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arduinomancer··on Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
I mean the Handmade hero game
arduinomancer··on Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
Did Casey ever finish the video series?
arduinomancer··on No Graphics API
To be honest there isn't really one, a lot of these concepts are advanced even for graphics programmers
arduinomancer··on My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
You don't have to use the same solution for work and personal notes
arduinomancer··on My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
What I realized at least for me is that work notes and personal notes are two different use cases

The .txt file approach works for work stuff because I never need to reference it on mobile, if I'm doing software development I need to be on a computer anyway.

Whereas personal stuff I need an actual notetaking app like Notion for the mobile usability

arduinomancer··on My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
I've done the same thing for a long time

The only extra thing is I set up autohotkey macros

For example typing $today or $yesterday will insert the date with a dividing line underneath to separate days into clear blocks

I've tried a lot of different note apps and what I eventually realized is that when it comes to work, I generally don't actually care about old notes 98% of the time.

I only really care about the last week or two and when everything is in one file its optimized for viewing that, like a working memory.

The text file ends up gigantic but its still small data for a computer even after many years of adding to a single file and searching is still fast.

arduinomancer··on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
Every time I see an article like this I ask the same question: show me the money?

If it’s so good why hasn’t it made you rich?

arduinomancer··on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
Not everyone is building web apps/web services

The more niche the thing you’re working on the worse results I’ve found these tools to give

arduinomancer··on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
These articles act like creating new demo apps or isolated tools is what software development is all about
arduinomancer··on Things that aren't doing the thing
Have you considered the idea that it is just exaggerating to make a point and isn’t meant to be taken literally?

Exaggeration is a common technique employed in human language for emphasis.

arduinomancer··on Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
Exactly, the whole process is a business itself
arduinomancer··on Steam Frame
I’ve never seen that in my entire life
arduinomancer··on Steam Frame
It’s not foveated rendering, it’s foveated streaming
arduinomancer··on Steam Frame
To be fair its obviously not meant for professional work

Valve is a game company

arduinomancer··on Macro Splats 2025
Educational visualization seems like a really good use case for GS
arduinomancer··on Ask HN: What Is Your Hobby?
Ripping through single track forest trails on 2-stroke dirt bikes

I joke that it’s the most opposite activity from programming

arduinomancer··on Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves?
Yeah for me figuring out _what_ to build and estimating it are the biggest problems day to day
arduinomancer··on Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves?
I’ve found that as well

It’s a good idea to take some time to understand how the official language docs are organized so that you can just jump there straight away and bypass all the noise

arduinomancer··on Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves?
I’ve noticed that as well with README’s

Sometimes you come upon a library and it tells you what it does but there is no explanation or context on why you would want to use it

arduinomancer··on Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves?
That is an interesting idea, like a universal bug tracker

If you could report a bug on any product/project and it’s up to the users to open/verify/close it

Could put pressure on companies to improve quality since the number of bugs is public

arduinomancer··on GPUHammer: Rowhammer attacks on GPU memories are practical
I tried knocking on my wall 100,000 times and it did indeed cause a disturbance in the neighbouring cell of my apartment

Turns out this whole virtualized house abstraction is a sham

arduinomancer··on Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels
That does not follow

It’s possible to apply systems, frameworks, or categorizations that are actually wrong or overstated

arduinomancer··on Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels
I find it entertaining and view it more as a writing device

The author obviously adds some exaggeration to get the point across

I don’t think they actually think everyone does this

arduinomancer··on Ask HN: Which skill do you believe will take the longest to be replaced by AI?
The phrase “outdated tech stack from 2022” is kind of hilarious

Out of date after only 3 years?

arduinomancer··on Ask HN: What HN posts inspired or changed your perspective the most?
3d graphics programming
arduinomancer··on Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
I can definitely see this being used for lower end advertising

I’ve noticed ads with AI voices already, but having it lip synced with someone talking in a video really sells it more

arduinomancer··on What is HDR, anyway?
HDR on desktop in windows looks straight up broken on some HDR monitors I’ve tried

Like totally washed out

arduinomancer··on People say they’ll pay more for “made in the USA” so we ran a test
But they can’t make the product for that price so what’s the point?
arduinomancer··on UK Colleges are a Joke
Wait till you hear about UK masters degrees
arduinomancer··on Ask HN: What are your unpopular opinions about programming?
This is surprisingly popular among programmers
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