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Valentin Ignatev
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Valentin Ignatev
@valigo
programmer, speedrunner, father, immigrant alt: @valigo_ru youtube.com/@valigotech | github.com/valignatev | twitch.tv/valigo
Kafana, Serbia
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    Valentin Ignatev
    @valigo
    Jul 1
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    "Do one thing" is a terrible advice
    One of the most quoted parts of Unix philosophy is "Do One Thing and Do It Well". Unix wet dream is to have a myriad of disjointed interfaces and utilities that $(you) | compose | into | pipelines |...
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    Valentin Ignatev
    @valigo
    Oct 29, 2025
    Computer Science is not science, and it's not about computers. Got reminded about this gem from MIT the other day
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    Valentin Ignatev
    @valigo
    Nov 11, 2025
    FAANG companies will require 11 rounds of leetcode from you and at least 3 phds in CS, but then will still push React slop to their user as some 300k ARR fake YC startup. How does it happen every time?
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    Windows Latest
    @WindowsLatest
    Nov 11, 2025
    Meta has just replaced WhatsApp for Windows 11 with a web wrapper that consumes up to 2GB of RAM (or up to 1 GB when idle). New WhatsApp for Windows 11 is based on WebView2. WhatsApp has been testing its new web-based app for Windows 11 for some time now, and it's rolling out
    "WhatsApp" is the new WebView2/Chromium wrapper. WhatsApp Beta is the old UWP/WinUI.
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    Valentin Ignatev
    @valigo
    Sep 29, 2025
    > Doesn't want to make custom editor for his game > Wants to use Blender instead > Blender's exporter is too slow (duh Python) > Literally hacks in C-based real-time exporter into Blender itself for sub 10 milliseconds response Inspiring AF. Real programmers just do things
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    Taha Torabpour
    @TahaTorabpour
    Sep 7, 2025
    I think I've written the world's fastest Blender exporter. It exports full levels in 9 milliseconds. Check out this video where I show live editing of levels from blender, and it updates instantly in the game. For some context: Okay, since the beginning of development on this
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    Valentin Ignatev
    @valigo
    Oct 24, 2025
    Big W Valve, huge fucking W. Lion does not concern himself with scalpers and gamblers
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    Rock Solid
    Clipster
    @ShitpostRock
    Oct 23, 2025
    >Valve completly nuked CS2, their biggest in-game economy UUUUH... Gabebros.... i dont think hes winning anymore...
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    Valentin Ignatev
    @valigo
    Nov 3, 2025
    >be TOML >Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language >not obvious >not minimal
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    Valentin Ignatev
    @valigo
    Mar 8, 2025
    Dynamic Arrays in C
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    Valentin Ignatev
    @valigo
    Feb 19, 2025
    Year of Linux desktop will never happen as long as glibc is de-facto standard libc. As far as I know, this regression is wontfix, so many games just won't work anymore. Imagine being a game dev from 5 years ago and making a native Linux version of your game in a good faith,
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    Valentin Ignatev
    @valigo
    Nov 2, 2025
    This guy ported DOOM to his own OS written from scratch, which is free and open source. These are people who keep me wanting to open my code editor and lock tf in.
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    Valentin Ignatev
    @valigo
    Aug 21, 2025
    The answer to this is actually very simple - making production grade GUI applications for Linux is a soul crushing depressing agonizing dogshit experience. People just don't want to deal with it.
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    Autistic Rambam Enjoyer
    @SwissBankingJew
    Aug 21, 2025
    What is the obsession with terminal based everything? Is it the desire for a keyboard-centric, uniform UI interaction model? Is it larp? I for once like beautiful things, I like well typeset texts, I like art Unix and it’s culture needs to die
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    Valentin Ignatev
    @valigo
    Nov 14, 2025
    OOP people are crazy. They will take the most mundane thing in programming ever - passing arguments to a function, and call it DEPENDENCY INJECTION, and then will sell you books and courses about it.
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    Valentin Ignatev
    @valigo
    Oct 15, 2025
    Hear me out: fast native gui programs that don't ship the browser engine
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    Valentin Ignatev
    @valigo
    Sep 27, 2025
    Today I learned that NixOS has steering committee, elections, and a constitution. A FUCKING CONSTITUTION for a Linux distro. Year of Linux desktop will never happen when people larp the government instead of, I don't know, MAKING THE FUCKING SOFTWARE.
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    Valentin Ignatev
    @valigo
    Oct 22, 2025
    $20/hour job: 5 interview stages, 4 take-home coding tasks and 6 months of talking to hrs of different levels 300k/year job: 10 minutes of vibe-check zoom call (or some back-n-forth in twitter dms), and you get an offer in an hour and all systems access by eod
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