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2026-07-11 02:58:25 CEST

Two white whales! Thank you, Dan!
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/898/624/945/057/841/original/2b78b0238584b90b.jpg

2026-07-03 15:56:11 CEST

Google starting some shit.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/856/379/898/248/130/original/390a3494c242c5f0.jpeg

2026-07-03 06:11:41 CEST

RE: https://freeradical.zone/@bitartbot/116853702217657324
Vim
#note16l2…9ep9

2026-06-18 21:44:45 CEST

Boom, roasted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9iRDPXvT4

2026-06-10 16:30:54 CEST

Anonymous speech is free speech. This is completely fucked.
"The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers' government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse survivors. 'We never thought that would happen here.'"
404 Media
https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/

2026-06-10 01:28:35 CEST

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It was almost certainly blown away in a Cavorite mishap.

2026-06-08 12:01:32 CEST

"RetroPad is a ‘full-feature-parity version of Notepad from XP’ in just 2,749 bytes — x86 assembly coded apps comes from Windows legend Dave W Plummer"
Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/retropad-is-a-full-feature-parity-version-of-notepad-from-xp-in-just-2-749-bytes-x86-assembly-coded-apps-comes-from-windows-legend-dave-w-plummer

2026-06-05 08:16:20 CEST

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YES! I had the same one in high school and LOVED IT! Programming it was a lot of fun. The bitwise stuff is a little inconvenient but still very nice. I like that the CM-100 makes bitwise ops the primary interface.

2026-06-05 08:07:54 CEST

"Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at a scale the industry spent 4 years trying to make people forget about."
https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/817865966907228160/darren-oconnor-timnit-gebru-was-fired-from

2026-06-05 01:20:09 CEST

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How silly of me. Thank you.

2026-06-04 16:59:28 CEST

The HP 16C is back, baby! The price isn't insane either. I really WANT one, but I do not NEED one. The JRPN 16C app is not a bad way to scratch the itch.
https://hpcalcs.com/product/hp-16c-collectors-edition/

2026-06-04 16:22:48 CEST

I didn't have an Amiga, but I was enraptured by a crude version of this animation on my Atari ST.
"Recovering Eric Graham's 1987 Juggler raytracer source code"
Chris Hanson
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/692/275/879/464/782/original/f2038966214cc5c7.png

2026-06-02 20:27:39 CEST

"AI companies have actively conspired to mislead the world about the true costs of AI, and it was working great right up until they decided to try charging what it actually cost ... enterprises are freaking the fuck out"
"AI Doesn't Have ROI"
Ed Zitron
https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/

2026-06-02 13:24:02 CEST

"It’s bad. Really, really bad."
Talk is Cheap — What the data says about the operational impacts of LLM use in the software industry
https://unessays.substack.com/p/talk-is-cheap

2026-05-30 18:47:47 CEST

"Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine"
Radosław Skupnik
https://myzopotamia.dev/navier-stokes-fluid-simulation-explained-with-godot

2026-05-25 14:12:51 CEST

Just what the heck is a zork?
"Solving the 'Zork' Mystery"
David Polakovic
https://www.dpolakovic.space/blogs/zork-part2
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/635/150/012/480/926/original/6211fbc337262110.jpeg

2026-05-25 02:26:33 CEST

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Maybe not willy-nilly, but vibration will cause an IC to unseat from a dual-wipe socket faster than a machined socket. Another problem I've noticed with wiper-style sockets is that the contacts are flimsy and can be crushed if the registration between the pin and wiper is off. There will be a weak or no connection, the socket is ruined, and the fault isn't immediately visible. I'm not arguing for machined sockets. They are often a pain in the ass.

2026-05-25 02:09:25 CEST

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Their point is they provide a much more secure connection than dual- or single-wipers. But because they deform, they aren't great for chip reinsertion. Breaking pins is just a bonus.

