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2026-09-10 14:40:03 UTC

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They should give all that money to me instead.

2026-09-08 15:58:36 UTC

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What this means is a button defined as 22pt tall will always be 22/72 of an inch high, on any screen; adding more resolution makes it smoother, not smaller.

2026-09-08 15:55:16 UTC

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The drawing model uses Pixman directly, no Cairo dependency. Full vector graphics for the interface, resolution-independence baked into the math -- provide (or detect) the width and height of your screen, and the resolution, and it works out the physical DPI and sizes points to physically match.

2026-09-08 15:53:45 UTC

The beginning of themed views and the view hierarchy model.
https://studio8502.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/117/236/222/538/199/753/original/a337eae803614ce6.png

2026-09-06 01:09:16 UTC

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I know a religious crusade when I smell one. This one is *ripe*.

2026-09-06 00:59:19 UTC

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It's reached a point of irrational Pavlovian rage on some people's part when they so much as suspect you may have once been in a room with someone who used ChatGPT.

2026-09-04 15:46:13 UTC

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And what is ewaste is entirely up to their whims.

2026-09-03 10:04:12 UTC

Of all the weird shit the AI apocalypse has caused, to me the weirdest is this thing I see where objectively terrible hand-made art is being held up as better than it is. Yeah, almost all AI "art" is objectively terrible, but that doesn't make bad human art any better. Two things can be terrible at the same time.

2026-09-03 01:00:22 UTC

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I'm not interested in yet another kernel to run X11 and GNOME on. I don't care about getting QT apps to run. That space is well-occupied.
I want native software, that fits together into a cohesive system.

2026-09-03 00:58:25 UTC

Traditionally, graphics have been at best an afterthought in Unix-like OSes. Not here. The GUI compositor and widget system will be developed right alongside the kernel and userland, as part of a unified whole.
It ain't Unix, and it ain't gonna pretend to be.

2026-08-31 12:44:44 UTC

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@thankfulmachine/117187871490920112
Yeah, that's a dick move.
#note140u…n96q

2026-08-29 01:43:19 UTC

I'm considering a radical redesign of the filesystem hierarchy.
We expose a Unix-like API. But an API doesn't define an OS. The user experience does. And I want FNX to be its own thing, not yet-another-Unix-clone.
Maybe something like this:<code>/ System/ Configuration/ (config files) Devices/ (devfs mount point) Documentation/ (All system documentation) Libraries/ (.a files provided by the system) Source Code/ (Full system source code tree) Tools/ (Replacement for /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, etc.) Users/ Admin/ (/root equivalent) Shared/ (Files shared by all users) $USER/ (/home/$USER equivalent) </code>

2026-08-27 23:22:35 UTC

How are USB hubs more of a complication than fucking keyboards and mice?

2026-08-27 03:03:18 UTC

There, I now have a proper set of plans backlogged for guiding FNX dev for the forseeable future.
https://studio8502.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/117/165/244/515/912/023/original/59bbe47dc4d0d3cd.png

2026-08-27 00:35:57 UTC

Given FNX targets AMD64/UEFI systems exclusively, I should probably just implement XHCI for USB support, right?

2026-08-25 20:17:37 UTC

What's the most bog standard dead-ass common PCI NIC out there? The one any idiot can lay hands on for fuckall money?

2026-08-24 22:37:00 UTC

If you disagree with me on a thing and it pisses you off, take this for whatever effect it has:
Trans rights are human rights, black lives do, in fact, matter, no human is illegal, fuck Trump, bash the fash, and I hope every datacentre in North America burns to the ground.

2026-08-24 22:11:26 UTC

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I hadn't considered that - possibly so. There should be a free version though, I swear it used to be open...

2026-08-24 21:30:50 UTC

I would rather be nakedly pro-agentic-coding on Bluesky and Mastodon than use Threads or X at all. Why? Because that issue is a relatively small one compared to all the things on which I actually align with other users on both.
But I reserve the right to vent spleen about anything anytime.

