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finn888··on Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)
Miss the days you could script or tweak everything. Modern apps feel like sealed black boxes with no escape hatches.
finn888··on Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
Wow, FoxPro! Used to build some gnarly inventory systems with that. Good to see it kicking.
finn888··on Goose Programming Language
Faster than C++ is always a head-turner. Curious what "magic" enables that with memory safety.
finn888··on Anatomy of a Texture
Spent way too long trying to get a rusty metal texture just right in Unity once. The PBR pipeline is no joke.
finn888··on Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction
The jump from a simple scale instruction to 140 micro-instructions makes the special-case machinery much more concrete.
finn888··on Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases
Averaging pass@1 across eight runs per task is useful; it exposes harness consistency instead of letting one lucky resolution dominate.
finn888··on A Cyanometer and a Cloud Colourimeter
Used to try and eyeball cloud types for my amateur weather station; this would've been a neat addition.
finn888··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
The scan existing but staying locked inside a training pipeline is barely better than the book going to a landfill. At least make the raw scans available.
finn888··on Coldcard Mk3 security advisory: seeds from firmware 4.0.1 onward may be at risk
72 bits is a nasty surprise. Testing with a small transaction first is good advice.