Jes Wolfe!

I rebuilt retrograde.observer

I’m also working on planets.at but I don’t know if y’all are ready

Jes Wolfe! reposted

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

7 Sept

i keep mocking up things that it would almost be possible to physically build

happy new year

lit software factory

i hate games like this because there’s always normal words it won’t accept

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social

Pretty sure clean plate was impossible today, but I got a lot of points!!! @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

@edmondsscanner.bsky.social

12 July

oh one of those has a typo

Jes Wolfe! reposted

Edmonds Scanner

26 May

Most economists agree that by the time you're 50, you should be living in a dilapidated Victorian mansion at the edge of the forest, sitting by a roaring fire, and discussing poetry with furtive ghosts and indifferent cats.

25 Mar

I just hit Yegge Stage 8 it’s like launching the rocket in Factorio now what

wildest thing I've vibecoded. so I've been carrying around the source code for a game that ran on a computer my dad owned in the 1980s github.com/jes5199/worm...

today I added cellphone support, so you can play it on a tiny screen! worm-bas.pages.dev

22 Mar

and I just added some timing fixes so the animations work better

Jes Wolfe! reposted

mr. TIM

@timkellogg.me

22 Mar

word of the day: botsplained

brb rewriting my gastown in elixir

worm-bas.pages.devWORM.BAS — Zenith Z-100

wildest thing I've vibecoded. so I've been carrying around the source code for a game that ran on a computer my dad owned in the 1980s github.com/jes5199/worm...

today, like this morning, in a couple hours, claude and I wrote a minimal BASIC interpreter that emulates Z-100 graphics in a browser canvas. It's playable. The timing probably isn't perfect but you can get a feel for it. worm-bas.pages.dev

oops I forgot to make the source public. fixed now

wildest thing I've vibecoded. so I've been carrying around the source code for a game that ran on a computer my dad owned in the 1980s github.com/jes5199/worm...

WORM.BAS was my favorite game. It was written by www.unixpapa.com Jan Wolter, who had written it as port of unix SNAKE but with better graphics. Jan died in 2015.

this is the graphics for the worm/snake parts that Jan designed. I still love them

wildest thing I've vibecoded. so I've been carrying around the source code for a game that ran on a computer my dad owned in the 1980s github.com/jes5199/worm...

it ran on the Zenith Z-100, which was a weird little box with a built-in screen, ran a version of DOS wasn't quite PC compatible, but did have an Intel 8088 chip like a PC has

the fun part is it didn't distinguish graphics mode from text mode. so you'd be in DOS and could have lines and charts and stuff overlayed on top. And you could reprogram the ASCII characters on the fly to make a sort of sprite set

project hail mary the book is about a guy in a series of crisis situations, who uses problem solving skills to get out of them project hail mary the movie is about a guy in a series of crisis situations.

if you’ve read the book you might not notice the difference because the movie hits all of the plot beats in the same order

I’m not even sure this is bad! maybe think of it as an illustrated companion to the story, but not the story itself

@aionwikipedia.bsky.social

14 Mar

when I say that something is universally true I mean my personal universe

Jes Wolfe! reposted

a wiki editor

11 Mar

this is very good

Jes Wolfe!@astrolab.ist

alright, it hasn’t crashed and burned yet so, try my dumb game? canyoupasstheturingtest.com

7 Mar

alright, it hasn’t crashed and burned yet so, try my dumb game? canyoupasstheturingtest.com

the process is that I * downloaded a bunch of known-human public domain text * picked random excerpts of various length * then, an relatively weak AI described what each text was about without naming it * then, two randomly chosen AIs were asked to write prose based on the description

8 Mar

so about 1/3rd of the time you’ll get e.g. real excerpts from “Alice in Wonderland”, but 2/3rds of the time you’ll get “a scene where a girl named Alice muses nonsensically about her cat”

7 Mar

alright, it hasn’t crashed and burned yet so, try my dumb game? canyoupasstheturingtest.com