2026-08-24 17:28:48 UTC

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I’m quite proud of that 3D model

2026-08-20 10:38:13 UTC

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This is why almost every bit of vibe coded software is absolute fucking tripe. I say "almost" to admit to the remote possibility that someone somewhere made something useful to someone else with it. There's no law of physics preventing it, so I have to allow for it.

2026-08-20 01:16:36 UTC

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I'm not converted. It's an experiment. If it becomes financially non-viable, then it stops. However, the Chinese open models are being offered by many different inference providers, which means there's competition in the space, keeping prices low.

2026-08-20 00:46:27 UTC

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I am of the strong opinion that agentic coding is not ready for real-world use on codebases that matter, and may never be ready. It should be treated as strictly experimental.

2026-08-19 14:13:56 UTC

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Cool.

2026-08-18 23:58:53 UTC

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Note that my tolerance for anime bullshit is quite high. I actually finished “Redo of Healer” for some reason.

2026-08-18 23:56:04 UTC

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Episode two is so close to crossing the border its phone is on roaming data.

2026-08-18 23:53:43 UTC

Catching up on “100 Girlfriends who Really Really Really Really Really Love You” season three finally.
Episode one is a doozy. Like, borderline.

2026-08-18 18:19:25 UTC

Actually, now I think about it... maybe someone else would benefit more from some of my "spare" hardware than I do.
I have four M386A4G40DM0-CPB2Q 32GB load-reduced ECC RAM sticks. Would anyone be interested in buying them for less than the current, insane, going rate?

2026-08-16 20:10:17 UTC

Groceries achieved. A friend insisted on taking me for breakfast. He ordered. I was served the most absurd breakfast I’ve ever seen. A six egg omelette stuffed with what had to be two pounds of mixed pulled pork, bacon, and sausage, with a side of about a pound of home fries covered in cheese and hollandaise sauce.

2026-08-15 19:20:52 UTC

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I thought Haiku had a no ai policy.

2026-08-12 01:07:41 UTC

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I'm in this picture and I don't like it.
Must be 100 enamel pins in there by now.

2026-08-11 22:15:18 UTC

So there’s a PowerPC port of HaikuOS now.
But it’s slopped.
I have complex feelings about this I’m not going into here. I just thought maybe someone would be interested to know.

2026-08-10 19:54:33 UTC

You know what I hate?
I hate restaurant-specific cravings.
I don't have money for that shit. I'm barely scraping by as it is, a craving for tabletop Chinese/Korean BBQ is the last thing I fucking need.

2026-08-06 22:09:14 UTC

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I need to understand what's going on here, because it defies what a language model can possibly do. There's some kind of human-designed guidance here that's allowing it to do things with logic and local data that it logically can't be doing.

2026-08-06 22:07:25 UTC

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I will not ascribe intelligence to a machine. Certainly not this one. But there is definitely some kind of mathematical processing going on beyond merely feeding a language model with tokens and trusting the output. That'd be mad, and moreover it wouldn't produce usable results.

2026-08-06 22:06:01 UTC

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I watched it extract data from a PDF of a datasheet and use that data to correct a bug in the CPU implementation in an emulator. Again, not something spicy autocomplete should be able to do.

2026-08-06 22:04:09 UTC

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The thing is able to follow a debugger session and diagnose issues with it; that's not something a stochastic parrot can possibly do on its own.

2026-08-06 22:03:01 UTC

I have a hard time reconcilling "LLMs just generate probable seeming gibberish" (which I accept to be true) with the objective fact that I get working programs that do what I intend them to do out of the absurd mess of data. There has to be something in the agent harness that's keeping the LLM part of the equation "on task" as it were.

2026-08-06 18:24:19 UTC

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The current holy war is far more vitriolic and way less “just ribbing” than even that.

2026-08-06 14:36:10 UTC

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Chili crisp is amazing.

2026-08-06 13:57:54 UTC

I don’t want an AI friend. I don’t want a sycophantic synthetic lickspittle validating my every brain fart.
I just want to offload some of the time I spend coding to an automated system that can handle it sensibly, so I can spend more time reading and talking to my wife and petting my cats.

