Lucretiel
@lucretiel.me
Neophile. #ADHD. #rustlang at @datadoghq.com. #boardgames. Mercator Projection Apologist.
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Lucretiel
@lucretiel.me
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I'm very pleased to announce that I'll be leading a session at this year's inaugural Rust NYC Unconf! Come by if you'd like to talk or hear about using Rust to underpin common, cross-language implementations of business functionality.
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reminds me of this via @aplante.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
reminds me of this via @aplante.com
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I like this video for a lot of reasons — the shade over the new Meltwater edition is *perfect* — but foremost among them is the fact that I once wrote an article about "The Board Game Box Review." It was a surprising breakout moment for my goofball site. And this is so much better than that.
Let's talk about board game boxes and their role in selling a game, framing and contextualizing the experience, and creating meaning.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgfV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgfV...
Boxes: Selling, Framing, Meaning
YouTube video by Hollandspiele
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I like this video for a lot of reasons — the shade over the new Meltwater edition is *perfect* — but foremost among them is the fact that I once wrote an article about "The Board Game Box Review." It was a surprising breakout moment for my goofball site. And this is so much better than that.
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Right. You have all these MBAs gloating about being able to discipline their labour force, but what happens when those newly fired employees start their own firms? Which is more competitive: a bunch MBAs with automated engineers, or a bunch of engineers with automated management?
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Right. You have all these MBAs gloating about being able to discipline their labour force, but what happens when those newly fired employees start their own firms? Which is more competitive: a bunch MBAs with automated engineers, or a bunch of engineers with automated management?
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This AP news story is incredible from front to back but I wanted to flag something super serious and wildly illegal that may have flown under the radar. It’s called parallel construction and it’s when intel is washed from spy agencies and used by local cops. apnews.com/article/immi...
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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This AP news story is incredible from front to back but I wanted to flag something super serious and wildly illegal that may have flown under the radar. It’s called parallel construction and it’s when intel is washed from spy agencies and used by local cops. apnews.com/article/immi...
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steam invent a sync protocol that doesn't produce conflicts in single writer scenarios challenge
November 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
steam invent a sync protocol that doesn't produce conflicts in single writer scenarios challenge
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maybe we need a "thank the open source developer whose tools work flawlessly for you day"
November 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
maybe we need a "thank the open source developer whose tools work flawlessly for you day"
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An underrated part about Andor is that we never once have to see, hear, or think about Tatooine
This is a major failing of every other Star Wars, with the exception of Ashoka and The Ewok movies, which sucked for unrelated reasons
This is a major failing of every other Star Wars, with the exception of Ashoka and The Ewok movies, which sucked for unrelated reasons
May 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
An underrated part about Andor is that we never once have to see, hear, or think about Tatooine
This is a major failing of every other Star Wars, with the exception of Ashoka and The Ewok movies, which sucked for unrelated reasons
This is a major failing of every other Star Wars, with the exception of Ashoka and The Ewok movies, which sucked for unrelated reasons
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Rogue One was the first Star Wars movie that concerned itself not with magic or destiny, but with ordinary and often nameless people willing to sacrifice everything for the hope of a better tomorrow
Rogue One elevates the experience of watching the original, and Andor does the same for Rogue One
Rogue One elevates the experience of watching the original, and Andor does the same for Rogue One
May 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Rogue One was the first Star Wars movie that concerned itself not with magic or destiny, but with ordinary and often nameless people willing to sacrifice everything for the hope of a better tomorrow
Rogue One elevates the experience of watching the original, and Andor does the same for Rogue One
Rogue One elevates the experience of watching the original, and Andor does the same for Rogue One
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Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
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A Google software engineer won his battle against MetLife to receive disability benefits for Long Covid.
This is huge
Long Covid has a lot of stigma attached to it and it can be hard to get disability.
You’re told to “try harder”.
It’s “not that bad”.
You can “still work”.
