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I have two projects that I'm hoping to release in the months ahead. These are both pretty pointless but fun projects. One is a TRS-80 Model I emulator in JavaScript called Trash80.…

Years ago, I made one of these at an hackathon style event for developing HTML5 gamedev tools. I didn't know much about audio programming at the time, so I read descriptions of wha…

I did some experimenting with this a little while back and was disappointed in how poorly LLMs played games. I made some AI tools ( https://github.com/DougHaber/lair ) and added in…

This is a set of command line tools I made for working with generative AI. Several months back, I was looking for a new job and felt like my GitHub profile needed something more mo…

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Sadly, most of the replies you've gotten are terribly biased or uniformed. It is a good question. I'm not connected to any of this, so this answer is solely from my own understandi…

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Simulmedia | New York, NY | Onsite | Fulltime We are building a best-in-class advertising platform for brands and advertisers to take full advantage of the massive reach on televis…

As pointed out, 25 years later was in the 80s. I wonder if some of the delay in adoption was due to the relevant patents, which were filed around 1959. Maybe that gave a two decade…

This article misses a point as to why the community was outraged at the license change from LGPL to GPL. I was testing switching an application to EXT JS at the time, and I was rea…

According to Wikipedia: Udo of Aachen (c.1200–1270) is a fictional monk, a creation of British technical writer Ray Girvan, who introduced him in an April Fool's hoax article in 19…

This is a Pitfall! playing agent. The emulator Javatari.js was used as a platform for this and modified to have the needed hooks and behaviors. The algorithm is very simple. Each s…

In a sense, I think you are right and perhaps my bias is showing. From the perspective of a judge or prosecutor, they followed a legal process and gave a legal order, so there is n…

That isn't always true. In the U.S. legal system, a person can be granted immunity, and in doing so have their 5th amendment protection against self-incrimination terminated. With …

I'm a little confused about the way the article is using numbers. They say their generous worst case calculation of losses is $550 billion, based off of the number of angel investo…

I wanted to say something very similar about the judging. At hackathons with prizes the criteria really needs to be very clear upfront and strictly adhered to. Everyone works reall…

What if I prefer Debian over Ubuntu? Can I be upset then? I'm sure this will be possible to hack around, but we shouldn't have to hack our own computers to use them. A simple optio…

Sorry if anything has come off as being too argumentative. I just feel like you are downplaying the large impact that Perl 6 has had on Perl 5 and the public perception of Perl, an…

> And the "Perl" brand is still very strong, so we are loath to give it up. That is great for you as a Perl 6 developer that gets extra attention for the new language by leveraging…

Forgive me for this, but why is it still called Perl 6? I've been a professional Perl developer for a long time, and I've followed Perl 6 since the first announcements. There is so…

I have written a lot of Perl code over the years, and I also hold the uncommon opinion that it is a great language, and often a far better choice than other similar languages for a…

I had recently been evaluating JavaScript charting packages, and ended up moving forward developing with HighCharts, just a couple days ago. The demos for Echarts are impressive, s…

I've been considering migrating a bunch of things to Linode. I have read a lot of reviews and have not seen too many negative things. Do you have any more information or advice on …