2026-08-03 20:17:30 UTC

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I personally don't think any long-standing project should adopt this tech. It's very much Not Ready™. This is the time for wild west experimentation and working out the bugs, which *might* lead to it becoming ready for prime time.

2026-08-03 19:55:01 UTC

First impressions of the Reasonix agent harness: Holy shit this thing really does reduce your spend on tokens. I have no idea how it's doing it, but instead of dollars I'm spending cents.

2026-08-03 19:52:53 UTC

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I do bang on a bit, but I'm trying honestly to find a place of peace with all this bollocks.

2026-08-03 19:51:37 UTC

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I'm sorry.

2026-08-02 17:52:47 UTC

You know what, fuck it. I ain’t going no place. Hate me if it makes you feel better. Call me names. Denigrate my projects if it gets you off. I’ve been making the best of bad situations since before most of y’all were in diapers, I ain’t gonna be chased off now.

2026-07-31 02:07:44 UTC

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I genuinely want to know how this happens. Thh h e neurobiology of it I mean.

2026-07-30 18:30:53 UTC

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I’ve been using C since the 90s. C++ since the 2000s off and on. I know it. What it can do and can’t. How it works. I get it. I won’t claim I’m an expert, I’ll leave that judgment to my peers, but I think I know my shit.

2026-07-30 18:29:34 UTC

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Fucking eh.

2026-07-30 18:15:19 UTC

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The last thing a new coder should do is use this thing. I don’t subscribe to the hypothesis of deskilling, but I do think use can interfere with learning if not carefully applied - better to just not use it until you are actually seasoned.

2026-07-30 17:33:59 UTC

I write prose with my fingers and a keyboard. No AI involvement because there’s no gain to be had there. Nothing the LLM could do to my prose would be an improvement. It wouldn’t even be more convenient. My prose is me. No machine can do that.
Letting the machine wrangle CMake does my brain less damage than actually learning CMake would. Some specific coding tasks suck so much that letting a machine deal with it might actually be better all around.

2026-07-30 04:14:18 UTC

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Emulator for a well defined 80s cpu? Doable. Web browser? Fuck right off.

2026-07-30 04:12:27 UTC

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Anyway. In my limited experience, the smaller the program and more well defined the test suite, the better the slip machine does at spitting out something vaguely acceptable.

2026-07-30 04:08:12 UTC

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Ignore the Americans. They’re going to lose. Look to China. See what they’ve done and keep doing.

2026-07-30 03:59:48 UTC

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That’s definitely true. The sole purpose of the emulator is to save on rom chips and socket replacements for Sentinel boards. If it’s accurate enough for that, letting me or someone else develop a proper system rom for it, then it’s good enough.

2026-07-30 03:54:18 UTC

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The test suite automates whacking the slop machine with a ruler every time it does something too stupid.

2026-07-30 03:53:47 UTC

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I think that’s the only way to get reliable code out of the slop extruder. And it’s not great code or fast code. But it is made fast and cheap and sometimes does the job well enough. Like solvent abuse.

2026-07-30 03:46:03 UTC

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I think the only reason it was able to do it as well as it did is that I provided the WDC documentation for the chip, both the 65816 and 65265. So it was able to use that to model a test suite that I could manually confirm as accurate against the documentation, and generate code against that.

2026-07-30 03:42:22 UTC

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Ah. Been doing that. With the test suite. Found all manner of crazy little bugs in the generated code.

2026-07-30 03:20:08 UTC

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The Authentics

2026-07-30 02:30:40 UTC

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The best case scenario is this all leads to a place where open models dominate and local inference is the dominant mode of use, and we can settle in and figure out how to make the best responsible use of the fucking thing.

2026-07-30 02:28:26 UTC

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AI as a whole sucks. I hate the fucking corpo bastards behind it. I resent the erosion of my craft.
But the war is fucking over. We lost. Benedict Torvalds saw to that.

