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You can play the original SkiFree game from the Windows 3.1 days in your browser - this is not a drill! retrotick.com

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This song has aged extremely well www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zH9...

The "car wash question" - opper.ai/blog/car-was... - got me wondering what would be the shortest question you can ask that SOTA LLMs would get wrong (not just admitting it doesn't know, which is fine). It'd be neat to find one that's ten words or less.

But did it make you feel a little bit closer to your fellow countrymen? 😅

A question that flummoxes LLMs:

"Does English have any words which are the name of the place where the same named product is purchased or consumed, akin to café in French?"

SOTA models give wrong answers like "bakery" and "bar", except for Gemini 3.1 Pro which got "takeaway" and "carvery".

Briefly caught the genealogy bug and found my most distant ancestor so far: James Waterhouse, born in 1318, in Lincolnshire (where I live now!)

At 23 generations above me, though, I realised I have 8,388,608 such ancestors, so he's probably one of yours too!

You got it already boss: “oh shit I need a title”

A bit sad that 3I/ATLAS didn't turn out to be an alien spaceship.

Early bitmap to vector experiment? One of the more bizarre ones I've seen.

I also hated Wolf Alice for ages when they came on the radio but ended up falling for them. Found most of my favourite bands that way. I HATED Pearl Jam for years, now one of my top bands ever!

YouTube video by WolfAliceVEVO Wolf Alice - White Horses (The Clearing Tour Video)

Music recs are boring, but OK: WOLF ALICE. They remind me of Fleetwood Mac. All their songs are so different. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKsf...

It's refreshing how many bands this decade are heavily influenced by the 70s-90s and not continuing with the milquetoast bullshit that ruled the 2010s.

But I imagine someone doing it properly would start from the base and then add only the things they use to it in each case.

(I am far from an authority on this so I could be wrong.) It seems there are two paths you can take: a plain ruby build to which you add what you need, then a ruby+stdlib build with "everything". I shrunk the latter as I wanted a "good enough" small build.

In terms of easy exclusions, you don't need rdoc, any libraries oriented around networking, minitest, etc. At least for making Ruby-powered frontend experiences (as opposed to developer tooling).

Got ruby.wasm down to 4,223 kB over the wire *including* the stdlib!

20MB+ is more typically seen in similar builds, but there's a ton of stuff that can't even be used in the browser including a huge needless C library. More to follow..

Sounds like I have a rabbit hole to go down! I've solely used it for ruby install and switching so far but I hear there's a lot more to it.

Been putting off moving off asdf to mise for managing Ruby versions for months. I shouldn't have. It took two minutes to migrate and it Just Works™.

UNIX commands are riddled with hundreds of command line options. Yet no quick way to list make targets, e.g. `make --list` or something 🤪

It has fewer than 2000 plays on Spotify. I'm a fair percentage of those 😂

And if you have heard it before, let me know as you're my kinda people.

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A power-pop song from the 80s that goes hard and totally slaps that I'd guess 99% of you haven't heard before: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXi-...

Punch Give your copy more (or less?!) impact. AI-powered text editing for sharper writing.

BTW you can play with it too, punch.sh – you don't get Opus on the free one, but GPT OSS is surprisingly good and even a million rounds will only cost me $10.

My new copy editing tool is more fun to play with than to actually use properly.

In other news, I need to get a better IP reputation provider that actually notices stuff I can easily research myself by hand.

Suffered a huge wave of botnet signups from an IP range that geolocates and has RIPE and ASN data pointing to the US, yet BGP routes to Moldova. Oh, I couldn't POSSIBLY speculate what nation state might actually be behind that 😏

I love Raycast's emoji chooser but sometimes it makes me laugh at how it ranks the results.

Postgres folks! Today's Postgres Weekly is a particular banger: postgresweekly.com/issues/634

Someone's made an awesome forum-like interface for pgsql-hackers; a cute metadata hack; who built Postgres; a recently fixed Postgres bug from 1999; and, well a lot more.

"Your password is required to enable Touch ID" when I come back to my Mac after five minutes. So why have Touch ID then! 🤣

And I may have found the least readable font on Google Fonts! fonts.google.com/specimen/Cor...

Thanks! Still some refinement to do but I've been having fun finding some fonts already!