Compiler goes to programmer.
"Programmer, I am in rough shape. Mutable references abound and the tiniest changes break API compatibility."
Programmer replies, "The treatment is simple! Rewrite in Haskell and GHC will sort you right out."
Compiler bursts into tears: "But I am GHC!"
A screenshot of the Windows 11 Control Panel, with an arrow highlighting the new setting which enables showing seconds in the system track clock.
Microsoft: "We are adding Copilot AI to all our products, and if that means building datacenters that will consume more power than a small city, that's the price we all have to pay."
Also Microsoft: "Whoa there skippy! Showing SECONDS in your system tray clock uses more power! You sure about this?"
Enjoy the Chiptune! Great work by @nordischsound.bsky.social
youtu.be/MQmzv-8sN20
#C64 #SID #chiptune
Not only does @samaaron.bsky.social do great educational work getting kids interested in programming by live-coding music – he also does deep engineering work on the underlying audio synth engine, which now runs in web browsers!
Rerezzed - Live Coded on Sonic Tau
sonic-pi.net/tau
I made a TikTok.
I'll be using it to share a short live coded video every day until I either get my Patreon income up to a sustainable level or I burn out...
Let's go!
www.tiktok.com/@tau5coder
Great to see Martin Galway has recently shared his C64 music driver and data for Wizball. For those that don't already know, Martin started his computer music career on the BBC Micro whilst at high school. His first version of YMO's Rydeen was composed on a Beeb!
github.com/MartinGalway...
Before I looked up the author, I had no idea in what language I was supposed to parse that title.
Our feeds
Now that's a meme for the ages!
I never stopped feeling it was cheating
Pretty much this.
![Tim Follin - "Chronos" (ZX Spectrum) [Oscilloscope Visualization]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wrilzb4mr6bzkbfvwyjga7fh/bafkreigxax3z23sdspgturan4oj55o47gtd2rif5f7mrfrf2w5nngwi474)
Whenever I hear this song that Tim Follin somehow managed to conjure out of the ZX Spectrum's shitty little 1-bit beeper, I'm reminded that the thing that originally excited me about computers as a child was that they can be a limitless canvas for creative expression
Very last hours of the Goatmire Elixir Call for Talks.
sessionize.com/goatmire-eli...
#goatmire #elixirlang
Wow!
To extract one or more specific details of a thing as variables, creating a generalized thing that can have multiple different instantiations, one of which being the original thing.
Cries in Emacs
The few glorious people that just roll up and go "yeah, we want to sponsor Goatmire". I appreciate you.
I also appreciate the ones that are continuous conversation over many months but these folks make my life a lot easier.
On that note. Still room for sponsors :D
#elixirlang #goatmire
Okay BlueSky Hive Mind, what's the best Megadrive/Genesis emulator to use to debug sound? I would like to be able to see in detail what the FM and PSG chips are doing, and single-step the Z80 if possible.
ZX Printer partial listing of a Z80 machine code music routine by Tim Follin
It did have its uses.
Sonic Tau - Re-Rerezzed
An update on the considerable progress I've made on Sonic Tau...
www.patreon.com/posts/re-rer...
Procrastination is acceptable up to a point. We all know that eventually, typically the last minute, we must Do The Thing. The Goatmire Call for Talks has one week left. Get on in there:
sessionize.com/goatmire-eli...
#elixirlang #goatmire
Yes, LLMs are interesting. And they may have some legitimate uses. But please stop anthropomorphising their output. There is nothing behind the curtain. The techbros are selling us a pup.
an apple a day keeps the french away: pomme deter
Anthropic’s “auto mode” for Claude Code has a 17% false negative rate - 17% of the time it will run dangerous commands because they are misclassified as safe. (www.anthropic.com/engineering/...)
Actual Russian Roulette with a loaded revolver has a false negative rate of 16.67%.
So, that’s a thing.
Let's do Open Telemetry tracing.. by doing Erlang tracing.
And also hot code updates for specila software delivery.
underjord.io/injecting-tr...
#elixirlang