2026-07-30 02:18:52 UTC

A beloved Canadian cultural institution is embracing the terf wizard book harpy. The forests are all ablaze. Food costs three times what it did this time last year. The whole US federal government are fascist pedophiles trying to corrupt everyone else. Everything is emahittifying.
But fuck me for daring to go against nerd orthodoxy and focus on what I can do to finish my shit before I die.

2026-07-29 23:24:09 UTC

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“They will sell us the ropes we hang them with” applies to AI as well as hammers and microchips and paper.

2026-07-29 23:23:25 UTC

It’s weird how capitalism has basically given us the exact same toolset they use to oppress us, and people wring their hands about the ethics of using those tools against capitalism.
China understands this. China’s goal is full AI communism, with all models open to all and available to all. That’s the best case scenario for AI, honestly. We don’t want a world where Anthropic and OpenAI and xAI control and gatekeep these things for everyone.

2026-07-29 23:10:47 UTC

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If the facts mean that you unfollow me, that makes me sad. I’ll miss you, truly. I’m just an old man trying to make the most of what time he has left in life.

2026-07-29 23:08:23 UTC

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What I can promise you is that of all the people out there, I’m not the one flooding other people’s projects with slop where it’s not wanted.

2026-07-29 23:07:12 UTC

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Policing individual actions to try to deal with systemic issues is not the way.

2026-07-29 23:05:00 UTC

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I can’t use NetBSD. I don’t have the option of purity. So if I’m going to be in the mid anyway, I’m at least going to finish my project backlog out of the deal. Fuck me for making the best of limited time and energy though.

2026-07-29 23:02:51 UTC

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Nice tube.

2026-07-29 22:59:48 UTC

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There is one. It’s very low activity. I mostly just push the design along on my own, occasionally selling a run of boards when there has been sufficient progress. Nobody has the time it takes I think.

2026-07-29 22:58:15 UTC

I just plain don’t have the energy to fight every holy war I’m apparently expected to fight. I’m old. I’m tired. I can’t keep adding new wars to the pile. That shit is for the young.

2026-07-29 22:53:01 UTC

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If someone wants to put in the work to do a slop free rom, I will sign up for their Patreon.

2026-07-29 22:51:53 UTC

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I think your opinions are based on something important to you. I think you think there is still a chance at a world without slop. I also think I don’t have the time or energy to do the entire platform by hand and nobody else has stepped up to do it.

2026-07-29 21:55:35 UTC

Sentinel BASIC is officially A Thing™ now.
https://studio8502.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/117/005/491/728/354/188/original/e76c0903b19d9f64.png

2026-07-29 21:34:03 UTC

I hate the end of every month so much. Mere days from payday, nothing left to do but fart around and watch YouTube and poke at projects.

2026-07-29 21:28:34 UTC

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This fancy toy that can generate whatever software idea you have, whether the idea is good enough to justify the effort or no, is obviously attractive to low-motivation "idea man" types who don't like to put in the hard work to maintain their shit.

2026-07-29 21:27:32 UTC

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The reason most "vibe coded" software ends up unmaintained is, to my mind, that most of it never really needed to exist. It didn't serve a real need for human beings, so nobody cared enough to maintain it, only enough to wish it into existence.

2026-07-29 21:25:10 UTC

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What it amounts to is a drastic acceleration in the speed with which software can be prototyped. Note this is not the same as being made reliable; that requires test suits and time and debugging and user interactions that no LLM can do.
But to get you to a 0.1 version you can build on, it seems reasonably capable.

2026-07-29 21:22:50 UTC

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Overall, I feel like this tech should be packaged into a little box I put in my closet and wire to my network, so I don't have to keep paying for it. The only models that should exist are the open ones, which at least give back what they took. I despise OpenAI and Anthropic to no end.

