Dave Frampton

Dave Frampton

@majicdave.bsky.social

I make. I made The Blockheads and Sapiens. Now I'm making a new internet with a programming language I made Katipo: https://github.com/mjdave/katipo Tui: https://github.com/mjdave/tui Sapiens on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1060230/Sapiens/

308 Followers 93 Following 781 Posts Joined Oct 2023
13 hours ago
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This so called ”expert” is in the business of selling “AI literacy“ grifts. This article on rnz is a marketing scam using fear to sell horseshit.

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1 day ago
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Iran-Backed Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Firm Stryker A hacktivist group with links to Iran's intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against Stryker, a global medical technology company based in Michigan. News reports o...

I would say this is the new normal, these constant hacks, except it’s not, it’s going to get a whole lot worse. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/iran...

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2 days ago

bombing a towns worth of school girls creates hate that lasts centuries. The revenge attacks for today’s atrocities will long outlast the cunts that performed them.

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2 days ago

Yesterday wrote a song called “it’s the act of weeding that makes the weeds”

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3 days ago
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This has been very much like a game jam for me, a trip down memory lane. Looking forward to building more, and to making this multiplayer too.

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3 days ago
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Saw an interesting cloud on the satellite, stretched out over hundreds of km, coming right over us. Looked up, and there it is!

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4 days ago
Sightless Scribbles A fabulously gay blind author.

This story, man. I had to slow myself down to actually read it, take it in. I feel it very deeply, and the hope too... just read it. sightlessscribbles.com/the-coloniza...

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4 days ago

Lol good luck, I’m sure getting more senior engineers to sift through the AI slop all day looking for bugs will work out great

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5 days ago
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Playing with enemy snake brains now. I plan to make this multiplayer of course, it's a great test for katipo :)

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5 days ago
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Made a snake game last night in a couple of hours, good fun! No AI vibe coding here, made with 100% genuine human brain meat.

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1 week ago
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We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my kid’s experience with an AI checker tool that was pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook. The assignment had been to write an essay about Ku…

FFS. www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/w...

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1 week ago

Just here and mastodon for now, but can’t get anyone to click a link or read anything much at all in either place. I think everyone has given up in both places, I need to find some younger people who still have hope.

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1 week ago

I will post a video about all of this to my 30k subscribers when it is ready, reach out to press etc, but I really need to find a little test bed first. It needs another few weeks to months of iteration before the full launch and it can't just be me and my family.

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1 week ago

It's hard, working on *by far* the coolest thing I've ever made, knowing it is a much bigger deal than the games which got 50 million downloads, is totally free, provides solutions to the things everybody complains about, totally a gift to the world, but nobody will click on the link. 🫠

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1 week ago
Screenshot of the blockout game, which is an eye-wateringly colorful version of the classic breakout game, where you control a paddle to hit a ball, which clears bricks when it hits them. It is running from within a Katipo Browser window on macOS.

Sweet, now if you have a mac or a windows PC, you can try out the Katipo Browser and play blockout! I have done a release on github, you can just download the browser, and connect to the game by entering the url "katipobrowser.com/blockout" in the Katipo Browser app. github.com/mjdave/katip...

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1 week ago

Yeah, I guess the problem now is that the web is going to explode into a pile of indecipherable slop, nobody will be able to find anything of use anywhere anyway. We're already there in fact. Time for a new one.

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1 week ago
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Here it is on iOS, will be trying again with the Apple submission now that blockout is working. I just really wanted to get Waraki working too, to push everything.

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1 week ago

This will be an excellent platform for multiplayer games, a snake game might be a fun place to start. I kind of want to remake the original Chopper in tui now too. Coding is feeling exciting again.

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1 week ago
Screenshot of the blockout game, which is an eye-wateringly colorful version of the classic breakout game, where you control a paddle to hit a ball, which clears bricks when it hits them. It is running from within a Katipo Browser window on macOS.

Sweet, now if you have a mac or a windows PC, you can try out the Katipo Browser and play blockout! I have done a release on github, you can just download the browser, and connect to the game by entering the url "katipobrowser.com/blockout" in the Katipo Browser app. github.com/mjdave/katip...

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1 week ago

Just used algebra. I like to mention it when I do, stay in school kids.

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1 week ago

I didn't do it because it would be stealing. You'd be scraping without seeing ads. That seemed bad somehow back then. Now it seems very good.

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1 week ago

I remember back in ~2004 I had an idea for a browser where you could pull bits out of any website, and put them back together in your own mixup. Like it could just load up the rendered inner divs from a bunch of remote sites into little mini web views locally. Still a good idea.

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1 week ago
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Well that escalated quickly 🌱

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1 week ago

Maybe it is time for me to stop reading hacker news again for a bit 😅

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1 week ago

I still haven’t used an AI Chat bot or agent. Not intentionally, not once. Fuck all of that.

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2 weeks ago
A 3d render of the Egg Inc farm, built in LEGO at micro scale. Many many baggies of 2,311 LEGO pieces laid out in the sun, on a table.

My day job is working on artwork for the mobile game Egg Inc.

A fan of the game made this LEGO set of the Egg Inc farm, in Studio.

I just unpacked all the pieces to make it irl:

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1 week ago
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Windows, mac, and iPhone all pulling down my music at the same time, from the server running on a raspberry pi. It's blurry because my phone is in the photo and I have forgotten how an SLR works again.

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1 week ago

8GB is not gonna be enough RAM to handle all the coming vibe coded monstrosities

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1 week ago

It makes no sense anymore that GET and POST are differentiated. I could say a million other things about how stupid the internet is, but that is today’s one.

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1 week ago
Homer in his car

Everyone can use AI to build their own stuff now it’s great

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