tomaytotomato

Fit doors and other joinery, you would be surprised at the amount of local facebook community posts I see, with people desperate for someone to re-seat a door or build a stud partition.

Professional joiners and carpenters are too busy with the big jobs to care about small 3-4 hours jobs.

That's my plan at least

Think it is, as a compensation for writing about some incredibly dull people.

I read it (even the snobby bits bragging about drinking orange wine).

Are these people for real, or is silicon valley in some double bubble of middle class techno elitist hell of their own making?

Nobody comes out well in that article, the husbands, the wives, the partners, the social circles.

I am British, I use AI, I love it, but I switch off and talk about tidying up the garden or doing stuff with my wife. Yes AI is flavour of the last few years but it hasn't chopped up my carrots for me, or sprayed weed killer on my monoblock driveway.

Going to just leave this whole story with a pinch of salt.

> The trajectory is clear I'm afraid. Games will in the future be streamed from the cloud, so that there are neither assets nor logic to steal.

That is a good point but could it be also for the following reason; cloud streaming will be "encouraged" as hardware prices keep high and will encourage a monopoly on data centres to protect those hardware asset values?

I think without getting into the whole AI is good/bad/terrible/amazing debate, can we just appreciate that it would have taken some developers a lot of time and coffee to make this happen without an LLM.

Another example recently is Ghost Recon 2; which originally came out on Xbox has now been ported to the PC.

https://www.ghostrecon.net/forums/index.php?/topic/75174-gho...

I never got a chance to play it as I was mainly a PC gamer, so is that a bad thing to now have that opportunity to play it 23 years later on my PC?

Trying to make my favourite tactical FPS game - Rainbow Six Rogue Spear in Java with some modernisations.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2NXZzfRtYM

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-nz9mPytxg

Yea I have debated this before about the roleplaying, but I find it more immersive if I roleplay as a crewmember (Riker) and discuss problems that way.

I should do a write-up but my Claude Code and Pi have been personalised to assume the persona of Jean-Luc Picard for almost a year. I find the output generated to be more useful and of a higher "quality".

I also enjoy the occasional salted phrase that is included in generated out e.g. "Tea, Earl Grey, hot!", when I have been Claude'ing too much.

Here is a gist of my Claude.md file if anyone is interested:

https://gist.github.com/tomaytotomato/87d83265be1a22ba96454f...

Just a bit of anecdata (observer bias).

A lot of, "birdwatchers" I see travelling to remote parts of Scotland and other places in the UK are generally wealthy retirees, with nice kit (Rab clothing, telephoto lenses, VW campervans).

Cognitive decline is shown to impact disproportionately on less wealthy people. So is there a trend with economic wealth and outdoor hobbies like birdwatching? I'd hazard a yes.

On a side note, the Merlin bird ID app from Cornell University is great.

Great, now could someone revive the old Command and Conquer Javascript project to life?

https://github.com/adityaravishankar/command-and-conquer

Raiders, refugees, bandits, people fleeing from other collapsed societies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples

Some of the "Sea Peoples" didn't even travel by sea.

It's slightly funny and scary in our current year of 2026 we now have a lot of destabilizing factors along with uncontrolled immigration happening.... history might repeat?

Unfortunately huggingface.co is blocked by my company's firewall and VPN so it breaks when downloading a model.

Are there any huggingface mirrors out there?

Whoops, fixed now

Honestly,

We need a good purge of this nonsense in the tech scene....

If anyone wants to setup a counter culture tech scene, reach out to me. I am an average Java engineer (I like for loops more than foreach)

More of this madness coming out of the west coast of America, in particular California.

The Manson family, Heaven's Gate, NXIVM, Rationalists, Zizians... what next?

All turn out to be rotten to the core with their need to reshape and craft their own paradigm, which then gets warped by egos, individualism and power.

Hate to think what other madness is brewing.

I am doing lots of different projects now

- Making a nostalgic remake of Rainbow Six Rogue Spear - called "Tango Down"

Its low poly, Java OpenGL game but trying to stay faithful to the old gameplay

- Updating my homelab setup to be much tidier, moving stuff to Ansible, dockerising non-critical services. Running scheduled backups to a separate NAS

- Making a World in Conflict SFX mod for Warno, so it sounds much better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudm7JKY6gI

Can't wait for in 10 years time to find one of these workstations on eBay selling for £100-150

Then I will do a video of me playing Crysis on it

I am making a spiritual successor the Rainbow Six Rogue Spear

Opus has been great at building the game engine but it does struggle with world building for me.

Any tips welcomed!

Here is an example of one of the maps from World in Conflict https://worldinconflict.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Pine_Valle...

Image Link: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/worldinconflict/images/5/5...

I would drop Facebook in a heartbeat but Facebook Marketplace is a strong pull for getting bargains in my local area.

I have alternatives like eBay and Gumtree but they have their own shortcomings.

Examples from Facebook:

- Antique lumber planks 50p a plank

- 4 sticks of DDR4 16GB SODIMMs, £60

- Garden tools, £10

This stuff would be slower and more expensive on eBay, and Gumtree is more of a waiting game as its userbase has definitely shrunk.

A nice read,

Immigration has many pulls and with that comes all sorts of immigrants whether great, average and terrible.

Unfortunately Western countries and bureaucracies seem to have committed the usual sin of developing processes that:

- make it incredibly hard for good immigrants to migrate, contribute and naturalise themselves legally.

- at the same time leaving lots of gaping holes of exploitation for criminals and other immigrants who are just looking for a meal ticket or to enter illegally and abuse our high trust societies.

Couple this with a news and media setup that optimises for covering news of bad migrants whilst hardly broadcasting news about good migrants.

Same

Have you figured out a way to open a specific Firefox instance using some sort of routing.

e.g.

I click on a link in my work Slack desktop app, it then routes the link to be open on my Work Firefox instance.

Meanwhile if I click on a YouTube link, it opens on my personal Firefox instance.

My bet:

In a years time the discussions on using CC, Opencode, Pidev etc. will be redundant as we will be building our own tooling with whatever programming language and tooling you want.

Some will repurpose a popular opensource tool or harness, others will build it from scratch in an hour or so.

Check out Paul Stamets' research using Mycelium to give honeybees an immuneboost.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32194-8

No idea,

Anyone from Anthropic here who could answer this?

I have been using Claude code for a while and have recently migrated to Pi

Migrating my skills/agents and config was fairly straightforward.

Pi's agent harness seems to be more responsive and quicker than CC (perhaps with the prompt caching and squashing it does behind the scenes)

Tempted to do a write-up on migration.

I am only using Pi with Github Copilot as I am scared I will get my Claude account banned if I use the Oauth with Pi.

pi.dev

> If you are averse to the Daily Mail, you can try this article instead..

The irony of this though is that you just become bucketed in another consumer group.

Resist the packaging of yourself by media firms and marketing.

Try and consume news through the sources like AFP or Reuters (unfortunately not free anymore)

There's always been absurdity though, right?

These are some I can think of or have witnessed since starting my dev career in 2010:

- 4GL business languages making developers redundant

- Big data

- Cloud computing

- DevOps

- LLMs

For those about to quit, I salute you.

Why do I hear this music every time I see Red Alert being mentioned?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfMw0NKqFek

Why stop there?

I am considering adding Bell Labs, Xerox and Skunkworks Lockheed Martin to my work experience