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my workaround for this was to make a wrapper mcp server which uses claude haiku to summarize the page snapshot returned in the response of each playwright mcp call, and that has wo…

he doesn’t want experts, he wants people who will be subservient to him. expertise would get in the way of that, because experts would likely understand that he has no idea what he…

'authenticity' in the sense of content made by normal people without any strong goals other than 'some other people might like that' (and for some, maybe eventually getting some in…

just to be that guy Module.onEnemyKilled();Module.onEnemyKilled();Module.onEnemyKilled() probably should run part of the game on the server if you want to prevent bypassing the cap…

modular synthesis isn't named 'modular' in reference to 'modulation', it's in reference to synth 'modules', which are units of functionality from which you can build a synthesizer.…

the ‘search box’ is not good at finding stations so i can check when the next train is coming. i typed in ‘34th st’ and it returned a bunch of addresses, none of which are in manha…

well as long as we're posting them: https://github.com/jsdf/applescript-raytracer

if you prefer the macintosh version: https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/mecc/oregon-trail.html

I did the browser port of BasiliskII which this wraps ( https://jamesfriend.com.au/projects/basiliskii ) as well as the port of PCE (another Macintosh emulator) used on archive.org…

It does: https://jamesfriend.com.au/projects/basiliskii

You can experience this on an (emulated) 68k Mac in your browser using Oldweb.Today: https://oldweb.today/?browser=ns3-mac#http://68k.news/

If you're using SSR (or static generation) for the initial pageload, you can continue to do so. The payloads can just be used to update the page when the user performs subsequent i…

can you describe the threat vector here? how exactly could it be used to do that? keeping in mind the cross origin limitations mentioned in the spec, and that the timing resolution…

If you want to try out the HyperCard application for yourself (for example, to see its editing tools) you can do so in the browser here: https://jamesfriend.com.au/projects/tryhype…

if electron is not to your taste, you can run the emulator in your browser here: https://jamesfriend.com.au/projects/basiliskii/ coincidently today firefox 79 was released, which b…

The author mentions that they didn't have a debugger and couldn't get MacsBug to work inside the emulator. A useful technique here is to use the emulator itself as the debugger: mo…

You might be interested in this GDC talk about the PS4 Spiderman game, which dives into the performance optimizations they used, which are in a similar spirit (though at a higher l…

Your link seems to be broken, here's a working version: http://web.archive.org/web/20040313034855/http://www.gamasut...

Interestingly the N64's RSP has some instructions specifically intended for implementing MPEG decoding (ctrl+f for "MPEG"in http://ultra64.ca/files/documentation/silicon-graphics/S…

You're right, Scottish English does seem like a foreign language sometimes... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTDI