Christer Ericson
@christerericson.bsky.social
Personal opinions on gamedev, tech, and (sigh) politics. Skepticism. Science. Snark. Author (RTCD). Ex-Activision, ex-Sony, ex-Neversoft, ex-uni lecturer.
Whenever I hear Voodoo People I feel like hacking into someone’s computer.
October 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Whenever I hear Voodoo People I feel like hacking into someone’s computer.
It’s funny how the people who flip out over naming your for-loop variables i, j, and k, are the same people who wax poetic about for_each and auto.
October 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It’s funny how the people who flip out over naming your for-loop variables i, j, and k, are the same people who wax poetic about for_each and auto.
Shame if people reposted this thread, as a deterrent against using the services of a clueless, moneygrubbing dinosaur "advisory firm", while also promoting Gergely's superior reporting. Just saying. 🤷♂️
Ironic: Gartner had my post ridiculing Gartner removed. The one that shared Gartner's Magic Quadrant about AI Code Assistants, which does not include Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and ranks Amazon above Cursor.
This one: github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi...
Are they embarrassed to share their Magic Quadrant?
This one: github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi...
Are they embarrassed to share their Magic Quadrant?
September 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Shame if people reposted this thread, as a deterrent against using the services of a clueless, moneygrubbing dinosaur "advisory firm", while also promoting Gergely's superior reporting. Just saying. 🤷♂️
I’m surprised someone passionate hasn’t vibe coded a “Dragon’s Lair”-style game with Nano Banana yet.
September 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I’m surprised someone passionate hasn’t vibe coded a “Dragon’s Lair”-style game with Nano Banana yet.
The Economist publishes a yearly democracy index. For 2024 the top 4 countries were:
1: Norway 9.81
2: New Zealand 9.61
3: Sweden 9.39
4: Iceland 9.38
The “land of the free” shows up here:
28: USA 7.85
Will the US even be in the top 50 in 2025??
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1: Norway 9.81
2: New Zealand 9.61
3: Sweden 9.39
4: Iceland 9.38
The “land of the free” shows up here:
28: USA 7.85
Will the US even be in the top 50 in 2025??
d1qqtien6gys07.cloudfront.net/wp-content/u...
d1qqtien6gys07.cloudfront.net
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The Economist publishes a yearly democracy index. For 2024 the top 4 countries were:
1: Norway 9.81
2: New Zealand 9.61
3: Sweden 9.39
4: Iceland 9.38
The “land of the free” shows up here:
28: USA 7.85
Will the US even be in the top 50 in 2025??
d1qqtien6gys07.cloudfront.net/wp-content/u...
1: Norway 9.81
2: New Zealand 9.61
3: Sweden 9.39
4: Iceland 9.38
The “land of the free” shows up here:
28: USA 7.85
Will the US even be in the top 50 in 2025??
d1qqtien6gys07.cloudfront.net/wp-content/u...
I hadn’t even considered there were different interpretations of “free speech” between right and left, but the first few paragraphs of this article explains so much.
www.liberalcurrents.com/hitlers-shad...
www.liberalcurrents.com/hitlers-shad...
Hitler’s Shadow, Trump’s Shield
How calling Trump the “N-word” sparked the free speech RICO.
www.liberalcurrents.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I hadn’t even considered there were different interpretations of “free speech” between right and left, but the first few paragraphs of this article explains so much.
www.liberalcurrents.com/hitlers-shad...
www.liberalcurrents.com/hitlers-shad...
Henceforth America will have to rely on the rest of the world to mock what’s happening in the US, because the US is too afraid to do it ourselves.
Oh my god lol
This Dutch late night host absolutely eviscerates Trump and Disney- you gotta watch how
This Dutch late night host absolutely eviscerates Trump and Disney- you gotta watch how
September 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Henceforth America will have to rely on the rest of the world to mock what’s happening in the US, because the US is too afraid to do it ourselves.
The below discovery is all in the news now.
Corrupt governments censors information that doesn’t further the false narrative they want to project.
Corrupt governments censors information that doesn’t further the false narrative they want to project.
This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.”
It existed yesterday and is gone today.
It existed yesterday and is gone today.
What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism
Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic...
web.archive.org
September 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The below discovery is all in the news now.
Corrupt governments censors information that doesn’t further the false narrative they want to project.
Corrupt governments censors information that doesn’t further the false narrative they want to project.
A mind map is just more “fun” version of a tree, yet it created a ~$2B industry.
What industry can you create by trivially coat some boring but key thing in a new brand of exciting lacquer?
What industry can you create by trivially coat some boring but key thing in a new brand of exciting lacquer?
September 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
A mind map is just more “fun” version of a tree, yet it created a ~$2B industry.
What industry can you create by trivially coat some boring but key thing in a new brand of exciting lacquer?
What industry can you create by trivially coat some boring but key thing in a new brand of exciting lacquer?
Bezos cowering to the punitive damage that the orange mafia Don can dish out from his corrupted government entities.
So @washingtonpost.com tried to get away with “no clear answers” 🤔 then changed it to “feeds speculation”?
Talk about not meeting the moment
Talk about not meeting the moment
September 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Bezos cowering to the punitive damage that the orange mafia Don can dish out from his corrupted government entities.
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JD Vance's willful ignorance is only exceeded by his gratuitous unpleasantness.
September 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
JD Vance's willful ignorance is only exceeded by his gratuitous unpleasantness.
Anyone else have a sneaky premonition of:
1. AI coders replacing human junior/mid engineers, collapsing the junior->mid->senior->principal funnel.
2. AI-iterated code becoming increasingly complex and brittle, eventually with no (architecture) oversight.
3. "Hilarity" ensuing.
