An education platform created to teach the fundamentals of #ComputerScience and #Mathematics for amateurs, enthusiasts, and hobbyists.
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I made this by the way...
My 12 year old son just made this @Tesla Roadster game from scratch by himself using AI.
AI is nuts.
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Computer Science must start with C.
Any other letter would be confusing, really.
I've always taken issue with the idea that computer science degrees MUST start with C
I think they must INCLUDE C, but I see no reason to start there. MOST students have a much easier time starting with a higher level language to learn coding basics and get their feet wet building some simple programs and THEN learning C afterwards.
When I organize Boot .dev curriculum, it's all about dependencies: I don't want to teach modulo before division, and so on (to use a math analogy)
Understanding manual memory management and CPU architecture simply aren't prerequisites for variables, functions and loops - they obviously use that stuff under the hood, but students have an easier time moving from the programmer experience, down into the implementation, rather than the other way around.
also: I'm simply not interested in "weeding people out" - I understand that colleges actually want to do that, but outside of the strange ecosystem of student-hostile incentives they've created, there's no need for that nonsense. The best educational experience is the one the most people can get the furthest into.
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What a fun day! 💛
ALT Cigar box guitar workshop
Join us and make your own cigar box guitar with a genuine Havana cigar box body, a fully fretted maple neck, single coil pickup with tone & volume controls.
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📍17 Oct 2026, 10:30 – 16:30. 25-27 Curtain Rd, London EC2A 3LT, UK.
ALT Cigar box guitar workshop
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Intel 386 released October 17, 1985:
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See you there. 🤘
Join us and make your own cigar box guitar with a genuine Havana cigar box body, a fully fretted maple neck, single coil pickup with tone & volume controls.
🔗oddboxguitars.com/event-deta…
📍17 Oct 2026, 10:30 – 16:30. 25-27 Curtain Rd, London EC2A 3LT, UK.
ALT Cigar box guitar workshop
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Beautifully written.
I was encouraged by this essay to put together some of my own thoughts here:
oh4.co/site/on-quality-in-ar…
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I have been taking Pikuma's raycasting course. This is what I have done so far. I'm thinking about my next steps. Either I make a Wolfenstein 3D clone or Wizardry-style RPG.
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"If anyone can make it, what will make people care about what you make?"
Can Ease of Creation & Consumption lead to Decrease in Quality & Value?
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Why does so much new music sound the same? Why does a song feel almost worthless when you can stream every album ever recorded for the price of one CD?
And... is software next?
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It’s an #Elefant! 🐘
The same DRAM IC contains the already known animal standing for its “good memory”. This was already found on other ZMD U2164 versions.
It’s a #fox! 🦊
This chip is the GDR version / clone of the western 4164 being a 64 kbit DRAM. It was produced by ZMD in Dresden, Germany. Next to some test pads at the die rim, I found the silhouette of a fox head.
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"Video Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy"
🔗404media.co/video-game-rever…
Well, it did not die because it's easy. It's still difficult but that's not being done by humans. It's the 'community' & the puzzle aspect of it that died.
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"It is now clear that AI can expedite the decompilation process in a significant way. What is also now clear is that the community aspect of decompilation has been broken."
– decomp.dev
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Was feeling burnt out from 3D lately, so I started my life-long dream of learning how to make games on Famicom.
No AI involved, going through Pikuma's course, reading books, nesdev wiki, forums etc. ☺️
Started by learning 6502 asm first, but got filtered and went to C.
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I found a nice reminder in a log file wrote by some programmer back in 1989.
ALT "Good programmers write their own code."
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Great minds, I guess. I was working last wee into understanding the RETAL files and trying to get the 3D models for the aircrafts. I got a simple software renderer working for some of the models. It took me a while to understand the RLE packing, the LOD levels for each z-distance, and their "bytecode" format. To be 100% hoenest, I could not have done it if it wasn't for my conversations with @kr1shty.
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Oh yeah
My DOS renderer now supports simple shading with ordered dithering. Got a bit burned out on Vulkan, so I’ve been relaxing with some DOS-era graphics 😅
github.com/xms0g/3Dos
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We used to be a free country.
Rust compiler: "I cannot allow you to compile this because reference x might outlive borrowed scope y on line 42."
C compiler: "You want to cast an integer to a function pointer and jump straight into uninitialized heap memory? Hell yeah brother, here's your binary."
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