Jason Olson

@diannahaze This is such wonderful news. I'm so incredibly happy for you and your husband!

@dblasphemy I've always loved this one <3

Good morning and happy Throwback Thursday. Here's "Dispersion" from 2007. It was also my first work minted as an NFT back in Sept '21.

Perhaps we just call it SEMantic versioning. Shame-Eh-Mega-antic versioning. Or Shamanic versioning, SHame-Apathetic-Mega-anic versioning.

Yes, very high watermark. But when it comes to the music/sound being a natural extension of the visuals, I happen to think Hans Zimmer might take the cake. Zimmer breaks out of the "European-based Orchestra" tropes and can build completely immersive worlds in sound. Both are great though!

@cliftonaduncan His collaboration with John Williams is also the high watermark for integration of orchestration with visuals. The last ten minutes of E.T., for example, is the best "visual symphony" I can think of - and apparently Spielberg actually recut the film to make it work:

I just started working on a legacy PHP code base at work. I've never worked with PHP code before, and it's very interesting! Granted, I love all things programming languages, so not a surprise. Some interesting patterns and techniques that can be applied in PHP. It's not That Bad.

SWEs who enjoy doing unpleasant shit has unfair advantage at work. You grind LeetCode and love using modern tech stacks for greenfield projects. You’ll be immediately replaced by a person who dives into legacy PHP projects and destroys bugs like they’re morning pancakes.

@trashh_dev No WONDER why Rockwell felt that somebody was watching him :P. Rockwell = Time Traveler confirmed?!?

wtf is this

@cmuratori @deadalnix HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Now that right there is a clever reply 🤣.

@deadalnix I mean, it's right there in the acronym: AI is just API without the "P", which stands for "Programming", the thing the AI can't do :P

The fact this helps at all is a testament to how bad the API we have to work with are. Fix the API, get AI out of a job.

@LowLevelTweets @PirateSoftware It can be interesting to see _who_ (and what "class") is recommending AI and how that benefits them (e.g. "financial"). Not always the case of course, but it can sometimes reveal semi-hidden motivations.

@PirateSoftware It’s insane to me that people still think the solution to all of our problems is to use AI, a technology that has yet to reliably solve any actual problems.

Don't worry guys. Our multi-billion dollar corporation will make better games than their multi-billion dollar corporation. You can trust us because we're definitely on your side and real gamers too. Since we know games so well we're using AI to make the best games like in the old days when they had no AI and consoles had less processing power than a toaster. Man, this is going to be great for the games industry and for you. What a time to be alive.

I need to embrace this more

A very stoic view! It's often the challenges and pushing through those challenges and resistance that develops the skills/muscles to succeed. Sadly, I often find myself avoiding the hard stuff out of anxiety or fear of conflict. That's perhaps been my largest source of stunted growth.

Paths of least resistance will leave you broke, empty, devoid of capability and, thus, dependent Paths of resistance have the opposite affect I wonder if more resistance necessarily results in more capability Im sure at some point you hit a point of diminishing returns

I think over the coming weekend, I want to learn more about Visual Pinball (VPX) in order to get into developing pinball machines. I love Pinball and the idea of learning to program them sounds incredibly fun!

@0xglitchbyte It's also amazing how taking that first step can make all subsequent steps easier too. I also find more and more that its the work itself that helps develop the ongoing motivation, not the other way around.

If you’re procrastinating, just do the work Its way less painful than procrasinating Your future self will thank you

I want a pinball machine in my home office. If I got that and a good Mame arcade cabinet both, I'd be set. Talk about a stimulation heaven for me, LOL.

@Obliquities @Ascended_OG Yeah, talking about painting a picture with words that paints _quite_ a picture 🤣. Love it!

@raggi @ThePrimeagen Brilliant! Broken new year's resolutions to the rescue :D.

@jolson88 @ThePrimeagen A few months into the year there’s always a lot going on sale second hand - make a calendar entry now and you can have everything you want super cheap

just did my first workout can confirm, very toxic javascript is for soydevs

Wanting to get into embedded/automotive programming. Thinking I'll get started via telemetry tooling using ACC and games. Would love to see if I could eventually find a way to hack around with my Honda civic.

I don't suppose there is anybody who will read this that happens to have experience/knowledge around software development in the F1/Indycar/racing space?

Our attachment to having what we want and to getting rid of what we do not want brings us out of the present moment and immerses us in the mind's incessant storylines.