Adrian Marius Popa

Various October Improvements – VS Code and VS Codium, Google Play 16k requirement, Nintendo Switch update We released a new version (1.6) of our extension to integrate with VS Code: We fixed how it detects OS on win64. This in turn fixes Code Completion, jumping to declaration and other LSP features on Win64. In addition to the VS Code marketplace, we're now also in OpenVSX marketplace. This means that you can use our extension in…

Various October Improvements – VS Code and VS Codium, Google Play 16k requirement, Nintendo Switch update

We released a new version (1.6) of our extension to integrate with VS Code: We fixed how it detects OS on win64. This in turn fixes Code Completion, jumping to declaration and other LSP…

Upgrade to GTK 3 We are upgrading our engine usage on Linux and FreeBSD from GTK 2 to GTK 3. Our installation instructions and scripts include now information to add GTK 3 packages. This is as simple as installing libgtk-3-dev package on Debian-based systems (including Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi). See the compiling from source for instructions for other distros. Our under the hood uses now GTK 3 instead of GTK 2 (on Linux and FreeBSD).

Upgrade to GTK 3

We are upgrading our engine usage on Linux and FreeBSD from GTK 2 to GTK 3. Our installation instructions and scripts include now information to add GTK 3 packages. This is as simple as installing libgtk-3-dev package on Debian-based systems (including Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi).…

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what a shot

This is probably the best and most cathartic thing we saw last week.

A Ukrainian F16 pilot "catharizing” a russian Shahed from existence.
What incredible skill and precision.
⌛️🎯

Thank you to everyone who strengthens Ukraine’s air defenses:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...

When it comes to rising electricity demand everyone talks about AI and data centres.

But their contribution to rising electricity demand is only 8% between 2025 and 2030.

The rest is largely electrification of transport, buildings and industry.

This says new @iea.org Electricity 2026 report.

Elmo @elmo · 1h That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰 Based Yankee @thebasedyankee You and Bad Bunny should be deported

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

Another Claude Code experience report. This is a followup to bsky.app/profile/kana.... Last time I tried to get Claude Code to create a new mal implementation in Fortran. It couldn't finish step1 due to memory management. This time I asked for a from scratch implementation using python3.

Sponsor the PSF The official home of the Python Programming Language

How much is your company spending to support the Python Software Foundation?
For comparison, how much do they spend for tips on expensed meals?
The PSF runs PyPI, where pip installs from. You depend on PyPI.

Fund the PSF. Tip your server!
www.python.org/psf/sponsors...

My watchgha lets you watch the progress of GitHub Actions in your terminal. Now the job names are sorted, since GitHub now returns them in a randomish order.

github.com/nedbat/watch...

Zawinski's Law A catalog of the laws guiding software development. Especially useful for individual contributors, new managers, and product managers who want to build well-made software.

Zawinski's law (www.laws-of-software.com/laws/zawinski/) should read "Every program attempts to expand until it can *chat with an AI.* Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

I'm not sayin' I like it, but it is what it is

GitHub - kanaka/mal: mal - Make a Lisp mal - Make a Lisp. Contribute to kanaka/mal development by creating an account on GitHub.

If you are into programming languages, or your work/play is polyglot, you might enjoy the mal/make-a-lisp project: github.com/kanaka/mal It is one application (interpreter for the mal Lisp language) implemented in 88 different languages by 36 unique authors.

GOG did an AMA and here's some highlights - like how they'll continue using generative AI With GOG under new ownership, they're trying some new things (like generative AI) and they just did an AMA (Ask me anything) on Reddit.

GOG did an AMA and here's some highlights - like how they'll continue using generative AI
#GOG #Gaming #PCGaming

The text reads "Out now on Amazon Luna!" and the images show the Alan Wake Remastered and Alan Wake 2 key arts.

Embark on the 13-year journey of troubled writer Alan Wake as he attempts to find his lost wife while facing an otherworldly mystery.

Alan Wake Remastered and Alan Wake 2 are now available on Amazon Luna! Dive deep into the mysteries of the Pacific Northwest and the Dark Place.

#AmazonLuna

Turnbound on Steam Turnbound is an auto battler, where you manage a hero's inventory to escape a haunted boardgame. Each run is different from the last, with unique upgrades, combos and synergies. Async PvP lets you bat...

