bread

my fish tank caught fire

while I am anti-LLM, I did get lost training my own to test a hyper-specific focus. I also now see how hard the optimization problems are TLDR: this shit doesn't scale that is inherent to the discovery that bigger = better, and attention being quadratic complexity with few optimizations

LLMs _will_ crash and burn economically all that will be left is the discovery of attention optimizations in ML, which is interesting, but also shows how dumb and inefficient these models really are and how attention tricked us into thinking the models know what we're saying

I offerred a coworker one of my 3D printers - which had been sitting idle for 5y - for his son, like a year ago, and I forgot about it since then. He asked me about it again today... so anyway, I'm 6 hours deep in fixing it, replacing cables, a driver from spares, and a missing motor...

I've been working on a tutorial series and it has honestly been good writing practice

I am halfway through my 6-part series on building a puzzle game with it. I choose Klotski (sliding rectangular block puzzle), which has its pros/cons Pros: Simple mechanics 1 entity type Simple rectangle collision Cons: All the characters are straight

I've been working on a tutorial series and it has honestly been good writing practice

The tracker album for GBA stuff is working, but I am hunting a bug and adding support for Game Boy tracker music in addition to the Game Boy Advance tracker music. This should allow you to use both Pulses, the Wavetable, and the Noise that GB/C supports

Now that it's no longer a "24h project," I'm trying to polish it a bit more

work-related annoyances aside: I'm trying to work up the courage to tell my boss - who hired me at my first dev job and later hired me again at my current dev job years later - that I appreciate everything he's done for me

I had no FTE experience, I was staying with a friend because I couldn't afford rent, I had untreated medical issues, a crippling drug addiction, and my car had recently been totalled around that time. I was not far off from giving up emotionally and physically

detour mini project: creating a modern foot pedal adapter cable for the NES/SNES Miracle Piano Teaching System (crappy foam original left, modern right)

all I did was cut open a 1/4 inch mono jack and added a female JST XH connector