Writer of code | Maker of games | Thinker of thoughts. Pronouns: he/him
Joined January 2009
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Richard Patching 🦀 retweeted
25 Jul 2023
Got live code reloading working for my Rust SDL2 OpenGL project using github.com/rksm/hot-lib-relo…
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Richard Patching 🦀 retweeted
29 Mar 2023
What if writing code was as simple as talking to your device?
Watch my GPT-4 voice assistant:
- take in a complex coding task
- write the code
- create a PR on my GitHub repo
All I had to do was tell it what to do.
This is the future of software.
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Richard Patching 🦀 retweeted
2 Mar 2023
Let's talk about radiotrophic fungi.
I want to start with the most surprising fact about them: they don't just SURVIVE in high radiation environments, they grow at *FOUR TIMES* the rate they would in background radiation.
Our best guess is they're "eating" radiation.
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Richard Patching 🦀 retweeted
11 Jan 2023
As tech leaders, we should make the most important problems to solve crystal clear to the team.
Then see what they come up with, and course correct.
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Richard Patching 🦀 retweeted
24 Dec 2022
GPT4 will be out soon and will probably cause a similar economic shock to one from Covid. Instant distribution with nearly instant adoption and nearly instant productivity increase for hundreds of millions of knowledge workers. Brace yourselves, 2023 is coming
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15 Nov 2022
Ok this actually kinda funny
Richard Patching 🦀 retweeted
4 Nov 2022
Let's review. Musk went on a bender and offered to buy Twitter at a price based on a weed meme. Then he agreed to a binding agreement to purchase it. Apparently he didn't fully grasp how binding it was. Then he tried to get out of the deal. Twitter sued to force him to ...
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Richard Patching 🦀 retweeted
I said goodbye to a patient a few years ago. She didn’t die, she just got old. I treat patients to age 21 and they move on. When they do, I joke, “well, I did my job! I kept you alive until adulthood!”
With this kid, it was not a joke. 1/
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James O'Brien pulls no punches in obliterating Boris Johnson and the idea he 'got all the big calls right'.
@mrjamesob
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Richard Patching 🦀 retweeted
30 Sep 2022
This petition is now growing fast.
👉 petition.parliament.uk/petit…
ALT Screenshot of “call an immediate General Election” petition, showing 203,189 signatures
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Richard Patching 🦀 retweeted
22 Sep 2022
Wow. This is absolutely superb from @Ed_Miliband
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Richard Patching 🦀 retweeted
10 Sep 2022
She looks like she's nodding one back to the keeper
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Richard Patching 🦀 retweeted
4 Sep 2022
The last few months I have been working on a side project of integrating Rust into Unreal Engine 5, and today I finally released it 🥳
Here is the blog post: maikklein.github.io/unreal-r…
The project link: github.com/MaikKlein/unreal-…
@rustlang @rust_gamedev #UnrealEngine
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30 Aug 2022
I'm bailing on Legion before I add any more features. Switching to bevy_ecs to future-proof a bit more, and I've really loved working with it in the past.
🔴 304 more compile errors to deal with
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21 Aug 2022
Spent the last few evenings hacking on a new UI system - post finishing the incredible 'Hands on Rust' by @herberticus
It's ECS driven, supports mouse/keyboard and adds multiline colored printing to my fork of bracket-lib.
#rustlang #gamedev
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Richard Patching 🦀 retweeted
30 Jul 2022
Bevy 0.8 is out now!
It features a new material system, camera-driven rendering, spotlights, visibility inheritance, custom PBR shaders, automatic mesh tangents, scene bundles, scripting / modding progress, reflection features, renderer performance, hierarchy commands, and more!
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