I always feel really bad when I procrastinate on the weekly link roundups. They’re relatively easy to put together and yet I still struggle to get one out each week. I’ll continue to try to get at least one roundup a week out, but I’ll likely continue to fail.

Noodle: am I crazy or did old movies used to look different??

I am an occasional watcher of Noodle's second channel, and recently he's been ranting about how color is kind of one of the hardest problems. Not just for computers, just in general. This video specifically focuses on how it is impossible to watch the original version of the movie The Matrix, and the wild thing is, this might be one of the best case scenarios for a movie. Movie rereleases change things all the time. Every accessible release of the original Star Wars trilogy no longer resembles the movie people saw in the theaters.¹ Same goes for the recent releases of James Cameron movies. Unless (and sometimes even if) you want to turn to piracy, it feels like movies as a concept is gnawed by slow fire.

Grace Benfell: What does it actually mean for a video game to be "horny"?

The simultaneous culti…

I figured I should write some of these to kinda show in open that I actually write a decent amount of code for this site.

Big stuff!

Relative time added.

If you look at the timestamp on each post, it now says how long ago it's been since the post went up as opposed to the absolute time it came out. This is helpful for a couple reasons, but a big one is that all my timestamps are in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), which meant you could not get a sense for what time I was uploading posts anyways. I'd fire something off at dinner and then it'd seem like I was doing crazed 1am posting.

Part of my Cohost archive has been reuploaded!

You can now see old cohost posts reuploaded to my blog at the #cohost archive tag. I am missing most of my posts because I have to import these by hand. Any posts that rebugged other posts or my own posts are not uploaded (see: Stuff I still need to do).

Small stuff

• Fixed the leave a comment box not having a shadow.
• Minor improvements to syntax highlighting
• General CSS improvements.
• Demo web components made for a secret blog post I may or may n…

i have no opinions on everything else

i looked into how much the "mr. beast feastables" chocolate bar is and they're literally 50¢ an ounce greater than the adjacent snickers bar. that's wild

made some pretty substantial edits to my previous post, specifically the parts on why i found gerard's post misleading, and being more clear about the subject of that post's (not david gerard) financial stake in ai

Hey David Gerard, long time follower second time caller. (Here's the first time.)

So I recently saw a post of yours—attached below—about a post from a lead developer of the "Julia language" trying out Claude Code (which I will call "Clode" for the rest of the post for no particular reason except it saves me keystrokes and is funny) and finding it "not very good".

i've been sick all day so i've mostly been sleeping but now i feel alright. huge win in evie town

Here's another piece where I'm publishing work I did years ago explaining entries on the Blaseball Iceberg, which I also made years ago. This one is way up near the top of the iceberg, so it's meant to be short and really simple to understand. This is good, because I'm not yet ready to explain eDensity.[^1]

Since the start of season 2 of Blaseball,[^2] there has been a section of the website titled "The Book of Blaseball" (located under the book tab of the website, of course). Inside is what is supposedly the rules of the game, although they are heavily redacted. Of note is section 5b, which reads "If a team wins three championships, they, and Blaseball, shall ascend." This was noticed by the Society for Internet Blaseball Research, who decided to tweet about this topic at the Blaseball commissioner, at the time Parker Macmillan III, on September 26th, 2020.