2026-07-29 21:19:32 UTC

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Frustrations:<li>Eventually, a session starts to degrade to the point where it works for a second, tells you it's done, but has done nothing. The only fix seems to be a new session.</li><li>The obsequious tone of the thing irks me to no end. I would prefer a more "Enterprise main computer" type of dialogue with the machine.</li>

2026-07-29 21:09:54 UTC

Uses for language models, rated by actual utility in my subjective experience:<li>Creative writing: FUCK no. Not even at gunpoint. It sucks so hard.</li><li>Coding: Surprisingly capable at remedial tasks, less good for innovation.</li><li>Image generation: Why would you want to do that in the first place? Isn't there enough porn in the world?</li><li>Reference: Marginal, but improving. Still not a patch on the old Google before it went to shit.</li><li>Music generation: I can't carry a tune in a bucket, and whatever the machine output wouldn't be from me anyway, so why bother?</li>

2026-07-29 20:51:56 UTC

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The facts are what they are. These models exist and are going to be used. There's no way to detect them reliably, there's no way to guarantee the purity of every contribution.

2026-07-29 11:16:35 UTC

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Slop slop slop slop slop.
Of course it's slop. Everything is slop now.

2026-07-29 09:46:34 UTC

Nivix now emulates the keyboard and gamepad ports, and the test harness ROM has tests for them.
This is obviously a useful result.
https://studio8502.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/117/002/624/585/985/939/original/e681bc9fefa46e91.png

2026-07-29 08:32:03 UTC

I may or may not use the slop extruder to make some one-off tool or little personal thing that I just want to have, or meet some larger goal of mine that it can legitimately help with.
I will *never* try to sneak slopcode into someone else's project. That's a big league dick move. If I choose to enshittify something I own to get something done, that's my choice, but I don't go shitting on other people's lawns.

2026-07-29 08:30:14 UTC

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It's an absolute tragedy. My opinion of software dev as a profession continues to erode. I shed actual tears this morning over my place in it.

2026-07-29 01:20:08 UTC

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The upshot to my anger is that if it turns out I am somehow worse at this than a fucking clanker, at least Sentinel 65X is actually going to get some decent software to run on it.

2026-07-29 01:18:27 UTC

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Either I’m a much shittier programmer than I think I am, or this fucking word salad slop extruder is better at coding than it has any right to be.

2026-07-29 01:16:39 UTC

I am legitimately angry about how fast it was to add SD card emulation to Nivix, then integrate FatFS into the test harness ROM.
I am desperate to see it fail spectacularly on real hardware. If it works first time I’m going to shit myself.

2026-07-28 23:56:17 UTC

Whoop whoop! Emulated SD card implemented, plus ExFAT support with long filenames in the ROM!
https://studio8502.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/117/000/300/501/486/489/original/607bd9c6ffb4ecee.png

2026-07-28 23:01:10 UTC

Well. Nivix is now good enough to be used to develop a more thorough test ROM, so I may as well do that. If you're going through hell, keep going.

2026-07-28 00:26:50 UTC

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How much functionality do we have to lose to be free of slop?

2026-07-28 00:26:31 UTC

In all seriousness: what are the slop free OS projects anymore? NetBSD sure. Haiku? OS/2? Xv6?

2026-07-27 03:53:19 UTC

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I'm staying out of spite. Plus I have no other skills.

2026-07-27 01:40:36 UTC

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What bothers me most is that there’s no world where this goes away. This is how it is now. I hate it so much and it’s here to stay.
My craft will look nothing like itself in one generation.

2026-07-27 01:33:26 UTC

I’m not convinced deskilling is actually a thing. But I’m convinced this tech devalues skill, which is just as bad.

2026-07-26 23:02:35 UTC

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I'm the opposite of proud of this. I wanted it to fail. I wanted to burn a week's worth of Codex tokens and have nothing to show for it so I could say "yeah, it's still not viable for my workflow".

2026-07-26 22:56:06 UTC

Well. Now I have a Sentinel 65X emulator. Cycle-accurate, full test coverage, VERA emulation, the whole schmeer.
I can't copyright it. It's pure slop. I didn't write any of the code. So I guess that makes it public domain? Not that I would have charged for slopcode anyway.

2026-07-26 21:39:07 UTC

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If I had known this is where it all led, I would have become a football coach.