How to write kernel drivers with Rust
not-matthias has blogged his journey on writing a kernel driver with Rust.
He has a few other fun hacky posts about reverse engineering a digital jukebox in a bar to vote for his songs.
Tech layoffs are still going strong in 2025 – and the stories are heartbreaking
It’s only February, and there have already been 25,000 tech layoffs in 2025. There were over 150,000 job cuts across 542 companies in 2022-2024.
No sector has been hit harder than game development. It is likely true there was far too much growth during the pandemic, but it sure seems like the pendulum has been swinging back the other way with a vengance. Read some of the stories shared on the gamedev forum. Longtime devs are sharing that things are worse than many of them have ever seen and wages are dropping.
It’s even worse for juniors or people trying to get into the industry.
Your situation is similar to so many others’: junior devs can’t find paying work, their personal projects don’t make much or any money at all, and they survive by teaching game dev.
So junior game devs who can’t find paying work are teaching the next wave of junior devs who won’t be able to find paying work. So what will that new wave do, teach? Every year, I find out about another college or university that teaches game development. The number of students who get game dev degrees keeps increasing, but the number of jobs is not keeping pace.
That’s what the cycle looks like right now. It’s f*cked up, and I honestly don’t know when it will improve.
More articles:
- https://www.itpro.com/business/tech-layoffs-2025
- https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1iyp23o/the_nightmare_of_being_a_3d_artist_in_2025/
- This there any hope for juniors in the industry? Developers share their stories of trying to find a job in the current state of industry. https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1j7vuqg/is_there_still_hope_for_juniors_in_the_game/
Neural implant is like an aimbot
Noland Arbaugh is the only person so far to have been fitted with a brain implant by Neuralink. The hope was that he could control digital devices with his thoughts. Now, more than 100 days after the implantation, Arbaugh went on the Joe Rogan podcast to share his experience and how gaming has been re-introduced into his life.
His thoughts? Rave reviews. “I basically have an aimbot in my head. They’ll probably have different leagues for people like me because it’s just not fair.” “It’s that accurate and it’s faster…Sometimes, it’s moving before I even think it to move.”
There were later issues with the implanted wires pulling back, but Neuralink updated the software in lieu of more surgery and has proposed solutions for the 2nd possible patient.
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3D Math Primer for Game Development
The author’s of the 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development book have provided their intro book for free online. It’s basic for those getting started, but nothing beats free and the author has done a number of GDC talks.
McRib Sauce!
Love it or hate it, the McRib was back for a limited time after Thanksgiving. The sandwich classic has been a crowd favorite since its debut in the 1980s.
But if you can’t get enough of that saucy taste, you could buy a whole gallon of sauce at their website WholeLottaMcRibSauce.com for $19.99.
As expected from such a marketing promotion, when they went on sale at 10:00 ET on November 25 they sold out almost instantly. Jugs appear to be going for about $100 a piece on eBay.
You could then try out the Sam’s club imitation McRib.
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Software Engineering jobs plummet to 5 year low
A combination of COVID over hiring and AI is making the job market very tough. Especially considering the tech industry has been seeing record layoffs for the last 2 years.
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Living computer museum is no more
The estate of Paul Allen has decided to close the Living Computer Museum and Labs mid 2024. All the equipment was sold off at during several high profile Sotherby’s auctions.
It’s a terrible loss to computing history in my opinion.
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Building your own NAS box
Before going out and building your own NAS RAID solution, you need to consider some important details. One detail that is getting a lot more press is energy costs. In the past, some would recommend just taking some old desktop hardware you have laying around and then loading a dedicated NAS operating systems such as Unraid or TrueNAS.
But as many have pointed out in the comments, using a dedicated NAS box has some serious advantages – mostly in more efficient power draw. While a commercial NAS box may cost about 20% more, that can easily pay for itself after a year of power draw if the NAS is always on.
It’s always good to check your TCO (total cost of ownership) before just whipping something up you’ll need long-term.
GitHub is under constant, automated attack
This problem is very serious since AI’s are often trained on Github projects. This means your AI generated code is increasingly more likely to have serious security issues in it.
GitHub is undergoing automated attacks involving the cloning and creation of huge numbers of malicious code repositories, and while the developers have been working to remove the affected repos, a significant amount are said to survive, with more uploaded on a regular basis.
An unknown attacker has managed to create and deploy an automated process that forks and clones existing repositories, adding its own malicious code which is concealed under seven layers of obfuscation.
Given the current scale of the attack, said by the researchers to be in the millions of uploaded or forked repositories, even a 1% miss-rate still means potentially thousands of compromised repos still on the site.
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Top cities Gen Z is moving
Gen Z is making very different choices than millennials. This is something especially true for cities like Portland, OR that went from one of the fastest growing cities in the US to the 6th fastest SHRINKING cities with the highest commercial vacancy rate in the country.
A financial services company used data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to determine which U.S. cities saw the most Gen Zers move in throughout 2022: