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GPT-4 is not getting worse
GPT-4 may have declined in some areas, but it hasn’t systematically done so. My tests were shit, and never proved much of anything.
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I didn’t learn Unix by reading all the manpages (2022)
Originally drafted as a thread on hackers.town , after Abbie Normal asked me to expand on a side comment in a discussion of documentation .
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Game Development Post-Unity
What are the options for game developers looking to migrate away from Unity?
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Evaluating new software forges
What options are there other than GitHub?
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Programming isn’t coding (2020)
When teaching “programming”, a surprisingly small amount of time is spent actually helping students with logic – and a lot helping them learning & managing programming tools.
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UCLA professor refuses to cover for Dan Ariely in issue of data provenance
In one of the more bizarre twists of the Dan Ariely saga, there is a huge issue of provenance in one of Dan Ariely’s studies. The study in question is Dan Ariely’s Ten Commandments study at JMR. The hugely impactful paper has over 3,000 citations but unfortunately failed to replicate in a large-scale systematic…
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Grokking big unfamiliar codebases
A blog about game engines, graphics, C++, and more.
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Margaret Mead, technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – The barrel file debacle
Many projects are littered with files that just re-export other files. These so called "barrel files" are one of the key reasons why JavaScript tooling is slow in bigger projects.
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Our humble attempt at “how much data do you need to fine-tune”
Efficacy of OpenAI Fine-tuning API, Cost/Latency Considerations, Experiencing Catastrophic Forgetting, and...Getting Roasted by a Fine-tuned GPT-3.5
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Beautiful Documents with Groff (Part I)
Of course, I’ve used Word here and there when I didn’t have a choice, but not since MultiMate —and before that, WordStar —have I intentionally sat down with full possession of my faculties and opened up a word processor in order to write something I care about.
2624
My trip to the Communication and Laptop Museum in Estonia
I ended up going to a small museum run by a passionate enthusiast in the beautiful countryside of south-east Estonia while on vacation, here are my notes on it.
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Building cross-platform Rust for Web, Android and iOS – a minimal example
Coding in Rust and others; making coding videos.
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The controller pattern is awful, and other OO heresy (2013)
Almost a year ago now, Jack Diederich gave a talk entitled “Stop Writing Classes“, in which he implores Python programmers to stop creating classes just for the hell of it, and specifically calls out the common pattern of a class with only a constructor/initializer and a single method—which should, of course, just be…
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Why did The Beatles get so many bad reviews?
An inquiry into how critics stumble
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We're wasting money by only supporting gzip for raw DNA files
Stylised graphics of money with DNA helix in the foreground.
2629
Gradle still sucks
I wrote a blog post a while ago complaining about Gradle, mostly from a position of ignorance: I had never really taken the time to properly learn the tool and I was frustrated while trying to stumble my way through working with it. But luckily, my company encourages learning and experimentation so I was given an…
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Bootstrapping a SaaS Business in Germany: How I did it
Lukas Hermann, founder of Stagetimer, delves into the nitty-gritty of bootstrapping a SaaS business in Germany. Learn about navigating bureaucracy, tax management, pricing, product development, tech stack, marketing, and more. A must-read for aspiring German entrepreneurs.
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What happened after I left my software engineering career (2022)
It’s been over a year since I wrote Fetch the Bolt Cutters. Or, as it was called in Technical.ly Philly,… Read more > What happened next
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How the design of Disney parks affects our perspective (2020)
The layout of the Disney parks may not be something you think about except for at the end of the day when your feet are aching and sitting feels like the best ride ever. Or when you're hiking around the Epcot World Showcase in the blazing sun and afternoon heat.
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Lab Notebooks (2020)
What wet-lab chemistry can teach software engineers
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LaTeX for tabletop
Get started on using LaTeX for writing your tabletop rulebooks, adventures, and zines.
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How async/await works internally in Swift
You probably know how to use async/await. But have you ever wondered how it works under the hood?
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All the hominins made tools
A study of associations between stone tool evidence and fossil hominin remains shows that a wide range of species made stone artifacts.
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You can use lightguns on LCDs sometimes
Old-school cathode ray tube TVs have become de rigeur in the retro scene as the true way to experience retro games “the way they were designed”. But there’s ...
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How HyperCard got its color back
Uli’s blog on programming, game development, pop culture and other boring things.