Featured post what's this? ✨ I Am Happier Writing Code by Hand I felt the familiar feeling of depression and lethargy creep in while my eyes darted from watching claude-code work and my phone. “What’s the point of it all?” I thought, LLMs can generate decent-ish and correct-ish looking code while I have more time to ...
GitHub - jim11662418/ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clock: Uses an ESP8266 module and an Arduino sketch to display the local time on a inexpensive analog quartz clock. Uses an ESP8266 module and an Arduino sketch to display the local time on a inexpensive analog quartz clock. - jim11662418/ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clock
Game Boy Snake: A Complete Implementation in Assembly A detailed walkthrough of a classic Snake game for the Nintendo Game Boy, written entirely in RGBDS assembly. Covers the game loop, state machine, snake ring buffer, occupancy grid collision detect...
All The Views With the help of a custom-developed algorithm, CacheTVS, we have exhaustively checked every single view on Earth in search of the coveted longest line of sight on the planet. Based on the method we detail here, we present the greatest view of all:
Magician's Apprentice PC prototypes - Games That Weren't Next up are some prototypes for PC DOS in the shape of Magician's Apprentice, a very obscure platformer game that was originally due for release on the Konix Multi-System (which also was unreleased itself), and which was recovered last year.
👀 It's Not About the API - Fast, Flexible, and Simple Rendering in Vulkan What if Vulkan isn't as complex as you thought? This talk walks you through a fast, flexible, and simple appraoch to writing efficient graphics engines in Vulkan.
Microsoft Should Watch The Expanse My favorite piece of technology in science fiction isn't lightsabers, flying spaceships, or even robots. It's AI. But not just any AI. My favorite is the one in the TV show The Expanse. If you watch
I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color I made a Game Boy Color game that renders images in real time. The player controls an orbiting light and spins an object.
Everybody is now an (underpaid) CTO I got promoted four times this year. My salary got the memo zero times.
Framework 13 Initial Impressions I've just unboxed and set up the Framework 13. Here are my initial impressions.
Lance table format explained simply Lance is a new table and file format. A modern successor to Apache Iceberg / Delta Lake. (Animated)
Context is part of the game For a while I used coding agents for small, self-contained things. Refactor this method. Rename this variable. Extract this into a function. Safe, short instructions where the agent couldn't go too far off track. But I kept seeing people push further — g...
Everyone should play more games offline There's something cozy about playing a video game offline. Try it. Turn off WiFi in the house or go into offline mode and boot up your favorite game. Get ...
The Rise of Local Speech Recognition | Oatmeal Weekly How speech recognition escaped the cloud: from Hinton's neural networks to Whisper to 50x-faster-than-realtime local models. A 20-year technical history.
Cheap design In the physical world, making things has two costs: design and fabrication. Design is drawing up the part. Fabrication is producing it. Both are expensive, so physical things are made from standard parts: bolts, beams, extrusions, brackets. You accept the...
Does Anyone Even Know What's Happening in Zim Right Now? Can you name the top news stories in Zimbabwe right now, or any recent policy change taking place in the country? Chances are you'll have a hard time. Th...
Installing OpenClaw on a Jetson Nano I had a Jetson Nano lying around doing nothing and wanted to use it as a self-hosted OpenClaw gateway. OpenClaw gets broad system access — filesystem, shell, network, credentials — and there’s been a steady stream of security issues, including a one-click...
Thoughts on LLMs — finestructure I find it difficult to coherently collect my thoughts on LLMs. They’re undeniably an interesting technology. There are also people I follow online that I have a lot of respect for and who I trust, making a strong case that they’re finding LLMs useful in m...