2026-05-21 18:56:18 CEST

We are cooked.
“Who has shipped a pull request in the last week that was completely written by Claude?”
Half raise hand.
“Who has shipped a pull request that was completely written by Claude where they did not read the code at all?”
Most hands stay up.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/21/1137735/anthropics-code-with-claude-showed-off-codings-future-whether-you-like-it-or-not/

2026-05-10 22:20:15 CEST

The GOAT ... er ... YAK.
"YOU SHOULD GO WATCH Heart of Neon! Seriously!"
Behind The Scanlines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXmv_h5d0zM

2026-05-08 22:55:26 CEST

The dereliction of RSS is like the ground zero of enshittification.
"YouTube, your feeds are broken"
Open RSS
https://openrss.org/blog/youtube-your-feeds-are-broken

2026-05-08 22:54:06 CEST

Your browser's got a big mouth.
See everything your browser discloses before even being asked.
https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

2026-05-07 20:59:12 CEST

"NVIDIA’s Shadow Library Scripts ‘Have No Other Purpose’ Than Infringement, Judge Rules"
TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/nvidias-shadow-library-scripts-have-no-other-purpose-than-infringement-judge-rules/

2026-04-16 19:19:42 CEST

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GOD. DAMMIT. Not again! Get out of my head!

2026-04-16 19:15:01 CEST

A weird sense memory triggered this image in my mind. This is the first thing I drew in a drawing program I wrote for my Apple II Plus back in the day. I think I was brainstorming a zoomed drawing feature on the left. Call MoMA!
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/415/494/753/803/697/original/1b0ef887e2fdc7f0.png

2026-04-16 18:39:35 CEST

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I used code just like this to confirm that the color burst could be suppressed for graphics modes, or enabled for text modes, in legacy Apple II machines.

2026-04-16 03:04:47 CEST

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No space toilet discussion is complete without Heywood Floyd examining the perilously long instructions for the zero gravity toilet in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick's comedy is underrated.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/411/690/959/771/575/original/a5e8629b2fbdbf66.jpg

2026-04-16 03:02:49 CEST

This is actually quite fascinating. 💩
"Let's talk space toilets!"
Maciej Cegłowski
https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/lets-talk-space-toilets

2026-04-15 21:52:53 CEST

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(cont) What it didn't do was make me feel like I had accomplished much and it made me feel less confident about my design. Maybe that's warranted but I didn't enjoy it.
13/15

2026-04-15 21:52:17 CEST

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* I asked it to explain the advantages and tradeoffs of using the #nullable declaration in a C# file or project, which it seemed to do well.
8/15

2026-04-15 21:52:10 CEST

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* I asked it to supply an ffmpeg command to crop and resize a video and it did so and clearly explained what each part did. It also offered information about specifying the compression method, which I used. It worked perfectly.
7/15

2026-04-15 21:52:02 CEST

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* I asked it to split part of my Apple II emulator's MMU into an independent bus device and it did a reasonable job. It wasn't a difficult problem (actually simpler than I imagined), and I made some modifications. It will need some extensions in the future but I'm happy with the result.
6/15

2026-04-15 21:50:52 CEST

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@xot/116240336770226214
So, I did end up subscribing to Claude Pro and after 30 days, I've cancelled it. I did not get much value out of it but that's mostly because I didn't want to use it. This thread is a chronicle of my crimes. I just want to be open in case you need to hate me or something. 🧵
1/15
#note18dx…hcvj

2026-04-14 22:42:25 CEST

Beautiful stuff.
"Ascending into the Realm of Japanese Charts"
https://www.chartography.net/p/ascending-into-the-realm-of-japanese

2026-04-12 20:41:44 CEST

This is a pretty neat algorithm. It selects a random subset of size k from the set of integers [1, n]. I'd normally do this by shuffling the set and selecting the first k values, but this is more efficient ... and not remotely intuitive.
Floyd's Sampling Algorithm
https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/floyds-sampling-algorithm/
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/393/199/704/506/736/original/0b25a437ac8087c6.png

2026-04-05 16:37:53 CEST

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Oops. I failed to consider the keyboard encoder circuit. So add 20 microseconds to latch the key, and a whopping 10 ms for the switch debounce circuit.

2026-04-05 16:06:55 CEST

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Yeah, that seems very wrong. Apple II should be about 8.3 ms on average, strictly based on the time it takes an NTSC signal to paint the CRT. The time it takes for a key press to put a character into display RAM is about 10 microseconds (10 cycles at 1.023 MHz).

2026-03-16 19:46:19 CET

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Full disclosure: I'm an AI hater on the streets; AI degenerate in the sheets. I was gifted a one-week trial of Claude Pro. I have 3 days left before I have to send Anthropic $20. I probably won't. I enjoy using it, but I don't think I can accept it, knowing how bad it is across multiple dimensions.

