The personal blog of Tor Håkon Haugen
I ve just watched the most delightful C64 demo, Rodents in the Attic. Actually, I first watched the video on how this seemingly impossible demo was made, then I watched the demo. The thing about Rodents in the Attic isn t just the impossible made — which you probably even wouldn t think about — but the storytelling [ ]
I have a theory. In 2018, or thereabout, Mark Zuckerberg watched Ready Player One — or maybe he actually read the book — and decided to pivot Facebook into the Metaverse. That went tits up, but everyone kind of forgot once AI made its appearance. Then, late in 2025, Donald Trump — a truly horrible, [ ]
A few weeks back, I took my analog camera — a Canon AE-1 Program — for a walk in Haugesund, a city on the west coast of Norway. I also brought along my Canon 5D Mark II for three reasons: Just to get the technical out of the way. Canon AE-1 Program: Canon 5D Mark [ ]
I finally watched Project Hail Mary last night. My plan was to watch it on the big screen, but then— Well, I hardly need to explain the concept of time. It was good, the movie, but the book was better. It almost always is. Especially if you read the book first. And some books, when [ ]
I ve spent the better part of the summer isolated at home due to a rather nasty virus. However, recently I have been feeling well enough to go for short walks, and on one such occasion I decided to bring along my Canon AE-1 Program — an analog film camera — with a 50mm f/1.8 FD [ ]
I read this article via Hacker News, where Senthilnathan explains why, if you want to allocate 13 bytes, it allocates more behind the scenes. He writes that what you end up with, after running malloc, is this: But this, I have to point out, is his own implementation, which he shows in the article. Glibc [ ]
I ve heard people say, I don t use search engines, I just ask AI . And I get it. It s easy. If you use Google, the first result is always Googles AI, Gemini, replying. Earlier this week, Apple announced that it would remove support for CoreStorage. So I Googled — in other word asked Gemini — to [ ]
This might read a bit negative, but I am genuinely curious. What is the use case for AI for ordinary people? With big tech building AI data centers like there is no tomorrow — which might be true for some of them (fingers crossed) — I m left wondering; for what? In which scenario will we [ ]
It s hard to imagine that the most anticipated — and expensive — video game of all time, GTA VI, started out as a top-down game where you stole cars, drove around and killed people. And except for the top-down part, I ve just described every GTA game in the series. So, in addition to top-down, let s [ ]
The world of tech is in mourning after learning that Om Malik has died at 59. I remember reading GigaOm, along with other tech blogs, back when I was young and hopeful. Rest in peace.