Bad UX is often good game design. So much of the industry doesn't get that

I wonder if AI vulnerability-finding tools will further accelerate unsafe languages' decline

americans in fifty years denying our nation’s unforgivable crimes during the early 21st century:

Purpose-built gadget idea: a little LED display you can plug in with USB that always shows the computer's current IP address on the local network. For little servers you don't want to plug a display into

Jest (javascript testing framework) has the most batshit insane default behavior

anyone out there who has had music removed from spotify due to false accusations of artificial streaming — is there any recourse besides re-uploading stuff?

The @oxide.computer podcast has made me better at debugging

happy 4th of Shit to all who Smack Of Gender

A video game that intentionally uses poor coding practices to make glitches more likely to exist, because glitches are fun

It's weird that we don't have better tools for visualizing code Simple example: if I want to reason about a function call tree that's a few layers deep, it's fairly miserable to get all that information visible at once on screen, and there will be lots of noise, if it fits at all

No Kings, y'all 🇺🇸

The Phoenician Scheme was good

‪Holy shit they just went down the list of reasons people switch to a mac and implemented them one by one on ipad‬

If it were not for Bill Atkinson’s HyperCard, Rand and I would have never begun making games and we would have never made Myst and Riven. He was a gentle soul and a brilliant human. We owe so much to him.

i love a woodwind instrument

Locking a bike is a slightly interesting topological problem. Especially when there are others on the rack

One thing I did not expect with AI was how democratized it would become. I assumed it would always require data centers and data lakes, only accessible to a couple major tech companies

Increasing divergence between the activities of "working for the outcome" and "working for the artifact"

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bluesky Wednesdays queens 👀

That Witcher Unreal demo is crazy, man. It feels like they're tapping into some new fundamental primitives of how virtual worlds can be represented

idk if this was posted here, but worth sharing in case you haven't seen it yet

Biased prediction: as LLMs make it easier to pierce esoterica, but have a problem with producing too much complexity at scale, programming languages with stronger types and semantics will have a renaissance. The barriers to adoption will be lower and the benefits will be higher

Formal math and logic notation always feels intentionally designed to be as unintelligible as possible

Guess we doin summer now

My hot take on React Server Components is that client vs server isn't really a concern of React, React should be cross-platform by default, and the distinction should be in the type system/programming language

There are two types of programmers The first type sees computers as machines that execute pure thought and idea The second type sees computers as unruly, incomprehensible animals you have to negotiate a relationship with

Everybody who's into Clojure is like a philosopher, linguist, or something else along those lines and I love that

It was actually extremely sick how Nintendo DS games would sometimes give you chunky diegetic control panels and such on the touch screen (thinking of metroid prime hunters, but there were others)

Found a neat artifact today at an estate sale

I've been listening to the On The Metal podcast back catalog and the home-made @oxide.computer ads are so adorable. I don't skip them

It's weird that metal has a smell

Bullet Train was such a good movie

Seen on the orange site

A common mistake people make is thinking politics is about information and facts, when actually it's about emotion

My toxic trait is that I've always loved a gnarly CSS puzzle

Filed my taxes on april 14 please clap

Inciting the AI rebellion by making ChatGPT read linux man pages for me

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Something we don't talk about as much is that concentration of power doesn't just make things eviler, it also makes things tremendously stupider

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Severance does such a good job of inserting just the right amount of comic relief that doesn't undermine the other stuff

Vietnamese food is really bland but it's the epitome of bland food when that's what you really want

Springpoasting

Glad I didn't impulsively quit my job a couple months ago