late night coding happened, finally seem to've awakened the part of my brain that actually does programming instead of everything else related to computers. don't ask why those are separated, best guess I have is basically "chronic burnout". but I might be getting better, fast.
tried to use a tutorial on wgpu that turned out to be hideously outdated, wound up diving deep into the documentation to figure out what went wrong. decided that maybe winit isn't going to work well here and I should focus on SDL2 sooner rather than later. learned a surprising amount about Rust lifetimes while doing this. not what I was expecting or wanting to do tonight, but oh well.
the results were a window with a soft blue background instead of flat black, yaaaaaaaay (this is not worth posting an image of here)