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jordemorton Equinox.space

I'm sure it's not the fault of the game, but this straight-up crashed my machine after about a minute of play. Screen froze, everything went unresponsive for a couple seconds, then I got about half a second of a pure magenta screen, and my machine rebooted. M1 Pro Macbook Pro, Sonoma 14.4.1, Firefox 125.0.1.

jordemorton Radxa Rock 5 ITX: 8-Core ARM Mini ITX Board with LPDDR5 RAM

I'd love something like this with socketed RAM so much, the only ARM boards I've seen with socketed RAM so far are high-end expensive server stuff.

jordemorton I stopped paying taxes a decade ago. The results shocked me

I skipped paying mine for a year, when I was younger. I had done an early withdrawal on a 401K to finance a vacation to Europe, and I knew I owed, but I didn't have any money and I didn't want to deal with it, so I just didn't. Nobody ever bothered me about it. I squared up with the IRS the year after and they put me on a payment plan, no trouble.

jordemorton Sega Saturn Architecture – A practical analysis (2021)

I always felt like N64 games were doing way too much to look good on the crappy CRTs they were usually hooked up to. The other consoles of the era may have had more primitive GPUs, but for the time I think worse may have actually been better, because developers on other platforms were limited by the hardware in how illegible they could make their games. Pixel artists of the time had learned to lean into and exploit the deficiencies of CRTs, but the same tricks can't really be applied when your texture is going to be scaled and distorted by some arbitrary amount before making it to the screen.

jordemorton Meta outage

Also got logged out an all devices, and can't get logged back in, or successfully complete a password reset. In the US. Glad it's not just me...

jordemorton Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simple

Does this still work on current versions of Ruby? The GitHub repo looks like it has a commit as recently as 3 months ago but the project hasn't made a release to Rubygems since 2017.

jordemorton Infinite Craft

Got really obsessed with this, need to close the tab now. Some notes:

- In general, play the game as if you are asking an 11 year old, "what do you get when you combine X and Y?" The LLM likes rhymes and similar-sounding syllables, i.e. The Godfather + Goth => Gothfather.

- Some concepts seem to be "weightier" than others; "Dracula" usually becomes "Vampire" and vice-versa, no matter what you combine it with. "Chtulhu" is also difficult to combine with other things; it tends to remain "Cthulhu". "Darth Vader" is good for generating lots of "Darth" things but tends to revert to "Darth Vader" at the slightest provocation. "Santa / Santa Claus / Christmas" is also weighty and tends to cycle. Similarly, the Mario characters all tend to turn into Mario eventually.

- The longer your token gets, the harder it is to get it to combine with other things. "Bumblefrostycatpocalypse" + most things => "Bumblefrostycatpocalypse"

- The LLM knows lots of movie titles, and these are good for generating super long tokens, especially if you can goad it into inserting a colon, i.e. "The Fall of Star Wars: The Flying Crabster"

- Once your token gets too long, the game won't even try to combine it with anything else. I'd like to keep going with "Freddy Mercury vs. Jason + Jedi Mind Trick" but it won't let me.

Finally, a few of my favorite first discoveries: "Super Evil Jackie Chan", "The Best Halloween Costume Ever", "Postpornmodernism"

jordemorton Tomahawk, the Most Important Music App Nobody's Talking About (2012)

I loved this app, it was so good. I was just whining on Mastodon the other day about how it's gone and nothing has taken its place.

jordemorton Show HN: EXT – an easy way to build cross-platform desktop software

You should publish to Flathub so I can give this a try on my Steam Deck ;)

jordemorton Show HN: #!/usr/bin/env docker run

The upgrade files for a product I used to work on was (and perhaps still is) a .tar.gz file with a shell script prepended to them, to make a self-extracting/self-executing archive. The archive wasn't even base64 encoded or anything; just binary data with some text in front that can find the beginning of the binary.

jordemorton Statement regarding the ongoing Sourcehut outage

Oof, my heart goes out to them. My very first week at [large popular public code forge], we were attacked by [state level actor], probably for hosting something that [state] didn't like. In a way, SourceHut and Codeberg getting this kind of attention is an encouraging sign that these alternative forges are starting to gain traction.

jordemorton PHOLED Will Transform Displays

Sounds about right

jordemorton Motorola's pioneering 8-bit 6800: Origins and architecture

Based on what? The data sources I can find put inflation since 1975 at ~470%, which sounds high, but even then $25 is only ~$140, not $442.01

jordemorton Roundcube open-source webmail software merges with Nextcloud

I really want to like Nextcloud. I had it all set up perfectly earlier this year with their "AIO" setup. Then some upgrade came along and completely destroyed my install, couldn't get the containers to start after that, couldn't figure out how to debug it; seemed like the only way to get it back on its feet was to wipe and start over. I wiped; I haven't started over yet.

jordemorton Leonard vs. Pepsico, Inc

That seems to imply that there is a price at which they WILL sell one to a civilian, though.

jordemorton Underrated Feature on a Chromebook: Install with Linux

I'd heard of Crouton and the like but I hadn't heard that Chromebooks had (what appears to be) a native and supported way of installing Linux applications. What distribution is hiding under the covers there?

jordemorton Fcron Is the Best Cron

It already exists: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/systemd-cron/systemd-cro...

jordemorton Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator

> f you use this locally instead you could then terminate the entire iterm program and reopen it and restore the same exact window/tab/pane splits you previously had. This is a nice perk for restarting/updating iTerm.

iTerm seems to be able to pull this off itself during upgrades, even without tmux. The first time it happened, I was surprised, and now I just install iTerm updates with abandon, knowing that all my 40 terminal windows and all the stuff in them will come back after the update.

jordemorton Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023

I really like step[1] and step-ca[2] for this, it's a lot less fiddly than having to drive OpenSSL directly.