Not everyone can
This is huge
Long Covid has a lot of stigma attached to it and it can be hard to get disability.
You’re told to “try harder”.
It’s “not that bad”.
You can “still work”.
Not everyone can
MetLife Owes Disability Pay to Software Engineer With Long Covid
A Google LLC software engineer suffering from long Covid won his lawsuit seeking long-term disability benefits from Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
A Google software engineer won his battle against MetLife to receive disability benefits for Long Covid.
This is huge
Long Covid has a lot of stigma attached to it and it can be hard to get disability.
You’re told to “try harder”.
It’s “not that bad”.
You can “still work”.
Not everyone can
This is huge
Long Covid has a lot of stigma attached to it and it can be hard to get disability.
You’re told to “try harder”.
It’s “not that bad”.
You can “still work”.
Not everyone can
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
One week to go until the inaugural RustNYC unconf! I’ll be hosting a table about rust implementations of cross language functionality
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
One week to go until the inaugural RustNYC unconf! I’ll be hosting a table about rust implementations of cross language functionality
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I'm continuously impressed with how just how good the Rust ecosystem is. Whenever I look for a crate or a CLI utility that does what I want, 95% of the time I find it.
And the rest of the time, the components are right there for me to build it.
And the rest of the time, the components are right there for me to build it.
November 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I'm continuously impressed with how just how good the Rust ecosystem is. Whenever I look for a crate or a CLI utility that does what I want, 95% of the time I find it.
And the rest of the time, the components are right there for me to build it.
And the rest of the time, the components are right there for me to build it.
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Degrowth remains very popular among leftists as an impossible demand that avoids them having to do anything to solve the problems we are confronted with. “Make LLM inference illegal” will be another great impossible demand for these people.
November 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Degrowth remains very popular among leftists as an impossible demand that avoids them having to do anything to solve the problems we are confronted with. “Make LLM inference illegal” will be another great impossible demand for these people.
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okay I'm turning facet back into a monorepo because it's annoying to deal with breakage & coordinated release plus I have the compute to make it happen
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
okay I'm turning facet back into a monorepo because it's annoying to deal with breakage & coordinated release plus I have the compute to make it happen
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I think this shit is going to be what qanons the left as our political discourse becomes increasingly divorced from any grounding in reality
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I think this shit is going to be what qanons the left as our political discourse becomes increasingly divorced from any grounding in reality
Still cannot believe that this war crime of an interface made it into the C++ standard library
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Still cannot believe that this war crime of an interface made it into the C++ standard library
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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If I had a dollar every time I heard "What about nixOS?" I would be a motherfucking mogul.
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
If I had a dollar every time I heard "What about nixOS?" I would be a motherfucking mogul.
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YIMBYs will be like "oh so you just don't want to build homes" and it'll be because you said you don't think it's a good idea to abolish the electrical code
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
YIMBYs will be like "oh so you just don't want to build homes" and it'll be because you said you don't think it's a good idea to abolish the electrical code
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"How do men make friends in their 30's?"
a man in a white shirt is flying through the air with a flag
ALT: a man in a white shirt is flying through the air with a flag
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"How do men make friends in their 30's?"
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If you’re a dev, we’re still looking for committed volunteers to help build this thing out. Give an application a shot!
We're looking for dev volunteers as part of our Sand Witch Circle—experienced engineers who care about fast, efficient software and making the best of the Web as part of our mission to help online creative communities and fight censorship.
Apply here:
Apply here:
Sand Witch Circle Application (Developer)
Conjured Ink is seeking out Free and Open Source developer volunteers as part of our Sand Witch Circle. We're looking for experienced engineers who care about fast, resource-efficient software and making the best of the Web Platform as part of our mission to help online creative communities and fight censorship. Professional experience with our tools isn't needed, but a willingness to learn and grow with the organization is.
forms.gle
November 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
If you’re a dev, we’re still looking for committed volunteers to help build this thing out. Give an application a shot!
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November 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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