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PICO-8 is my go-to when I'm burnt out on client work.

I have been circling doing this for the same reason, any recommendation or tutorials?

You can add any executable to Steam, not only the games they sell, as far as I know.

Could I still code the same way? Maybe. Probably, if I really put my mind to it.

The problem, what scares me, is the feeling of emptiness it leaves me with. Before, writing code brought me joy. Today, when I write code that I am not allowed to automate it just feels like a chore. It's a bit like how once you get used to a powerful IDE, writing code in, say, Notepad, becomes a chore.

It also means that my brain really, really wants to forget the basics. Why write:

api.users.forEach(({ id:u, name, contact:{ email, phone="—" }, roles:[r,...rs], active, meta:{ ...m } = {} }, i, a) => console.log({ u, name, email, phone, role:r, others:rs, active, metaKeys:Object.keys(m), index:i, total:a.length }));

When I could just right-click in the IDE and type "loop through users". Heck, I even asked an LLM to generate that example because I didn't feel like thinking, let alone typing that line.

That's what scares me the most.

For now? I still remember how to code. But coding makes me feel like I'm wasting my time, because my brain knows it can offload this task.

It was the same when Google Maps took over. Before, I was able to find my way around my city, go to the next town over and find a place just from the address. Now? I can’t do it anymore.

Before, I could memorize dozens of phone numbers. Now, I can't do that anymore.

Soon, I'm afraid I won't be able to write code anymore.

This brings me back to when the internet was full of sites like this. Small artful projects that had no goal but to teach us a tidbit about a niche topic, just because someone cared enough to share it. The internet felt smaller and more intimate than it does now in this era of social media. Bookmarked, will without a doubt explore every inch of that site.

Individuals have very different abilities and needs. Some are able to drive and work independently while others require ongoing support.

They are referring to Huy Fong's Sriracha sauce. It's the one that took the market by storm. Even in small towns where the "Asian" section was practically empty, you could see the red bottle with the green cap. It even escaped the small corner of the grocery store to be displayed next to Heinz ketchup. For many, it was their first experience with hot sauce, apart from Tabasco.

The high school my friend's kids attend installed CO2 sensors during the pandemic as an indirect way to measure airflow.

It turned out the building had been sealed extremely tightly to keep out the winter cold and because it is old, it does not have a proper HVAC system.

They discovered that CO2 levels stayed around 1200 ppm throughout the entire winter, sometimes even higher. This had likely been the case for decades.

It is a school in a small, low‑income town. I cannot help wondering how many kids were labeled as underperforming when they were actually struggling with the effects of chronically elevated CO2 levels.

mynoise's Cafe Restaurant generator got me through years of working in a noisy open office. Can't recommend it enough. I put the cutlery noises on mute though.

The recent show Mrs. Davis also has a similar concept in which an AI would send random workers with messages to the protagonists, unbeknownst to the workers.

On Edge, my tab did freeze for a few seconds then the spinner resumed its spinning and the 3D scene displayed.

"Why I still write raw code instead of prompting the compiler" and "Show HN: A text editor that doesn't use AI" are my two favorite ones.

I don't have an answer to that, I just want to highlight how blurred the line is between what the community tolerates and what it doesn't. There is a thread with a similar discussion, but somehow the one that comes from fiction didn't trigger the same reaction as this article, which deals with science: Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46068015

Can anyone more informed comment on the font?

Could it be that you unconsciously prefer serif fonts to sans serif fonts? Sans serif fonts are preferred by people with dyslexia, for example.

Another thing that comes to mind is high contrast in stroke thickness, thick vertical strokes and thin horizontal or curved strokes. This is reminiscent of engravings and calligraphy, but can be difficult to read on a screen, especially when the font size is small. Anti-aliasing options can also affect this and lead to even greater differences between letters than expected.

Articles like this one may provide you with the right words to describe what you don't like about certain fonts: https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/a-beginners-guide-to-web-...

Knowledge online rarely lives alone. Here's a similar article: https://theconversation.com/how-your-electric-bill-may-be-pa...

Also, what is up with that camera module? This doesn't look like it can physically slide into jeans pockets.

Pixel phones have been that way for a while now. Phone cases usually add the missing part to make it flat, e.g. https://www.spigen.com/products/pixel-10-series-case-tough-a...

