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dave84··on DropZap World – My falling block game with lasers, released after years of work
DropZap! Blast from the past, congrats on the new release. Not available in Europe though.
dave84··on Show HN: Flowcode – Turing-complete visual programming platform
Unrelated to https://www.flowcode.co.uk/
dave84··on Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic
Recently I asked 4o to ‘try again’ when it failed to respond fully, it started telling me about some song called Try Again. It seems to lose context a lot in the conversations now.
dave84··on Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
Things 3, really polished todo/personal task manager app. I also use on iOS and Apple Watch. Blackhole, sound routing e.g recording os audio when screen recording.
dave84··on Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project (2021)
They messed up the pricing time and again sadly, then they made it free and now they killed the classroom product.
dave84··on FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994)
Still actively used for releases in the demoscene.
dave84··on Turn Your iPhone into a Dumb Phone
No mention of the iPhone’s built in ‘Assistive Access’ mode. That would be my first port of call for turning it into a dumb phone.
dave84··on Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental wellbeing
I’ll never forget the sense of wellbeing I felt after my first “sun holiday” further south, it was revelatory.
dave84··on Ask HN: How often do you restart your computer?
Only when I need Keynote to recognise a newly installed font.
dave84··on Ask HN: Who are your most treasured live coders?
There's a fairly substantial Demoscene live coding community with shader coding and non-competitive jams (with an archive here: https://livecode.demozoo.org/)

You can take a look at the final of the Shader Showdown at Revision last year here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ7KAD0NyGw

There's a TIC-80 'bytejam' every Monday Night (8 or 9pm UK time depending on the week) on https://www.twitch.tv/fieldfxdemo

And you can catch some previous VODs here: https://scenesat.com/videoarchive

dave84··on Ask HN: How does Apple CarPlay work?
You can get a wireless CarPlay adapter for cheap and just leave that plugged in.

And that page 18 seems to have nothing to do with the car manufacturer.

dave84··on Ask HN: Why can't ChatGPT respond in plain English?
I give up. Best of luck OP.
dave84··on Ask HN: Why can't ChatGPT respond in plain English?
Again, I can see that. I want to know what they actually tried and what the result is that they're unsatisfied with to take as a starting point.
dave84··on Ask HN: Why can't ChatGPT respond in plain English?
Very helpful reply, thanks. I use it every day and have no issues getting to to generate an appropriate tone for my responses so I want more concrete examples of the issues.
dave84··on Ask HN: Why can't ChatGPT respond in plain English?
Can you give example prompts and responses?
dave84··on Tiny Code Christmas
The creator of Uxn/Varvara is actually doing TCC again this year and they have published code so you can take a look. Lots of approximations for avoiding square roots and trig. Good discussion on the discord about it.
dave84··on Ask HN: What is your most wanted HN feature?
I wish posts I just read wouldn’t disappear completely when I press the back button due to being flagged or whatever, especially if they’re on the front page. Happens enough to annoy me.
dave84··on Tiny Code Christmas
Highly variable based on your previous programming experience but it’s designed to not take up too much of your time.
dave84··on Tiny Code Christmas
Thanks for posting, if anyone has any questions about Tiny Code Christmas, feel free to ask.

It's not too late to start, there's no time limit. It's all very informal so you can start anytime and the videos and website will stay up. Checkout #lovebytetcc on Mastodon to see what people are up to, the discord is also very welcoming and active if people are stuck and need help.

dave84··on Tiny Code Christmas
Thanks for posting! I tried a Show HN and it got nowhere.
dave84··on Ask HN: Best Tech articles in popular media like NYTimes, newyorker, wired etc.?
What is code? https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-co...
dave84··on Ask HN: How did you land your first job?
Still cool. I enjoyed that documentary.
dave84··on Ask HN: How did you land your first job?
Fog Creek?
dave84··on Inércia 2023
Almost all of it was in English from what I saw on stream.
dave84··on Why is the iOS keyboard getting worse every year?
Yes. I had previously wondered if iOS keyboard usage could be used to track cognitive decline in Health, but the keyboard is declining faster than I am.
dave84··on Obfuscating Lua (2019)
Somewhat tangential, pakettic[0] is a minifier for TIC-80 cartridges (a fantasy console) that use genetic algorithms to minimise and rearrange the Lua code to compress better in sizecoded demoscene competitions.

[0] https://github.com/vsariola/pakettic

dave84··on Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT
I’m on my third pair of AirPods Pro, two warranty replacements and about to try for a third.
dave84··on Best App for Budgeting?
Happy YNAB user here.
dave84··on Copying Angry Birds with nothing but AI
I remember playing Galaga while Tekken loaded on the PS1.
dave84··on What is the Demoscene? An interview
EMF Camp has an entire demoparty contained within it: Field-FX!
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