2026-03-14 04:58:20 CET

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On real hardware connected to a color TV, it's technically possible to suppress the color burst signal, but it is not designed to do that. You have to synchronize continuously running code to the video signal's horizontal blanking interval. During the front porch or breezeway (before the color reference burst), switch to text mode for a few cycles, then switch back to graphics mode during the back porch (before the HBL ends). Getting in sync is the tricky part.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/225/483/017/588/267/original/ac874fcd155dd4ff.jpg

2026-03-04 20:31:16 CET

Peaches' "What's In My Bag?"
Amoeba Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL2b-4PkjZ0

2026-03-03 19:41:20 CET

This is huge. The Supreme Court of the United States has declined to take up an appeal regarding generative AI. This upholds the findings of multiple lower courts and affirms that AI-generated content cannot be copyrighted. This is good news for actual creatives and bad news for commercial AI use.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/887678/supreme-court-ai-art-copyright

2026-02-24 16:25:18 CET

Whoever designed this Avid logo wasn't paid enough.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/126/297/761/463/789/original/7d8c3d1d7e44c99c.png

2026-02-22 14:49:28 CET

Aww, man. Gamedev City is over. I get it, though. I tried to do something like this in 2008. Building it was fun, but running it was exhausting.
https://gamedev.city/
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/114/595/058/677/445/original/6f6be5ec51ea572e.png

2026-02-16 19:15:29 CET

Pretty neat how AI is completely destroying the consumer tech sector.
"Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place"
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/western-digital-is-already-sold-out-of-hard-drives-for-all-of-2026-chief-says-some-long-term-agreements-for-2027-and-2028-already-in-place

2026-02-16 18:00:06 CET

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Hang on. Is that real? I don't know what the thingy is.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/081/331/960/703/398/original/a83507ad883d4b85.jpg

2026-02-06 16:13:31 CET

This is bad for anyone who comments on media in the internet age.
"‘Ripping’ Clips for YouTube Reaction Videos can Violate the DMCA, Court Rules"
TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/ripping-clips-for-youtube-reaction-videos-can-violate-the-dmca-court-rules/

2026-02-05 22:58:10 CET

"I Bought the Display From War Games! Let's make it Draw!"
Dave's Garage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrwvIKK3D2o

2025-04-15 20:30:09 CEST

Thomas Cherryhomes is on a roll. He recently started posting information about The FROB, an Atari 2600 debugger that used the Apple II as a host. Now two community members have managed to reverse-engineer the hardware, and another has it running in MAME.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkfZBKysvFE

2025-04-12 19:30:21 CEST

I'm feeling confident AI will destroy us in the stupidest ways possible.

2025-03-09 19:01:32 CET

This is a very interesting technique. I'm surprised this isn't better known. The same channel explained sampling theory last week and has loads of other image processing videos.
"How a 40-Year-Old Trick Solves Seamless Image Blending"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7qa7i0K9C4

2025-03-02 22:11:08 CET

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I tried it for a while in 2021 and liked it. It performed well, had good features, and ran the extensions I needed. Something about it irritated me but I don't remember what. It's worth trying and was one of the best candidates when I was searching for Chrome off-ramp.

2025-02-28 18:04:16 CET

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Is there another option?

2025-02-11 11:48:59 CET

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No, that had not yet been introduced the last time I played. I stopped shortly after the first expansion, Horizons, which I never purchased. I understand it is now included in the base game. In any event, I've missed virtually every update since the initial release.

2025-02-10 11:07:44 CET

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That sounds encouraging. Mining was pretty dreadful and trading was utterly perilous.

2025-02-10 10:55:58 CET

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How much of this journey was punctuated by annoying combat? I haven't played in a few years. I got sick of constantly getting ganked and losing everything but I still want to like it.

2024-12-25 23:45:04 CET

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I think @npub1xwh…6p8n uses pure C almost exclusively.

2024-11-09 01:25:47 CET

You'd think 12 hours to paint a bathroom would be plenty of time but I'm just not feeling it.

2024-10-25 23:46:44 CEST

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Chances for a massive new integrated software collection? PROBABLE.

2024-10-16 02:36:58 CEST

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Pfft. They aren't even in alphabetical order. Useless.

2024-08-30 00:24:10 CEST

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You can read about that bug and many others here:
https://www.zimlab.com/wizardry/proving-grounds-v3/files/Wizardry-Proving-Grounds-v3.1-Code-Changes-Readme.txt