1. AI coders replacing human junior/mid engineers, collapsing the junior->mid->senior->principal funnel.
2. AI-iterated code becoming increasingly complex and brittle, eventually with no (architecture) oversight.
3. "Hilarity" ensuing.
September 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Anyone else have a sneaky premonition of:
1. AI coders replacing human junior/mid engineers, collapsing the junior->mid->senior->principal funnel.
2. AI-iterated code becoming increasingly complex and brittle, eventually with no (architecture) oversight.
3. "Hilarity" ensuing.
1. AI coders replacing human junior/mid engineers, collapsing the junior->mid->senior->principal funnel.
2. AI-iterated code becoming increasingly complex and brittle, eventually with no (architecture) oversight.
3. "Hilarity" ensuing.
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In case you were wondering why RFK Jr. looks like hot dog that's been rolling on a heating element at a gas station for several weeks. He's not only Team Measles, he's Team Cancer.
www.reddit.com/r/washington...
www.reddit.com/r/washington...
From the washingtondc community on Reddit: RFK JR regularly tans at Palm Beach Tan on Connecticut Ave in Washington DC
Explore this post and more from the washingtondc community
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September 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
In case you were wondering why RFK Jr. looks like hot dog that's been rolling on a heating element at a gas station for several weeks. He's not only Team Measles, he's Team Cancer.
www.reddit.com/r/washington...
www.reddit.com/r/washington...
Sturgeon’s Law is often seen as a humorous commentary, but it’s really a more pointed Pareto principle.
Business practices do (rarely) consider Pareto, but never Sturgeon. I think they should.
Finance: Mag 7 vs S&P 500 is Pareto but with Sturgeon underperformance in “S&P 493.”
Business practices do (rarely) consider Pareto, but never Sturgeon. I think they should.
Finance: Mag 7 vs S&P 500 is Pareto but with Sturgeon underperformance in “S&P 493.”
September 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Sturgeon’s Law is often seen as a humorous commentary, but it’s really a more pointed Pareto principle.
Business practices do (rarely) consider Pareto, but never Sturgeon. I think they should.
Finance: Mag 7 vs S&P 500 is Pareto but with Sturgeon underperformance in “S&P 493.”
Business practices do (rarely) consider Pareto, but never Sturgeon. I think they should.
Finance: Mag 7 vs S&P 500 is Pareto but with Sturgeon underperformance in “S&P 493.”
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The free world needs to boycott the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, just as they should have boycotted the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany.
August 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The free world needs to boycott the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, just as they should have boycotted the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany.
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Americans can no longer scold others for taking hostages and placing them in barbaric conditions when we now do the same thing by kidnapping people living in our own country, and trafficking them to concentration camps both foreign and here at home that have barbaric conditions.
August 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Americans can no longer scold others for taking hostages and placing them in barbaric conditions when we now do the same thing by kidnapping people living in our own country, and trafficking them to concentration camps both foreign and here at home that have barbaric conditions.
It’s disappointing that none of the LLM models (and their handlers) have yet come up with a sensible way to name and number themselves that actually makes sense.
It’s like graphics card naming all over again.
It’s like graphics card naming all over again.
August 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It’s disappointing that none of the LLM models (and their handlers) have yet come up with a sensible way to name and number themselves that actually makes sense.
It’s like graphics card naming all over again.
It’s like graphics card naming all over again.
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Prayer won’t stop the next flood. We need science, not sermons.
It’s time to fully support NOAA and the National Weather Service — and stop the White House from undermining the very agencies that keep us safe.
It’s time to fully support NOAA and the National Weather Service — and stop the White House from undermining the very agencies that keep us safe.
July 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Prayer won’t stop the next flood. We need science, not sermons.
It’s time to fully support NOAA and the National Weather Service — and stop the White House from undermining the very agencies that keep us safe.
It’s time to fully support NOAA and the National Weather Service — and stop the White House from undermining the very agencies that keep us safe.
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It's adorable that Elon "Sieg Heil" Musk thinks he can still palm himself off as being in the "middle" politically. People in the middle don't endorse the Neo-Nazis in Germany or give over $250 million to a fascist like Donald Trump.
July 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It's adorable that Elon "Sieg Heil" Musk thinks he can still palm himself off as being in the "middle" politically. People in the middle don't endorse the Neo-Nazis in Germany or give over $250 million to a fascist like Donald Trump.
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What, exactly, are we celebrating this Fourth of July?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken Congress?
Our corrupt Supreme Court?
Our ridiculous buffoon President?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken Congress?
Our corrupt Supreme Court?
Our ridiculous buffoon President?
July 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
What, exactly, are we celebrating this Fourth of July?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken Congress?
Our corrupt Supreme Court?
Our ridiculous buffoon President?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken Congress?
Our corrupt Supreme Court?
Our ridiculous buffoon President?
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You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work.
You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules.
Get your lies straight.
You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules.
Get your lies straight.
June 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work.
You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules.
Get your lies straight.
You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules.
Get your lies straight.
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"AI Chatbot, show me examples of psychological projection."
June 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
"AI Chatbot, show me examples of psychological projection."
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With everything else going on, the Senate sent the Big 💩 Bill back to the House, and made some changes. Here’s one:
June 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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What's the hardest problem in computer science?
Getting PCs to connect to printers flawlessly, always.
Getting PCs to connect to printers flawlessly, always.
June 17, 2025 at 5:09 AM
What's the hardest problem in computer science?
Getting PCs to connect to printers flawlessly, always.
Getting PCs to connect to printers flawlessly, always.