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longor1996on The death of web development education

...and it sure as hell doesn't help, that "social" media (not networks) is annihilating people's attention spans and ability to care, beyond upvoting and meaningless comments (like this one!).

longor1996on America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster

Yep, and the understandable fear/worry/expectation/knowledge of that possibility happening, is part of the reason that (usually) stops that cycle from starting in the first place.

longor1996on America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster

Not a lot of people, because if you went and murdered someone, their family (if they have any) would presumably just murder you in turn.

longor1996on Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

Because retooling and relearning development pipelines (on any level/most teams) for games is a horrifically expensive and time-consuming affair... which are resources not spent on developing any one of the potentially dozen or so games. It's just priorities, alas.

longor1996on .NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types

The new C# unions are not reference-only. The attribute/interface allows implementing custom union types by writing `TryGetValue`-methods instead of a single `object? Value {get;}`. The compiler handles this transparently.

longor1996on Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework

Seems to be "native" as in "not a web-browser/view".

longor1996on Show HN: WolfStack – Proxmox-like server management in a single Rust binary

Err, the website footer takes up the entire lower half of the viewport/screen, on mobile.

longor1996on Graphics Programming Resources

Well, do I ever have a treat for ya!

https://voxel.wiki/wiki/references/

longor1996on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)

Location: Europe, Germany, State of BW, District of RV.

Remote: Yes, or hybrid if close by; office only if in-district.

Willing to relocate: No, unable to.

Technologies: C#, Rust, Git, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Vulkan, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Regex, PowerShell, Blender, Unreal Engine, Python, OpenGL, C, CCNA

Résumé/CV: Available on request.

Email: longor [at] mailbox [dot] org

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lars-k-69727719b/

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I've been tinkering with computers for 20 years now, working for the last 9, building a variety of side-projects & prototypes; most recently a binary data-format using gradual typing and writing a wiki focused on voxels. My focus lies mostly around compilers/DSLs, graphics and web-technology.

The current job/contract of creating an "Welding-Assembly Process-Tracking, Reconstruction and Reporting"-System (using C#/Typescript/PostgreSQL) is nearing completion (~1.5 months), so I'm looking for new/interesting opportunities... excluding AI/LLM related things.

longor1996on End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git

That this is a plausible explanation is... beyond horrifying to me.

longor1996on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)

Location: Europe, Germany, State of BW, District of RV.

Remote: Yes, or hybrid if close by; office only if in-district.

Willing to relocate: No, unable to.

Technologies: C#, Rust, Git, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Vulkan, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Regex, PowerShell, Blender, Unreal Engine, Python, OpenGL, C, CCNA

Résumé/CV: Available on request.

Email: longor [at] mailbox [dot] org

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lars-k-69727719b/

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The current job/contract of creating an "Event-based Welding-Assembly Process Tracking, Reconstruction and Reporting"-System (using C#/Typescript/PostgreSQL) is nearing completion (~2 months), so I'm looking for new/interesting opportunities.

longor1996on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)

Location: Europe, Germany, State of BW, District of RV.

Remote: Yes, or hybrid if close by.

Willing to relocate: No, unable to.

Technologies: C#, Rust, Git, SQLite, Postgres, Vulkan, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Regex, PowerShell, Blender, Unreal Engine, Python, OpenGL, C, CCNA

Résumé/CV: Available on request.

Email: longor [at] mailbox [dot] org

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lars-k-69727719b/

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My current job/contract is nearing completion (~3 months), so I'm looking for something new-ish.

longor1996on Show HN: One clean, developer-focused page for every Unicode symbol

Maybe you could use unifont glyphs (drawn as SVGs?) as fallback?

longor1996on No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter

Nah, [BetterFox](https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox) still works fine

longor1996on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices

On the surface level, building/compiling/running, maybe... But properly integrating with a given platform (or hell, version of platform!) is a whole new world of pain. :(

longor1996on Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification

Given that many tools are relatively small, I'd almost argue it wouldn't take more than 30min, ignoring testing.

longor1996on UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales

Oh, sorry! Shouldn't have said "all" there... :'D

longor1996on UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales

Wasn't all that bad PR mostly caused by the coal/oil industry, doing some serious astroturfing for a decade or so?

longor1996on How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)

Interesting! Do you have some studies or references at hand for this?

Never heard of "human brain needs nicotine" before...

longor1996on Levels of configuration languages

The article actually (accidentally or on purpose?) refers to just that:

> How to avoid this madness? Introduce another low-level configuration file. Back to level one...

longor1996on I spent 2 years building my own game engine (Rust, WASM, WebGPU)

It absolutely does, as the definition of a voxel is, roughly, "a 3ormoreD regular grid of point-samples".

longor1996on I spent 2 years building my own game engine (Rust, WASM, WebGPU)

There are quite a lot of successful voxel-based games; see https://voxel.wiki/wiki/projects/ for an incomplete list.

Most people think voxel means 'cube' or 'block', but really it just means "regularly spaced sample in a 3-or-more-D grid".

The voxel gamedev community tends to call Minecraft-y voxel games "bloxel"-based.

longor1996on What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code

Perhaps redbean might be of interest? It's a web server with all the batteries included, scripted via lua.

https://redbean.dev/

longor1996on The Perfect Voxel Engine (2021)

With the help of the voxelgamedev community, I'm maintaining a relatively large listing of such projects over at https://voxel.wiki/wiki/projects/.

Sadly, a lot of projects get abandoned.... :(

longor1996on WebKit switching to Skia for 2d graphics rendering

bgfx and The-Forge come to mind:

https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx

https://github.com/ConfettiFX/The-Forge