EU is not a single country. Most if not all countries allows free travel between their own regions, provinces or states.

A better example would be Americans being able to travel freely to USMCA countries.

This would be interesting. I was gifted a Kindle with backlighting recently after my old first generation one broke. The backlight is useless to me because it shines blue, so I just use a candle.

Since you are referencing 42, let me draw from another piece of literature to respond.

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

It's not the machines themselves that are inherently tyrannical, it's the human will to dominate now supercharge by technology.

LLM hallucinations aside, unregulated artificial intelligence for mental health therapy is a very slippery slope. We cannot allow, say, advertisers and brands to have access to the mind of our most vulnerables so directly.

You can see it here: https://youtu.be/pcPzmDePH3E?si=qIbTk_6yaxXE5sIB&t=220

Reminds me of CSS Zen Garden and its 221 themes: https://csszengarden.com/

e.g. https://csszengarden.com/221/ https://csszengarden.com/214/ https://csszengarden.com/123/

See all: https://csszengarden.com/pages/alldesigns/

Personally, I try not to use screens for a few hours before going to bed. Before bedtime, I limit myself to my e-ink book reader.

The idea of having a screen on my wrist doesn't particularly appeal to me.

My partner has one and when they turn over in bed, I am sometimes blinded by the screen which still glows brightly even at the lowest setting in complete darkness.

That's why I'm considering a e-ink watch. The reason I didn't commit yet is that I fear that notifications and such before bedtime could be just as harmful to my nightline peacefulness.

The best example I've seen so far is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx8rMzlG29Q

Personally, I'm not particularly impressed. Yes, I'm impressed by the technology and the fact that we've reached a point where something like this is even possible, but in my opinion, it's soulless and suffers from the same problems as other AI videos. More emphasis was placed on length than quality, and I've seen shorter, traditionally produced videos that had more heart. That's probably because these videos were created by amateurs who thought the AI would fill in all the gaps, but that only underscores the need for human artists with a keen eye.

From my experience and memory of that era, early versions of PHP had a very low barrier to entry and very simple and insecure methods for accessing a database. It was easy to program the CRUD logic of a website without knowing much about the rest of the pipeline, such as security or data cleansing.

This was also the era of jQuery with easy to use AJAX methods, which enabled almost anyone to create a front-end that calls backend code.

All of that was simple code that was easy to share with others on forums. This led to insecure websites where, to exaggerate slightly, every input field could be used for SQL injection attacks.

To be fair with PHP of that era, it was possible to create secure websites with it. It's that the ease of use created the illusion that once the website worked, you didn't have to tackle any other portions of development process such as quality control or security.

It was a glorious era.

Using non-fiction literature leads to surprisingly interesting results.

If the new system incorrectly identifies a user as under 18 when they are not, YouTube says the user will be given the option to verify their age with a credit card, government ID, or selfie.

Given the numerous security vulnerabilities that make verification data publicly accessible, this is a reason for me to stop using the platform. As soon as the platform classifies me as a minor based on my preference for, say, low-quality memes and cartoons as background noise, I will never visit it again.

Unconscious bias is not about pushing a political agenda it is about recognising how hidden assumptions can distort outcomes in every field, from technology to medicine. Ignoring these biases does not make systems more neutral, but often less accurate and less effective.

Removing Red Tape and Onerous Regulation Ensure that Frontier AI Protects Free Speech

Yet at the same time,

Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government [...] LLMs shall be neutral, nonpartisan tools that do not manipulate responses in favor of ideological dogmas such as DEI. [...] DEI includes the suppression or distortion of factual information about race or sex; manipulation of racial or sexual representation in model outputs; incorporation of concepts like critical race theory, transgenderism, unconscious bias, intersectionality, and systemic racism; and discrimination on the basis of race or sex. [1]

I don't understand how free speech can be protected while suppressing topics such as "unconscious bias" and "discrimination".

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/prev...

When I treat myself to an expensive bottle as a treat, I go against conventional wisdom and use it at least once to make my favourite cocktails. While I agree that a simple bottle is best suited for cocktails, I can't remember an expensive base liquor ever spoiling a cocktail. For some, this is a waste because the premium taste takes a back seat to the cocktails, but often the result is better due to the subtle flavour profile of higher-quality spirits.

See: "Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access"

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/

From what I gather, it's between the 80's and 90's that titanium became the norm.