Early start today to a very long day. Tony Iommi is keeping me going with Planet Caravan. Maybe it’s time I treated myself to that mesa boogie stack…

LeaseGuard: Raft Leases Done Right! A new Raft enhancement for fast, consistent reads.

Yay, SIGMOD just published the paper I wrote with @muratdemirbas.bsky.social and Lingzhi Deng, it's about strengthening Raft's consistency and time-to-recovery lnkd.in/ef6qUJzw

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

I’ve come to the conclusion that AIs are bad at writing code that is easy for AIs to maintain.

#GOTOpodcast:
@boicy.bovon.org sits down with @suksr.bsky.social to unpack the ideas behind her new book “Architecture for Flow.”

• How value streams and team structures shape architecture
• Architecture for Flow Canva
• Why visual thinking matters

🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

Lads night! 🎉

( Me sat at home alone, catching up on Adam Curtis Documentaries )

the reason The Matrix uses humans as batteries is because some executives thought the original idea—that the machines would use human brains as processors—was too complicated for audiences and they wouldn't accept it

anyway.

As an old flash dev, what’s your workflow? Using an old version of flash or are you using Haxe or similar?

I built a procedural medieval island map generator using Wave Function Collapse on hex grids. 4,100 cells, 900 possible states per cell, 60fps on mobile. Wrote up the whole process with lessons learned. Links below 👇 #threejs #webgpu

I think Manchester has deployed boosterism well over the last decade, but it has tended to work because it delivered things at the same time. Boosterism without delivery is just words and there’s some risk the city starts to rely too much on narrative for its momentum

date: can you take off your work gloves

Jim Henson: they have names

Radiohead - House of Cards came out 18 years ago. I remember they open sourced the 3d scanning data used for the video. It was cool to muddle around with it and render it out in 3d.

Looking forward to see @jeffgerstmann.com take on Phil Spencer retiring…

This one hits hard.

Broken Sword: Reforged, besides looking absolutely gorgeous, plays unexpectedly well on the tiny screen of my phone. The interface works great, everything is readable and visible, and I don't even need my glasses.

This is how the Monkey Island remakes should have been treated...

Watching Game of Thrones again, and I forgot about Deus ex Benjen

💵💵🌭 💵🚰

Unique Dating App Girl (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Tom Cardy

all-time tom cardy banger just dropped

Microsoft posts 32% YOY down on hardware sales last week. This week Lisa Su talks about next Xbox consoles on track for 2027.

I’m convinced that Warren Spectre’s one city block could be convincingly created now.

I’ve just realised my Apple Watch can have a db volume meter as a complication. So now I can pretend I’m in mission impossible and say toast at increasingly louder volumes.

Looks awesome, is the team behind this on bsky?

reading this essay with The Tyranny of Structurelessness echoing in my ears www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyran...

" they expect one of us to be in the wreckage, brother"

Very often when trying to think about a problem I start wondering:

"How does software X deal with that?"

And 98.5% the answer is: they don't, they just let it fail. Often silently. Every time I keep relearning how low the standards usually are in this industry.

Bloomberg headline: "Nvidia Halts Plan to Invest $100 Billion in OpenAI, WSJ says"

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🕯️pop 🕯️
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Huh, the Apple silicon decision to have unified memory means you can run LLMs with crazy memory requirements pretty easy… *goes off to look up Mac Studio pricing*

I’ve found it useful in researching about the latest advancements in Huntingtons disease. It was able to find formula relating to my specific question and interpret the data relating to my scenarios and give sources for everything for me to check. YMMV but I’ve been fairly impressed w/ latest models