Chad Gibbons

this is so accurate 😂

90% of hardware development is just waiting for packages

@xwanyex but, you know, sometimes you gotta

I can sometimes display a kind of raw determination that would be a lot more lucrative were it applied to, say, business and not dumb ape stuff like digging out a tree stump with hand tools

About two months ago I announced that I was beginning a march through my backlog of personal projects with fire and sword and robot friend, aiming to clean out all of my technical debt. I have in fact been maintaining a steady project-release pace of one per day ever since. I'm down to just five projects left to ship updates for...and my backlog of bugs, MRs, and serious to-do items is clear. I cannot remember the last time I had this light a burden of Stuff I Really Ought To Do. It's been at least 40 years. I'm not going to run out of work. I have two biggish projects in mind for after, neither of which I'm willing to talk about yet because I believe in show, don't tell. And there's always that book on programmer mindset I have almost finished, and the science-fiction novel I keep meaning to get back to. I expected to live out a statistically normal lifespan and die with a lot of projects still not quite finished and stable enough to be up to my standards. Powerful AI assistance has changed all that. All bitching about slop cannons and hallucinations aside, these are truly wondrous times.

THE ARTEMIS II COUNTDOWN CLOCK IS RUNNING!!

Every indie game dev knows that before you decide on your game's mechanics, you need to create a complete globe simulation with climate, cloud formation, precipitation, a water table, astronomically correct stars, planets, and moon.

@market_sleuth i wanted one of those apps so bad when i was a teenager... they look so amazing

The 1st song I played with the 1986 Onkyo 400 watt amp was “Riders on the Storm” by the Doors. Oh my. The thing about high current amps isn’t the loudness, it’s the headroom of the audio signal. Low volumes is where it shines. Bass is tight, mids crisp & highs balanced. Bliss. 🎼

Scariest impact of AI so far is managers are coding again.

@potatoslav super jelly

pizza

@rakyll Yay!!

Last week, I became a pure individual contributor again and it's been the best thing happened to me in the last five years. This is the best time to be a programmer.

@buccocapital When I was a teen in the 80s I remember old men (older than boomers) bitching about the 70s inflation period. At the time I didn't get it. I totally get it now.

Inflation has completely destroyed my understanding of what things should be worth $10,000 for daycare? Sure? $100 for breakfast? OK. But also the biggest TV you have ever seen in your life? $500

@MuseumCommodore my favorite!

I feel Seven Cities of Gold doesn't get as much love as it should. Not only was it a great game it pioneered procedural world generation, exploration-focused strategy. Who remembers this one?

@potatoslav The big science museum is super fun

going to Munich this weekend. please send Munich suggestions

@davepl1968 Programming Pearls remains one of my favorites

Me too! Back when I started at Microsoft, on your first day, you were given three books: - Programmers at Work - K&R C - Programming Pearls Programmers at Work is a great book, and if you can still find it, you should get it! Plus, the chapters are short, so modern attention spans can tolerate it!

and rounding out our top 10 of 1984, "Police Academy (the movie) but with mice" @NanoBanana

"This Is Spinal Tap but with grackles" @NanoBanana

Let's reimagine movies with @NanoBanana Pro. 1984 has a bunch of great movies, so let's start there. "ghostbusters but with gnomes"