Home News Getting a Japanese CERO age rating for your game is not only expensive, but costs extra per platform, giving small creators a very hard time Getting a game age rated in Japan can be an expensive experience – … Read more
For a while now I’ve started my day by unlocking my phone and scrolling through different news and social media sites to see what’s going on. It’s not exactly great for my mental health and I’ve been trying to cut … Read more
For reasons I’ve discussed elsewhere, I’ve recently become interested in using, and programming, CP/M again, after an interval of 40 years. I’ve even bought a real, Z80-based, CP/M machine to experiment with. There’s a small, but growing, market for these … Read more
Previous post: Prologue in HATETRIS Tetris That Hates You StickManStickMan #611, by Sam Hughes. HATETRIS is a version of Tetris written in 2010 by programmer and sci-fi author Sam Hughes. According to his initial description of the game: This is … Read more
Lots of DBAs have had a folder with scripts on their machines. This might be on a share, or it might be on each individual machine. How do I start getting our scripts organized? Let’s look at a short process … Read more
I wrote a blog post the other day about how Next.js Middleware can be useful for working around some of the restrictions imposed by server components. This led to some fun discussions in the world about whether this was a … Read more
Recently I was speaking to a group of sophisticated New Yorkers about the preparation for death. Someone asked a tentative question about life support, and I quickly realized that for all their erudition, they were largely ignorant about what happens … Read more
You can just draw more samples I recently got to 50%1 accuracy on the public test set for ARC-AGI by having GPT-4o generate a huge number of Python implementations of the transformation rule (around 8,000 per problem) and then selecting … Read more
It’s late in the afternoon of 2 April 2023 on the island of Kauai. The sun is sinking over this beautiful and peaceful place, when, suddenly, at 4:25 pm, there’s a glitch: The largest generator on the island, a 26-megawatt … Read more
TL;DR: a detailed look at Z80 instruction timings with the help of a Z80 netlist simulation. Table of Content Intro This is part one of a two-part series about a new cycle-stepped Z80 emulator I wrote recently. In the first … Read more