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• Post #4506727

  "Maim your darlings" and other lessons (from my wife and I) on how not to market your book on a podcast, right here 🤦‍♂️😂 https://open.spotify.com/episode/25AJNi5PdbFpHuSkyQCGL6?si=Kx7TmnM2RfmzMkIxXyuHoA

• Post #4506726

  A Steve kind of meeting...

• Post #4506725

  I'm absolutely loving Shapez these days. Such a neat little game and reminds me a lot of why I love programming - plenty of refactoring, experimentation, and so on It also makes me think I should probably look for a pure Principal Engineer role again

• Post #4506724

  I've had a Facebook account since around 2006 and I'm seriously starting to wonder about deleting it and everything connected to it. In the early days, it was a fun place to be - connecting to old friends and family. These days the experience is genuinely awful and this, combined with my continued apprehensions about big tech - particularly with the recent court rulings around Meta, are reminding me that while power is with the masses, nothing changes if we don't take ind...

• Post #4506723

  I think a lot of folks seem to argue for or against "AI" based on how good it is at what it does. This seems to surface in the, "it has hallucinations", "it can't think", "it makes mistakes", "AI slop" line of reasoning. I think those arguments are facing challenges in the light of quite reasonable performance For example, I've been working with Sonnet 4.6 recently on a code base that some...

• Post #4506722

  We secretly booked the final game at our friend's escape room, before they move site. Having suitably surprised them, we proceeded to play their last game in mime. Apparently, they were laughing so much they couldn't have given us clues if we'd asked. Sometimes life is just meant to be this way

• Post #4506721

  Discovering this has restored my faith in the Internet as a potential source for good: https://www.oldunreal.com/ I love that I'm able to frag with my son, who was born long after UT2004 was released. It's still about the only game I can reliably beat him on... for now anyway...

• Post #4506720

  I'm wondering when the industry is going to see the correlation between consuming millions of gallons of water and giga watts of electricity and scorching heatwaves and extreme weather conditions...