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If you're a developer in North Carolina interested in software internals, can I talk you into getting together? I'm starting a little group. eatonphil.com/triangle.html Repost or tell a friend 🙏

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lolt64 @lolt64.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My satirical woodcut of your station in life has taken the parish by storm

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i would say the most obnoxious part of this whole experience is dealing with the small bitwidth integers and slapping together fixed-point math

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i dont think i really realized how easy whipping up a little state machine in C is. too abstraction-brained

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

tbh c is pretty pleasant if you are not doing any dynamic memory stuff. dont think i could have implemented any of this much faster in a higher level language

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garrison @garrison.corporate.fm · 25/09/2026

oh my god it happened

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

lmao. this is presented as a reason why you SHOULD believe DHH's opinions on software

…we end up with a backend that requires 99% less CPU, 95% less memory, and the only reason it needs 10 hosts is for redundancy. In fact, our back-of-the-envelope calculation has led us to believe that Hey’s peak traffic could probably be served on a single Raspberry Pi.

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

illustration (1981) archive.org/details/and-...

someone is staring/making direct eye contact at a computer that has a huge singular eye on the screen.

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

hmmmmm explosions pretty crappy rn and i am not sure if i can fix it without running into sprite budget problems

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i figured out i can get better resolution on these #gbdev #ufo50

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

playing and enjoying barbuta is only intensifying this belief

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

why is this not true of, say, some random book they ingested (which has no notion of "did chatgpt do a good job or not)? is this a difference in the needs of data used for pretraining vs. RL?

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

i think you could reasonably guess the prompts just go in their big vat of "text we believe to be human written," never to be read by a real person? upon reflection that would obviously be much less valuable than a subjective evaluation of how the model did but i don't think it's implausible

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(this is a port of Seaside Drive from UFO50)

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

got my buddy to port the music over (sry my gameboy speaker is rattly)

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Barber CEO: You Risk Falling Behind If You Don't Get A Haircut "Right Now" Industry Experts Foresee Future In Which Everyone Receives Multiple Haircuts Every Day Today Your Hair, Tomorrow The World: Barbers Say They Are On Track To Build A Pair Of Scissors So Big, It Could End Life As We Know It

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

yeah i wanted to see how much of it i could recreate on gameboy

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

the game boy can produce mind boggling effects

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

the game boy can produce mind boggling effects

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 13/08/2025

ridge racer type 4 greatest video game of all time? ridge racer type 4 revolutionary proletarian art?? they're saying ridge racer type 4 is a cool breeze on a summers day, a cigarette drag after a nighttime breakup, ridge racer type 4 is 5:01 PM on a friday night??? they're saying all this???

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 09/09/2026

But in this internet subculture, saying completely insane and ridiculous things like this really is considered a form of being smart. It’s a display of pure rationality. You crunched the numbers and, sorry if it shocks or offends, but here are the results. Don’t like it? Take it up with Bayes.

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ari velazquez 🌯 @ari.velazquez.fyi · 08/09/2026

god i love it. people hating it, people loving it, people hating loving it, people loving hating it, people hating people loving it, people hating people hating it, people proudly indifferent but making a point of saying it, etc. this is what being online is about. this is the town square

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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

(a new object is placed in my enclosure) damn new object just dropped (I glance disparagingly over at yesterday's object) lol y'all still thinking about this huh

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 08/09/2026

I think all I really want to say is... 3D games can have style. Realism and enhanced detail isn't always the most interesting approach.

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

the thing i was really impressed with was the camera, sm64's camera is famously kind of a mess and yet i had close to zero issues with oot's

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

the thing about oot is that the original feels shockingly modern even today so i sort of get the impulse to not really reimagine it too much beyond "tighten up the graphics" but also. you can just go play the original right now

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christa lee @ohpoorpup.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The fucking low-poly masks. You can really feel the contempt for that dusty old original

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

something really nice about being over 30 is that you are able to find a low res chunky polygonal mess of a video game very beautiful

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

this is something else, i think once you close over something it retroactively gets boxed in a way that doesn’t work with switch. unless that’s kind of the same thing ig

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

does java also do this??

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i just mean thinking about a move for hours is strictly better than thinking about it for a couple minutes. there's no reason not to do that except it's boring to play that way

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i guess like of "develop tools to convince yourself that you've definitely made the optimal play" vs. "develop heuristics to generate pretty good plays in a short amount of time" i think the latter is more engaging

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

ive been trying to work out my thoughts that games like wordle are fundamentally broken without a timer because "think for a really long time" is just too overpowered as a strategy. but a timer forgives so many sins of that sort

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i think a lot about the thing @flantz.bsky.social said (somewhere) that goes like, well, what would we do, you and i, if we were playing a video game that was a perfect simulation of reality? i suppose we might go find a place in it to sit down and play checkers or tetris or something

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

dying that the hot, based "dev focussed" "distro" has built in hotkeys to open dhh's email provider that nobody uses

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

deltarune having jumpsquat is really how you know toby fox was a melee player

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

i do get some choice paralysis from stuff like 7 where there’s so many version that are all allegedly pretty different

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Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

i played a bunch of the NES 1 and the grindiness was too much, i figure i’ll eventually play the hd2d remakes. i’ve only played 11 and 5 to completion and thought 11 was amazing and 5 was great

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