1. https://github.com/smallstep/cli

2. https://github.com/smallstep/certificates

jordemorton We built the fastest CI and it failed

I'm glad that they're just shutting down the service and not closing up shop entirely. I really like the tool (to the point that I regularly stop by their careers page); the syntax for an Earthfile is a very sensible and incremental evolution of Dockerfile syntax, and it makes a whole bunch of things easy that were either previously impossible or very awkward with a Dockerfile alone.

I remember when Docker introduced BuildKit and buildx, they were trying to push Dockerfiles as a general-purpose build system (i.e. not just for containers but also for producing file artifacts and the like) - Earthly takes that idea and really delivers on it.

jordemorton Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023)

Location: Chicago, IL, US

Remote: Yes (remote only)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Docker, Python, C, Go, Embedded Linux

Résumé/CV: https://jordemort.dev/portfolio/

Email: jordan@caketop.app

Here are some of things I have done for my previous employers, that I could be doing for you:

- Put all your services in containers, and make it easy to spin up development environments that resemble your production environment

- Package your SaaS into a virtual machine image that customers can self-host, and publish versions of it for all the major clouds and hypervisors

- Create Linux-based firmware for your embedded device, and work with the folks at the factory to get it flashed on the production line

- Reverse-engineer that weird binary that came in your board's BSP, and tell you exactly what it is doing and how to replicate it

- Write clever blog posts and technical articles about your products, which will explain how to use them while also being fun to read

- Lead a team of engineers, help them grow in their roles, and ship things

I love startups and greatly prefer them over working at a big company. I only work remotely, and I prefer to work for remote-first companies; I'm happy to meet up in person a few times a year, though. I'm a GitHub alumnus (from back before the acquisition) and have been a guest author for Linux Weekly News. I have an M.S. in Computer Science and over twenty years of industry experience. I live in the US Midwest, so I might be cheaper than you're expecting!

jordemorton Texas could get a bullet train between Houston and Dallas

If there was ever a way to sell high speed rail in Texas, calling it a "bullet" train is it. If it actually gets built, I bet the train is painted to look like an actual bullet.

jordemorton Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://jordemort.dev/blog/

I blog mostly about assorted tech topics; usually my posts are about something I was working with and found interesting.

jordemorton Disabling Matrix Portalling

I guess I'll add "set up Heisenbridge" to my TODO list; the number of "actual" Matrix rooms that I'm in is very few compared to the number of bridged IRC channels, and most of those are on Libera.

jordemorton Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2023)

Location: Chicago, IL, US

Remote: Yes (remote only)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Docker, Python, C, Go, Embedded Linux

Résumé/CV: https://jordemort.dev/portfolio/

Email: jordan@caketop.app

Here are some of things I have done for my previous employers, that I could be doing for you:

- Put all your services in containers, and make it easy to spin up development environments that resemble your production environment

- Package your SaaS into a virtual machine image that customers can self-host, and publish versions of it for all the major clouds and hypervisors

- Create Linux-based firmware for your embedded device, and work with the folks at the factory to get it flashed on the production line

- Reverse-engineer that weird binary that came in your board's BSP, and tell you exactly what it is doing and how to replicate it

- Write clever blog posts and technical articles about your products, which will explain how to use them while also being fun to read

- Lead a team of engineers, help them grow in their roles, and ship things

jordemorton Style your RSS feed

I do this both on my RSS feed: https://jordemort.dev/rss.xml

...as well as on my Atom feed: https://jordemort.dev/atom.xml

...using the same XSLT stylesheet for both: https://github.com/jordemort/jordemort.github.io/blob/main/p...

jordemorton Regent – Electric coastal travel

I'd love to see this in Lake Michigan doing a route from Milwaukee through Chicago and all the way up to Traverse City, with stops at all the cool little towns on the Michigan lakefront along the way. Probably not viable as a year-round thing around here but it could be great fun in the summer.

jordemorton SimCity 4 was released 20 years ago

Cities: Skylines seems like the kind of game I should love, but I bounce off of it every time I try it. I'm not sure what it's missing for me but I just can't get into it.

jordemorton SimCity 4 was released 20 years ago

Yes, such an amazing soundtrack. When it was new, I mistook it for a new Aphex Twin album at least twice while my roommate was playing it.

jordemorton SimCity 4 was released 20 years ago

My only complaint about this game is that even the largest region size feels too dang small. I'd pay full retail price for a SimCity 5 that was just SimCity 4 with larger regions.