James Kienle

I feel like literally all I do outside of work is clean up dust and cat hair 😭

Nice to see FatherGainz has expanded his horizons from making protein shakes with everclear

Guess who found a gigantic leak and black mold in his brand new house that’s only been finished for 3 months! Yaaaaaaaaaaay 💀

Damn that’s not a merge conflict that’s a full scale merge war

like many of my fellow americans, I think about Hillary Clinton’s private email server every day. I set aside ten minutes in the evening to meditate about it

GODDAMN, yeah that’s definitely not great

I’ve needed to go back to the optometrist for years but my vision insurance sucks so I’ve been suffering with broken glasses 😭 yay America!

Every single time that app has “optimized” one of my games it somehow both looks and performs worse???

we're 27 months into 6 months away from AI stealing your jobs

Uber helicopters also exist!

But yeah the dude is based as fuck and I dream of Seattle having a mayor with policies like his

Zohran winning the primary gave me a little bit of hope back for this country, and then seeing all of the reactions immediately brought me back to reality 😅

All that I have on my wishlist now is a multi-select dropdown, and I’ll be the happiest engineer on the planet!

That’s an amazing improvement!!! I’ve pushed for every company I’ve worked for to use react aria as the base of their component library, but the docs were always a little bit of a pain point 😅

THAT was the reason? No fucking way dude. Ugh, someone needs to figure out a Bluesky-like short form video platform. Not that Bluesky is perfect, by any means, but I feel like TikTok is very quickly trending down the path that Twitter did post-purchase

Have any fellow Zig programmers encountered any repos that have a great experience around compiling example applications? I'm imagining something like an examples folder that has a folder for each example with a main.zig, and a setup where I can run "zig build example folder_name". Is that possible?

Oh but god forbid you accurately relay what christofacists say during their little rallies, that’s a big no-no!

TikTok has been so insane lately. They rejected my report for reporting a comment that said “we should execute all the gays” saying that wasn’t hate speech? Shit’s on a different level on that platform these days

Absolute insanity. There’s a lot of reasons I love that app, and an equal amount why I hate it. Batshit crazy to strike someone’s account for literally quoting a public figure

Huh, I had no idea that was even a method, today I learned!

I love it when things like that come perfectly together

Don’t get me wrong, I think some built-in STD functionality would be super nice for strings (I.e. a toUpperCase() func and maybe some easier conversions of Win32 UTF-16 to UTF-8 strings), but ultimately once I got past the learning curve it wasn’t that bad, especially compared to C

I think at least with TS it’s the more simplistic type system (number vs i32, f16, usize, etc), but given the goals of Zig vs TS it’s completely understandable as to why those are different. With Rust I definitely miss support for closures and traits, but can understand why zig doesn’t have them!

As a way to teach myself proper Zig string manipulation, I might try to build a 1:1 implementation of TypeScript’s string API in Zig. It’ll be cool to see how that works under the hood, and I’m excited to try it!

One of the biggest difficulties in transitioning from TS to Zig has been string manipulation. I genuinely had NO IDEA how difficult low level string (and array) manipulation was. I’m surprised there isn’t anything in Zig’s standard library for string manipulation (like rust)

I know that a couple linters already exist for Zig, but they just don't quite have the experience I'm looking for, and that's okay! Even if I drop this project and end up using one of them, it'll be a valuable piece of experience learning how to do static analysis

Things like this are my favorite part of working with such a new, young language. Sure it's a bit chaotic, and I definitely won't get it right all the time, but that's a part of the fun, and it gives me the chance to help set the course to high quality code for everyone!!!

That's even cooler!!!

Kinda riding that high from building that spell checker and actually finally contributing something (albeit something very small) to the Zig community. I might try my hand at building an extendable Zig linter next, inspired by ESLint and Clippy

Oh hell yeah! Any accounts you recommend following? My discover feed is still preeeeeeety dry in terms of game dev content. Lots and lots of gaming and web dev content though, so it's almost kinda there lol