Documentation. It’s a scary word to some people, in the context of software or code documentation. There’s a handful of documentation systems out there, with their own advantages and disadvantages. But that’s not what I’m here to talk about. Instead, I’m going to talk about how using each system happens to reflect on the project/the developers, and what to expect in terms of the quality and quantity of the documentation when you find some using a specific system. Read more...

About a month ago, Twitter made the very smart move of making it so that nobody can actually use their site. It was reverted in a few days, but it’s a bad omen, especially with the porn site rebrand, the approval by the site administration of right-wing actors posting child porn, and potential ID verification features in the pipeline. So here’s a quick overview of how the “microblogging” world stands, as of August 2023. Read more...

Dreams are a beautiful thing. I don’t mean the dreams that you might have about the future - no, those are aspirations. I also don’t mean daydreams - daydreams are bound by your waking mind, and cannot possibly hope to achieve the potential of a sleeping dream. I mean the dreams you have at night. The ones where you are a god. Dreams the closest that most of us will get to omnipotence in our lifetime. Read more...

GitHub copilot has been making waves in the programming world in the last few days. It’s an AI-powered autocompleter, based on GPT-3, that can automatically fill in your code. In a preview of what you will expect when using it, the code snippets on the example page have subtle bugs that look fine at a first glance, but require a deeper look to actually see the issues. On one hand, I am extremely delighted to see a “I can’t believe leopards ate MY face! Read more...

(alt. title: I’m Not Joining Your Shitty Discord Server) There are a lot of cases of people creating Discord guilds for their communities; prominent examples are speedrunning communities for a specific game, or perhaps fighting game communities. These communities produce a lot of resources specific to their game that is super useful for new players or for experienced players learning new tech. However, people also have an annoying habit of putting these resources on their own Discord server. Read more...

tl;dr SwSh are okay games, at best. They have some pretty major balance issues, and leave a lot of potential on the table, but they’re fun to play. In February, I played through and completed Pokémon Blaze Black 2, a romhack of Pokémon Black 2 by Drayano, combining the brilliance of the Generation 5 games with a full 649 encounter table and a much steeper difficulty curve. I consider this hack to be nearly the pinnacle of the Pokémon experience. Read more...

So how about that pigskin? How about that sport with the pigskin? Now that’s what I’m talking about! Top ten juiced up coaches, AND the top ten juiced up players. Dilbert 2 I hate normal people. They are a lesser subspecies of human being that consist entirely of philosophical zombies, and they rule the world. What is a normal person? Most of all, a normal person is boring. They have boring ““interests””, they have boring lives, and they have boring opinions. Read more...