David Viens

5.5 can one shot virtually anything. Most everything sold to you is so EASY to do that you could prompt it yourself. You are flooded with new things left and right for a reason. I _just_ tried it and it made me a thing that would have taken me a full year ... in an hour.

In case someone beats me to it d68c6ae12b596bd011452f21a21296c64d1c56a305e067475d26accb39916deb is the sha256 of the description of my idea.

I used to just post unlisted YT videos of the ideas, but this is more environmentally friendly :)

When you read stuff like: “Yes, AI was used to speed up the work”, it often means the whole thing went from: “I wouldn’t know where to begin” to “Look what I made” in a few days.

Always more stuff to double check…

Recent months have been hard on my psyche a lot. Slop has essentially removed all fun and most reward from coding. I've been doing a lot of ROM dumping instead. This is where I still get my dopamine. Take that AI.

The analogy I use to people around me to describe how I feel is that its like I won the mega lottery and can now buy anything I ever dreamed of. It gets old pretty fast. And You dont get _anywhere_ near the satisfaction from slop generation than coding yourself.

Recent months have been hard on my psyche a lot. Slop has essentially removed all fun and most reward from coding. I've been doing a lot of ROM dumping instead. This is where I still get my dopamine. Take that AI.

There's a huge disconnect on social media right now. One the one hand the vast majority of you scream at hyperscalers/datacenter/Anthropic/OpenAI, but most of you still praise and get excited by all the new software that comes out. Newsflash its 90% LLM made.

State of a small software business in 2026: The emails we receive are now 99% B2B AI spam. The remaining 1% are from real humans requesting a specific feature/workflow that no one else needs and no one will ever request again.

2/X : Its also clear to me now is that more than ever, we must strive/(continue) pursuing being the "Angine de Poitrine" of vintage chip emulations to survive the plugin slop mess that is on everyone's IG feeds. Hard work, no shortcuts. But will anyone still care in a year?

Contemplating my first month with Linux as my daily driver. For 32 years Windows felt like home to me. It started getting less so over the years, but that feeling DRASTICALLY eroded in the last year until it suddenly felt like a fucking alien cesspool. I now call Linux my home.

Love to try out Friday’s latest build on low powered repurposed E-waste Chromebooks on the sofa. Relaxing

Aparently I just made a rather important discovery about the old (letter-less) RP2A03. Lidnariq (NESDEV guru just confirmed from die shots) essentially the lowest noise period value is different: 2046 instead of the 4068 in later revisions. This might change how certain sound effects sound

Also the internal levels of the channels do not (seem) to match the later versions exactly compared to a 2A03G setup as emulated in chipsynth FC beta. Watch this thread for more.

Aparently I just made a rather important discovery about the old (letter-less) RP2A03. Lidnariq (NESDEV guru just confirmed from die shots) essentially the lowest noise period value is different: 2046 instead of the 4068 in later revisions. This might change how certain sound effects sound

The old 2A03 was used in the Donkey Kong 3 and original Punch Out Arcades, the VS series and the very first batch of Famicoms sold (the buggy ones). Lets see if any of those games used the `$F` noise...

Aparently I just made a rather important discovery about the old (letter-less) RP2A03. Lidnariq (NESDEV guru just confirmed from die shots) essentially the lowest noise period value is different: 2046 instead of the 4068 in later revisions. This might change how certain sound effects sound

I was recording the @artemio.bsky.social / @pineight.com MDFourier test on it and, it sounded very odd in the LONG noise section, not ONLY in the short noise (which is not present at all). Did Saleae 1.79MHz captures and yes I was not imagining things:

Your yearly reminder (and first time on bsky!) that the WAVE specification's smpl.dwEnd (loop) member is inclusive, not exclusive