Joel Auterson

Joel Auterson

Hello! My name's Joel and I'm a software developer. No, not that one.

I run a tiny indie game studio called Bearwaves. I'm also a published poet.

I'm part of the Rare Mammals collective, and am an alumnus of Southbank New Poets and Barbican Young Poets. I work in the games industry.

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May 17, 2025 · 09:06:31 ·
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Modern C++ has a decent amount of stuff in the standard library but there are a few things I was naively surprised it lacks:

  • base64
  • any cryptography stuff at all really
  • HTTP!
May 14, 2025 · 09:38:59 ·
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Random discovery of the day is that GNU’s linker has different rules to those of MSVC or LLVM - the latter two are happy to resolve linkages at the final executable or library, while ld seems to require that every intermediate object binary be linked up?

May 8, 2025 · 22:19:58 ·
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Kissing Gate, Dog Race and Ugly at Village Underground

Kissing Gate Dog Race Ugly Ugly
May 7, 2025 · 22:10:13 ·
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In light of the recent AI news I hereby renounce my 1254-day Duolingo streak. Finally, I am free.

A screenshot from Duolingo showing a 1254 day streak
May 7, 2025 · 11:32:52 ·

So, two weeks on, got to try and bend my finger and it…doesn’t. At all! Even with force applied. So that’s a bit scary. But I did get to choose the colours on this fetching new splint so that’s something.

My finger in a purple and yellow splint
May 5, 2025 · 11:49:33 ·
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Met some new types of guy yesterday

Loads of crocodiles. Several of them are resting their heads on a big darker coloured one. I think he’s their dad Two crocs swimming. The photos don’t really capture how big these guys are. Just really enormous lads. Me holding a baby crocodile. He’s got a little thing holding his mouth shut but he seemed happy enough. He had a very soft belly and liked being stroked. An iguana going mlem and licking a tree. I don’t know why.
May 5, 2025 · 10:03:25 ·

Generative AI has ruined bold text for me. If you put bold text in a paragraph I’m ignoring the whole thing sorry

May 3, 2025 · 08:27:49 ·
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Taking quad bikes through the Sahara desert to a 2000 year old Roman fort might be the coolest thing I’ve done on a holiday ever

Me and Lucy wrapped up against the desert dust Lucy on a quad bike with the Sahara beyond An inscription in Latin at the Roman fort Me and Lucy on a quad bike
May 1, 2025 · 20:00:55 ·
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Saw these in the wrong order

Me and Lucy on camels on a beach in Tunisia Some street art in Djerba saying CAMELS ARE NOT FOR FUN
Apr 30, 2025 · 17:39:05 ·
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More Tunisia exploring, saw Berber villages and the place they filmed The Phantom Menace. Breathtaking country.

A Berber village A falcon (I think) overlooking a cliff with rugs hanging A different Berber village viewed from below The place they filmed The Phantom Menace