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Re:RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video] on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:58AM (#50162724)
Same here! In university I was studying under a different major, but started dabbling with writing a bot when OSRS came out based on my HS programming experience, and decided hey this is cool why not switch to CS? 10 years later and here I still am (though I've left the OSRS vice well behind me)
Re:Casio F-91W using Statecharts on Friday October 16, 2026 @03:06AM (#50115100)
Dude this is sick! I wish this supported my F-105W because I really prefer the better backlight. Does anyone know anything similar for this model?
Re:PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:04AM (#50016575)
I cannot recommend Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 enough if you're into RPGs!
Re:PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:57PM (#49646859)
I imagine every publisher in the games industry dropped whatever they were doing the second they heard Kojima's game was on the market. Happy to see the project found its funding!
Re:Fastpotify on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:18AM (#49518578)
https://fastpotify.rocks/winamp/ what a great feature!
Re:Dear people who work at the airport on Sunday August 16, 2026 @04:56AM (#49318216)
Great article!

I think about this a lot when I fly through an "international" airport back home where most of the signs are in English/Spanish, and how intimidating it must be for non-speakers to navigate through the airport.

Re:Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub on Friday July 31, 2026 @08:12AM (#49122128)
Is this open to regular users of a repo or only organization owners?
Re:Immich v3.0.0 Released on Friday July 03, 2026 @11:44AM (#48776378)
Immich promotes a 3-2-1 backup strategy in their docs you can read about: https://docs.immich.app/administration/backup-and-restore/

Admittedly I have not set up backups yet because my homelab setup is not very mature.

I'm running everything off a single mini PC connected to a fresh 1TB SSD. My next "homelab goal" is setting up a NAS/DAS once I can snag something affordable off eBay/FB Marketplace/Kleinanzeigen/etc.

I think there are some super cheap cloud storage solutions where you pay a lot less in costs to not have on-demand access. That is the route I was going to go personally.

Re:Immich v3.0.0 Released on Friday July 03, 2026 @03:51AM (#48772158)
Done! <3
Re:Immich v3.0.0 Released on Friday July 03, 2026 @02:29AM (#48771573)
An incredible piece of software, on par with Google Photos. I've been using it behind Tailscale for months with no problems ever since I first got into homelabbing.

Actually, moving from Google Photos to Immich after I hit my 100GB storage limit was the whole reason I got into self-hosting, and what a fun ride that has been!

I can't believe self-hosted products of this caliber are free. Huge shout-out to HomeAssistant, PiHole, paperless-ngx, Dawarich, and countless others for the same reason.

Congrats to the team on the release and thank you for helping me catalogue my personal memories

Re:You Are Not Your Job on Monday March 23, 2026 @08:19AM (#47488426)
Thanks for sharing that article!
Re:Agentic Engineering Patterns on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @10:08AM (#47248610)
Simon, if you're reading this, I'd be really curious to hear your thoughts on how to effectively conduct code reviews in a world where "code is cheap".

One of the biggest struggles I have on my team is coworkers straight up vibing parts of the code and not understanding or guiding the architecture of subsystems. Or at least, not writing code in a way that is meant to be understood by others.

Then when I go through the code and provide extensive feedback (mostly architectural and highlighting odd inconsistencies with the code additions) I'm met with much pushback because "it works, why change it"? Not to mention the sheer size of prs ballooning in recent months.

The end result is me being the bottleneck because I can't keep up with the "pace" of code being generated, and feeling a lot of discomfort and pressure to lower my standards.

I've thought about using a code review agent to review and act as me in proxy, but not being able to control the exact output worries me. And I don't like the lack of human touch it provides. Maybe someone has advice on a humane way to handle this problem.