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Little Sisyphus: A Month-Long NES Platformer Odyssey

2025-02-19

Little Sisyphus, a physics-based platformer for the NES, was developed in just one month for the 2023 NESDev Compo. The game centers around rolling a ball up a mountain, offering challenging gameplay with a unique art style inspired by ancient Greek pottery. The developer details the creation process, from concept to completion, highlighting the use of NESFab, impulse-based and position-based physics, water effects, and music composition. Limitations of the NES hardware led to compromises, but the final product is a polished testament to efficient development and creative problem-solving, even incorporating AI-generated art assets.

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(pubby.games)
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Local-First Web Dev: Reclaim Your Data

2025-04-04
Local-First Web Dev: Reclaim Your Data

Tired of backend-dependent web apps? Local-first web development is a revolutionary approach that puts users in control. Access your apps offline with automatic syncing when online. This guide explores the core principles, advantages over traditional cloud apps, and a step-by-step approach to building local-first apps using Vue.js, including transforming your SPA into a PWA, implementing robust storage solutions like SQLite, and developing secure syncing and authentication systems. Future posts will delve into advanced topics like conflict resolution.

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(alexop.dev)
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Venu Sports Streaming Service Scrapped Before Launch

2025-01-10
Venu Sports Streaming Service Scrapped Before Launch

The much-anticipated Venu Sports streaming service, a joint venture between ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery, has been canceled before its official launch. Announced last year with a planned launch in Fall 2024, Venu aimed to provide live streaming access to a wide range of sports, including NFL, NBA, and more. However, an antitrust lawsuit and regulatory scrutiny led to significant hurdles. While a Disney-FuboTV merger temporarily resolved a lawsuit, concerns from DirecTV and EchoStar ultimately resulted in the project's termination.

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(www.theverge.com)
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Plandex: AI Coding Agent for Large Projects

2025-04-16
Plandex: AI Coding Agent for Large Projects

Plandex is a terminal-based AI development tool designed for tackling large coding tasks spanning multiple steps and numerous files. Handling up to 2M tokens of context directly (~100k per file), it can index directories with 20M tokens or more using tree-sitter project maps. A cumulative diff review sandbox keeps AI-generated changes separate until ready, and command execution is controlled for easy rollback and debugging. Plandex combines models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and open-source providers, offering both full autonomy and fine-grained control, making it resilient to the complexities of large projects. It features a project-aware chat mode, Git integration, and a developer-friendly CLI interface.

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(github.com)
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iina Player Enhancements: Title Display and Pause Minimization

2025-09-16

This code snippet adds two handy features to the iina video player. First, it displays the video title in a large 48px font at the top of the video player during playback. Second, it minimizes the window when the video is paused and resumes playback when the window is restored, enhancing the user experience.

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(iina.io)
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Unraveling Rust's Functions and Closures: A Deep Dive

2025-09-14
Unraveling Rust's Functions and Closures: A Deep Dive

Rust's functions and closures are a source of confusion for many beginners. This post delves into the underlying mechanisms of Rust's function and closure system, explaining the relationships between function items, function pointers, and the three closure traits: Fn, FnMut, and FnOnce. It reveals how the compiler transforms closures into anonymous structs and the compiler optimizations behind seemingly simple function calls. Understanding these underlying mechanisms empowers developers to write more efficient and error-free Rust code by grasping how different closure capture modes impact behavior.

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(blog.cuongle.dev)
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Zasper: A Supercharged IDE for Data Science

2025-01-02
Zasper: A Supercharged IDE for Data Science

Zasper is a new IDE built from the ground up for data science, boasting massive concurrency, minimal memory footprint, and exceptional speed. It's perfectly suited for REPL-style data applications, with Jupyter notebooks being one example. Currently, Zasper is fully supported on Mac with limited support on Linux. Benchmarks show it uses 75% less RAM and CPU than JupyterLab. Created by Prasun Anand, it aims to be a free, open-source solution that runs locally, maximizing the power of modern computers.

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(github.com)
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WinBoat: Run Windows Apps Seamlessly on Linux

2025-09-02
WinBoat: Run Windows Apps Seamlessly on Linux

WinBoat, currently in beta, lets you run Windows apps on your Linux penguin with seamless integration. Boasting a sleek interface and automated installation, it allows you to run almost any Windows application as native OS-level windows within your Linux environment. Access the full Windows desktop or integrate individual apps into your workflow. File sharing between Windows and Linux is also simplified. While requiring specific system resources (RAM, CPU, storage, KVM, Docker, FreeRDP), WinBoat offers a compelling solution for cross-platform compatibility. Contributions and feedback are welcome!

