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Devlog: Godot Project — Level 4-2 And Level 2-3
Progress has been made on level 4-2, and early development on level 2-3, alongside new game elements. Continue reading →
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Devlog: Blogging Tools — Category Fixer
Adding an RSS feed parser and in-app notifications to build a feature to triage image posts that don’t have a category. Continue reading →
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Devlog: Godot Project — Some Feelings
Progress on the Godot game has been fulfilling yet tinged with doubt about its value and purpose. Continue reading →
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Moan-routine: LO's Predicate Signatures
A critique of function signatures the ’lo’ package offers for functions like Map and Filter. Continue reading →
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On the UI of Coding Assistants And Agents
An AI assistant verses an AI agent may have less to do with the UI, and more with how it’s used. Continue reading →
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On Ranting
Thoughts on Manuel Moreal’s latest post and what makes a good rant. Continue reading →
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I.S. Know: An Online Quiz About ISO and RFC Standards
An online quiz called “I.S. Know” was created for software developers to test their knowledge of ISO and RFC standards in a fun way. Continue reading →
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Brief Look At Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor
Kicking the tyres on Edit, Microsoft’s new text editor for the CLI. Continue reading →
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On MacOS Permissions Again
Some dissenting thoughts about John Gruber and Ben Thompson discussion about Mac permissions and the iPad on the latest Dithering. Continue reading →
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Gallery: Day Trip to Yass
Decided to go to Yass today, a small town in NSW just north of where I’m staying in Canberra. I pass by Yass every time I drive to Canberra from Melbourne, and I wanted to see what it was like, at least once. And this morning I discovered that it had a railway museum, which sealed the deal. Unfortunately the weather was not kind: it was bitterly cold and rainy the whole time I was there. Continue reading →
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Devlog: UCL — More About The Set Operator
I made a decision around the set operator in UCL this morning. When I added the set operator, I made it such that when setting variables, you had to include the leading dollar sign: $a = 123 The reason for this was that the set operator was also to be used for setting pseudo-variables, which had a different prefix character. @ans = "this" I needed the user to include the @ prefix to distinguish the two, and since one variable type required a prefix, it made sense to require it for the other. Continue reading →
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Some Morning AI Thoughts
Some contrasting views on the role of AI in creation, highlighting the importance of human creativity and quality over speed and cost-cutting in technological advancements. Continue reading →
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That Which Didn't Make the Cut: a Hugo CMS
You’ve probably noticed1 that I’ve stopped posting links to Open Bookmarks, and have started posting them here again. The main reason for this is that I’ve abandoned work on the CMS I was working on that powered that bookmarking site. Yes, yes, I know: another one. Open Bookmarks was basically a static Hugo site, hosted on Netlify. But being someone that wanted to make it easy for me to post new links without having to do a Git checkout, or fiddle around YAML front-matter, I thought of building a simple web-service for this. Continue reading →
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Encapsulation In Software Development Is Underrated
Encapsulation is something object-oriented programming got right. Continue reading →
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Rubberducking: Of Brass and Browsers
🦆: Did you hear about The Browser Company? L: Oh yeah, I heard the CEO wrote a letter about Arc. 🦆: Yeah, did you ever use Arc? L: Nah. Probably won’t now that it seems like they’ve stopped work on it. Heard it was pretty nice thought. 🦆: Yeah, I heard Scott Forstall had an early look at it. L: Oh yeah, and how he compared it to a saxophone and recommended making it more like a piano. Continue reading →
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Devlog: Dynamo-Browse Now Scanning For UCL Extensions
Significant milestone in integrating UCL with Dynamo-Browse, as UCL extensions are now being loaded on launch. Continue reading →
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Devlog: UCL — Assignment
Some thoughts of changing how assignments work in UCL to support subscripts and pseudo-variables. Continue reading →
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Serious Maintainers
I just learnt that Hugo has changed their layout directory structure (via) and has done so without bumping the major version. I was a little peeved by this: this is a breaking change1 and they’re not indicating the “semantic versioning” way by going from 1.x.x to 2.0.0. Surely they know that people are using Hugo, and that an ecosystem of sorts has sprung up around it. But then a thought occurred: what if they don’t know? Continue reading →
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Devlog: Blogging Tools — Finished Podcast Clips
Well, it’s done. I’ve finally finished adding the podcast clip to Blogging Tools. And I won’t lie to you, it took longer than expected, even after enabling some of the AI features my IDE came with. Along with the complexity that came from implementing this feature, that touched on most of the key subsystems of Blogging Tools, the biggest complexity came from designing how the clip creation flow should work. Blogging Tools is at a disadvantage over clipping features in podcast players in that it: Continue reading →
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Rubberducking: More On Mocking
Mocking in unit tests can be problematic due to the growing complexity of service methods with multiple dependencies, leading to increased maintenance challenges. But the root cause may not be the mocks themselves. Continue reading →
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Devlog: Blogging Tools — Ideas For Stills For A Podcast Clips Feature
I recently discovered that Pocketcasts for Android have changed their clip feature. It still exists, but instead of producing a video which you could share on the socials, it produces a link to play the clip from the Pocketcasts web player. Understandable to some degree: it always took a little bit of time to make these videos. But hardly a suitable solution for sharing clips of private podcasts: one could just listen to the entire episode from the site. Continue reading →
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The Alluring Trap Of Tying Your Fortunes To AI
It’s when the tools stop working the way you expect that you realise the full cost of what you bought into. Continue reading →
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Devlog: Dialogues
A post describing a playful dialogue styling feature, inspired by rubber-duck debugging, and discusses the process and potential uses for it. Continue reading →
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On AI, Process, and Output
Manuel Moreale’s latest post about AI was thought-provoking: One thing I’m finding interesting is that I see people falling into two main camps for the most part. On one side are those who value output and outcome, and how to get there doesn’t seem to matter a lot to them. And on the other are the people who value the process over the result, those who care more about how you get to something and what you learn along the way. Continue reading →
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Merge Schema Changes Only When The Implementation Is Ready
Integrating schema changes and implementation together before merging prevents project conflicts and errors for team members. Continue reading →
