greater and more dangerous than ever. how do we make sense of work in an industry many of us no longer recognize?

"Simon Shindler contributed significantly to the aesthetic of Figure 7, but could not be named an author for obvious reasons."

our United flight that was supposed to land at 8pm has been delayed until at least 11pm we are traveling with a 9-month old send help

one of my favorite songs by @themountaingoats.bsky.social

it has been [0] days since a rustc update revealed a latent bug in my JIT compiler