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Fable solved a long-standing bug in a Coleco Vision game that I have been working on with a small team of people. Fable did what both Claude 4.8 and ChatGPT/Codex could not do afte…

I personally know two of the three people named, and trust me, they are going to be livid about this.

Not giveaways, but it was instead a "name your own price" discount that allowed you to pay as little as $1399 and as much as $9999 (your choice) for an OP-1. What's bizarre is thro…

I traveled across the country promoting Comcast@home for the summer of 1998. We visited malls near major cities where the service initially rolled out -- places like the Irvine Spe…

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Yes, I believe it’s a fork of VS Code, so all your favorite extensions and settings are portable. It will even ask to import your VS Code settings on first launch.

It definitely depends on what language you’re using and the complexity. But Claude 3.5 and now 3.7 are far superior in my experience for coding tasks. It’s like the difference betw…

I briefly worked for Crunchyroll, which began life as an anime pirating service with subtitles. The contracts with the Japanese anime publishers came later. Now they vigorously pro…

This comprehensive film series from PACE is how I learned (and lots of practice) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIT4ra6Mo0s

So saddened by this news. I worked with Gordon. He had a wonderful sense of humor. Was a true believer, die hard technologist, uncompromising, witty and honest. Will be having a dr…

If anyone is interested in modding an Atari VCS (2600) for similar high quality output, Tim Worthington's excellent Atari RGB mod kit is an easy and affordable way to upgrade it. h…

Tom7 is my favorite content creator. Each of his projects feels like a ~master’s thesis~ video dissertation. If you are not familiar with his work, please take some time to watch h…

There is a new VirtualBoy emulator that runs on the Nintendo 3DS so that you can play these games again in 3D. And yes, you can adjust it to play in a different color than red. Som…

Several years ago, after finishing a coding bootcamp, I created this little web app that turns YouTube channels into an XML podcast feed. Might need to dust it off. https://github.…

It really was! I interviewed with them (didn't get the job), but ate a delicious pizza during their interview process. Their dream was to have the pizza cook on the way (like in Sn…

In the video, they show that some videos got more than 1k views, but most around a couple hundred. YouTube requires 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours of watch time. So definitely no …

I can pile on to this. I had to rename my employer's Microsoft Teams app because it doesn't autocomplete the app's name after an apostrophe is typed in the Microsoft Teams app (bot…

Siri: "Here's Snow (Hey Oh) by Red Hot Chili Peppers" :smacks-forehead:

Sorry, I did actually ask for Snow White in the car! And it played a song called "Snow". Haha, reproducing it here at my desk I mistakenly said "Cinderella"

It's a striking condemnation of the current state of things that my $1K+ mobile phone does not do anything close to what's in this demo. I would pay $200 just to have a voice assis…

I believe this as well. My co-worker will have no problem getting another high-profile role in tech. His embezzlement will be seen as go-getter material.

I should add my former co-worker is easily found in Google. He is not a low-profile kind of person. He is best known for owning expensive cars and bankrolling “cannonball run” reco…

I was more speaking to the audaciousness of it all. I expect many employers will still do their due diligence and with high profile cases like these it’ll be impossible to hide. So…

A former co-worker of mine ran nearly this exact same scheme. As an executive for a cable network, he bilked his company out of 8 million dollars. He invoiced the company for video…

The algorithm presented me with one of these videos and now I’m binging on them. Each video presents an intricate mechanical 3d print. Some of my favorites so far: Mechanical 7 Seg…