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I would like to remind you that this website exists: www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ind... : Ian's Shoelace Site. It's a site entirely dedicated to shoelaces and various aspects therein.

You know when you encounter a senior person in a company, and after talking to them for a while you realise they have been professionally bullshitting for their entire career and people keep promoting them because they sound like they know what theyre doing? Yeah, that is what LLMs remind me of rn

Why is chromecasting YouTube so incredibly buggy?

FYI, pretty much all of the frontier models couldn't figure out how to add a HTTP header to a Prometheus HTTP service discovery scrape job. There are people trusting these things with their prod infrastructure ? Wild ...

So you know how most people eat chocolate digestives "upsidedown"? (If you don't, I apologise for the existential crisis you're about to have) Well, how would you fix the design so people intuitively ate them the right way up ?

Ok how do I get Chris Spargo to make a video about these ? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretch...

I just want to be able to talk to people at work, I don't want an"Agent Surface". What would I tell it to do ? "Please convince my bosses agent that this feature is poorly scoped "?

This week's newsletter: PlayStation price rises aren't about Sony’s greed. It’s an indication of the rot at the heart of big tech, which has become a closed economic system predicated on making things worse for most of us so that a very few can make billions. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

Sometimes coding is poetry #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #programming #godot

When I used to do digital notes on an iPad, it used to be Goodnotes. However coming back to it I find they are cramming AI into it instead of improving the product. After considerable research, looks like concepts.app is an even better app that has no AI, nor any plans to add any.

I was alive when the Fruitiger Aero aesthetic was prominent - and it wasn't in any way cool. It was similar to how we view Corporate Memphis today - soulless and appeasing a desire for progress. Default Winamp skin, on the other hand, _that_ was where it was at.

Sneaky gits, found this sticker in a public place - takes you to a "fan" AI chat service that lets you pretend you're talking to famous people. I bet there are more out there ...

Copilot in Notepad can get in the sea 🎉

I don't know what I'm dismissing exactly here....

I think I found the AI coding tool kryptonite. The Network Rail Open Data feeds. It drives them up the wall. "Which one of these 4 schedule types is the real one ? What ID is the right ID to link a train to a schedule ? Why are there so many stations in the north sea?" And round and round it goes

Whenever I get perplexed by an issue at work, I now remember that my colleagues once found a bug in their game that was caused by a vacuum cleaner being used near the game when it was running www.gamedeveloper.com/business/how...

The Vulkan Working Group has published, Building a Simple Game Engine, a new in-depth tutorial for developers ready to move beyond the basics and into professional-grade engine development. Learn more: www.khronos.org/blog/new-vul... #vulkan #tutorial #programming #gpu #gameengine

Outer Wilds, if you haven't played it yet, is one of the best games of all time. It's a fun space exploration game with a timeloop twist, and 90% of all game progress happens in your head, as you learn things about the universe and your situation. Absolutely play it if you haven't yet.

It's quite alarming how often it turns out that sucessfully failing a task is actually the correct outcome in software.

You know what would be really immersive? A game that was entirely filled with NPCs that talk to you in oddly generic yet specific ways, with over-done voice internation and a massive lag between interacting and replying. Oh wait, no, the exact opposite 🙃

If, like me, you had only ever seen Ace Attorney through the medium of memes - HOLD IT! Go play the original trilogy. It's worth it.

I guess 252GB is more than you could ever have hoped for in 2009, but I'm barely using the orignal capacity right now.

Didn't quite appreciate it at the time, but 60GB is actually quite a lot of music...

I already like the band HENGE but when I saw that in their music video Slingshot, they have some VFX shots with "scrolling code" which is ACTUALLY PLAUSIBLE GIVEN THE SCENARIO... hengemusic.bandcamp.com/track/slings...

I know, everyone, lets hook up a complicated random noise generator to your credit card and identity documents and see what happens! Sounds like a perfect plan with no drawbacks.

Researchers discovered a publicly exposed frontend on a government-authorized server, containing 2,456 accessible files from the age verification vendor used by Discord.

Dad mode ENGAGED.

Things I say that sound like they don't make sense but they actually do #37 "Wow, that game is very HDR"

Just learnt about 8 years late that Buzz from 3DBuzz - where I learnt 3D modelling in Maya as a teenager - passed away from cancer.

That moment when a can jumps out of the recycling bin like an intersecting object being resolved by a collision system.

I am become dad, vacuumer of cars

It's time for another electric vehicle charging video. Too many people believe EV charging solutions require expensive, huge electric circuits (or worse: service upgrades). The really high-power ones people tend to go with can be a headache, but there are many other options! youtu.be/W96a8svXo14

Yeees this is exactly how I would use this product Amazon. No, there is no option to rotate it.

Did you know that if you find a swarm of honey bees in the UK you can contact a local beekeeper to come collect them ? Ask me how I know 🤣 www.bbka.org.uk/find-a-local...