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LLM-assisted frontend work has a particular failure mode. The model confidently writes code that was best-practice in 2021. It reaches for 100vh, hand-rolls a dark-mode toggle with a class on <body>, or disables the submit button to...
This month, my blog turned 8 years old…and my dev.to account turned 7. To celebrate it, I ran an AMA session on dev.to. For some moments, it felt I was talking to bots. Most likely true, if you also believe in the Dead Internet Theory. I...
Our educational establishment, it seems, has catastrophically failed the nation's public schools over the last few decades. Despite the bipartisan No Child Left Behind bill from the George W. Bush Administration and the national testing...
I'm embarrassed about this one. The Witness will be September's release for the Visible Zorker project, but it's already done for Patreon supporters. So I've scanned my Witness feelies for the app already. (You can see the high-res scans...
The Federal Railroad Administration just released phase 1 of its own study on Penn Station capacity. Assuming that the Gateway tunnel is built but no other improvements to the station are made, the FRA thinks that the station’s...
I am expecting my next game from Cili Padi Games, Pilgrim Poker, to be released at the Asian Board Games Festival in Penang, 7 - 9 Aug 2026. I am very excited about this project. This is the first time I am using a Chinese story as my...
Today while going from college through the metro, an old woman took the whole area of the escalator and I just came behind her. I was waiting for her to get on it, but then suddenly a man came from behind, grabbed her arm, and got on the...
The great filter (a term I coined) is all the things that block simple dead matter from evolving into an advanced civilization easily seen from far away. Given that we see a vast universe of simple dead matter (~10^24 planets) not so...
A purple and white flower.
Two brand new HG101 books are out now! Ys and Other Falcom Classics We love Falcom here at HG101, especially classic Falcom, with all of its Yuzo Koshiro FM synth and high powered PC Engine redbook tunes. The Guide to Japanese...
Accountability & Safety Checklist Before buying or financing a vehicle for a young adult struggling with independence, consider these major red flags: Property Destruction: Prevents a repeat of his last crash, for which he still refuses...
A delicate yellow and purple streptocarpus.
edge of the table don't ask me what i do aperture right quick just one wrong screw screw up the thread other things said manicured garden Yesterday :: Friday, 24th July 2026
Just under a week ago I published my old game on itch.io for the first time as an experiment. I have always been told that itch really helps with engagement...