Post #316003
2026-02-15 20:14 UTC
Replies (11)
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@ratfactor@mastodon.art 2026-02-15 20:33
@vascorsd It's certainly a hell of a time to be alive. :bear_hugs:
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@rysiek@mstdn.social 2026-02-15 20:33
@ratfactor thank you for writing this. :blobcatcoffee:
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@shapr@recurse.social 2026-02-15 20:38
@ratfactor thank you for writing this. This is a big part of me too.
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@cvtsi2sd@hachyderm.io 2026-02-15 22:00
@ratfactor You put into words something that I was ruminating on since several months, and I was reaching a very similar conclusion, thank you.
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@ratfactor@mastodon.art 2026-02-15 23:25
@gwenverbsnouns Oh wow, yeah. I've often wondered how people who were studying AI/ML before "all of this happened" feel about where we're at. I'm sure opinions vary. Super important to have those other interests and facets to lean on. I always marvel that those stories about career guys who retire and then just...die because they don't know what to do with themselves. I can't even imagine not having 1,297 hobbies waiting in the wings. 🤣
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@ratfactor@mastodon.art 2026-03-05 21:47
@gwenverbsnouns Ugh, I'm sorry to hear that. That's exactly what I expected. 🙁
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@ratfactor@mastodon.art 2026-03-05 21:47
@gwenverbsnouns Oh wow, I remember those hall of fame images! I loved playing with POV-Ray, mostly just hand-writing scenes. My finest achievement at the time was writing a program (in Java) that would convert BMP images to pov-ray file with a field of colored spheres, one for each pixel. I was so proud of that. 😃
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@ratfactor@mastodon.art 2026-03-08 14:23
@gwenverbsnouns Yes!!! I have a currently on-hold JavaScript (canvas) raytracer project I'm very excited about - it's an interactive lesson that builds up the theory over a series of little demos starting with 2D raytracing. So many projects to do! That one is near the bottom of the stack. 😵💫
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@delcano@mastorol.es 2026-02-16 09:16
@ratfactor Thank you for reminding me (us) that I am (we are) not alone.
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@tccoxon@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-02-16 12:08
@ratfactor I feel like us programmers are still out there, we've just lost the spaces we used to have
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@sonia@ruby.social 2026-02-21 05:13
@ratfactor As a Gen X programmer, I loved this essay, thank you! "Acoustic" programmer (like guitars)? "Thought-powered" programmer (like gas-powered cars)? I'm not ready to be an heirloom yet!