2025-12-22T15:24:11.098Z

2025-12-23T00:26:58.838Z
well that looks like a portal

2025-12-23T00:38:05.117Z
enter the portalverse

2025-12-23T16:29:07.472Z

2025-12-24T04:43:38.390Z
rewatching Heroes Of The Cloud ama
2025-12-25T18:29:50.599Z
this image was *not* created in a text editor lol https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morocco_Conformity_Mark_for_Electronics_and_Electrotechnical_Products.svg
I should replace it with one that is lol
2025-12-27T05:36:08.302Z
Had an idea for a farm design in Minecraft, turns out it doesn't work by 1/40th of a block
Sad
2025-12-27T16:14:14.067Z
love how my smart TV has just gotten progressively slower over the years, to the point where it's starting to get difficult to use, and there's no way to figure out what might be wrong or do any basic digital maintenance (like see if some cache needs cleared or something)
2026-01-02T18:12:47.673Z
welcome to the point of the year where Windows File Explorer calls anything more than a month old "a long time ago"

2026-01-02T18:38:40.384Z
Indeed accidentally perfectly capturing the job market in a nutshell

2026-01-05T19:31:11.058Z
how has Word's grammar check gotten *this bad*?
2026-01-05T19:32:11.519Z
no, "running different systems" is not a clearer version of "running on different systems", those mean very different things!
and it's definitely "disk usage" and not "disk's usage"!
2026-01-05T19:34:16.060Z
tbf I'm not sure if it was ever that much better, but that's arguably worse
like I would definitely not ship it as it exists today, but it's been around for ages
why is this acceptable to Microsoft? this is a core, on-by-default feature of one of their flagship products!
2026-01-05T19:36:17.675Z
I mean maybe the answer is "AI" but let's be real LLMs have had much better grammar than this for years now, and will do a much better job of grammar-checking your document
2026-01-07T15:03:54.643Z
TIL about SSHDs https://blog.purestorage.com/purely-educational/sshd-vs-ssd-is-hybrid-storage-still-worth-it/
I was talking to a friend yesterday who mentioned he had one salvaged from an old laptop
2026-01-10T05:56:31.617Z
Fun fact: sheep floating in water seemingly don't eat grass, even if they're positioned such that they could
2026-01-11T16:13:33.119Z
about 5% of all bytes stored on my C drive are jar files
that's very on-brand
2026-01-11T17:53:49.315Z
the classic

2026-01-13T16:33:24.618Z
Weird bug https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC/issues/MC-305540
2026-01-15T06:03:32.239Z
Just had an awesome idea
2026-01-15T06:05:18.920Z
So Minecraft world gen is really cool. It's got lots of things you would want: it's deterministic (mostly), it represents a wide variety of landforms, it does structures, it's been built up over nearly two decades to generate excellent worlds. Ut it's missing one thing that would really push it to the next level: AI
So what we should do is make a transformer model, trained on Minecraft worlds, that can generate new Minecraft worlds
2026-01-15T06:07:03.563Z
If those training worlds include player builds, then it could generate new player builds!
Sorry, I meant diffusion, not transformer. I guess you could do it with transformers as well but that would be a really bad idea
2026-01-15T18:28:55.053Z
I just heard the phrase "go straight to jingle hell" and I feel like I need to incorporate that into my vocabulary somehow
2026-01-16T04:16:40.356Z
It's pretty funny that there's a polyfill for JSON available for browsers that don't support it https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js
I guess this was relevant at some point, but it's still received sporadic updates this decade
2026-01-16T17:15:01.117Z
it'd be nice if Google Maps got updated imagery of Neom sometime
the latest imagery is from 2023/2024 (depending on where you're looking) and it'd be nice to know just how little progress they've made
2026-01-16T17:22:24.180Z
the biggest success so far out of Neom is Sindalah, which was a also always going to be the easiest part. it's a small luxury resort island in the Red Sea. very much up the Saudi's alley right? their "success" so far has been staging a "grand opening" in 2024, late and over budget, and apparently not receiving any actual visitors afterwards.
2026-01-16T17:23:38.468Z
I should say, *billions* over budget. the fact that they managed to spend *billions* on maybe a hundred empty buildings and a golf course is impressive in the first place
(the most expensive of those buildings are the hotels, the hotel brands of which presumably paid for a good chunk of the construction)
2026-01-16T17:59:26.536Z
good article, I hadn't read it before https://ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-line/
2026-01-16T23:15:20.199Z
just came across a file that was:
1. gzip-compressed
2. base-64 encoded
3. gzip-compressed again
like, at that point it's just obfuscation, right? surely there's no reasonable explanation why you would do that?
2026-01-16T23:19:39.728Z
anyways I'm glad Gboard has their priorities straight about what might be offensive (South Korea: yes, KKK: no)

2026-01-16T23:45:40.171Z
some of the words in their wordlist were hand-added. some of them are for obvious reasons: words/names that didn't probably exist when the original word frequency data was collected (eg. Asus, Chromebook), words with special characters that might not have been parsed correctly (eg. e-mail, girls'). but "Mom"?