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new bearblog post on data integrity in serial comms I go into different ways of ensuring integrity including shortcomings of a simple xor checksum and how to fix it hop in

@aikins01 niiiice 🔥🔥

@willofdaedalus yeah

and just like that, first release of reflect >|< is out for macos at reflect.aikins.xyz reflect is an app for android users who happen to use macos and or are jealous of iphone mirroring app. it works like the iphone mirroring app. so your android stays where you work

the last time I had a talk loads of people said they missed because I didn't make it known so here if you missed my talk in March, I'll be giving another this Saturday 30th May on embedded systems this time with a live firmware demo sign up below luma.com/3b0il40a

dude thinks we drink water through out ears

with AI in the mix I got most of the vfx down Claude helped with a clean 1D-noise generator helper the wave is not as clean as I want it but tbh it won't be needed in the game so it's fine? I'll tweak it more tomorrow but so far so good :)

not the flashiest update but I have a screen rendering text now this is basically writing a basic rich text engine in raylib

this game idea has been eating at me this whole month I'm doing it tonight I'll be tracking my progress below

@alex__codes @Zeddysix silksong did this and it's smaller than gta vi be fr

@Zeddysix bro don’t speak it into existence 😭

POV: It’s November 19, 2026. GTA 6 came out an hour ago, but you still can’t play because PSN crashed due to the biggest traffic spike in gaming history.

グラフィックデザイナー・映像作家の田村育歩さん @tamuraikuho のポートフォリオサイトを制作しました！ 「作品を育てていく」という思想を主軸に、道具として手に馴染むようなサイトを目指しました💥 サウンドUIはSKYTOPIAさん @skytopia_music です！ tamura-ikuho.com ※音が鳴ります

@kofiro222 typing test but it's something is haunting the whole thing I'm not sure how to put again 😹😹

@willofdaedalus What idea bro?

@JesseStojan @hyperbitgore @raysan5 come on man 😕

@hyperbitgore @raysan5 I mean ok, that's obvious, but the rest of it is generally common. Though honestly what is this, Pantone license? Also a brand, but still saying the whole API is a rip off is like saying Raylib ripped off OpenGL and many game/rendering engines.

Wow! It seems somebody already vibe-coded a game-engine with an extremely similar API to raylib... unfortunately no mention to raylib, at all... 😓

> To all the 'IT Professionals' who all of a sudden are making all manner of spurious claims... IT Professionals in quotes eh? shows the level of respect you have for us vim vim

@TheDumbTechGuy on top of the taxes all them want bill me add 😹

@willofdaedalus Well I already pay taxes.

Ei. The fees are crazy ooo! Do they think tech folk are raking in cash? Especially in the local market? Seriously this is outrageous! regulatory.nita.gov.gh/portal/regulat…

@thenoblet @kwesi_dadson ei

@kwesi_dadson @willofdaedalus dem dey call you o

A lot of Ghanaian tech bros are millionaires in Nigeria. Crazy

I barely do this but I beg any Ghanaian to read the following write up by Chris-Vincent Agyapong. Bookmark, share etc cos wtf 😳 1/4 “Ghana's NITA Bill 2025: How a Government That Cannot Fix Potholes Wants to Certify Your Keyboard Strokes There is a particular brand of Ghanaian governance that operates on a simple, well-rehearsed logic: identify the one sector in which ordinary young people, without connections, without family money, without a politician uncle are actually building something for themselves, and then erect a magnificent bureaucratic tollbooth right in the middle of it. The National Information Technology Authority Bill, 2025 currently making its way through Ghana's legislative machinery with the quiet confidence of a document probably written by a majority of people who have never debugged a line of code in their lives is precisely that tollbooth. It is, in its 105 sections and accompanying Schedule, one of the most breathtaking exercises in regulatory overreach this country has produced in recent memory. And given our regulatory track record, that is genuinely saying something. The ICT sector is the one industry where a boy from Ashaiman, or, like my friend from Pulima, Aliu Wahab, with a second-hand laptop and a YouTube tutorial, can compete with someone whose father went to Achimota. It is the one space where talent, not tribe; skill, not surname; output, not old-boy network, still carries meaningful weight. It is, bluntly, the only functioning meritocracy left in Ghana's economic life. And our government, with the NITA Bill 2025 has decided that this is precisely the sector that requires the most elaborate regulatory architecture since the tale of Moses coming down from Sinai with the Ten Commandments. The Absurdity of Section 46: Certifying Everyone, Everywhere, Always Let us begin with what is, without competition, the most extraordinary provision in this bill. Section 46(1) states, in plain and unambiguous terms: "A person shall not be appointed as an ICT professional in a public or private institution unless that person is certified by the Authority." Read that again. Public or private. This is not a provision that limits itself to government systems handling national security data. This is not a narrow carve-out for critical infrastructure. This is a provision that means the software developer at a startup in Osu, the data analyst at a logistics firm in Tema, the web designer freelancing from her bedroom in Kumasi, all of them, every single one must first obtain certification from a government authority before they can lawfully be employed. Who dreamed this up? Under what theory of governance does it make sense for the government of Ghana which cannot consistently process a DVLA licence within six months, which spent years and hundreds of millions on a national identification system that still cannot talk to the health insurance database to position itself as the certifying gatekeeper for an entire profession across the entire economy? And here is the delicious irony that the framers of this bill seem constitutionally incapable of perceiving: the government's own ICT record is the single most compelling argument against giving it certification authority over anyone. You do not hand the keys of the wine cellar to the person who has been drinking the wine. Politicians: The One Profession That Needs Certification Most, and Gets It Least Since we are on the subject of certification, let us pause to consider who in this country is not required to demonstrate any competence whatsoever before being handed consequential power over millions of lives. Continued below

I've truly built something special here. My Magnum Opus. radioactive-labs.github.io/plutonium-core/

started learning programming via games in 2015 slowed down in 2023, but I still make tiny games in firmware pong on 20x4 lcd, flappy bird on 16x4, reaction games; all in ~3kb ram & 32kb flash in fact my not so secret side project is related to games in firmware but another time

@opencode @thdxr