> PICO-8 is my go-to when I'm burnt out on client work.
I have been circling doing this for the same reason, any recommendation or tutorials?
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I have been circling doing this for the same reason, any recommendation or tutorials?
The problem, what scares me, is the feeling of emptiness it leaves me with. Before, writing code brought me joy. Today, when I write code that I am not allowed to automate it just feels like a chore. It's a bit like how once you get used to a powerful IDE, writing code in, say, Notepad, becomes a chore.
It also means that my brain really, really wants to forget the basics. Why write:
api.users.forEach(({ id:u, name, contact:{ email, phone="—" }, roles:[r,...rs], active, meta:{ ...m } = {} }, i, a) => console.log({ u, name, email, phone, role:r, others:rs, active, metaKeys:Object.keys(m), index:i, total:a.length }));
When I could just right-click in the IDE and type "loop through users". Heck, I even asked an LLM to generate that example because I didn't feel like thinking, let alone typing that line.
That's what scares me the most.
For now? I still remember how to code. But coding makes me feel like I'm wasting my time, because my brain knows it can offload this task.
It was the same when Google Maps took over. Before, I was able to find my way around my city, go to the next town over and find a place just from the address. Now? I can’t do it anymore.
Before, I could memorize dozens of phone numbers. Now, I can't do that anymore.
Soon, I'm afraid I won't be able to write code anymore.
It turned out the building had been sealed extremely tightly to keep out the winter cold and because it is old, it does not have a proper HVAC system.
They discovered that CO2 levels stayed around 1200 ppm throughout the entire winter, sometimes even higher. This had likely been the case for decades.
It is a school in a small, low‑income town. I cannot help wondering how many kids were labeled as underperforming when they were actually struggling with the effects of chronically elevated CO2 levels.
Could it be that you unconsciously prefer serif fonts to sans serif fonts? Sans serif fonts are preferred by people with dyslexia, for example.
Another thing that comes to mind is high contrast in stroke thickness, thick vertical strokes and thin horizontal or curved strokes. This is reminiscent of engravings and calligraphy, but can be difficult to read on a screen, especially when the font size is small. Anti-aliasing options can also affect this and lead to even greater differences between letters than expected.
Articles like this one may provide you with the right words to describe what you don't like about certain fonts: https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/a-beginners-guide-to-web-...
Pixel phones have been that way for a while now. Phone cases usually add the missing part to make it flat, e.g. https://www.spigen.com/products/pixel-10-series-case-tough-a...
A better example would be Americans being able to travel freely to USMCA countries.
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
It's not the machines themselves that are inherently tyrannical, it's the human will to dominate now supercharge by technology.
LLM hallucinations aside, unregulated artificial intelligence for mental health therapy is a very slippery slope. We cannot allow, say, advertisers and brands to have access to the mind of our most vulnerables so directly.
e.g. https://csszengarden.com/221/ https://csszengarden.com/214/ https://csszengarden.com/123/
The idea of having a screen on my wrist doesn't particularly appeal to me.
My partner has one and when they turn over in bed, I am sometimes blinded by the screen which still glows brightly even at the lowest setting in complete darkness.
That's why I'm considering a e-ink watch. The reason I didn't commit yet is that I fear that notifications and such before bedtime could be just as harmful to my nightline peacefulness.
Personally, I'm not particularly impressed. Yes, I'm impressed by the technology and the fact that we've reached a point where something like this is even possible, but in my opinion, it's soulless and suffers from the same problems as other AI videos. More emphasis was placed on length than quality, and I've seen shorter, traditionally produced videos that had more heart. That's probably because these videos were created by amateurs who thought the AI would fill in all the gaps, but that only underscores the need for human artists with a keen eye.
This was also the era of jQuery with easy to use AJAX methods, which enabled almost anyone to create a front-end that calls backend code.
All of that was simple code that was easy to share with others on forums. This led to insecure websites where, to exaggerate slightly, every input field could be used for SQL injection attacks.
To be fair with PHP of that era, it was possible to create secure websites with it. It's that the ease of use created the illusion that once the website worked, you didn't have to tackle any other portions of development process such as quality control or security.
It was a glorious era.
Given the numerous security vulnerabilities that make verification data publicly accessible, this is a reason for me to stop using the platform. As soon as the platform classifies me as a minor based on my preference for, say, low-quality memes and cartoons as background noise, I will never visit it again.
Yet at the same time,
> Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government [...] LLMs shall be neutral, nonpartisan tools that do not manipulate responses in favor of ideological dogmas such as DEI. [...] DEI includes the suppression or distortion of factual information about race or sex; manipulation of racial or sexual representation in model outputs; incorporation of concepts like critical race theory, transgenderism, unconscious bias, intersectionality, and systemic racism; and discrimination on the basis of race or sex. [1]
I don't understand how free speech can be protected while suppressing topics such as "unconscious bias" and "discrimination".
[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/prev...