herb marselas

@herbmarselas.bsky.social

Memes. I guess📍 Seattle

One project I worked on was "incredibly stable with no crash reports ever" according to the dev manager. It turned out he created an anonymous account in the bug tracking system and assigned all crash reports to it so they never showed up on reports or in reviews.

I was decapitated in a traffic accident last Tuesday. Most people would see that as a setback. I saw it as a **learning opportunity.** 🧠➡️🚗 Here's what losing my head taught me about customer empathy 👇 When you no longer have eyes, you can't see things from your own perspective.

I tested converting an original mid-1990's Direct3D3 game release with Claude Opus. It took ~16 hours to create a new c++ codebase, build, and run it. Converting the two dozen videos from AVI or SMK (RAD Game Tools Smacker) to MP4 took a few minutes.

How I use Claude Opus CLI to look for bugs & vulnerabilities: Tell Claude the something like: create a plan for the following: analyze this codebase for potential bugs and security vulnerabilities, then triage the results and create a list of next steps and tests to validate issues and fixes.

On Age of Empires, we had a lot of systems setup for multiplayer testing. We needed the AC on 24x7. Maintenance came up with a thermometer, measured the heat of each system and said, "OMG it's over 900° in here!" 🤦🔥🫠