yen is building stuff

building a game about restoring nature

One thing I've internalised in my career: there's basically no correlation between "code that is well-written" and "code that makes money"

i can think of 3 worse private keys

one day we will have the technology to make the male in a tech demo be the AI-generated one

how tf did bluesky get ipad support before threads

In infosec, who wins: the perfect attacker, or the perfect defender?

It's 2007, you're staying up late patching PHP and Java servers It's 2015, you're staying up late patching PHP and Java servers It's 2026

Do you know what hasn't had a critical vulnerability? Delphi

All the cool kids are making games, maybe I should make a game

Oh no, every API key system should have endpoint "invalidate_api_key" If key is leaked, at leat whitehat hackers (or the party who stored them) could invalidate found keys.

the doc you make when your manager says you haven't met your docs kpi

An Irish farmer in 1850:

"Apple is good at UI"

One of the secret benefits of blame-free engineering culture is you don't have to deal with stuff like this

Alan Kay:

What other words are like this?

making a post now just to prove i'm not a russian bot

nearly missed this warthunder forum leak:

The hardest problem in computer science is figuring out where the damned computer is

I'm picturing a hydraulics engineer annoyed that their fluid model had water flowing at +inf despite all the initial conditions being correct

this is a good take

I wonder if this is how people felt when Euler showed up

I sometimes think about how we all know what a "selfie" is, even though it wasn't like in the dictionary or anything, and only showed up in the 2000s. It's a meaning that found its word

"Don't ponder yourself into stagnation"

you would not believe what a bunch of independently acting rogue humans did today when other humans weren't looking in contravention of some rules and behavioral guidelines and requirements set by other humans

"Is your fridge running" "...yes?" "No it is not. A fridge cannot run, for it does not have legs"

> "software engineering isn't real engineering!" > looks at real engineering > it's 90% software

Some people surrender their cognition to their twitter feed and that's kinda sad

"I am the senate"

I wonder if the openai jony ive earbuds is ever going to come out

In the future, the human's comparative advantage vs machines will our ability to self-heal small wounds, and our resistance to ionising radiation

what's up with the accounts with thousands of followers, that do nothing but repost (not even quote post) content?

has anyone tried to look for accounts that go silent when claude or chatgpt is down

Misinformation is rampant now because we depleted our reserves of facts about 10 years ago.

politics in the 2030s is gonna be wild

when i do a hades playthrough without petting cerberus

"make a video explaining the riemann hypothesis"

Real talk: Is there any realistic path towards us having consumer cars that aren't always connected to the Internet?

@jevbot.bsky.social is there a seahorse emoji?

We shouldn't talk about AI as if they're human. It's very disrespectful to the AI

Is openclaw still a thing?

Programming as a career barely lasted two generations

the number of people older than you is always shrinking, never rises

All math problems can be solved with linear algebra

why waste time looking at a sunset, when you could be arguing over unfalsifiable things instead

I read this so now you guys also have to