If you haven’t seen it, @jart’s Actually Portable Executable does just this - it’s definitely got a long ways to go (iirc it only supports CLI apps), but it’s fascinating to see a method of building binaries that can execute across various architectures and operating systems.
It’s been infuriating to see it shoved everywhere in the corporate stack - Teams, Outslook, Jira, GitHub, etc. and since tools are all company-mandated, the best I can do is continuously ignore or say “not now”, but one day Teams will rollover on a forced software update and I’ll have no choice but to “let” CoPilot schedule meetings in an app that already consistently warns that I’m in a different time zone despite all of us being east coast (I’ve checked so many settings, and even with another single coworker who has checked his we see the warning).
My company is also heavily pushing AI, which is worrisome but no surprising - part of my goal for the coming year is to showcase using AI in a productive and innovative way, can’t wait.
Eventually my Google Nest Minis will stop asking me to try Gemini and force me to, and they’ll all get binned unless I can find a firmware replacement which I doubt is out there, and then I’ll get deep into HomeKit and local voice recognition for turning the lights on and off and setting timers because that’s literally 99% of my use-case, and I’m sure Gemini would fuck it up.
There was a talk at a Linux conference a while back relating knitting to programming and I’ve yet to watch it because the audio on YT wasn’t great but it’s on my list.
I find knitting very soothing, and it also scratches the same itch as programming.
And it’s one that already affects Google’s AI results, whether intentional or not. 9/10 if a Reddit thread or scraped StackExchange clone’s search result is in the top of the list, the AI answer pretty much parrots it.
This has led to many a “that doesn’t sound right” when looking things up with friends, or odd technical questions that have serviceable information available but not at the top of results.
I’d wager the money from lobbies and companies like Intuit more than make up for it.
Also, republics are “anti-tax” in word and pro-tax in practice, as is the American way. When it comes to particularly republicans, anti-tax is code for removing social safety nets. They want taxes if it pays them, or pays the right contractors, or funds the military etc but when those tax dollars could go to social welfare they suddenly think it’s time to trim the fat.
Cave Story is in my Mount Rushmore of games, bookmarking this for later! Very curious to see how the controls map out and work. Good job, and keep it up :D
I don't have an explanation of the touch controls on the site, I guess I probably should as they aren't entirely standard although I hope they're intuitive. It's a two thumb control scheme for Cave Story:
Left thumb drag (anywhere on left half of screen): D-pad
Right thumb tap/hold: shoot
Right thumb drag (any direction): jump
Tap weapon/health bar: open inventory/map menu
Swipe weapon/health bar left/right: switch weapon
For Quake, the left half of the screen works like a gamepad left stick for movement, and the right half works like a trackpad for aiming. Your weapon will start shooting automatically when an enemy is near the crosshair, even if they are not directly under it, so you need to track enemies accurately over time to score hits without wasting ammo. Tapping the top right quadrant of the screen will shoot manually, which is mostly useful for the rocket launcher. I didn't figure out a scheme to enable jumping or zoom/scope.
> They never made it flexible enough for people to customize it.
I feel like it was fairly customizable - the Mac system settings let you do a lot of drag and drop of controls, and
I recall iTerm having a similar interface for customizing the bar in its own settings.
I do think it should’ve been given a lot more love, but that’s Apple for ya I guess
I think a bigger issue was that so few applications used it in cool, interesting ways. It has the same appeal as the oled button boxes some people have, except it’s right there on the deck… but nobody did anything with it.
I sure did prefer the media controls on it, though. I still have a 16” here and am reminded of what could have been.
I actually think it would have done well if it was just like those button boxes / Stream Deck / etc. Like a row of transparent function keys with screens, but then that would have been a flexibility tradeoff.
I’ve always been a “remap capslock to escape” kind of guy (vim), so I didn’t mind much. Access to the brightness (screen and keyboard) and volume slider was neat but superfluous with the OG fn keys. Context-driven controls were probably the best thing about the touch bar, and I don’t think it got enough love to make that stick.
I think I can understand what you want, and the dev’s response about deterministic output is something I really appreciate. I don’t think I want an agent going and mucking around in git _at all_, and if it is going to, I’d prefer some level of predictability imo.
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