Vim facility learned today, :tag / :tj / :ta combined with set ignorecase and now I can jump straight to my functions without knowing if they're CaMelcaSe or lower without even seeing the fn name in my current buffer. Freedom!

After a few years of my MiniBufExplr training wheels in vim, today I took the plunge and removed it outright from my .vimrc , now relying on :b <partial bufname> to jump around. Should have been here years ago!

Sometimes, rarely, you look at things and are actually almost impressed and think "I developed that!" FlexBV6 getting closer to public release.

At this point, having all layers, transparent, on 4K display, and still getting solid FPS rates, using ImGui, without resorting to offloading to a separate texture layer, I'm impressed ( this is all via the impl SDL3 renderer )

Absolutely gazillions of triangles I'm trying to melt/clip here, the level of detail is finally incredible

Amazed that something a genuinely interesting to see as the car-flip has bought out so much negative dismissal by people profoundly certain of their stance. I suggest doing even 6 months of ME Statics & Kinematics. Lots of energy being used up moving goal posts.

Unless you're already experienced in design & coding you're likely at a notable disadvantage for ascertaining if your agent is providing you with quality results; ultimately trading tokens for sparseness of knowledge.

The "Mythical Man Month" is still ringing true, especially the "No silver bullet" section ( worrydream.com/refs/Brooks_1… ) A lot of people could do well to read this book.

I think Elon just caused a cardiac event for thunderf00t

The hangover for these Adobe/MS clone euphoria events is going to be brutal. Once the dopamine has worn off and it's back to triaging bugs/policies/plans there's going to be difficult to keep going and they'll be just another Gimp/Inkscape/LibreOffice project.

Ford Falcon BA sedan hardware store capabilities; * 820x2040 35mm door fits * 3m lengths of 90x45 fit if you sacrifice dash quality * 2.4m lengths easily fit & use the seatbelt to restrain * Will fit 2 bags of insulation, not 3. * 30m roll of 1200 wide fencing mesh fits

Thinking AI will build a great app without proper management is akin to hoping a nailgun will build you a house when let loose on a stack of wood.

Looking at a CS degree to learn how to program C/java/etc? best I pop that bubble now, that is NOT what CS is. Learning to program / a language is a side quest you pick up to facilitate your actual CS degree. CS is more about math/algorithms. Learn programming yourself.

35 years, hundreds of books, and this is what I’ve distilled down to. Realistically a few more can go.

With the power of AI, someone needs to make a modern SylpheedClaws implementation for linux with XOAUTH2 for gmail and lightweight HTML generation for emails. Sick to death of how bad Thunderbird is. Saw someone make an Excel replacement in 12 words using Claude...

The bank offered up to $390k to buy a house 6 years ago, very glad I only went for $180k. Just because the bank offers it doesn't mean you will be able to afford it for the duration. Life tends to throw spanners, factor that in.

When is Australia going to be sensible and adopt a NZ approach towards home electrical like-for-like repairs/replacements instead of the ETU gatekeeping everything and wasting the time/resource of electricians ? Adopting New Zealand’s NZECP 51 framework would be seamless.

Unpopular realisation; moving to 4K single screen from dual/triple head has in many ways made my life easier, even as a programmer. Caveat, I think I do want to still move to 5K2K for a little more width. Using quick tiling shortcuts helps a lot.

How in this day & age is it that printing a document causes the whole linux Cinnamon desktop to become unresponsive until it's complete. This was solved decades ago :(

Thousands of dollars on ~300m of corrugated colourbond sheet and treated wood to block out snakes, first not-cold weekend we get (Aug 22) and a huge chonk of a brown snake is in our yard; it's a nightmare we can't seem to wake up from over the last 2 years :(