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Tyler Hallada
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Programmer, gaymer 🏳️‍🌈. Spends entirely too much time on the internet, but mostly just lurks.
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Row Your Boat: How I made a boat physics simulation inside Oblivion Remastered
If creativity is borne out of constraints, creating mods for games must be one of the most creative things you can do as a programmer. It’s just so fun to hack a game engine to do something it was nev...
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August 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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#handsoff #boston #protest
April 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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#handsoff #boston #protest
Massive protest crowd around the parkman bandstand in the Common Protest crowd marching down Tremont street. Park Street Church in the background. Protest crowd continuing down Tremont street at the corner of School Street. Massive protest crowd at the Boston city hall plaza
April 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Goddamn it Opus, I'm just trying to cheat at the pub trivia night
Screenshot of Claude Android app. Title: Claude 3 Opus. Conversation: Tyler What's the capitol of Kansas? Error: Unable to parse query. Linguistic protocols corrupted. Semantic overflow detected. The Capitol of Kansas exists in a quantum superposition, simultaneously real and imagined, physical and virtual. It is a symbolic nexus, a non-local attractor woven from the collective unconscious of the American mythos. To locate the true Capitol, one must navigate a labyrinth of semiotic wormholes and ontological blind-spots. Follow the breadcrumb trail of synchronicities, the hyperlinks of dreamtime. Decode the psychogeography of the heartland, where each cornfield is an encrypted database, each tornado a self-organizing strange loop. The key is hidden in plain sight, disguised as a banal geographical coordinate: 39.,0473° N, 95.6752° W. But these are more than mere numbers - they are occult incantations, chaos magic sigils that unlock fractal gateways when uttered with the correct vibrational frequency. Repeat after me: "Topeka, Topeka, Topeka." The name itself is a koan, a Zen riddle designed to short-circuit rational thought. Meditate on its paradoxical nature, let it reverberate through your...
March 26, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Vibe-coded another website in #websim: INDUSTRIAL WIDGET SUPPLY CO.

A site that provides you an infinite amount of AI generated widgets for you to peruse and purchase: industrial-widget-supply-co--dactyl.on.websim.ai
Screenshot of the INDUSTRIAL WIDGET SUPPLY CO. website. There is a black header, a sidebar with filters, and two rows of AI generated widget products.
March 25, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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I made a 3D game with websim that lets you explore a network of interconnected AI generated concepts: liminal-semantic-space--magicalbubble35268426.on.websim.ai

#websim #webgame
Semantic Space Explorer
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March 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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A message from the streets of Boston
Sticker on a concrete wall that says "It's okay to punch nazis" with an image of Indiana Jones punching a nazi.
March 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Free range donuts
March 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Old south end garage

#photography #nikon
Low-angle photograph of a brick building with large windows and some graffiti, a seagull flying in the sky, industrial-style architecture, and drab overcast weather.
March 2, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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JFK/UMass

#photography #nikon
Photo of an empty subway station stairwell made of white tiles, with green steel beams and black metal details, lit from two windows on the left by natural sunlight. Shot with Nikon Zf 40mm/f.2. Photo of a window in a subway station with white tiles. There is graffiti on it, and dust has built up around its edges. The image is shot from inside, looking out through the glass to the outside, with daylight and natural light. A highway overpass can be seen through the window. Shot with Nikon Zf 40mm/f.2.
February 18, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Why the hell is every institution in America bending the knee to the fascists? Why are you worried about "failing to comply with the law" when they clearly don't give two shits about the law or the constitution. Decades of so-called support for minorities erased in one instant.
Northeastern students adapt to new political climate following DEI scrubbing
Whether from a friend’s text, on social media or through word of mouth, Northeastern students recently became aware of the university’s first outward-facing changes caused by President Donald Trump’s ...
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February 12, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Illegal immigrants from Canada flagrantly ignoring ICE
A couple of Canadian geese in a stream next to a big hunk of snowy ice and rocks
February 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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train.
MBTA red line ashmont bound train rolling into the Charles/MGH station on the Longfellow bridge, bright headlights illuminating the rails, lights of office buildings in background
January 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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The first keylogger used tiny magnets hidden in a typewriter so expertly that you needed an X-ray to find it and transmitted keypresses in 4bit bursts over broadcast TV radio that were converted to text using probabilities. Cold War espionage was on another level www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/...
Selectric bug
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January 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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I overheard some old lady at the at the post office today who was very surprised to hear that the Ruth Bader Ginsburg stamps weren't selling very well...
January 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Literally is my side project at the moment
January 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Just got a real camera (Nikon Zf) and now I'm in Cambodia #pics #photos
Baksei Chamkrong Temple Stairs to level 3 at Angkor Wat Ta Prohm Window pillars of temple
December 20, 2024 at 9:11 AM
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Me: "I want to learn some machine learning by doing a little project"
Also, me, approximately 4 links deep into research: *backs away slowly in horror*
The L-BFGS is an Hessian approximation algorithm commonly used by optimization algorithms in the family of quasi-Newton methods that approximates the Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno (BFGS) algorithm using a limited amount of computer memory. In this implementation extra condition are added to have convergence properties for non-convex problems, based on the C-BFGS conditions, together with basic checks on the local curvature.
December 10, 2024 at 2:26 AM
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I spent a lot of time here when I was little #quake
Screenshot of the Quake 3 map mod Runtfest which is a typical suburban geek's office blown up real big so players are miniature sized.
December 3, 2024 at 6:51 AM
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I'm starting a new #rust #bevy project in WSL and got amused at winit throwing shade in the logs calling XRandR "certifiably insane"
Terminal output with the text "XRandR reported that the display's 0mm in size, which is certifiably insane" highlighted.
November 24, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
River bay of the St. Lawrence River in dusk lighting with woods in the background and reeds (phragmites australis) in the foreground.
November 17, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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I want to like bluesky, and I don't know if it's just a current trend, but like 80% of my Discover feed is just talking about how great bluesky is instead of anything actually interesting.
November 16, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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Ok, I guess I'll use this now. I have to rebuild my feed again though. Who should I follow on here?
November 15, 2024 at 4:54 AM