The annual summer of re-development continues as people rush to fix iOS beta bugs and adopt new APIs while they still have existing users to support. Standing with one foot in each camp means cutting against the grain of Apple’s “we only look forward” philosophy. Recent discussion online reminded me of a useful trick old enough it risks being forgotten.
I hacked together a tool to count up points, rather than counting down from 27. I wrote it for a friend's Obojima campaign with 0th level 12-point characters.
Update 6/8: Added support for stat points beyond 8-15
Grok-3, xAI's competitor to ChatGPT, Claude and friends hit early preview last week, and the internet has thoughts. Normally, I rely on people like Zvi Mowshowitz to stay up to date on these releases.
The 1984 Macintosh's black and white display stands out as a curious decision. The full history of personal computing is complicated. Here are some notes.
My wife, my best friend and I are in a group chat where we post daily puzzle scores. Occasionally, I'll put together a graph or logger. Because it's a fairly bounded exercise, I use it to evaluate programming languages, frameworks or approaches. This time, I'm taking the pulse on current LLMs' ability to solve the problem, rather than the solution itself.