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Just an fyi - your compensation link is broken :) should be https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/engineering/leveling-and-compen...

Location: Cincinnati, OH Remote: Yes, remote or Cincinnati area only Willing to Relocate: No Technologies: LLMs/MCP development (recently for game development and developer support…

You can buy very powerful handheld green laser pointers on Amazon for around 20 bucks. You absolutely shouldn't shine one into a camera sensor, ever. It says so on the box!

I'm working on a thing I'm calling TOASST, or the Tiny Open Android Smartphone-based Smart Telescope. The basic idea is to use a smartphone (often the best camera in your house) to…

I was just talking about this with my partner the other day. We have an amazing retro games shop/arcade not far from our house, so I think for probably my kiddo's 5th birthday I'm …

> XGo is a programming language that reads like plain English This is possibly the most dangerous sentence on this entire page. The hubris and ignorance of history wrapped up in th…

Margaritaville Frozen Drink makers, specifically. A sound investment if I've ever seen one!

And they used their supposed ability to refund tariffs as justification for continuing to charge them during a court case last year, per another comment in this thread. We live in …

I was prototyping to this end the other day - what would it be like for a coding agent to have access to a language that can be: - structurally edited, ensuring syntactic validity …

I'm working on my fourth attempt at a first novel :D In all seriousness, I am about 10k words into a new draft I started a couple weeks ago. It's a far-future post-catastrophe sci …

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I don't have anything to show for it yet, but I'm rebuilding my dotfiles from scratch with a (hopefully) reusable framework that I want to open source some day. I don't know if it'…

I had a hilarious experience the other day with an (HP) laptop that I thought might be fun to share here. I've been getting into astrophotography recently, so I went out to my loca…

Currently working on building my first 3D printed star tracking rig for astrophotography (via the incredible OpenAstroTracker project) and beginning to think through a 3D printed D…

Ah yes, because more AI will solve this problem. No, what we need is for people to feel safe in public again, for them to not feel like they're constantly one questionable picture …

This whole thing reeks of a plant. I never heard a word about this, and I work in the entertainment industry, until this week. I'm going to assume this is manufactured attention tr…

> Are they all just focused on sex, debauchery, lots of drinking today? ...As opposed to the actual medieval period, which was famously chaste, calm, and sober?

Yeah, the ethics around _training_ models that generate embeddings is still suspect to me, but the use of embeddings as a cheap, efficient way to provide semantic similarity seems …

Already contender for my favorite puzzle game of the year. I would compare it to Outer Wilds or Animal Well, but that would do all three games a disservice. Blue Prince is a thorou…

There's another dimension to this, that storage is so cheap that being wasteful with it isn't really disincentivized. I know for example at work of a portal that accepts uploads of…

Very slowly working on a prototype for a game where you learn about a deceased relative by using their old (C64-type) computer, reading their files and playing the games they made.…

I can't see why this wouldn't be the case, the firmware will be open source and I have to imagine a developer mode will be part of that.

Anecdotally, Netflix is very "settle into your groove and get really good at your job" if you want it to be. There are of course folks that climb the ladder, but I also work with s…

Sure there is. _Cut initiatives_, and exit the related staff. Don't cut staff without a corresponding cut to programs.

NOAA just fired hundreds of weather forecasters. World class ones, literally some of the best meteorologists in the world. And they knew how to interact with NOAA's systems to gath…