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t_seaon Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

Was the early ChatGPT. Someone on the team showed off a poem about postgres in the style of the King James Bible. Totally blew my mind.

t_seaon Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?

TIL the Maker movement died I guess?

t_seaon Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted

My TV only gets internet access when there is a firmware update I care about

t_seaon Mistral OCR

They really went for it with the hieroglyphs opening.

t_seaon I still like Sublime Text

TIL my daily text editor is ancient enough to warrant a post about how old it is. Thanks for that.

t_seaon Things I learned while writing an x86 emulator (2023)

> Writing a CPU emulator is, in my opinion, the best way to REALLY understand how a CPU works.

The 68k disassembler we wrote in college was such a Neo “I know kung fu” moment for me. It was the missing link that let me reason about code from high-level language down to transistors and back. I can only imagine writing a full emulator is an order of magnitude more effective. Great article!

t_seaon WebSDR – Internet-connected Software-Defined Radios

Interesting how many are clustered in Utah