Luke Benstead

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

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I think my biggest pet peeve with modern software/apps is that no one seems to give a shit about clickable things staying put while other elements are loading around them, such that I mis-click way too often because I reacted too fast anticipating where the button is going to be - until it's not 🤬

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

lyra.horse/x86css/

Acting ethically in an imperfect world Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somew...

I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe.

@tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here:

tante.cc/2026/02/20/a...

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How does it feel?
When you're alone
And you're cold inside
Like a stranger in Moscow

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

YouTube video by DeoxysPrime Credits - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 [OST]

Also the Sonic 3 ending credits 😁 youtu.be/G8bNZboAPfc?...

My city #gameassets already has suburban, commercial and industrial buildings. However, I know you've been asking for more 'special' buildings like windmills, schools, a hospital and more. What buildings would you like to see?

kenney.nl/assets/serie...

Two builds of #MarioKart 64 running on the #Sega #Dreamcast. Top is release using our stock GLdc driver for graphics. The bottom is an experimental build I have optimized with my accelerated math library, SH4ZAM. Community gainz are coming!

github.com/gyrovorbis/s...

#gamedev #retrocomputing

In today's episode of AI is ruining the thing you love; Godot could really use some extra funding just to judge if something is slop because they're getting overwhelmed

Godot's GitHub has increasingly many pull requests generated by LLMs and it's a MASSIVE time waster for reviewers – especially if people don't disclose it. Changes often make no sense, descriptions are extremely verbose, users don't understand their own changes… It's a total shitshow. #godotengine

YouTube video by freakdave You Are Tomato - DreamDisc '25 - Full Game Walkthrough [Dreamcast Homebrew]

Aaaaand it's finished!
Here are all 10 levels in its full glory.

It may not seem like much but trust me I've been through so many issues and crashes that I was *very* close to giving up.

But now it's in a state where I am happy with the results.

#dreamcast #gamedev #homebrew

youtu.be/QcI3XUieh_Q

a logo for the company dreamcast with an orange spiral Alt: a logo for the company dreamcast with an orange spiral

128 bit!

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

You know the animated character faces next to the messages in games like Star Fox?

Or maybe a variety of distinctive buildings for your City kits (churches, schools, libraries, fire stations, shops etc.)

More retro texture packs obviously.

Animated animal/dinosaur pack?

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue ‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’

Vibe coding is working as expected: it'll kill the open-source, secure, and ideologically maintained alternatives to make sure you have to pay the oligarchs to do anything at all, and they can control what you're allowed to make.

www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...

[Dreamcast] You Are Tomato by freakdave Paint tile patterns with Tomato in this unforgiving action game for the SEGA Dreamcast!

"You are Tomato" is live!
freakdave.itch.io/you-are-tomato

#dreamcast #dreamdisc25 #gamedev

The XBox thing is baffling as my XBox Live account is like.. 20 years old?!

*can tell you... Where's the edit button? 😅

Having built many many kinds of software products, I can't tell you that the hardest final 20% goes to games over all else.

That first 80% is way more fun, but that final 20 is soul destroying.

It's essentially just looking at bugs going "ah, shit." #gamedev

Should be fixed now :)

YouTube video by freakdave You Are Tomato - DreamDisc '25 - Sneak Peek [Dreamcast Homebrew]

It's the first time I am showing "You Are Tomato" in motion.
There's still 1 month to go until #dreamdisc25 's deadline!

Oh yeah, and I've finally switched to sh4zam for a "slight" perf boost on the #dreamcast (thanks! @falcogirgis.bsky.social)

#gamedev #homebrew

youtu.be/IsQLCZNgiPg

Ok I'll take a look in the morning and see if I can fix it

If you can tell me what the username is currently for the account you want changed then I can look it up and change it