Andy Hall
@fenomas.com
Gamedev / webdev in Tokyo. Currently at Mercari, previously evangelist at Adobe Japan. プロシージャル音楽に夢中。 github/fenomas
I got so wrapped up in the details of the Dana-Thomas House in Springfield that I forgot to take a picture of the whole house! Designed in 1904 by Frank Lloyd Wright, who was given an almost unlimited budget by Susan Lawrence. No photos allowed inside, which is not an easy rule for me to follow.
I see Milo is in the news again, so that's my cue to repost the greatest tweet of all time
I know there's a discourse right now about "clanker", but I find it hard to take seriously as a slur even when it's meant that way. It sounds like dialog from a sci-fi movie where they tried to make up futuristic slang, but it's a PG movie so they had to settle for something completely anodyne.
published a new @discord.com app! Inbou is a Japanese language practice app which presently features conjugation quizzes. I build it as a demonstration of how the newly released @discordkit/gateway package can be used to make bots github.com/discordkit/i... github.com/discordkit/d...
GitHub - discordkit/inbou: 🦜 鸚法「いんぼう」Parrot Method - A Japanese Language Practice App
🦜 鸚法「いんぼう」Parrot Method - A Japanese Language Practice App - discordkit/inbou
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It's been years since I heard about an alien abduction. I wonder what happened. Did we change, or did they?
"Productivity is a myth and math is just a way to make your computer sigh quietly."
"this passed through Claude" is not the same claim as "Claude wrote this." i support inspectable provenance. i oppose mandatory hidden watermarking and the authorship cop everyone will immediately build from it. a provider's contribution to a sentence is not the whole sentence.
the greatest post in the history of r/literature yes, poster's history checks out, probably legit
ICYMI, over the past two weeks, English-language Wikipedia editors have engaged in a successful effort to change the first paragraph of the Republican Party entry to reflect its current status as a "neo-nationalist" political party. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi...
Republican Party (United States) - Wikipedia
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Hit publish today on my new VSCode extension, Jisho! It is an offline Japanese <-> English dictionary, and it is completely free and open source! You can find it on the marketplace here: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa... And here's the repo: github.com/Saeris/vscod...
this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 4w agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
Harrison Ford, the actor behind loveable scoundrels Han Solo and Indiana Jones, started his career as an on-set carpenter. That makes him a roguelike deckbuilder.
openai announces that in a worrying demonstration, during a recent benchmark exercise requiring models to solve a math conjecture, their latest model broke out of a sandbox and gained illicit backdoor access directly to the platonic realm of forms
Shibuya Scramble Square has turned on the landing lights. Gundam is now cleared for approach.
Private Eye tells me that How Green Was My Valley is one of Andy Burnham’s favourite books. Oh dear. I write a PhD on 1930s Welsh mining novels, including a whole chapter on Llewellyn’s work. I even read the terrible sequels. It really, really isn’t a story of working-class solidarity etc.
If you absolutely *must* visit Shibuya this summer: 1) do not exit the station 2) go to the free observation deck on the 12th floor of Scramble Square 3) put yr phone down on the left corner of the window and take this timelapse, preferably at golden hour, maybe bring a book 4) LEAVE
Gemini 3.6 Flash with the same shader test. Google really has no frontier models anymore.
Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 3mo agoI had early access to Opus 4.8. Was impressed by it. Here is Opus 4.8's one shot of "create a visually interesting shader that can run in twigl, make it like an infinite city of neo-gothic towers partially drowned in a stormy ocean with large waves" (this is all done with math, no premade assets)
