Christian Hammond

Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal is interesting and weird and I'm still working through my thoughts on it. Binge watch in anticipation of the movie I'm really excited about: You Can See Everything, featuring Elizabeth Holmes. Not sure what to expect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGJS...

Release day! 💜 RBTools 7.0 for Review Board brings some shine to the command line UI, making it much more pleasant to use. Plus Testing/Bugs extraction from commit messages, #Jujutsu and #ClearCase improvements, and more. Plus lots of bug fixes. www.reviewboard.org/news/2026/10...

Agentic development should always be optional, but for those who use it, we're building something really cool at Review Board that adheres to our People-First approach. I'll have more to share on the @reviewboard.org account and at www.reviewboard.org in the coming months.

🟣 Saturday, September 5, 2026 #COVID report for Butte County, CA bc19.live I'll get to the data in a minute, but first, I have a big update that affects some of the data I report on.

I find it interesting what network most engages with what post. Tech/dev-focused posts go over really well on Mastodon, but not BlueSky (more gaming/artistic posts here). COVID reports get *tons* of engagement on Facebook, less elsewhere. X is a mixed bag. Still quite active.. *sigh*

Do you want to get a preview of what's inside of Video Game Maps: NES & Famicom - Deluxe Edition? Check out our latest video: youtu.be/EqONSP07MQY

I'll probably be back to writing these a couple times a week again.

I'm excited by what we're building. We're committed to on-prem, privacy, data portability, humans as the focus (even with AI in the mix). It's not really the industry trend, but it's ours. Especially at a time when #Canada and the #EU are needing solutions under their control.

There are futures to code/project review that are being ignored. And legacy customers with nowhere to go. For @reviewboard.org, we're building #EDA Design Review, #AI that strengthens human teams, and a migration path for #Crucible users needing a new home. chipx86.blog/2026/08/24/c...

Reviewing #hardware designs shouldn’t mean eyeballing two versions, hoping you spot what changed. That's a recipe for delays and deeper expenses. We’re building affordable #EDA review that shows actual diffs for #schematics and PCBs. www.reviewboard.org/eda-review/ #PCB #selfhosted

I was happy to see #COVID at such low levels for my home county all year, but it's surging again. So I'm writing reports and managing the data again. Year 6. Time is a funny thing.

Early in my career, a co-worker shared an important piece of wisdom: Know what not to write, know what not to commit. Not every function, interface, or line of code written during development needs to be part of the final change. chipx86.blog/2026/08/20/k... #blog #programming #development

I enjoy writing — the creativity, the process, the result — and I'm saddened when my works are skipped due to an assumption of it just being AI. So I built a place to link to — for you and for me — that states very clearly: emdashesmine.com #writing #coding #ai #emdash

#TIL Have you seen Gray Code binary encoding for numbers before? Each number is just 1 bit flip from the next, which has its uses when bit flips might not be atomic. chipx86.blog/2026/08/18/t... #blog #programming

When you're on-prem, you don't have to be down just because they're down. We believe in the future of on-prem. We're code review and document review for every project, every task. We're your team's Review Board. www.reviewboard.org #GitHub #outage #development #codereview #opensource

I am back on reporting duty.

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Been thinking about this brave new world of AI development, what we gain, what we give up... at the end of the day, I keep coming back to one thing: AIs don't take showers. chipx86.blog/2026/07/26/a... #ai #blog #coding #development

I finally saw #Obsession. I'm processing, but have thoughts.

Been considering #Codeberg as a #GitHub alternative. I want more development options on the market. But the announcement about Codeberg banning whole software categories makes me feel uneasy, even understanding their reasons. This write-up sums up my feelings well. xn--gckvb8fzb.com/i-regret-mig...

Ever curious about how a game gets broken down, taken apart, reverse-engineered? We'll be going over it today with a fresh #disassembly of Mickey Mousecapade for #NES: twitch.tv/chipx86

Lore.org's gotten a lot of attention this week. A newly-released open source version control system from Epic Games. Light-weight branching, binary assets, and more. We're looking into adding code review support for Lore in @reviewboard.org. Starting a deep dive into the internals.

Did you know I've been doing @reviewboard.org development streams on Twitch? It's true! Just a chill time, some talking, some coding, some coffee breaks, all over at twitch.tv/chipx86

GitHub has had 31.9 days of downtime so far this year (according to red-squares.cian.lol). If you're tired of being blocked, try Review Board. You can still keep your code hosted on #GitHub but move your reviews to Review Board, hosted in your network or by us.

I haven't had to write a #COVID report in ages. This has been great. I want this to continue for our community as long as possible (due to lack of serious transmission, and NOT lack of data).

Two weeks ago, we launched our Plus/Enterprise tiers with premium features and support. We gave this project a working title of Tiers of the Kingdom, since we started working on it around the time that Tears of the Kingdom released (being a #Zelda nerd is a requirement for working at Beanbag).

Very excited about the #Nintendo Direct tomorrow, where they'll no doubt unveil Dr. #Mario Wonder, Excite Bike Galaxy, the dual #Zelda 1/2 remake release, and the collection of 40th anniversary NES Zelda Amiibo.

The finale of The Amazing Digital Circus was incredibly well-done. Glad I got to see it in theaters. Can’t wait to see it again. And if you haven’t seen this show, it’s so much better than the cartoony zany facade will trick you into thinking. All on YouTube, all free. youtu.be/iuaRQ5NQFq8

Well then. Let's start getting @reviewboard.org 8 released, shall we?

Just released Djblets 6, the latest version of our #Django extension library we use to build @reviewboard.org. Feature flags, extension framework, avatars, cache utils, datagrids, page state/rendering injection, dynamic site config, GDPR privacy support, and more. pypi.org/project/Djbl...