The Binding of Isaac Teaches the Wrong Lesson
The Binding of Isaac is a very strange story. I’m not talking about the video game with the same name, but instead the original biblical story.
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Porting Software with AI
I saw a post about someone porting the old 3D Movie Maker software to Linux.
Stop Pushing AI Generated Code to Git
I am not a luddite. I use Claude Code like everyone does. It’s a good tool, you should use it.
Comradery on Discord and the Strange Attachment to Text
The old days of Usenet and IRC and Bulletin Board Systems were a bit before my time.
The Quest for Concurrent DOS: Part 2
Recently I released the the first part of my adventure trying to find the ownership and and source code to Digital Research’s Concurrent DOS (also known as Multiuser DOS, with a separate spinoff product called REAL/32).
The Quest for Concurrent DOS: Part 1
About ten years ago, I watched this video by Lazy Game Reviews: This was the first time I had ever heard of Digital Research as a company, and upon hearing about them, I became fascinated with their history.
The Bizarre Ritual of Job Hunting
I’ve had a lot of jobs in my career, and as such I’ve had many, many, many software engineering interviews.
Parasocial Relationships and the Strangeness of Caring What Strangers Think
I like to tell myself that I don’t care about what people think about me.
MY NEW THEORY OF AI
Everyone is talking about AI right now.
Either Prolific or Long-Winded
A few days ago someone posted on Hacker News a tool that tells you how many words you have written in the comments of the Hacker News forum.