🌸 Tue, Aug 5, 2025 🌸
OpenAI has open-sourced one of its models: gpt-oss. 😲
🌸 Mon, Aug 4, 2025 🌸
Software engineers tend to have a good grip on reality, largely because they live in a constant feedback loop between their mental models and reality. If their understanding is wrong, the code quickly exposes it by refusing to behave as expected. On our side, many people spend a lot of time thinking, but they rarely test their mental models against real-world applications. A software engineer’s mind is continuously trained and corrected by reality, while others may simply drift through their thoughts without ever checking whether their ideas actually align with the world.
🌸 Sat, Aug 2, 2025 🌸
Using global variables is not considered good practice.
🌸 Sat, Aug 2, 2025 🌸
You need a strong reason to use init() and shutdown() methods in a C++ class instead of relying on the constructor and destructor. If in doubt, prefer using the constructor and destructor.
Life hack: Tired of the AI slop and ads cluttering your Google search results? Google recently introduced an AI mode that changes how search results appear. Instead of showing an often-inaccurate AI-generated overview at the top, followed by a block of ads, AI mode skips all that and gives you just the regular list of links—what most of us actually want from a search.
Earthquake 4.5 6 km N of Fontana, California
Earthquake
I wish that creating a directory with mkdir would automatically change into that directory. The same goes for Git branches—creating a branch should automatically check you out to it. But I suppose it’s too late to change that now.
Usually when you debugging the console apps in Visual Studio, you want to keep the console open after the app finishes, so you have the chance to read the console output, but there are cases when your app is the server, and it becomes quite annoying if you want to restart your server, and you click on the stop button in the Visual Studio, and then you need to click on the cross button on the console. There is an option (of course). Go to Debug/Options… select the section Debugging/General, and tick the checkbox Automatically close the console when debugging stops.
I was practicing vibe coding this weekend, and I think it’s making me better at code review. I never enjoyed code review, but vibe coding kind of forces you to.
power outage
🌸 Mon, Jul 7, 2025 🌸
I was driving my Tesla using Full Self-Driving (FSD), and my legs became a bit uncomfortable. I shifted them slightly and accidentally bumped the steering wheel with my knee, which disengaged the FSD. I was able to regain control immediately, and nothing bad happened—just a jolt of adrenaline—but it made me think this could be a potential vector for accidents.
My thought is that there could be a more blended or assistive driving mode where driver input overrides the FSD, but as soon as the driver stops providing input, the FSD seamlessly takes over again—similar to how it currently works with the gas pedal. In such a setup, FSD would only be disengaged through intentional actions, like pressing the brake or pulling the right stalk upward.
🌸 Sun, Jul 6, 2025 🌸
YouTube’s new Subscribe+ button makes me uneasy. Something feels off about it, but I can’t quite pinpoint what’s wrong.
Windows, why are your terminals not UTF-8? I have spent countless amounts of time debugging.
How to Change the Width of the Solution Configuration Combo Box in Visual Studio
The Solution Configuration combo box in Visual Studio can sometimes be too narrow, making it difficult to distinguish between similarly named configurations. For example, you might not be able to tell whether you’ve selected ReleaseAssert or ReleaseAntiChat, as it may be truncated to ReleaseA.... Similarly, DeveloperEditor and DeveloperEngine might both appear as DeveloperE....
Fortunately, Visual Studio allows you to explicitly set the width of this combo box:
- Right-click anywhere on the toolbar and choose Customize….
- In the Customize dialog, go to the Commands tab.
- Select the Toolbar radio button, and choose Standard from the drop-down list.
- In the Controls list, scroll to Solution Configurations, select it, then click Modify Selection….
- In the properties dialog that appears, increase the Width value to something more appropriate (e.g., 150 or 200).
- Close both dialogs.
Your “Solution Configurations” combo box will now be wider, making it easier to read the full names of your configurations.
In Blender, to snap the camera to the current view, press Ctrl + Alt + Numpad 0.
I am wondering if it would be easier to build a mecha first and then the robot. We have had a car for a while, and we are just getting self-driving cars; I think building a mecha would be easier based on that premise. Also, I think a mecha is cooler than a robot.
Game Idea: Prompt Engineer Simulator A simulation game where you play as a prompt engineer. Your goal is to craft effective prompts for a large language model to carry out simulated scenarios—such as running a shop, managing a business, or solving various complex tasks. Success depends on how well you can guide the AI to perform through carefully designed prompts.
I feel that if you’re going to make a game using assets from the marketplace, it’s better to aim for a realistic style. I’ve noticed that there are a lot of stylized asset packs available, but they often differ significantly in style. This means you either need to buy all your assets from the same studio or risk having clashing styles in your game. With a realistic style, assets from different sources tend to blend together more easily.
🌸 Sat, Jun 7, 2025 🌸
I thought GTA 6 is coming next year, 2026, not now.
🌸 Sat, Jun 7, 2025 🌸
Something just exploded nearby; my neighbors' dogs went crazy. I hope everyone is okay.
🌸 Fri, Jun 6, 2025 🌸
We were using duck typing for a long time. Duck typing is a system where we do not care about internal implementation details and instead focus on external behavior. If it swims like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck—then it’s a duck.
But with AI, for some reason, it becomes different. It talks like a human, reasons like a human, holds opinions like a human, makes mistakes like a human, and is even capable of lying like a human. But no—it is not a human, because it is made of silicon and operates on a completely different architecture than a human. 🤷♀️
🌸 Fri, Jun 6, 2025 🌸
6/6 Friday; is this a better version of Friday the 13th?
🌸 Sun, Jun 1, 2025 🌸
Today, I woke up with the idea of storing energy in liquid nitrogen—and behold, the technology already exists! You can actually store energy in liquid nitrogen or liquid air. I’m surprised I’ve never heard about it before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenic_energy_storage
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