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SwingTheVine

@swingthevine.bsky.social

Programmer of many things. I post about my programming adventures and repost stuff I find interesting. Creator of the template overlay "Blue Marble" on GitHub.

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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/

24.02.2026 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2603    πŸ” 869    πŸ’¬ 129    πŸ“Œ 158
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Xikipedia, the Wikipedia doomscrolling "app", is now available as an actual app (PWA)!

Also:
- fully available offline
- algorithm saving/persistence (optional)
- multiple profiles
- light theme (optional)
- full english wikipedia links (optional)
- statistics screen

have fun!!

06.02.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 159    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

"Computer completely filled with bees."

05.02.2026 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You mean something like SVG, something like PDF, or something different altogether?

04.02.2026 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

hey wanna see 39 seconds of perfect video editing?

03.02.2026 04:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2467    πŸ” 757    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 23
Tree with orange leaves. The leaves are all glitched and they look like circuits

Tree with orange leaves. The leaves are all glitched and they look like circuits

Autumn leaves

#glitchart

04.12.2025 01:56 β€” πŸ‘ 109    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

slimentists

09.01.2026 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
namecheap search result for the domain merry.christmas. the price is 2 million dollars

namecheap search result for the domain merry.christmas. the price is 2 million dollars

last-minute gift idea if anyone's still looking

23.12.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes!

24.12.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorta. Some rarer features of the species (Protogen/Primagen) have to be bought at auction for you to have the right to use them. en.wikifur.com/wiki/Protoge...

17.12.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mystery Flesh Pit National Park

09.12.2025 05:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Unstable structure meme shows AWS (Amazon Web Services) is holding a pillar at the bottom and Cloudflare is the bottom which many websites rely on.

Unstable structure meme shows AWS (Amazon Web Services) is holding a pillar at the bottom and Cloudflare is the bottom which many websites rely on.

The internet infrastructure in a nutshell:

18.11.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
google docs screenshot with zoomed in parts that show how identical icons are misaligned vertically by a single pixel

google docs screenshot with zoomed in parts that show how identical icons are misaligned vertically by a single pixel

06.11.2025 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting...
Gaslight Wordle 😭

25.10.2025 05:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Awesome website

21.10.2025 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

are you sure

09.09.2025 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1462    πŸ” 419    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 4

β €

14.10.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

01.10.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 25116    πŸ” 8338    πŸ’¬ 660    πŸ“Œ 2205
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Been studying 3rd person camera and discovered a neat trick from Zelda
Walls blocking camera is commonly solved by moving the viewpoint closer. However when the wall is moved away, Link's camera doesn't immediately jump to its original position, instead only slowly recovers when there is user input.

17.09.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 112    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

Careful, Chiitan might get sued by Nintendo for summoning :(

16.09.2025 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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be very careful about what you post online

10.09.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 8250    πŸ” 1644    πŸ’¬ 149    πŸ“Œ 52
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AirPod option to increase volume when someone talks to you

03.09.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 162    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
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Normie cyber people it brings me no pleasure to announce the aerospace cyber people absolutely cooked us

01.09.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 687    πŸ” 138    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 12

but those early, "unbaked" language models were *basically* produced by applying math to various subsets of human generated data about humans. nobody was "designing them to fool people" because they weren't for public release or consumption, they were pure research products

02.09.2025 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

For the record, I do have enough technical knowledge to say that generative models neither contain nor reproduce their training data. I know a lot of people have anecdotes to the contrary, but they simply do not do that. You’re lying to yourself if you think they do.

31.08.2025 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

to kind of sum this up, I think that the role of generative AI in the future is going to be for filling in elements that, for whatever reason, the creator wants to be in the work but does not feel the audience needs to feel were crafted by human hands

31.08.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

my conclusions here are in many ways bummers! here's the thing I was trying to say:

I think fewer people in the future are going to bother learning to make art,or write,or make music,or code,in traditional ways in the future because of generative work. this will make lots of stuff less interesting.

31.08.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the gist of what I said was that I think that, barring some kind of legal outcome that heavily restricts the availability of generative models, I think they will become extremely common as part of creative pipelines, and fewer people will learn skills they might otherwise have.

31.08.2025 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The thing is that traditional troubleshooting skills still have to be learned with experience. LLMs definitely help, but can only complement real troubleshooting skills. If all you do is ask questions with insufficient context and can't use your brain to guide it toward a good result, it won't work

29.08.2025 11:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0