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Rust's New Approach to Uninitialized Buffers: The Buffer Trait

2025-05-21

Uninitialized buffers in Rust have been a long-standing challenge. John Nunley and Alex Saveau introduced a novel solution using a `Buffer` trait. This trait enables safe reading into uninitialized buffers, providing implementations for `&mut [T]` and `&mut [MaybeUninit]`. It also cleverly leverages the spare capacity of `Vec` and encapsulates the unsafe `Vec::set_len` call. This approach is now integrated into rustix 1.0 and released as a standalone library, `buffer-trait`, with potential future inclusion in Rust's standard library.

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(blog.sunfishcode.online)
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Jujutsu + Radicle: A Near Branchless Workflow

2025-08-14
Jujutsu + Radicle: A Near Branchless Workflow

This article details how the author uses Jujutsu and Radicle together to achieve a nearly branchless version control workflow. Jujutsu, as a transparent layer on top of Git, manages changes using change IDs, simplifying complex Git operations like rebasing and squashing. Radicle leverages Git's storage and protocol, providing a secure and reliable platform for code collaboration. The author details their `.git/config` and `.jj/config` configurations, and how they use commands like `jj new`, `jj edit`, `jj squash`, and `jj rebase` to create, edit, merge, and reorder changes. Radicle's patch mechanism enables efficient code contribution and maintenance, ultimately eliminating cumbersome branch management and improving development efficiency.

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(radicle.xyz)
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Body Doubling: A Productivity Hack for Focus and Task Completion

2025-03-29

Body doubling is a productivity technique gaining popularity, especially among those with ADHD. It involves working alongside another person, either physically or virtually, to improve focus and task completion. The presence of the 'body double' acts as an external motivator, reducing distractions and fostering a sense of accountability. While long-term studies are limited, anecdotal evidence and expert opinions suggest its effectiveness as a complementary approach to medication and helpful for individuals with other conditions like autism or anxiety.

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Material 3 Expressive: A More Expressive Android Experience

2025-05-13
Material 3 Expressive: A More Expressive Android Experience

Building upon the award-winning Material You design, Google introduces Material 3 Expressive, bringing a more personalized and expressive phone experience to Android users. It enhances everyday routines with smoother animations and more natural, springy effects. For instance, dismissing a notification subtly affects neighboring ones, coupled with satisfying haptic feedback. This makes Android feel more human, approachable, and grounded in user needs.

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(blog.google)
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‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Footage Saves Innocent Man from Death Row

2024-12-25
‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Footage Saves Innocent Man from Death Row

Juan Catalan, a California man, faced the death penalty for a murder he didn't commit. The sole eyewitness's description matched Catalan, despite his pleas of innocence. His girlfriend remembered he was at a Dodgers game the night of the murder. His lawyer secured footage from an HBO filming of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' at the stadium, showing Catalan and his daughter, proving his alibi. This unexpected evidence led to the dismissal of charges, highlighting the fallibility of eyewitness testimony and the risk of wrongful convictions.

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Misc wrongful conviction evidence exoneration

Greek Island Hydra: Paradise Lost?

2025-05-25
Greek Island Hydra: Paradise Lost?

The Greek island of Hydra, advertised as a walker's paradise free of motorized vehicles, is facing a reality clash. Despite a law prohibiting wheeled vehicles, the island is overrun with cars, motorcycles, and bicycles. The mayor explains the municipality lacks the authority to fine those violating heritage protection laws, citing ongoing public works requiring vehicles, though these will be significantly reduced after May.

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(en.protothema.gr)
Misc Greece Hydra Island Environmental Issues

The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work: A Software Design Philosophy

2025-08-30

This article champions the principle of 'doing the simplest thing that could possibly work' in software design. Instead of striving for an idealized, over-engineered system, the author advocates for a deep understanding of the current system and choosing the simplest solution. This approach, while seemingly underwhelming, yields surprisingly effective results, exemplified by the designs of Unix and Rails. While challenges like system inflexibility and defining 'simplicity' exist, the author argues that focusing on current needs and iterative improvement is superior to over-engineering for distant future requirements. Ultimately, a simple, stable system often surpasses an over-engineered, hard-to-maintain one.

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(www.seangoedecke.com)
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Microsoft's Silent Driver Purge: Breaking Your Old Hardware?

2025-06-20
Microsoft's Silent Driver Purge: Breaking Your Old Hardware?

