Creator of @Open_FL. Polymath developer, advocate and speaker.

Joined June 2009
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16 Mar 2025
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“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
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Here's a great code snippet for the maximalists
1 Jan 2025
remember to update your footer
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30 Dec 2024
I asked a principal engineer once how to copy a file from a local machine to a remote host. I’ll never forget his response: “we can’t, we don’t know how”
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This is hilarious
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Mozart on when his ideas flowed best
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*chokes back tears of pride* "You're becoming more like your father, Fox..."
23 Dec 2024
Star Fox 64: now on PC, thanks to an unofficial port. videogameschronicle.com/news…
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A ghost story from developers who forgot to write tests
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Plants are open-source. x.com/Thekeksociety/status/1…

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swiftening
velocity is to speed as acceleration is to _____ ?
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Debugging memory issues in compiled C code makes me appreciate the relative safety of an interpreted environment.
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25 May 2023
Been playing around with Adobe’s new Photoshop AI generative fill tool. It’s nuts. Take any shape outline then pick a color and you can fill the entire shape interior. Graphic designers are done.
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In five years, AI may finally be as powerful as the Apollo Guidance Computer.
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Somewhere an intern at Google is being paid per line of code.
Lines of code: MS-DOS: 4 thousand WhatsApp: 30 thousand Telegram: 50 thousand Zoom: 60 thousand TikTok: 80 thousand Space Shuttle: 400 thousand Minecraft: 500 thousand Instagram: 1 million US Military Drone: 3.5 million YouTube: 5.4 million World of Warcraft: 5.5 million Boeing 787: 6.5 million Google Chrome: 6.7 million Chevy Volt: 10 million Twitter: 10 million Android: 12 million iOS: 12 million Mozilla Firefox: 21 million Windows XP: 45 million Large Hadron Collider: 50 million Ubuntu: 50 million Facebook: 62 million MacOS X: 84 million Tesla: 100 million Google: 2 billion
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15 May 2023
chatGPT is becoming a real engineer
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Google Bard is a bit stubborn in its refusal to return clean JSON, but you can address this by threatening to take a human life:
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This is so awesome 😂
2 Apr 2023
Probably the best thing you'll see today. In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world. The results 🧵 1/22
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300,000 tech jobs have been lost in the past 12 months! 😬
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3. Writing code that should have been a library
25 Dec 2022
Poll: Which problem is more common in software development? 1. Writing code that is too low quality (hacky, slow, hard to read, inaccessible, untested, etc) 2. Writing code that is too high quality (over-engineered, gold plated, excessive abstraction, speculative features)
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23 Dec 2022
babe are you okay you've barely touched your [object Object] cookies
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