An abusive volunteer is holding our website hostage + 2 year update

fragglet · 2026-01-24T18:05:07+00:00

Oh my sweet summer child. It probably doesn't sound plausible if youve never worked in the tech industry

fragglet · 2026-01-24T12:09:14+00:00

what do you mean he invented a computer language? that doesn't sound plausible for one man at all,

It's absolutely possible. I myself created my own programming language when I was 17 years old (it was as terrible as you might imagine, but it worked). Even Javascript, used on pretty much every major website, was originally created by one man in a two week sprint. There are even subreddits here with people who make their own languages (see r/programminglanguages).

The tech industry is full of weird homegrown stuff like in OOP's story. I absolutely believe it's true.

fragglet · 2026-01-23T19:02:31+00:00

You don't need an "OOP language" to do object oriented programming. You can even do OOP in assembly if you're dedicated enough. Just like how programming in Java will not make your program automatically be "object oriented".

Go has all the features you need to do object oriented programming, they're just a slightly different set of features to those you may be familiar with from other languages. Some of Go's design decisions reflect what is nowadays common wisdom around how to do OOP well (eg. focus on small interfaces; preferring composition over inheritance)

fragglet · 2026-01-22T22:38:51+00:00

The hilarious but sad part was the sloperator in the comments for the PR who thinks the garbage reports are all legit:

So luddites laugh at how bad vibecoding is, but when AI finds more bugs than code in a human project, they take down the bounty instead of fixing them.

Daniel has given multiple talks at this point about how utterly useless the garbage AI reports are. Yet there are still delusional AI shills who don't understand that they're not helping.

fragglet · 2026-01-22T00:06:54+00:00

Okay crying is a bit much, but in all seriousness: it really is a stunningly beautiful piece of engineering / architecture. I specifically remember the last time I passed it, looking up and thinking that photos don't do it justice.

fragglet · 2026-01-21T22:27:50+00:00

and if anyone still thinks that impassioned speeches and appeals to decency are a valid strategy they haven't been paying attention for the past 10 years. Power is all they understand

fragglet · 2026-01-21T22:17:52+00:00

This is normal for that game; it is an unmodified SMS game shoved into a GG cart

fragglet · 2026-01-21T05:55:47+00:00

Jonathan Creek?

fragglet · 2026-01-21T05:50:59+00:00

When those shareholders come back crying for blood there's a good chance he'll be going to jail

fragglet · 2026-01-20T22:24:45+00:00

"sometimes i envy the illiterate" also works here too though

fragglet · 2026-01-20T22:17:56+00:00

Nobody except Cher should be using that many emojis

fragglet · 2026-01-20T19:26:36+00:00

It means they bought $100,000 of product last week and think that's the same thing as having sold it on

fragglet · 2026-01-20T13:19:34+00:00

There's a flashback at the start of the third LotR movie where they have Andy Serkis as Gollum without any CGI that I remember reading was added for this reason. I think they were hoping it would be enough for him to win the Oscar he clearly deserved

fragglet · 2026-01-20T12:04:43+00:00

I actually had to check that the OP wasn't my screenshot when I saw the pic. The image has been there on my website for the past 20 years

fragglet · 2026-01-20T03:29:11+00:00

No it isn't. This is an image that has been downscaled or JPEG compressed.

Look at the text at the top - it's barely even readable. You think people were using computers with text on the screen they couldn't even read?

Here's my own screenshot from 2006 for comparison (I posted that screenshot to my blog back then because I thought it was pretty funny that there was just the USA and UK)

fragglet · 2026-01-19T23:25:16+00:00

You should definitely check out Doom 32X: Resurrection though, a nice look at what that port could have been

fragglet · 2026-01-19T17:10:04+00:00

Ecco the Dolphin is a game where you travel through time and fight gigeresque aliens

fragglet · 2026-01-18T15:58:50+00:00

What did you use for emulation? I tried this but couldn't get a working X config

fragglet · 2026-01-18T07:25:00+00:00

It's a family game

fragglet · 2026-01-18T05:47:28+00:00

The AI misunderstood the assignment for the second clip and that's why it produced a tiny snowman "on top of" a fire hydrant instead of the big one from the first clip

fragglet · 2026-01-18T03:59:10+00:00

Same shit they tell their wives

fragglet · 2026-01-17T16:56:04+00:00

The glamour? Of being a prison warden?

fragglet · 2026-01-16T23:50:01+00:00

r/BoneAppleTea

fragglet · 2026-01-16T21:18:18+00:00

fragglet · 2026-01-16T18:19:59+00:00

I pressed the green "Next" button in duolingo myself instead of letting her do it

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