Microsoft is quietly removing outdated drivers from Windows Update, citing security and reliability. However, this could break hardware for users relying on legacy devices. Without individual warnings, drivers simply disappear from Windows Update. Only the original hardware partner can restore them, but Microsoft might require business justification, and drivers are permanently deleted after six months of inactivity. This is a nightmare for users of older hardware, potentially impacting even enterprise environments. Microsoft plans to continue this purge regularly.

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(nerds.xyz)
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25 Years of Computing: Cheap Gadgets That Actually Work

2025-06-21
25 Years of Computing: Cheap Gadgets That Actually Work

A seasoned computer user with over 25 years of experience shares their collection of inexpensive yet incredibly useful adapters and gadgets. From RJ45 angle adapters for easier laptop connectivity to SATA-to-USB adapters for disk cloning, USB-C converters, Bluetooth adapters for enhanced audio, and more, these AliExpress finds solve everyday tech frustrations. Cheap, effective, and a must-have for any tech enthusiast.

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(vermaden.wordpress.com)
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Nausicaä's Visual Storytelling: A Powerful Anti-War and Environmental Message

2025-06-20
Nausicaä's Visual Storytelling: A Powerful Anti-War and Environmental Message

This paper analyzes how Hayao Miyazaki's *Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind* uses visual storytelling, specifically mise-en-scène elements like color, lighting, and body language, to amplify its anti-war and environmental themes. The author argues that the film's visuals aren't merely aesthetic choices but crucial narrative devices conveying the impact of war on both people and nature. By drawing parallels between the Giant Warriors and nuclear weapons, and examining the use of color and character expressions in war scenes, the paper demonstrates how the film bridges fantasy and reality, prompting reflection on the environmental and human consequences of warfare and advocating for peace and environmental consciousness.

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Game Nausicaä Visual Storytelling

Multimodal Siamese Networks for Dementia Detection from Speech in Women

2025-08-24
Multimodal Siamese Networks for Dementia Detection from Speech in Women

This study leverages a multimodal Siamese network to detect dementia from speech data, specifically focusing on female participants. Utilizing audio recordings and transcripts from the Pitt Corpus within the Dementia Bank database, the research employs various audio analysis techniques (MFCCs, zero-crossing rate, etc.) and text preprocessing methods. A multimodal Siamese network is developed, combining audio and text features to enhance dementia detection accuracy. Data augmentation techniques are implemented to improve model robustness. The study offers a comprehensive approach to multimodal learning in the context of dementia diagnosis.

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(www.nature.com)
AI Dementia Detection Multimodal Learning Speech Analysis

Do Newly Coined Swear Words Relieve Pain? A Controlled Experiment

2025-07-02
Do Newly Coined Swear Words Relieve Pain? A Controlled Experiment

Researchers conducted an experiment to test whether newly invented swear words have the same pain-relieving effects as traditional swear words. Participants immersed their hands in ice water while repeating different words, including a conventional swear word, two newly coined swear words, and a neutral word. Results showed that the conventional swear word increased pain tolerance and threshold, but the newly coined words did not. This suggests the pain-relieving effect of swearing may not simply be due to sound or emotional arousal, but rather learned negative associations from childhood.

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(www.frontiersin.org)
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Revisiting Earthsea: A Stunning Illustrated Edition of a Classic Fantasy Series

2025-04-28
Revisiting Earthsea: A Stunning Illustrated Edition of a Classic Fantasy Series

The author rereads Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea cycle in a new, fully illustrated omnibus edition featuring art by the beloved Charles Vess. This massive volume includes all six novels, along with short stories and afterwords. While praising the beautiful artwork, the author expresses some reservations about its style compared to Vess's other works. The large page size and slightly small font size present minor reading inconveniences, but overall the experience is positive. The author finds the Earthsea books as compelling as ever, particularly highlighting the dark and brutal nature of *Tehanu*. This new edition offers a fresh appreciation for this classic fantasy world, showcasing Le Guin's masterful world-building and character development.

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(lars.ingebrigtsen.no)
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tcpulse: A High-Performance Network Load Generator in Go

2025-06-09
tcpulse: A High-Performance Network Load Generator in Go

tcpulse is a high-performance TCP/UDP connection load generator and performance measurement tool written in Go. It operates in server and client modes, enabling load testing, connection establishment performance measurement, sustained connection performance testing, protocol comparison, and infrastructure validation. The client mode offers persistent and ephemeral connection patterns to simulate various application scenarios. tcpulse provides real-time metrics (latency percentiles, throughput, connection counts), rate limiting, multi-target support, TCP/UDP protocol support, and platform optimizations. Results are output in JSON Lines format for easy integration with monitoring and analysis tools.

