I really need to do a full-on "dumb" build — after I do a "Thumper build" in New Vegas; Maxed explosives = no splash damage, so fire way in tiny rooms!
Conversely if you max out Intelligence in at least Fallout 2 you get color-coded text for good/bad dialogue options.
Fallout 1 is vital as it sets-the-stage for everything and is always referenced.
However F1 has is the least refined interfaced and pretty buggy. I recommend Fallout Community Edition with a *good* walkthrough for reference.
github.com/alexbatalov/...
lemmings19.github.io/fallout-1-wa...
Validators/Linters reveal hidden parsing typos that browsers aren't strict about; Once fixed it solves several issues.
AI doesn't say "I don't know". Instead one gets a fix that *might* function. If it does it's not as efficient as it pretends.
Def. not tracing back to user impact for me.
I don't use AI enough to answer that; I think it would be possible to evaluate its output as a learning tool, maybe even what not to do.
What I'm seeing with AI generated web sites is generic markup, unoptimized in any specific way — and extremely non-semantic. But it works in a browser anyway.
For decades I've used validators and "lint" tools to review CSS in the same way a dev could have a team or AI do a code review.
Those tools always flagged things to consider and research — then write my own fixes.
Feels like AI can be an evolution of that; Not generative, but specialized utility.
...at that speed no less!
I'm no expert and have never ridden one of those, but riding and maintaining balance in a non-aerodynamic shell — and in this case the little extra bouncing dance — is still a significant core workout.
I wanted to see what this would physically look like on the desk so I made a quick mock-up in Blender
B-roll, motion design/animation, or visual effects have saved every documentary with an unscripted candid interview.
#Artemis II - Special guest Astronaut ‘Nutella’ getting involved in breaking the Apollo record with its own flyby 😂🚀🌕
Retro stock photo of a big industrial control room with sea foam green walls and consoles. A man sits in a chair and manipulates the controls.
Retro stock photo of a big industrial room with light sea foam green walls and machinery. Two mean wearing hardhats examine large modular industrial control boxes on a wooden table. One of the men is wearing a very floral print shirt with wide lapels.
Retro stock photo of an industrial control room with sea foam green walls and consoles. Two Japanese men examine the console controls. One is wearing a business suit and the other a hard hard and industrial jumpsuit.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic I've been rocking custom background photos from an ancient Corel stock photo CD I stumbled across at an old job. As one might expect there are of indeed sea foam green control rooms.
Satirical mock-up of a fake book cover and two pages from the same book. The title of the book is "Time to Back Up Craig", with a sticker saying "From the author of Stuff the F*cker & Pop One for Craig". There is a faded photo of an external storage drive with a old style serial cable attached. The cover features "Simple & Easy", "Includes USB Instructions", and "Minimal Nagging". The author is Dana Sibera.
Yes, it's that time again...
Heartbreaking; I've known folks with yards adjacent to steep curves that have run-ins with speeders crashing into their front yards all-the-time!
Side note: The excellent 2025 Song Sung Blue movie gets very emotional because this very thing is a major part of the story.
Spent the first 18 years of my life in Knoxville, TN; Glad to see the old city/downtown and Bijou are still going strong!
We're all going to be using our devices for longer than we planned so my advice to you: settings > battery > charging > set limit to 80% [on iOS or macOS]. Making sure your computer or phone never goes above 80% will *quadruple* its life compared to charging it to 100% every evening.
Weirdly my web work these days is mostly word-of-mouth or old connections from when I designed/built a 1200 page e-commerce site or marketing landing pages seeking me out.
I stopped focusing on web work when the whole CSS-in-JS thing transformed web design into managing dependencies and frameworks.
The other side is it's not uncommon that clients with Wordpress sites don't know how to do even simple embeds or manage their caching — so sometimes it's quick tweaks and cleaning out all the unnecessary plugins someone installed; If you're not using a third-party add on don't run it on your CMS!
I have lower rates for non-profits, artists, etc. Sometimes a flat rate is best — e.g. fast easy thing for me, and the cause is good. I also do "pay what you want/can" and have never been disappointed.
I mostly hand-code static non-CMS sites for small things —b/c cheaper, faster, and more secure.
Site owners with old-skool antique layouts don't even realize you can retrofit those to flexbox/grid responsive modern layouts pretty easily.
Wanna keep your classic sidebar nav but support phones with a different nav scheme? You can!
Updating old graphics is usually the big part of the scope.
There is definitely a need for accessibly-designed, fast, static-generated web sites that do not cost $20K or more for small businesses, non-profits, etc.
I'm not sure if it's a sustainable income but last year between my video work I did more "indie" web projects than I've done in years.
PSA — though this definitely aligns with current events this is also an interesting data site for anyone that didn't know how much subsidies alter gas pricing in various countries.
Hat tip to @daringfireball.bsky.social
#gasprices
Belated additional vote for Fastmail; Though I personally don't use it — I use my web hosting service's email just fine — I've set up a few friends/clients with it.
I used to design/code automated segment-driven HTML marketing email; There's plenty that can go wrong.
But this is no intern mistake — with that carefully positioned black rectangle, the mysterious number, and whatever that line icon is, this is truly something special!
When I was a kid that particular Pac-Man cabinet art kept me up at night:
"Why does it have legs and eyes when *real* Pac Man doesn't?"
"Why are the eyes red?"
"Why is it happy? If anything Pac-Man is a commentary on workplace anxiety!"
Screenshot of two Blue Sky posts in order: First is an NPR article about a class-action lawsuit in Maryland after a decades old sewer line collapse and spills sewage into the Potomac River. Second post is from Paperback Paradise, an account that remixes classic paperback book covers; This one is a book by a fictitious "Garrow Talonfinger" and features a closeup of a wild bird. The title is "I'll Shit Right in Your Goddamn Mouth.
Timeline Serendipity featuring @npr.org and @paperbackparadise.bsky.social
About a year ago I was dumbfounded when a client thought my video concept *scratch* voiceover was actually AI.
It was then that I realized we'd entered a new era where quality perception is skewed.
Oof. We finally hit enshitification of the cardboard box industry.
I mostly buy from Bandcamp now and am moving towards Swinsian, which feels like old-skool iTunes/Soundjam MP in a good way.
For music metadata management I use Meta, which I wish existed back when iTunes was new.
Both are solid apps worth-a-look.
swinsian.com
www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/
EV battery fires are no joke in general! Couldn't help noticing they've got a wrecked Cybertruck used for training at my local SFD training facility.
Colorful brushed script spells out "Damn".
Reminds me of the communication issues highlighted in the Chernobyl mini series that caused nuclear bomb-level environmental damage and death — that is still ongoing in that region.
It may not be your problem now, but at some point it could be the entire organization's problem in some other way.
