hexasquid

red blob games is a treasure

My screen reader says "eleven why" for a11y. I hope that's fine with everyone

It has taken LLMs to encourage companies to prioritise a clean codebase, tickets with unambiguous context and examples of what is right and wrong when onboarding new team members.

If only we cared so much for junior developers.

This is interesting in light of the discussion on hacker news yesterday, where folk were talking about how they had to learn how to make games work on early PCs, given limitations that aren't present to the young today.

Motivated kids can find a way! Perhaps evading age gates will produce the next generation of hackers.

Dr Manhattan

I think what you are describing is covered by either an E reader or the giant collection of how-to explantions on YouTube?

I expect 20 years from now there will be people reminiscing "remember claude.md? Back then we knew how it all worked. We had deep control. We counted tokens, chose the model..."

A few years ago they couldn't do fingers properly

Today they can't even understand the nuances of Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting.

What won't they be able to do two years from now?

And for Dark Souls AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrHKzKQdZxY&t=1366s

I wonder what happened in the past 3 years which put this on the agenda of all these countries.

Standard contempt for web developers.

This is consistent with the endless contempt people have had for JavaScript and those that use it.

I hope it's shepherds

I scrolled the article and there were frames during the scroll where half a line of text was clipped by the start and bottom of the viewport.

"clanker"

Slang for an AI, used by a Blade Runner

"Don't think of an elephant"

I'm not sure if Tex has a way to express mobile/desktop aware layouts, or to enable the reader to adjust only the font size (my ignorance)

So many complaints about web technology, where is the replacement? I'd be interested to know if there was the one true layout system that everyone agrees on

Using language to represent reality is lossy

Indeed.

I often see comments on the ethics and water/energy consumption of AI, but very few for non-vegan* developers boiling water for their coffees in air conditioned offices that require a commute, which I assume is a common default.

*blue-water usage of a burger patty is worth looking up, I was astonished

I'm coming around to liking them; they're like a sort of anti-shibboleth.

"Ah, an em-dash", I think: "now I know".

Introducing JSON scoped comments, far superior to JSON conventional comments. People who use those are our rivals.

Disney, here to save kids from screens.

Reminds me of when I saw a bunch of tshirts with the word "PUNK" written on them displayed in a window in a mall.

Sinister Dexter Adroit Gauche Left handed compliment Right hand man

Extrapolating the final position of the goalposts

"Ambiguity is the enemy", as a rule of thumb, has helped me

No machine could create the sublime human connection I get from Crazy Frog.

When a human makes a I IV V it's art

When a machine does it, soulless

Hold the jokes until we're sure this isn't an `.unwrap()`

We?