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writing code and looking at bugs (and other critters)
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· May 16
Commando, the Cornered Gunslinger from Risk of Rain, is out now in Rivals of Aether! Fight your way out by any means necessary with this aggressive all-rounder, and grab highly variable Items to change the way you play. Luck is on your side.
Link below!
Link below!
He's finally out! Mallow and I have been putting a ton of love into this character over a long period of time, so please consider checking him out!!!
#rivalsofaether #riskofrain #gamedev
#rivalsofaether #riskofrain #gamedev
As always and as ever: the grifts and excessive promises of AI are annoying, but the bit that's really going to deal damage is its use to justify unsubstantiated layoffs and crunches on the workers who remain
Extremely true but
Antithesis: You can explain this fully with *just* layoffs, no AI needed
Synthesis: Many layoffs are being internally justified with AI, so AI can cause the general-breakdown-of-all-software we're seeing even if literally no one is using it
Antithesis: You can explain this fully with *just* layoffs, no AI needed
Synthesis: Many layoffs are being internally justified with AI, so AI can cause the general-breakdown-of-all-software we're seeing even if literally no one is using it
February 2, 2026 at 7:03 PM
As always and as ever: the grifts and excessive promises of AI are annoying, but the bit that's really going to deal damage is its use to justify unsubstantiated layoffs and crunches on the workers who remain
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Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
February 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
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I "love" how the blurb calls it a "chatbot", while if you read the text then of course it's a super-complex harness (including digital twin validation) that used Claude as essentially a symbolic reasoning ML pipeline predicting new inputs based on several years (!) of logged data
insane I never hear about this stuff on bsky www.engadget.com/ai/nasa-used...
NASA used Claude to plot a route for its Perseverance rover on Mars
This past December, Perseverance successfully completed a route through a section of the Jezero crater plotted by Anthropic's Claude chatbot, marking the first time NASA has used a large language mod...
www.engadget.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:36 PM
I "love" how the blurb calls it a "chatbot", while if you read the text then of course it's a super-complex harness (including digital twin validation) that used Claude as essentially a symbolic reasoning ML pipeline predicting new inputs based on several years (!) of logged data
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"Why do you make art" when I'm making something and I've truly hit my stride I can feel the energy emitting from me like I'm a gurren lagann character and there's no feeling like it in the world
February 1, 2026 at 8:57 AM
"Why do you make art" when I'm making something and I've truly hit my stride I can feel the energy emitting from me like I'm a gurren lagann character and there's no feeling like it in the world
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idk man my current barometer for whether LLMs are creating order-of-magnitude increases in programmer productivity is this website, where the staff all post almost exclusively about Claude and yet they haven't shipped a meaningful feature in forever
January 25, 2026 at 9:22 PM
idk man my current barometer for whether LLMs are creating order-of-magnitude increases in programmer productivity is this website, where the staff all post almost exclusively about Claude and yet they haven't shipped a meaningful feature in forever
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This kind of explainer is bloody wonderful, and I hope it can become a model for other government sectors. So much good, invisible work is done behind the scenes, and so little of it gets the attention it deserves. The tricky bit is distribution, though; few offices have platforms of Mamdani's scale
One of the hardest things to do is bring campaign-level communications to the work of governance, and snowstorms are notoriously one of the biggest litmus tests that less-engaged voters use to judge mayoral administrations. This is an excellent way to communicate.
January 25, 2026 at 8:55 PM
This kind of explainer is bloody wonderful, and I hope it can become a model for other government sectors. So much good, invisible work is done behind the scenes, and so little of it gets the attention it deserves. The tricky bit is distribution, though; few offices have platforms of Mamdani's scale
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Geoguesser, but you’re shown code and asked which software it’s for.
“It’s React, but is it a desktop app??”
“It’s React, but is it a desktop app??”
January 22, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Geoguesser, but you’re shown code and asked which software it’s for.
“It’s React, but is it a desktop app??”
“It’s React, but is it a desktop app??”