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Building a Custom Rock Pi 4 Image with Yocto: CUPS, Docker, and SBOM Generation

2025-02-21
Building a Custom Rock Pi 4 Image with Yocto: CUPS, Docker, and SBOM Generation

This article details the author's experience building a custom disk image for a Rock Pi 4 using the Yocto Project. The image includes CUPS print services and Docker, leveraging Yocto's robust SBOM generation capabilities to create a Software Bill of Materials. The author chose Yocto due to outdated official Rock Pi 4 images, as Yocto enables building highly customized and reproducible embedded Linux systems. The article details key Yocto terminology, the build process, and how to locate SBOMs, while noting current image limitations and future improvements.

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(vpetersson.com)
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Denmark Ditches Microsoft, Embraces Open Source

2025-06-12
Denmark Ditches Microsoft, Embraces Open Source

Denmark's Ministry of Digitization is abandoning Microsoft products in favor of Linux and LibreOffice. This move prioritizes 'digital sovereignty' and reduces reliance on a few tech providers, fueled partly by concerns over US influence following President Trump's Greenland ambitions. Half the ministry will transition to Linux and LibreOffice this summer, with a complete switch expected by fall. Major cities like Copenhagen and Aarhus are following suit, highlighting a growing trend towards open-source solutions.

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(www.heise.de)
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AI Simplifies Coding, But Product Management Becomes the Bottleneck

2025-08-30
AI Simplifies Coding, But Product Management Becomes the Bottleneck

Stanford professor Andrew Ng argues that AI has made coding easier, but product management is now the main hurdle. Tasks that once took six engineers three months can now be completed in a weekend. The challenge lies in deciding what to build. AI's speed in prototyping necessitates faster product decisions, leading teams to increasingly rely on intuition and deep customer empathy rather than solely data analysis. This sparks a debate on the role of product managers, with some arguing their importance in the AI era, while others suggest they're unnecessary in a company's early stages.

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(www.businessinsider.com)
AI

H-Nets: A Hierarchical Network Architecture That Outperforms Transformers

2025-07-16
H-Nets: A Hierarchical Network Architecture That Outperforms Transformers

Current AI architectures treat all inputs equally, failing to leverage the inherent hierarchical nature of information. This limits their ability to learn from high-resolution raw data. Researchers introduce H-Nets, a novel architecture that natively models hierarchy directly from raw data. H-Nets' core is a dynamic chunking mechanism that segments and compresses raw data into meaningful concepts. Experiments show H-Nets outperform state-of-the-art Transformers in language modeling, exhibiting improved scalability and robustness, offering a promising path towards multimodal understanding, long-context reasoning, and efficient training and inference.

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(cartesia.ai)
AI Hierarchical Networks

Ultima VII: Revisited - A 3D Remake of a Classic RPG

2025-02-23

Ultima VII: Revisited is a replacement engine for the classic RPG Ultima VII. It renders the game in 3D and fixes numerous issues plaguing the original, such as low frame rate, companions' inability to feed themselves, and UI conflicts with environment lighting. Creator Anthony Salter aims to let players experience this ahead-of-its-time classic in a new way, appreciating its unique 3D world and clever design through a modern 3D engine and improved game systems.

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(www.u7revisited.com)
Game Engine

RsyncUI: A GUI for rsync on macOS

2025-05-29
RsyncUI: A GUI for rsync on macOS

RsyncUI is a SwiftUI-based macOS application providing a graphical user interface for the command-line tool rsync. It simplifies rsync usage by letting users organize tasks and set parameters easily. Compatible with macOS Sonoma and later, it can be installed via Homebrew or direct download. Importantly, RsyncUI is a GUI; the actual synchronization is handled by rsync. Users can abort tasks, but should allow cleanup to complete before starting new ones.

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(github.com)
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The IRB Nightmare: Navigating the Absurdity of US Human Subjects Research

2025-02-13
The IRB Nightmare: Navigating the Absurdity of US Human Subjects Research

The author recounts, in a lighthearted yet insightful manner, the complexities of Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval in US human subjects research. Using the analogy of an absurdly steep driveway, he illustrates the difficulty in comprehending the often illogical rules. The article debunks common misconceptions about IRB applicability, delving into the origins and intricacies of the Common Rule, and the added layer of FDA regulations. The author highlights the convoluted nature of current regulations, emphasizing that practical enforcement depends on selective application by regulatory bodies rather than strict adherence to written law. Ultimately, the author advocates for streamlining IRB processes, particularly for low-risk research, suggesting a post-hoc penalty system rather than pre-approval.

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(dynomight.net)
Misc Human Subjects Research Regulatory Complexity
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