callumprentice

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British bloke and US citizen, in the Los Angeles South Bay via San Francisco, Singapore, Barcelona, Zurich, London and Hong Kong ● Second Life developer at Linden Lab during the day since 2004 ● Enthusiastic WebGL/WebXR hacker in the evenings ● Founder of Industrial Might and Logic Combat Robots ● Eager traveller ● Crossfit and indoor rowing aficionado ● Insanely happy husband and father

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Comment · 1 month ago

Agreed. I am excited to see what changes appear. I did enjoy the "One more thing" + smirk bit too.

Comment · 2 months ago

Hahaha! Can you imagine..

Comment · 2 months ago

I was a fan since university when someone down the corridor would have The Rocky Horror Picture Show playing all the time...

Imagine my delight at seeing him on a packed London Tube one morning on my way to work. He asked to get by and I said something like "Just a jump to the left, and then a step to the right?" waiting for him to burst into song with the whole carriage joining in..

He just scowled and pushed past - still made my day though :)

Comment · 2 months ago

That's great. Thank you for the feedback - I ordered one just now.

Comment · 2 months ago

Nod - that's what I was thinking. I expect it's often the connectors that deteriorate so perhaps moving them around while plugged in would tell me. Seems like a useful tool to have around.

Comment · 2 months ago

Would this tell me if a cable is close to the end of it's life? I like to travel light and I've had cables (mostly phone/pad power) go out on trips after working as expected when I packed.

Comment · 4 months ago

Excellent article but I am always torn when I read inspirational articles like this - it makes perfect sense to me and I love the idea of simple, non-nonsense sites that work well, load quickly and don't rely on the latest browsers to function.

Then I start to wonder if that's just because I'm not smart enough to understand React or whatever the fancy technology of the day is.

Feels like I have a hard understanding threshold that cannot be breached - give me a simple editor like Sublime and ask me to make a web page - even with JavaScript - and it's my happy place. Give me VSCode or Zed, Claude/Copilot/ChatGPT plugins everywhere, React tutorials and my brain goes to mush.

Comment · 6 months ago

I figured this was some kind of home-grown prosthetic arm whose wearer could, using AI, draw any artwork online, speak ASL, perform minor surgery on themselves and so much more so long as their supply of tokens lasted.

Perhaps a smidge disappointed when I had a look and discovered it wasn't that :)

Comment · 6 months ago