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brb contemplating moving to an island and becoming a sheep
January 22, 2026 at 3:52 PM
brb contemplating moving to an island and becoming a sheep
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This is one of the most fundamental underlying problems of perspective with many, if not most people who play fighting games. “People just want to be good at something automatically” is not correct. It’s factually inaccurate. People don’t expect to be “good.” They just don’t like being vaporized.
January 16, 2026 at 2:11 PM
This is one of the most fundamental underlying problems of perspective with many, if not most people who play fighting games. “People just want to be good at something automatically” is not correct. It’s factually inaccurate. People don’t expect to be “good.” They just don’t like being vaporized.
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you should all be silly bugs i promise its fun
January 14, 2026 at 3:59 PM
you should all be silly bugs i promise its fun
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snowmen are old news, how we feeling about snowsnail
January 4, 2026 at 2:22 PM
snowmen are old news, how we feeling about snowsnail
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some of the posts bsky users make to help twitter users get accustomed to the different posting culture lowkey read like “you can add tags onto your post to help your discoverability! this isnt like the bad app where adding tags turns you into a pool of blood”
December 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
some of the posts bsky users make to help twitter users get accustomed to the different posting culture lowkey read like “you can add tags onto your post to help your discoverability! this isnt like the bad app where adding tags turns you into a pool of blood”
This reads like something out of a sitcom, genuinely insane
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
lyra.horse
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This reads like something out of a sitcom, genuinely insane
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People always want to use ADCs for things you don't need ADCs for. Instead you can just use time constants. The CH572 has no ADCs but that doesn't stop me from measuring battery voltage and the pressure on some silicone buttons.
github.com/cnlohr/cnhar...
github.com/cnlohr/cnhar...
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
People always want to use ADCs for things you don't need ADCs for. Instead you can just use time constants. The CH572 has no ADCs but that doesn't stop me from measuring battery voltage and the pressure on some silicone buttons.
github.com/cnlohr/cnhar...
github.com/cnlohr/cnhar...
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I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.
You Can't Report on Hunger While Taking Bread Off the Table
On the proliferation of machine translation in video game outlets covering the effects of AI on labor.
dateemups.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.
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this is why representation in games matters
November 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
this is why representation in games matters
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TypeScript is a psychology experiment designed to see if you can read "the JavaScript API you know and love, but with the safety of strong typing!" and get so distracted by how much you like strongly typed languages that you forget that you do not, in fact, neither know nor love the JavaScript API
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
TypeScript is a psychology experiment designed to see if you can read "the JavaScript API you know and love, but with the safety of strong typing!" and get so distracted by how much you like strongly typed languages that you forget that you do not, in fact, neither know nor love the JavaScript API
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I really do not get the general urge among online academics to dunk on X area for discovering what Y area has known for decades. There are many reasons why this is unscholarly. To name a few:
1. Most scientists don't perform interdisciplinary research because it's explicitly disincentivized.
1. Most scientists don't perform interdisciplinary research because it's explicitly disincentivized.
October 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I really do not get the general urge among online academics to dunk on X area for discovering what Y area has known for decades. There are many reasons why this is unscholarly. To name a few:
1. Most scientists don't perform interdisciplinary research because it's explicitly disincentivized.
1. Most scientists don't perform interdisciplinary research because it's explicitly disincentivized.
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ronaldinho soccer
October 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
ronaldinho soccer
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I once asked a very skilled and experienced rower how people who make every boat they are in better do it. He said that he'd known two people like that, and they weren't the fastest or stronger rowers, but their superpower was adding stability where the boat needed it. Not something you'd see ...
New blog post: The illegible nature of software development talent
surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/08/t...
surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/08/t...
The illegible nature of software development talent
Here’s another blog post on gathering some common threads from reading recent posts. Today’s topic is about the unassuming nature of talented software engineers. The first thread was a …
surfingcomplexity.blog
October 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I once asked a very skilled and experienced rower how people who make every boat they are in better do it. He said that he'd known two people like that, and they weren't the fastest or stronger rowers, but their superpower was adding stability where the boat needed it. Not something you'd see ...
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