JKCalhoun

Last night I spent an hour with Claude (free tier) setting up a "modern" 6502 build environment for MacOS. By the time I went to bed I had 1) 6502 assembly syntax highlighting in VSCode, 2) was compiling 6502 assembly for the KIM-1 to generate a "paper tape" format, 3) pasting this paper tape binary into CoolTerm to send over TTY (1200-N-8-1) to my KIM-1 clone (PAL-2).

(If I'm tired it's because I excitedly stayed up later than usual to get Claude to help get this workflow working.)

On the other side of the world… a friend who is still at Apple tells me how other engineers at Apple are using Claude to make changes, create pull-requests on code he maintains with a, "Hey, can you approve this change?"

Now he has to go through the code diff that Claude generated…

Oh!, there's some stupid shit in that diff. Did the engineer who submitted the pull request even look at the code before submitting? Who knows. Either they did not or they were not qualified (or well-versed enough with the code) to spot the AI-fluff/crap.

So, yeah, that would suck—keep me busier than I would have been Antediluvian (thanks Claude, for suggesting that made-up Latin).

Comment · 1 day ago

Redlining in Omaha's history too.

(You can kind of blame real-estate agents to a degree. There was an interesting indie documentary on it that played last year.)

Comment · 2 days ago

"I, Claudius" (1976) had a number of excellent actors in it—many of them no longer with us. Most (if not all) of the 12 parts are on YouTube and/or archive.org.

(Highly recommended.)

Comment · 3 days ago

Like others, desperate to make sure they're the next Google.

Comment · 3 days ago

My physical copy has a single color plate (the image showing the spectrum of the colors of the bubble, of course).

Comment · 3 days ago

Loved the small book "Soap-Bubbles and the Forces Which Mould Them" [1], [2], [3] by C. V. Boys.

He talks about the colors of soap bubbles (among other things). After reading it I watched a large bubble-sheet exhibit at the Exploratorium in San Francisco with fascination—noting how the colors were different at the top of the film, (where it is thinner) compared with the lower part of the film (where it is thicker).

As the bubble begins to evaporate and get thinner, it eventually becomes colorless (black, I suppose) just before popping.

Aside from the section on color, the whole book is a beautiful example of reasoning, the scientific method, etc. (as though presented to Physics students—but it is nonetheless easy for the layman to follow along).

[1] https://archive.org/details/soapbubblestheir0000cvbo/

[2] https://archive.org/details/SoapBubbles-English-C.V.Boys/

[3] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33370

Comment · 3 days ago

An Omaha, Nebraska monarch-stop reporting in.

The wife planted one this year. (Registered, got a little placard to place on a stake.)

We saw a dozen or so cocoons appear around her garden—on plants, on the trim of our house. And then we saw them empty out. The skies too around the neighborhood were frequented by monarchs last month—we'd see them all the time.

Funny how you start to notice a thing (that had always been there to some degree or another) once you start to invest some time and interest in it.

Comment · 3 days ago

Blows my mind at how small a thing (the term AI) he instead focuses on.

Comment · 5 days ago

This is very cool.

It is the only port (that I am aware of) that brings over the additional Room Editor app that allowed you to create and edit "house" (game) files.