Chris Blume

Mountain of Woe?? Yeah right! This place is paydirt. Farm this specific rock, charm weapons that sell for a ton...

Chrono Trigger on PC only has achievements for seeing the different endings. *THIS* should be an achievement. Spekkio has different forms depending on your level. And it is difficult to get to him in the level 1-9 form.

W3C hosts a yearly event called TPAC. I have to intentionally not say or type "Tupac".

This article..."Caching an immediate-mode UI"... Brother, that's retained-mode.

When tech companies measure their uptime, I feel like it would be fair to not include when someone else messes up their BGP settings. However, the end user doesn't care what a BGP is. To them, it is down. From that perspective, I feel like it should be included.

Today's Fireship video is about stereotypes of today's programmers. One of them is the old, jaded programmer. "He is in his mid-30s." Ouch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv6B...

About eMudhra's private key being just 4... I need to revisit how this works. I thought the numbers had to be prime. The point is factoring primes is hard, right?

TIL about the ud2 x86-64 instruction. And the retroactive ud1 and ud0. Neato.

Out with "hill I'll die on". In with "garden I'll tend to".

I think that is the first time I saw AI misspell something. I wonder if this is an intentional marker to detect copying.

The @valheimgame.bsky.social team crushed it with the 1.0 update. The Deep North was amazing. That final boss was amazing. The ending cutscene was amazing. Thank you for making this. My friends and I hung up our final weapons and the crown.

Huh. Unraid doesn't support multipath.

The amount of tech that goes into just the vegetation for Alan Wake 2 is insane. Plants have "bones" so they can sway in the wind. Oh yeah, wind is computed. The plants are broken into meshlets, each of which has its own bounding sphere. The GPU checks that sphere's visibility.

Friggin' AI coding...I really don't want to like it but... It just tested >10k queries against two builds to find and understand where they diverge. Sure, I could have coded up a way to that diff queries. But understanding why they're different would have taken eyeball time.

I had a time-of-check to time-of-use bug across two processes. I'll be honest: I don't think I ever would have fixed a bug like that before AI.

I said I wouldn't buy the game until the furloughed staff are back. I'm keeping to my word. Gonna go buy it. Star Wars Zero Company developer Bit Reactor begins bringing furloughed staff back | GamesIndustry.biz share.google/ZuUvQaq0nzL1...

Sony publishes games on Steam. Microsoft publishes games on Steam. Imagine if Nintendo did, too. I would buy so many games day 1.

TIL Node does NOT like it when you stdout a non-ASCII character: github.com/nodejs/node/...

All these issues with GitHub actions are helping me find timing problems in my tests. :)

This podracing game (I'm calling it that) is great! Also, it is hard! Right now, <20% of players have made it out of qualifiers. I have not.

You know when you shut down your computer and "Still waiting on these programs: Explorer". I feel like that is very telling.

It is Oct 2nd. I'm boned. One down side to AI coding is a LOT of CI runs.

Fun debugging: Sometimes, CI is fast. Sometimes, it is dog slow. I have some code that archives data on the hour. But that data comes from the network. I gave it a timeout of 10 minutes past the hour for all data to have arrived. Sure enough, if I run my tests at 9:00am...

<me, to coworker> Some coding tasks are no longer interesting or challenging. I struggle with motivation on them. I wish I had a junior dev who would find them interesting. *monkey's paw curls* *Google releases the transformer paper that ushers in the age of AI*

Whoops. Let's go ahead and add node_modules/ to .gitignore

In the age of AI programming, I think we're going to see a LOT more tests. Not just unit/integration tests. Conformance, contract...

Another AI-related introspection: When I want something coded a specific way, I don't trust AI to follow the existing code base. I've tried and end up rewriting it. But when I don't care about code details and take a manager's view, I do trust AI--I can see the feature works.

Blender is an amazing example of open source success. It is wonderful. I need to check Gimp again. I feel like it needs some love, too.

std::vector<T>(size) default constructs |size| elements. IMHO, that should have only reserved, not constructed.

It is easy for me to envision when to use performance cores (time-critical) vs. efficiency cores (not). But there are cores in the middle I don't get. Surely it isn't just "not time critical but don't take too long". Maybe efficiency cores are missing certain units? SIMD?

omg I *just* learned there is a Win32 MsgWaitForMultipleObjects(), with "Msg" at the front. (The message queue isn't exposed as a handle and so there previously was no way to sleep until a message *or* an event.) Today is a good day!

It's embarrassing how long it took me to get around to coding up console formatting.

I'm designing a simple DIY CPU that can be made easily enough with discrete components. This means limiting transistor count. I'm seriously considering dropping conditional branches in favor of the PDP-8's style conditional skip.

How is it 2026 and Windows doesn't have a way to set a per-program default network adapter? I'm sure we'll get 100 more hated features before it's on someone's TODO list, too.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is already happening behind the scenes and waiting for privacy to dip enough to monetize it. I suspect 'associations' will be tracked. IE you and these 3 other people all suddenly saw this wifi point. And again on these occasions.

An old, old website I run had 17.5k hits *today*. They're almost entirely AI bots.

I want to play Star Wars Zero Company. But I *hate* that they furloughed their people. I do not want to support a company that does that.