steveship - What the Flax

Platforms, greed, and friction

There's a kind of petty greed that's increasing, or becoming increasingly visible, as every company is captured by MBA Biz Bros who care only about their upcoming quarterly bonus. What I mean is there's more friction to just about everything we do aimed at

AI

Adventures in Time and Space, with Hotdawgs

I've been on a bit of a side-quest recently to make my GADDAG implementation more efficient. It started when my wife was testing Mark My Words on her phone and iOS killed the game because of memory pressure. I did a bit of profiling

Programming

It doesn't know what it doesn't know

In my continuing exploration of the general capabilities of LLM AI, I keep finding a particularly vexing failure mode: confident bullshit. I recently put a smart clock in my kid's

In Mourning

I'm observing my own reactions to the unceasing onslaught of AI. While there are yet people who resist AI, many of them mischaracterize it as evil. It's not evil. It's banal. Perhaps Arendt would disagree that there's a difference. I tried some LLM coding

Programming

Avoiding Work (on the main thread)

I'm working on a CPU opponent for Mark My Words because I believe it's a very fun game that a lot of people will like, but it can be difficult

Programming

But what's it good for?

I was in my teens when the Internet first started gaining ground among normies. I remember being at my cousins' house and they were showing off their new AOL connection. I remember being unimpressed. I didn't see the point then, because AOL was among

Solo Developing

August 2024, Indeed. A large portion of my party had fallen to layoff traps. Morale was down, and going lower. Upper management seemed to be trying to drive attrition through removing perks, increasing workload, and generally making stupid decision after stupid decision. Yeah, and

Consoles vs Computers

Recently Apple has been in the news for cases against Epic and for rulings in the EU which will require them to allow sideloading on iphones (in the EU). From the perspective of a developer that has been steeped in open-source, and a user

Apps

Mark My Words

The splash screen. Doesn't it make you want to try it?I've been working on a game for a while now in the few hours a week that aren't taken by my full time job and my full time toddler, and I'm running out

3Dprinting

Verbal Supplement

This is an old post that I queued up and never published. Have at it. What's the worst thing about this pandemic? Other than hundreds of thousands of people dead. And pervasive economic hardship. And the utter, casual, banal evil demonstrated by about half