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msephton

4,159 karmajoined 12 lat temu
meet.hn/city/gb-Liverpool

msephton.at.hn

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Socials: * twitter.com/gingerbeardman * reddit.com/user/msephton * github.com/gingerbeardman * blog.gingerbeardman.com

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Interests: * Art, Blogging, CD-ROMs, Design, Game Design, Game Development, Hacking, Japan, Macintosh, macOS, Mobile Development, Programming, Retro Video Games, SwiftUI, Technology, Tools, UI/UX Design

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- Currently: Games & Apps

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My game YOYOZO was featured in Ars Technica's "Best Games of 2023" alongside Super Mario Wonder, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Baldur's Gate 3, and more. Oh, and it is only 39 KB.

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I believe small software is worth striving for fitsonafloppy.com

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A while back I was a Technology Evangelist at Apple.

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My moment of enlightenment was using an Atari ST in 1990. Macintosh user since 1995.

Submissions

Unlocking the PSP's Dual Core Setup

wololo.net
2 points·by msephton·3 godziny temu·0 comments

AI Can't Recreate the Thrust Game (But It Can Help You Understand It)

jamesdrandall.com
2 points·by msephton·5 godzin temu·0 comments

Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc)

github.com
115 points·by msephton·7 dni temu·31 comments

Compression in the game Full Quiet

pineight.com
4 points·by msephton·9 dni temu·0 comments

GameBoy Emulator on ESP32 and eInk (M5Stack PaperS3)

youtube.com
1 points·by msephton·11 dni temu·0 comments

[untitled]

1 points·by msephton·11 dni temu·0 comments

Juncheng Vehicle Co. is replicating iconic car bodies [video]

youtube.com
1 points·by msephton·17 dni temu·0 comments

Japanese symbols that speak without words

arun.is
198 points·by msephton·18 dni temu·133 comments

New (Old) 3D Golf: Porting PC-9801 and Virtual Boy to Mega Drive

blog.gingerbeardman.com
16 points·by msephton·21 dni temu·2 comments

How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?

arcadeblogger.com
103 points·by msephton·27 dni temu·27 comments

How we made hit video game Prince of Persia

theguardian.com
275 points·by msephton·w zeszłym miesiącu·111 comments

How I made a shooter game in 64 KB [video]

youtube.com
2 points·by msephton·2 miesiące temu·1 comments

PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes

stonetools.ghost.io
85 points·by msephton·2 miesiące temu·54 comments

Today I shipped 20 apps and a screensaver

blog.gingerbeardman.com
7 points·by msephton·3 miesiące temu·0 comments

Fits on a Floppy – A Manifesto for Small Software

fitsonafloppy.com
28 points·by msephton·3 miesiące temu·16 comments

CSS is DOOMed

nielsleenheer.com
506 points·by msephton·3 miesiące temu·111 comments

I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]

youtube.com
463 points·by msephton·3 miesiące temu·95 comments

Can LLMs Do Matching Decompilation? I Tested 60 Functions to Find Out

gambiconf.substack.com
3 points·by msephton·4 miesiące temu·0 comments

Using procedural generation to create the 10k landscapes in The Sentinel

thesentinel.bbcelite.com
5 points·by msephton·4 miesiące temu·1 comments

TV's TV (1987) & TV Games Encyclopedia (1988)

blog.gingerbeardman.com
17 points·by msephton·4 miesiące temu·1 comments

comments

msephton
·3 dni temu·discuss
I have no idea what things are called but somebody showed me how they could start a bunch of subagents and steer each with additional messages; some closed after their task was completed, but one stayed open for followups and continued working after being prompted by the main agent who was acting as triage.
msephton
·4 dni temu·discuss
I appreciate them! Keep at it :)
msephton
·4 dni temu·discuss
There are many ways to translate it "66% Seduction", "66%'ll do" etc. But debating the translation misses 66% of the point that it's just a fun fact ;)
msephton
·4 dni temu·discuss
Reminds me of the Meat Loaf song “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” which was released in Japan as 66%の誘惑 “66% is Good Enough” etc https://www.discogs.com/release/8303076
msephton
·4 dni temu·discuss
You can also paste whatever file path is on the clipboard into a file dialog to instantly go to that path.
msephton
·4 dni temu·discuss
I think it's more people would rather built their own opinionated file manager than explore or understand how much Finder can really do. This app does a tiny fraction of what Finder can do and has been able to do for decades.
msephton
·4 dni temu·discuss
I like many of the ideas in this app, but IMHO it does not yet look like a macOS app: eg. strange blue focus outlines to denote active state, which on my system are larger vertically than the button they contain but not horizontally which results in a very untidy display, some buttons are smaller than the required/recommended minimum size. Some other things I've noticed, compared to Finder: far less items in the same vertical space, different keyboard shortcuts for same feature makes migration difficult.

My favourite Finder-likes: Nimble Commander, Marta
msephton
·4 dni temu·discuss
I assume this just uses standard system API, so spotlight or mdfind.

There's an app called Hazel that does your stack sorting. And you can get paths (copy file populates pasteboard with multiple forms, one of which is the file path) and paste paths easily (I use keyboard shortcut but it's also on the context menu). You can paste paths into goto box or even into file selector to instantly change the directory to the location of the file and select it. There are so many "hidden" things like this throughout macOS that it's worth asking before giving up hope that something might not be possible.
msephton
·4 dni temu·discuss
FWIW I've seen subagents remain open for followups on latest Claude.
msephton
·5 dni temu·discuss
Super Runrabout was one I remember that ran in Win CE
msephton
·5 dni temu·discuss
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msephton
·7 dni temu·discuss
I've used jscpd, it does "non-exact code duplication" (regardless of what its readme says) which is why I asked how Slopo compares. I'm surprised you've not tried the competition!
msephton
·8 dni temu·discuss
The thing in the middle seems to be described as a "platform accessory"
msephton
·8 dni temu·discuss
How does it compare to jscpd? https://github.com/kucherenko/jscpd
msephton
·8 dni temu·discuss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaFold
msephton
·8 dni temu·discuss
That's mentioned in the article
msephton
·10 dni temu·discuss
In some parts of the world it was already tomorrow when they made the announcement.
msephton
·10 dni temu·discuss
Unless you imported the PC Engine version, which was Pomping World :) but, yeah, it's called Pang. Except on Wikipedia or Moby Games.
msephton
·11 dni temu·discuss
Right, but a single link is not enough as there are many off-shoots on the thread (it's not linear); other Google employs chime in and all sorts of other info.
msephton
·11 dni temu·discuss
Love that chart! It could also apply almost exactly to the "Buster Bros." artocle (everybody else other than North America knows it as "Pang"). This sort of rewriting of history is rife on Wikipedia.