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Sean Ballais

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πŸ–₯️ Programmer, and a Mid-Level Fullstack Developer @ TechLint πŸ‘‹ Co-founded Dev8 πŸ› οΈ Loves systems programming, game dev, and graphics dev 🧰 Rust, Python, and C++ main (dabbling with C#) πŸŽ‰ Building for a better Tacloban.

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Did not expect a "I paid for the whole CPU; I'm gonna use the entire CPU" ahh moment before I started to compile the Qt framework. πŸ’€ May God have mercy on my CPU's cores.

12.10.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hello again, Conan (the C++ package manager). It's been... a while. πŸ₯Ή

12.10.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Better AI Depends on Better Data: We Need Your Help | The JetBrains Blog TL;DR Over the past few years, AI has made remarkable progress, but it doesn’t always deliver what professional developers need. One key reason is that most models are trained on public datasets th

This is disappointing, @jetbrains.com. Very disappointing. I'll still keep my subscription, but I am disappointed. Using our data and potentially exposing our data to training despite intending to opt-out without even some sort of compensation does not sit right with me.

04.10.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I can't believe I can read these Hiragana nowadays. 😭

02.10.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mobile dev is quite a relief from web dev. 😌

28.09.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I NEED EPISODE 24 OF KAIJU NO. 8 NOW! UGHHH! RAGHHHH! πŸ’’πŸ’’πŸ’’

27.09.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So annoying when they do an opt-out model, instead of an opt-in one. πŸ™ƒ

πŸ”— www.linkedin.com/help/linkedi...

27.09.2025 05:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We've been in a JS-dominated web for so long, that I forgot how fast things are if you don't use JS! 🀯

26.09.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hello, SourceHut. πŸŽ‰ Slowly starting to migrate away from GitHub for my personal projects, after Microsoft's decision to put GitHub in the CoreAI team. Time to see how SourceHut goes. πŸ‘€

26.09.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's always a relief seeing websites that don't need a ton of JavaScript. 😌

26.09.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🧠 Tonight is a night for learning.

09.09.2025 09:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I regret not watching Superman (2025) in the theatre. πŸ˜”

24.08.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Crazy CS2 match tonight. πŸ˜‚

22.08.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ–ΌοΈ Experimented with doing a tubelight effect via Affinity Photo basing off a tutorial from Facebook. Decent results really.

15.08.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy to have lost 0.5kgs in weight, thanks to the power of God, anime, and J-Pop Girl Group music. πŸ₯Ή 39.5 kgs more to go.

12.08.2025 11:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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✏️ A post-workout activity of learning Kana. 😊

11.08.2025 12:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

βš’οΈ I guess I'll be building a Rust game engine, but with the gameplay logic handled by a higher-level language.

πŸ€” Now, time to check if I should go for Lua or check out AngelScript.

10.08.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🀩 Kaiju No. 8 never fails to make me all giddy and feel excited whenever Kafka gets to do something awesome!

07.08.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Confirmed. Squats are the bane of my legs. 🫠

04.08.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Weightlifting is actually nice. I can't believe I feel excited to do it again! πŸ’ͺ

02.08.2025 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

✨ Gym Day 1. Here's to hoping to return to 65kgs! πŸ’ͺ Having a good experience at the gym so far.

01.08.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“š It's really time for me to spend and dedicate time to reading books. I just bought another set of books, and I don't want to see them picking up dust in my room. This year is our year for self-improvement! πŸ’ͺ

30.07.2025 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ugh. I hate working with PHP. 🫠

29.07.2025 02:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes, i just wanna play Stardew Valley the whole day in a quiet place. 😩

28.07.2025 02:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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✨ Oh the start of a new project that will hopefully bring me back to writing articles again. Building with C++20 and Qt. #buildinpublic

13.07.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm starting to feel a Japanese mode within me as I get to learn the language more. My brain got fried hard when I joined a Japanese language voice chat last night, but it was a wonderful experience. Hoping to get fluent in it soon. 🀞

13.07.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I love the ridiculousness of Kojima. I LOVE IT! WHAT THE FRAGILE, BUT I LOVE IT! 🀘

09.07.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yow! They added Gen Hoshino in Death Stranding 2!!! πŸ₯³

07.07.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's been a while, C++ and Qt. πŸ₯³

06.07.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hello, Qt. πŸ₯³

06.07.2025 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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