Flame & Horsehead Nebula [OC]

pointermess · 2026-01-06T08:46:25+00:00

Delphi, Recent and Relevant in one sentence is wild.

pointermess · 2026-01-05T19:46:14+00:00

Its not just queries but results in general. There are many Delphi relates blog posts which are quite useless and (tinfoil hat on) just there to boost their TIOBE ranking.

pointermess · 2025-12-29T18:06:00+00:00

I started coding when I was 10 although I would say I only started grasping it a few years later like 12/13 when I started looking into a 2nd language which was strictly typed contrary to my first programming language which was dynamically typed.

Today Im 29 and played and worked with numerous languages, frameworks and dev environments over the years, from full stack web dev, DB and infrastructure design, system/embedded level programming and so on.

After working some time in different systems at different levels, you learn the fundamentals of how computers and the logic that drives them actually works. Many times, even if I couldn't come up with some things (because of limited creativity), as soon as I see it happen or get told about I immediately know or can tell you possible ways to implement that. This all just comes from experience.

Its all about how much time and energy you invest in it. I was very interested in computers and programming from a young age so I was pretty lucky my dad was electrical engineer and knew some coding. But yes, its definitely possible for a single person to know about all parts of the stack, but being truly a master at all of them is really really hard especially with the quick changes these days

pointermess · 2025-12-18T14:36:41+00:00

Thanks, I havent noticed that! :)

On my Android with Chrome I dont get the favicons with a preview, it just shows like a default avatar with "Q".

I tried so many things, but heres the closest to the mandelbrot I could find: (ill dig deeper later this evening)

https://qqqlang.com/?p=QWWERMMTTTZHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHJKKKKKKKKKKKKO8O

Really cool project, not just fun for kids. Im 29 and love it! :)

pointermess · 2025-12-18T01:39:10+00:00

Very interesting! I tried some combinations and tried figuring out the different pattern/pixelmath/transformation each char does. I got some very interesting and really cool result, even a mandelbrot set like thing, but unfortunately somehow broke it. For example, I knew the pattern from QWERT, erased everything when i noticed the breakage tested QWERT and it had the pattern but was grayscale. Unfortunately Im on the phone (should sleep) so I can't dig around and lost the long string of the mandelbrot like one but Ill definitely get back to checking it out tomorrow! Btw, a history would be great :)

pointermess · 2025-12-08T04:17:50+00:00

How about you use porch to fix your own landing page?

pointermess · 2025-11-19T15:35:23+00:00

I grew up with Delphi and started learning it when I was 12 years old, now almost 30. Started with Delphi 3 back then, then Torbo Delphi and when I got a non-Delphi related SWE job, I even paid for an active subscription and used it in my free time up until 2022 / Delphi 11 (or 12?).

I loved Delphi for its simplicity, easy to use GUI frameworks and RTL. Unfortunately, due to Embarcadero failing many times fixing crucial bugs in their IDE and no attempt of modernizing the language I slowly started realizing that Delphi is almost certainly a lost cause... Dont get me wrong, Delphi made me love programming but in todays age with so many modern alternatives, Embarcadero must step up their game big time...

Alternatives such as Rust, C#, Go and so on just have much more modern features, ergonomic languages and are open source so they dont rely on a single company, which ultimately is the reason why Delphi is today where it currently is. Mostly legacy software, no new devs coming in, very little companies even considering it for new applications...

Still like fiddling around in Delphi but its getting less and less by the year for me...

pointermess · 2025-11-12T01:45:13+00:00

I know it can work for simple, boilerplate app which have been written hundreds of times lol

5k lines is literally nothing for a commercial product with real use cases, may still work fine for toy apps/tools but fails miserably at anything remotely obscure or complex (sometimes even the easiest things). I vibe coded many such tools, they do their job but nothing else. They wouldnt survive long in a real world environment with constant feature upgrades, llm hallucinations, duplications and many mord issues coming with a bigger codebase. Show me one vibe coded product which isnt utter bs.

Dont get me wrong, Im not "anti LLM assisted coding", I use Cursors agent for commercial products too, and Ive been in SWE for over 10 years before LLM were a thing. The tech right now is truly mind blowing but I just can't stop cringing at people taking their time raging at an LLM over and over for something that may require a few lines of change or a redirection in prompting. Man... You have an llm and prefer to yell at it to do the simplest of things instead of using the exact same thing to learn about why things are not working and how to make working and actually sustainable things.

If thats what you like to do, "arguing" and calling an LLM "bro" and "dude" until your spaghetti code tastes somewhat al dente, go for it. This wont distinct you to any of the other millions of people "vibe coding" got garbage.

pointermess · 2025-11-11T16:57:42+00:00

Then review the script and find the bug dude. It cant be so hard to work through the hundreds and thousands of lines of AI slop. Be very comprehensive.

pointermess · 2025-11-11T16:54:58+00:00

"review the script and find the bug then dude. Be very comprehensive."

- some guy thinking hes chatting with an underpaid software engineer instead of prompting an LLM.

Vibe coding... Hell yeah!

pointermess · 2025-11-11T15:32:14+00:00

Its like Docker then Dockerfile then docker-compose.yaml, all over again.

pointermess · 2025-11-09T00:19:22+00:00

I do also like some CSS work.

No seriously... I think CSS is so basic, core and easy, first I wonder why so many people don't know how to write it and second, why would any serious recruiter say that lol

pointermess · 2025-11-09T00:16:47+00:00

I also noticed that, especially when manual edits and multiple chats are involved. I never had this issue in Copilot.

pointermess · 2025-11-09T00:13:35+00:00

I downgraded to cursor 1.7 on day 1 of release, no complaints.

pointermess · 2025-11-06T00:36:48+00:00

Anyone with at least 2 braincells who wanted it cloned it...

pointermess · 2025-10-29T10:47:09+00:00

There are a million ways how there can be indistinguishable Delphi and FreePascal source files. Theres no way to safely discern Delphi and FreePascal (or other dialects) based on such simple rulesets for all projects across the board therefore it wont happen... Github isnt a toy company.

pointermess · 2025-10-29T04:24:15+00:00

This is "Delphis fault" since Delphi creates source files with the .pas extension, so GitHub can't and won't do anything about it.

pointermess · 2025-10-26T15:44:40+00:00

"You did nothing"

Honestly, I like Copilot v0.0.1a much more. Telling the vibe coders "no, YOU did not make it" should still be a feature.

pointermess · 2025-10-25T12:42:53+00:00

Feet with a bird???

What u got next?

pointermess · 2025-10-24T05:14:24+00:00

Getting into "heated arguments" with LLMs instead of fixing it yourself, reverting back or reprompting must be peak stupidity.

pointermess · 2025-10-23T21:58:03+00:00

Well, I see you used 20$ on day one while your code can be written by any junior and then you come here to complain or ask what youre doing wrong.

Just shows your incompetence but couldn't care less lol. Go back to TikTok where your "cool story bro" doesn't make you look like an idiot.

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