Matt Round

The experienced devs using coding agents in a risky way KNOW it’s risky, “move faster, break more things” is seen as a positive rather than career suicide

Tweet Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command. It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards. Automated snapshots were gone too. In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again. If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read.

Back in my day you needed a senior engineer for this sort of thing

Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."

what the fuck are we doing

www.wsj.com/business/med...

It’s ridiculous how much of a leap M1 was, across the room there’s an old 8GB M1 MacBook and a newer ThinkPad and it’s embarrassingly obvious which is faster & nicer to use
Only caveat is the fanless machines really don’t like constant GPU thrashing, terrible for games

8GB M1 Macs still _feel_ fast (unless you try to run something hefty), so it’s clear these’ll be perfectly fine for web browsing & light apps (and Windows is such a shitshow nowadays that it’s easy for Apple to seem fast compared to most PC laptops)

I did consider buying a 90 & 85 of the same design then doing a “cut and shut"

Card shops in town had cards for 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 100… but not 95. So I got my dad a big sparkly 100th birthday card and wrote inside that he’s getting it early

Ha that’s usually how it goes

I was slower (16.9) but it’s certainly a quick layout & sequence of pieces today, good chance to get a fastest time

🎉🎉🎉

Copies of Terran omega with signature and sketching cover.

I have 50 copies of Terran Omega. £10 incl p&p (2nd class) and I’ve got 10 Remarqued copies of £30 each. Reply or dm me!

painting of a crying unicorn in a room with a phone thrown in the corner and outside the window there are buildings and a UFO

unicorn wondering what the meaning of life is

Happy birthday to Betty Boo. Here's a reminder of the time she rapped with Public Enemy in the McDonalds at Shepherd's Bush back in 1987 (look out for the unimpressed manager!)

In WarioWare: Twisted, Jimmy's boss microgame can be won instantly if the console is tilted 720° in less than half a second. In practice, this is achieved by literally physically throwing the console.

Goldeneye 007 for N64's Temple level has 1k triangles, or two Lara Crofts. Handy units of measure for newer models. 43,250 polygons? 43 Temples and half a Lara. It's the perfect system.

P.S. that old 2B butt meme number is a lie it's only 1.2 temples

See my reply for how I grab levels out of GE007

800 gamers tried to beat an '80s adventure without a walkthrough—only 2 did Only .25% completed the AGAT: the Adventure Game Aptitude Test, designed by fiendish developer Woe Industries.

Designed by developer Woe Industries, the AGAT challenged players to complete an '80s adventure game without using a walkthrough.

Any prints still available? (Didn’t spot anything on your site)

This is basically the type of art we were taught to do on my uni course ( the x360 era started when I was in first year ) and it saddened me that it was immediately obsolete because it is SUCH a satisfying way to make game art???

Or well, I guess it's back in style now with indie 😏

(if you have same issue as me - trying to get ancient HP laser on wifi using a Mac - then it is incredibly painful to get working but possible if you persevere with some techie faff)

I love the Peter Cook story when somebody in the queue in front of him said to the maître d of a restaurant "Don't you know who I am?"
Cook raised his voice and said to the entire restaurant while pointing at the rude customer "Excuse me, can anybody help? This person has forgotten who he is."

Todd @ Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like I'm 5. Canal RIOS 508 MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

Wild that for as long I can remember there’s been endless hand wringing from the American comics industry about its decline and what they can learn from Manga etc etc etc, meanwhile 2000AD just be out here sticking judge helmets on dinosaurs and balling

17th Century Death Roulette ☠️ See what you might’ve died from in 1665 London, using real mortality records.

This just reached 2 million views 🎉☠️🎉
Based on how traffic plummeted a while after launch, I reckon the UK became gravely serious about covid on Monday 9th March 2020
vole.wtf/death-roulet...

Giant snake on an info panel about to eat a screaming child

The Museum of Scotland using small children in size comparison info panels is absolutely sending me.

(slightly afraid to do too much shader stuff as it’ll probably require pushing something else out the other side of my brain)

Just worked out how to customise a WebGL shader in thing I’m making

A show done and now to write a B3ta newsletter which means do send your projects to the form. There's no B3ta newsletter without the form. My entire shtick is people send me stuff & I go "yeah maybe" or "not on your nelly mate."
b3ta.com/mailus

The oldest single-note piece I've found so far (1834). From "L'art du violon" by Pierre Baillot.

Did this again, love the way modern Macs are so efficient that a warm lap means “hang on, either something’s crashed or I’ve left something running”