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Possible New Editor Test
29th August 2025
WASM is the new hot compilation target for the 'web.
Looks like there are a few BASICs but they're not fully ready just yet.

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Emergency Week
26th August 2025
Kudos for keeping it running.
I know a lot of the old forum software was perpetually being breached even back in the day.

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Implementing FRACTRAN
24th August 2025
FRACTRAN is a horrible esoteric language that uses a list of fractions (they need to be true fractions not floating point numbers) and an integer to preform calculations.
Also due to the huge size of the numbers you want a host language that implements un*snip*

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Jump Button
21st August 2025
Usually it's directionally right of the ''action'' button.
On fighting games it's usually up on the dpad but that isn't generally liked for other action games. However, on European 8 bit computer games they often had up as jump on plat*snip*

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API Week
20th August 2025
HTTP requests are the new GOTO spaghetti code.
AWS Lambda ain't helping. :)
Now it's not just unstructured logic jumps, there is now a failure to connect coupled with black box code you can't read.
That said, making a little weather forecast*snip*

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Microsoft's AI 3D Object Generator
20th August 2025
Still lazy and soulless to me.
The creation matters as much as the result.
Art isn't in the result, it's in the granularity of the choices made during the process of the creation of a meaningful result. This is why AI products are often referred *snip*

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Reward : One Pound
18th August 2025
''Remember, if you're about to be robbed calmly state to the robber that they cannot legally rob in at least 3 languages. Doing so is the best way to proceed while letting them make a personal decision while also respecting their socioeconomic posi*snip*

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Reward : One Pound
15th August 2025
The answer is to round up particularly brazen offenders and make examples of them. And the public needs to back the police.
Per that article:
''People feel that it's within their rights,'' she told the BBC, adding that shoplifters felt embol*snip*

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GPT Number 5. It's alive!
8th August 2025
I think it's best for tasks that have open-ended answers.
It's very good for writing cover letters if you give it a resume and the job description. (Good riddance to those!)
It struggles with deduction and rule based programming. Which is kind o*snip*

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Kay Magazine - Game Art Theft Bust
5th August 2025
I recognized that horse instantly. I think cheap ''asset'' culture has dealt a blow to respecting the original work of others.

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Kay Magazine - Game Art Theft Bust
5th August 2025
Kay Magazine - stolen art assets bust Linkage

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Switch 2
4th August 2025
Not to mention the ticket price to the carnival ride.
Switch 2 games are $70 here what are they in your region?

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Worms Across Worlds
3rd August 2025
It would seem that with this and the new DK game destructible terrain is very much back en vogue. :)

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Earthion - Megadrive / Genesis
1st August 2025
Games like Gaiares and Gradius have visual indicators.
They would probably be better in that case.
Depending on my finances I may pick it up in cart form.
It is an excellent looking game in my favorite genre on one of my favorite consoles.

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Earthion - Megadrive / Genesis
1st August 2025
New Sega Genesis shmup looks amazing. Linkage

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Maintenance Week
30th July 2025
Working on getting my code organized in my BlitzMax shmup game.
I'm keeping the various components pretty generic and reusable but I'm going to solidify the actual game logic into a singleton class next.
This should allow me to make different gam*snip*

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No More Goo.gl
30th July 2025
Google really is a dangerous bedfellow.
I sort of wonder how long before they also change Youtube linking style for our embedded video links only using the last part of the URL.

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Bought a mini 8'' 4:3 lcd monitor
30th July 2025
It would be nice if we could go back to user serviceable parts like batteries especially for phones.
The Pine Phone was a step in the right direction as far as this kind of thing goes but unfortunately more people wanted to use it than develop drivers for*snip*

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Starfleet Academy
29th July 2025
Well, there you have it.
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Maintenance Week
28th July 2025
I'll offer a pre-meme anecdote from The Tao of Programming - Book 5 (Maintenance)
[quote]Thus spake the Master Programmer:
''Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.''[/quote]
And one more - Book 4 (Co*snip*

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Starfleet Academy
26th July 2025
We can only wait but I probably won't watch it...
The writers need to stop making moody snarky assholes. (Yes, there have been some like Q but he was clearly somebody you were not to like initially)
They seem hell bent on uprooting what Starfleet was*snip*

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Making Pebble Content
26th July 2025
What languages can you program em in?
(Also, my ''full'' avatar isn't showing like the rest in this thread - nvm fixed somehow)

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Communication Week
24th July 2025
Xerox PARC invented Ethernet communications in the early '70s and you can find more about it and their other innovations below.

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Communication Week
23rd July 2025
Not a lot of implementation, but reading up on garbage collection algorithms.
At some point my toy Lisp will get a non-trivial one.
We've come a long way in GC since the early 60s.
I don't aim to have the most complex one in the world but I wou*snip*

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PotatoP - Minimal Power Computer
23rd July 2025
I've always thought the PotatoP is a very cool design for a computer with minimal power draw.
It essentially can go for 2 years and still do some of the basic stuff like draw to screen and save new programs and functions to the ''disk''.
It l*snip*
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