Doing some `ncdu` cleaning of my MacBook (yeah 512GB is too little for a music production machine), I've found out that Apple stores its photo wallpapers as 4K PNGs. This one photo is 34 MB. It would have been 0.5 MB as a WEBP, 2 MB as a JPEG (with default ImageMagick settings).

I got Claude Max this month so I could vibe code to the max. My 3D game engine is still in the same state as it was in 2016. I could have got it way further with more focus, but it's not fun when you lose touch with the code. Vibe code 3 big features, and you have no idea what anything does anymore.

The real problem is that the only people qualified to drive an agentic coding model are people who are intimately familiar with the codebase and *familiarity with the codebase drops when you vibe code* See, for example, the recent study commissioned by Anthropic: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

New blogpost time! I also added some really fun interactive bits 👀 giacomocavalieri.me/writing/test...

I wrote a thing to figure out what I think about responsibly using LLMs (eg. at work). Agent mode bad?! martin.janiczek.cz/2026/02/05/t...

those pesky FP developers will put linked lists _everywhere_ 😩

Essay by @adamneely.bsky.social on GenAI, in context of music, but I couldn't help but think about the other uses. The deskilling part hit pretty hard... not to speak of the futurism-fashism link. Great video. youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc...

I see danger of losing track of the "theory of the problem" (in the Naur sense) when you use too high-level prompts for LLMs, but hot damn they're useful for talking through a new unknown problem and poking holes in approaches (_building_ theory!), before you start manually tackling the first draft.

thing i made in 30 minutes for my friend @nanodrive.bsky.social and her gamejam ...i was like 2 minutes too late, but for being made under the biggest crunch id say its not bad #music #chiptune #furnacetracker

Inspired by today's HN pick of Joel Spolsky, I've put my plan for implementing elm-test code coverage reporting into a spreadsheet. We'll see how well I do! www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/03/29/p...

notes on item data design: RPGs have ten thousand million items, and in a lot of ways data seems like the way to go. add to that the fact that this game has a lot of generated items and characters, and you're looking at a strong argument for very readable, live loadable, easy to edit data.

design thread for the current prototype and design work i'm making a fairly self-contained dungeon crawling microcosm. for this microcosm of the game, i'm doing two closely interrelated magical energy types. they aren't rigidly attached to damage types.

TR-49: short but worth it ❤️ store.steampowered.com/app/3838370/...

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

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Great thread.

just one more project bro. I swear I will finish this one bro. just one more and then I'll stop .please bro just one more project

normal ppl: `[1]` fp bros: `List.singleton <| 1`

You don't see this everyday $ dot -T svg -O myfile\.dot lib/pathplan/shortest.c:331: triangulation failed lib/pathplan/shortest.c:201: cannot find triangle path

This really makes me think about "good enough", "perfect is the enemy of good", shipping _something_, finishing projects. Maybe a goal for 2026. Choose a side project (or *looks at the graveyard* resurrect one), work on it, lower expectations and scope, publish it. Repeat.

great essay! we're just starting to glimpse (& enable) what's possible by combining: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ✨ personal websites ✨ | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + ——————————— | 🌱 open social web 🌱 | ——————————— from interoperable comments sections & blogrings, to learning networks & creative communities…

CSS anchor positioning is newly baseline! This opens the door for lots of new creative CSS. It's a huge feature, but here are the basics.

IT'S SO MUCH FUN lvllvl.com im making a walk through for a fake video game, in the style of an illuminated manuscript 🪶📜 like those plain text ones with the ASCII art but waaaaay fancier hehe

as far as rubberducking goes, it was pretty nice using Claude dictation mode in the car claude.ai/share/0c1c73...

No use fighting that mdash --

in our benchmark we're now comfortably beating react and among the fastest options when using `element.memo`. if performance concerns were one of the things holding you back from trying lustre, well.. they shouldnt! github.com/lustre-labs/...

Los Angeles, CA - Bit of a false alarm; crowd isn’t marching yet though they are assembled in the street currently. Making speeches still.

@jon.inkle.co Hey 👋 I'm watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZft... I'm wondering if Ink has property-testing / fuzzing - basically, having the computer simulate player actions and checking for invariants ("XYZ should be impossible"), or if you only did that bespoke for Heaven's Vault etc.?

Díkybohu, že nevyhrála Kamala Harris. Umíte si představit to peklo, které by rozpoutala?!

no-bullshit talk on how to playtest while respecting ‘the art’ of your game: youtu.be/6EUeYu0aPn4

Pisces: Against impossible odds, this year looks even worse for you.

Scorpio: That pattern you've been noticing is real and it's the key to understanding everything. Of course you'll need to gather a lot more data, so it's imperative that you neglect all relationships and responsibilities. You must focus on the pattern.

IT'S AGDQ gjeaiogjaiogjioaehgioeabgiaefhjcoieajcioaehugrhvrwigvheuarfghvioasnfbvouideraiuvhaeriuofjioweasjfioarshjgoiuaerugoahrsogias

Decided to use this months supply of LLM credits for making an Elm prototype of a game idea. Totally throwaway code, figuring out the data structures and features needed on the go. This seems like one of the good usages of LLMs - let me try my idea out and see if I want to write it for real or not

this is live today, and trust me when I say you need some skillful weird fiction with soul more than ever

Before and after

Mamdani: "The cost of childcare will no longer discourage young adults from starting a family, because we will deliver universal childcare for the many by taxing the wealthiest few"

rude

(only a few hours left!) itch.io/s/158296/40-...

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Today is the last day that you can repost this image

In which elm-review gets the best-in-class automatic removal for unused parameters. jfmengels.net/removing-unu...

“Things aren't what they used to be is a rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave”Joe Abercrombie

Wow, this video by @tsoding.bsky.social is really good. Gives me Gary Bernhardt "destroy all software" screencast vibes. Goals. youtu.be/qjWkNZ0SXfo

Adding a brief interlude of There Is No Antimemetics Division by @qntm.org to my Blue Prince bender. So far it's just as good in hardcopy as on the wiki, though I didn't notice large changes yet. Probably just my faulty memory (haha)

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/24/s... Some new insights here and there on why it feels offensive when somebody copypastes a ChatGPT reply verbatim.

Chord progression of the day: Dmadd2 Amadd4/D Cadd2 G