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I really enjoyed this 2025 video from The Retro Collective explaining this technology (with some rather fun arts-and-crafts examples) and showing off a Konami arcade board (sadly n…

Author here. My hosts file was written to without notice. The Adobe Creative Cloud app runs as admin, and does automated updates (when it's working as intended) without further req…

Scorched Earth taught me the concept of software versions. It was the first program that I ever knowingly interacted with more than one point-release of. I had version 1.0, but a f…

I'll state it plainly, then: Python is more widely used and supported. It has more examples, and more people understand it and can debug it. I hope that helps you.

It's strange to me that this blog post was written in English. If AI is available, why aren't we all communicating in Lojban? [0] It's an obviously superior language. What does it …

Author here: to be clear, I was trying to relay the best version of the argument from the Mozilla blog post I linked to. They specifically wrote: The defects are finite, and we are…

I’ve been hit by this when posting links. If you edit the post, you can re-add the stripped word and it will stay. “Why” is another that is often stripped.

There's also an HTML version here: https://financial-ai-bubble.pagey.site

Author here. I'm not complaining or trying to talk smack. I'm just pointing out something that seems to be coming: LLM price increases or the products being degraded to make more r…

Author here. The reason I wrote that local hardware is "sipping power most of the time" is because most of the time it's not doing LLM-related work. If you're just using your local…

Thanks for this! Seems like a bold stance… but the Online Safety Act also seems like a poor piece of legislation.

Is this something you're seeing personally? If so, how do you know it's because of the Online Safety Act? This is a personal blog and it doesn't seem to have any adult content that…

The book starts with generating fairly standard mazes, but transitions to making more interesting ones in later chapters. There are 12 algorithms explained in the book (listed in t…

This is a great list! A while back I also enjoyed reading “Mazes for Programers” and playing around with different maze generation algorithms from that book over a holiday break. T…