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I was born at the perfect time to pursue a career in full-stack software development. I grew up programming 8-bit computers, then learned Unix in college. I entered the workforce at the emergence of Windows for Workgroups and Linux, and I'll be retiring right about the time the AI's make me redundant. Also, the year Social Security goes broke.
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Months and months of planning by lots and lots of middle management can save literally hours of programming.
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Give a man a program, and you'll frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, and you'll frustrate him for a lifetime.
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I have a mental illness that makes me think that people will change their minds if I present the correct arguments with the appropriate facts and data.
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I've put all of my skill points into arguing with blinking lights.
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But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a new piece of Apple gear, to lust after it, hath committed purchase of it already in his heart.
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Don't say you're easy on me; you're about as easy as a nuclear war.
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I sold the Renoir and the TV set; don't wanna be around when this gets out.
Duran Duran, The Reflex
Author Archives: David K.
Fandom Engagement in MMO’s
Despite the player count numbers that are available on Steam charts, there’s a second-level metric that I think is useful to track the health of an MMO, and that’s the engagement of the subreddit(s) devoted to the game. For a … Continue reading
The State of Fallout 76
Over the past couple of seasons, Fallout 76 keeps creeping towards more grinding against worsening RNG. The current season leans hard into hiding the best items behind things that take some people hundreds of hours to luck into. To make … Continue reading
Fallout 76’s Fortunes over the Prime TV Show
I asked AI to make a graph of the effect of the Prime TV show on Fallout 76’s population. The solid line is Steam concurrent players; the dashed line is the peak. I also asked for a summary of the … Continue reading
Streaming’s Second Paywall Problem
Out of Jim Carrey’s top 10 movies, 2 are free to stream, on 2 different services. Every other hides behind a rental. A second paywall, after paying for the streaming service. My issue is that 80-90% of every movie you … Continue reading
John Carmack on X: “I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am.” / X
Source: John Carmack on X: “I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am.” / X
Another Example of People Trapped by Their Decisions
I’ve written about the phenomenon of people continuing to make bad decisions on something that is inherently and unambiguously wrong before. The original post was about church leaders committing crimes, and refusing to even acknowledge them, or the lying around … Continue reading
Ban Them Too
Controversial take, I know, but ban them too, and for the same reason that you’d ban bots. If bots are disrupting the game balance or ruining the economy with some particular behavior, then the actual people doing that same behavior … Continue reading
My Life in the Age of AI
I’m moving an application out of my Azure subscription into the corporate cloud. I’m trying to get assets stood up for production. I can’t pull a docker image from our repository to my web app service. Last week, I put … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Games
Last year, Microsoft slashed ZeniMax Online Studios to the bone, cutting an unreleased game that had been taking 7 years in development, and firing half the studio that was working on it. Although not fired, per se, the studio lead … Continue reading
systemd birthDate Merge: Corporate Filings & Governance Failure – TBOTE Project
Investigation into Amutable GmbH founding documents, undisclosed conflicts in the systemd birthDate merge, EUR 855K in undisclosed government funding, and $42.2M in corporate lobbying. Source: systemd birthDate Merge: Corporate Filings & Governance Failure – TBOTE Project The executive summary: On … Continue reading