syngrog66

world's smallest violin plays...

awful

AI is making lots of jobs and workplaces worse.

The worst of both worlds.

fair enough

Doom and Quake had drop-down command consoles too that let the user change the game's state -- I've included such features in some of my GUI, realtime engine games too. but I would never promote any as a "command line" game

The video for Duskers 2 in the linked article was of a very graphical, real-time engine style game with sound, music and animation

title is misleading if not abusive of our time

This is one of the stories I wonder how it made the HN front page. Whether an upvote ring or clicks-for-hire service used.

a lot of the modern web could just be plain text files. or simple static HTML or Markdown for links and embedded images.

EV charging. latency optimization tooling. a tech book. a realtime Roguelike action-adventure game. ssh fun/leveraging

I stopped reading early when it became clear the author didn't understand the terms (or perhaps the entire language) they were using. Several indicia.

Literally nothing about this requires AI, nor would be wise to involve it, or become dependent on a startup biz service about it.

YC and related VC are all-in on AI. they're simply talking up their book. VC cash is fueling all of this bubble, directly or indirectly.

The pop and deflation may have already started...

Location: Colorado, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Golang (Go), C, Python, Java, SQL, git, Docker, Linux/POSIX, Internet & web dev, cloud IaaS, distributed, concurrency & threading, performance & scalability, some math & ML

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/mkramlich/portfolio/raw/refs/heads/master...

Email: groglogic+hn2026jul@gmail.com

programming for decades. solid fundamentals. troubleshooter. tech lead/arch. SRE-ish. solved legacy Heisenbugs & shipped, many times.

author of perf cheatsheet

writing book on HPC

US citizen, native English

ex Orbitz on core tech (JVM, GC, perf regress follow-up, ops, logs, instrum, caches, sessions, threads, db conns)

research & due diligence for US State Dept on public defenses against foreign adversarial propaganda & disinfo (ie. natsec)

game engine creator & toolmaker since kid. once built small sw biz

recent client: sys prog R&D on mem alloc latency & SEGV resilience. C on Linux. delivered code, benchmarks, diagrams & report on how to upgrade perf & avail of their soft-RT (micros mattered), $-impacting backend

LatLearn: FOSS Golang latency instrum & reporting lib

That seems like a tool easily adoptable by folks engaging in dark patterns on GitHub, particularly the malware bait repos.

I'd rather upgrade myself to a more effective version, thanks. in part because I have a monopoly in the market on providing Me

"Just because one can do a thing does not mean one should do that thing."

not sure what problem this solves. smells like setup for a security exploit. tho my most generous take is its CV-ware

vi, pandoc

meanwhile all I need is a cursor (lowercase) and I can program and do all the actual software engineering I need. been true for many decades and likely will for many more

vim

pre-replaced it with combo of my brain, vim, an assortment of other CLI/TUI tools, etc

book on performance; latency instrumentation; DCC TTRPG adventure module; OCPP software; latency/stability issues & upgrades for legacy backend codebase

great, thanks. just saw this, btw

scratched my own itches related to OCPP, latency, git, ssh and JMX. none involved AI

topics & individuals

whether something fad or not does not matter to me

unfortunate name: very similar to Godot at passing glance. my brain already stumbles going back and forth between seeing LLVM and LLM, IP (Internet protocol) and IP (Intellectual property). Don't me started on X vs X vs X vs ...

I do like that it reinforces this rule of thumb:

  Q: "How do you know if any given piece of software is written in Rust?
  A: "Oh they'll tell you. They *will* tell you. Upfront and over and over again."

I'm writing book on perf optimization, love to ask you questions sometime. email me (in my bio here) if interested. thanks!

Location: Colorado, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Golang (Go), C, Python, Java, SQL, git, Docker, Linux/POSIX, Internet & web dev, cloud IaaS, distributed, concurrency & threading, performance & scalability, some math & ML

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/mkramlich/portfolio/raw/refs/heads/master...

Email: groglogic+hn2026jun@gmail.com

programming for decades. solid fundamentals. troubleshooter. tech lead/arch. SRE-ish. solved legacy Heisenbugs & shipped, many times.

author of perf cheatsheet

writing book on HPC

US citizen, native English

ex Orbitz on core tech (JVM, GC, perf regress follow-up, ops, logs, instrum, caches, sessions, threads, db conns)

research & due diligence for US State Dept on public defenses against foreign adversarial propaganda & disinfo (ie. natsec)

game engine creator & toolmaker since kid

once built small sw biz

recent client: sys prog R&D on mem alloc latency & SEGV resilience. C on Linux. delivered code, benchmarks, diagrams & report on how to upgrade perf & avail of their soft-RT (micros mattered), $-impacting backend

LatLearn: FOSS Golang latency instrum & reporting lib

between all the Linux LPEs and Claude's known security flaws, alone, I'd be shocked if Github and Microsoft hadnt gotten hacked by now. reasonable bet we mainly hear it when big shops get bit