guy who keeps buying new machines so that he can justify the time he's spent on his NixOS config

so this is an incredibly fucking stupid idea but it occurs to me that i would actually use a variant of this that switched me over to my WaniKani/Anki reviews

7yo: Dad can we go to Shake Shack for dinner? Me: No, we just went there on Monday 7yo: Pleeeeease Me: No, we're not going to do that 7yo: You're not hearing my feedback. Reopen this issue so that others can weigh in, and also commit to a timeline for reconsidering this Me: Who taught you that?

Composer-1 may not be as smart as Claude, but it is monstrously fast

How do you know if you have ADHD? There will be signs.

wonder what the Frame's vent smell will be like

Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it

I just posted part two of my career retrospective during which time I work at four different companies, blog, and then retire: randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/r...

I must have typed the words "the Steam Frame is the Steam Deck of VR headsets" (and that's why you're wrong in expecting it to be a BSB2/AVP/GXR/Pimax killer) at least a dozen times already

Welcome to fam, ya'll! -Steam Controller -Steam Machine -Steam Frame (Growing our @steampowered.com Hardware Family in early 2026)

no way we're getting arm64 linux vr gaming before gta6

is it actually happening?????

Do you believe in miracles? isvalvedeckardout.com

I don't think the human brain was meant to simultaneously work on this many things $133 to go

i think this is what signalis was about [note: i have not played past the first hour of signalis. please dont yell at me]

desperately racing to exhaust as much of my $250 free Claude Code Web credit as possible in the next week I still have $178 to go, despite asking it to write two parsers, one backend, and one complete interpreter. these are things that would have taken a human programmer a week

lord help me I'm considering finally upgrading to the $100 Claude tier

Opening the black box of character training Some new research from me! Exploring how easy it is to craft personalities like sycophantic chatbots, and exploring how this will change as we move from chat to agents. www.interconnects.ai/p/opening-th...

watched Hereditary for the first time for our movie night and I don't get the hype. it was fine, but not the masterpiece I was led to believe it was

At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes

Fun new variant on my pelican riding a bicycle SVG benchmark by BeetleB, who instead used "Write a POV-Ray file that shows a pelican riding on a bicycle" to get ray-traced pelicans: blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/O...

I'm glad I didn't give in and buy a MacBook: this 7-year-old ThinkPad is serving quite nicely for my use cases - the performance and battery life are better than expected - and being able to run an unburdened Linux is worth a lot to me finally, window management and density that isn't ass

This has the ring of truth to me. I feel advantaged because the meta-cognitive aspect of working with LLMs seems to come naturally to me and I’m also a SME with a strong rate of recall on broad enough topics that I can work up/down the ladder. But even then I sometimes feel at the edge of complexity

some day everyone will have understood this all along

just spent the last 5 hours installing NixOS and promptly ricing it ama

they should make a scripting language with a real type system

this is a baffling default and i would love to know the reasoning for it why would i want an extension to open a terminal of its own accord without me asking for it

another day, another Rust UI framework

David Fincher's THE SOCIAL NETWORK, and Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross's Oscar-winning score, turned 15 years old this fall. Here's some of my artwork for the album, created by manually corrupting images from the film by editing their raw hex data in a text editor, damaging them from the inside. 1/

best ending of all time, let's be real

my mum let me have two ThinkPads

another update he's too shy to make himself: he's started to load in the fixed vegetation, but there's a lot of procedural vegetation he's adamant he will not reproduce. we'll see about that. the terrain textures require the shaders to be ported, so that probably won't be done any time soon

winter is coming, time to find some training tasks to keep my GPUs warm

Just Cause 3

saying this about en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare... is very funny, but that's the level of discourse that AI usually foments here

wanted to add a caption for an image on my website and I think the people who said Markdown was deficient might have a point not sure if I'm ready to go full asciidoc but, uh, hmm...

so @sk83rjosh.bsky.social has been working on loading the entire 1024km^2 map of Just Cause 2 into @godotengine.org, complete with terrain and location streaming, but he's too shy to post about it, so I will

started rereading Neuromancer last night - felt like a good followup to Cyberpunk 2077 - and boy, that man can write and Cyberpunk (the setting) really doesn't try to hide its inspiration, huh

death by a million geese bites third installment of the @nagare.pds.bsky.ln4.net saga: ranking models, re-rankers, and the future of the project #atproto

so glad I can be learning Rust from the experts at Adobe, their beautiful elegant code is really an inspiration 😊

after seeing the other Stockholmers around me, I'm tempted to spin up a PDS on my home server and move to it exposing my home server to the internet is scawwy, though

dreaming about how much more useful my iPad would be to me if I was actually allowed to run the software I cared about on it sometimes I really do miss having a Surface Pro

Everyone should switch to rust. stop using c++

Need to establish a norm against making the manifold chip-coloured so im not hungry reading papers

IDA has the option to produce a single decompiled C file (containing every variable/struct/function), and I'm wondering how much of a bastard pseudo-C parser I'd need to automatically split that file into namespace folders + class files nobody else seems to have done this, but it seems very useful

my fingers slipped and bid on both a ThinkPad T480s and a ThinkPad X1 Carbon last night, and now I'm afraid I might win both