Featured game: Turnbound

store.steampowered.com/app/3802470/...

Release candidate: Godot 4.6.1 RC 1 – Godot Engine Bring out the regression fixes!

Hotfixes coming in hot! 🔥

#GodotEngine 4.6 released less than two weeks ago, and we've been hard at work preparing a maintenance release. Our first 4.6.1 Release Candidate is ready for general testing:

godotengine.org/article/rele...

"Do you know that the sun's light takes about 8 minutes to reach you? When you look up at the sky, you are actually looking right into the past. What you see happened 8 minutes ago.

If you can see the stars, which are much, much further away, it could also be many years ago."

Romanians are buying generators, other energy equipment, and devices and are bringing them to the Ukrainian Embassy in Bucharest.

Thank you, Romania! 🇷🇴🇺🇦

The Ukrainian Embassy will organize the shipment to people affected by Russian energy terror.

Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Sets Date to Meet in Washington, Officials Say

Biden organized meetings of the world’s democracies. Trump is organizing a meeting of the world’s dictators. But so far only Orban has said he is going.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/w...

How Unreal Engine 3 dominated an entire console generation. The DF Retro Super Show returns with a huge topic up for discussion: youtu.be/3h-zWHmeNgs

Unreal Engine 3: The Looks, The Limits, The Legacy: www.digitalfoundry.net/features/unr...

Valve’s Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing You’ll have to wait a little longer for Valve’s new hardware.

Valve's Steam Machine, Frame and Controller have been delayed, and because of the RAM crisis, it seems like they could be more expensive than originally planned: www.theverge.com/games/874196...

1/ Why has Russia failed so abysmally at providing secure battlefield communications to its troops in Ukraine? The answer, concludes Russian warblogger Oleg Tsarev, is that the military communications budget has been looted for years by corrupt generals and contractors. ⬇️

1/ Russia's battlefield communications are reportedly "in chaos" following the Starlink shutdown. Communications specialists are said to be scrambling to find alternative solutions, while warbloggers advocate torturing Ukrainian PoWs to get their Starlink passwords. ⬇️

Democracy Under Occupation What we’ve learned in Minneapolis

"I don’t know how other people react when they get bullied, but I don’t back down when I get bullied. I fight harder. Everyone I see out here is like, What do you think—we’re gonna quit? We live here."

AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA bonus episode, from Minneapolis
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org

In a democracy, we are supposed to feel like we have control over our lives because the people control the government.

But in the U.S., people feel like our lives are out of control because the people don’t control the federal government.

"But what about China?" has been a throwaway comment made many times to justify inaction on climate change or criticise decarbonisation policies.

Well China is now by far the world's largest manufacturer, installer, and user of clean energy technologies.

A dark chart titled “SWE-Bench Pro (Public)” in the upper left. The vertical axis on the left is labeled “Accuracy” with tick marks at 30%, 40%, 50%, and 60%. The horizontal axis at the bottom is labeled “Output tokens” with tick marks at 0, 20,000, 60,000, and 100,000. Three line plots with circular markers show performance increasing as output tokens increase. A light-colored (white) line is labeled near its rightmost point “GPT-5.3-Codex”. It starts just above 50% accuracy at low token counts, rises to around 55–56% by roughly 20,000 tokens, and reaches about 56–57% by around 40,000 tokens. A medium-blue line is labeled near the right side “GPT-5.2-Codex”. It starts near 47–48% accuracy at low token counts, rises steadily through about 50–52% around 20,000 tokens, and reaches roughly 55–56% accuracy near 100,000 tokens. A darker blue line is labeled “GPT-5.2”. It starts lower, around 41–42% accuracy at low token counts, rises to about 50–51% around 20,000 tokens, and gradually increases to roughly 54–55% accuracy by around 100,000 tokens. An OpenAI logo appears in the upper right corner.

GPT-5.3-Codex

- Cheaper (fewer tokens, higher intelligence)
- you can interrupt it
- big focus on coding
- first LLM to be used extensively in its own development

openai.com/index/introd...

Valve’s Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing You’ll have to wait a little longer for Valve’s new hardware.

Valve says it has to ‘revisit’ its shipping schedule and pricing plans for the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller.