matthew-wegner

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Currently programmer/infra stuff at Capybara Games.

Previously Aztez (Aztez.com), a two-person project. I was the programming half.

Other things: Founding advisor of the Independent Games Summit (inside GDC) + 10 years. Independent Games Festival co-chair at one point. Still host TIGSource/TIGForums.

Wrote the submission/judging backends for both GDC and IGF.

Unicycled through Vietnam and parts of Africa! And sometimes photographer, sometimes downtempo DJ (https://www.mixcloud.com/gannett/)

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Comment · 1 month ago
By "this is pretty impressive", do you mean you tried using it? Or do you mean the landing page seems impressive?
Comment · 1 month ago
"What you keep is never redrawn. What clashes is said out loud."
Comment · 1 month ago
People have already replied in part, but to clarify:

macOS 27 itself won't run on Intel chips, just Apple Silicon

but it does still have Rosetta (macOS 28 will drop it completely though)

Comment · 3 months ago
Zoom out one step. The experiment should have been searching for "build website with AI", or "build website with <product name>", not "hey use this very specific UI to do something I know will fail"

(FWIW I think people betting their whole companies on AI are trusting shitty one-wish genie goblins, but the terrible irony is that anyone "technical" with years-old knowledge is talking about something else entirely in today's context)

Comment · 3 months ago
Are you describing a "chat window" experience here? This is apples to oranges.
Comment · 4 months ago
An Anthropic subscription is a 90%+ off discount for tech influencers to hype up an IPO (no different from companies directly paying Instagram influencers, except less overt).

And yes, after the IPO.

Comment · 5 months ago
From the article: "new features for controlling power wheelchairs with Apple Vision Pro"

Someone using this feature will want motion cues as well.

And in your quote: Dwell Control is a feature set to interact with an Apple Vision Pro using only your eyes. Lingering your gaze on a button will press it. An AVP is now more comfortable to use in more situations because of motion cues.

Maybe just rethink your "maybe just" comment...?

Comment · 5 months ago
Very cool! Do you know Thomas Shahan's work? He once contributed his woodcut artwork to a videogame, so he does seem very technically curious. I bet he'd be interested in trying something like this out with his own work and providing feedback...
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
> You're not able to virtualize the build machines.

Sure you can. And officially, too. Apple still ships a bunch of virtualization drivers in macOS itself. Have a look:

/System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleVmxnet3Ethernet.kext

Whether or not you're using ESXi, or want to, is an entirely different question. But "you're not able to" is simply incorrect. I virtualize several build agents and have for years with no issues.

macOS 26 is the last major version to support Intel, so once macOS 28 is latest this will probably become impossible (macOS 26 should be able to use Xcode 27, but maybe the platform removal will change this previous year's OS support from continuing).

Comment · 1 year ago
> E.g., in Windows apps, menu items are keyboard-addressable by default. This is brilliant for accessibility, and for accustomed power users. MacOS has no _by default_ equivalent.

Cmd-Shift-? (really, Cmd-?)

You can begin using arrow keys from there, or start typing to search the menu items of the foreground app

You can also assign arbitrary hotkeys to any application's menu items in the OS system preferences

Comment · 1 year ago
It would work even better. From the linked support page:

"Motion is detected based on the amount of signal disruption taking place between the Xfinity Gateway and your selected WiFi-connected devices, so motion from small pets (around 40 pounds or less) can be filtered out while keeping you notified of large movements more likely to be caused by humans."

Comment · 1 year ago
> that changes randomly

Moving the mouse pointer to middle of bottom edge of a screen will permanently move the Dock there. As far as I know, there is no way to disable this behavior. It's terrible.

For simultaneous multi-monitor, you're probably forced into using a full Dock replacement. There are a few options out there, but none have ever stuck with me personally.

Comment · 1 year ago
> Right-click on directory > Services > New Terminal at Folder.

Note that you can also bind a hotkey to this! And in general in macOS, you can a bind to a hotkey to any menu item in any application.

Search "keyboard shortcuts" in settings, then under Services -> Files and Folders.

Comment · 2 years ago
Is it 4x the performance?

Passmark shows 38,951 / 4,282 versus 24,724 / 4,555:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-14600...

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Apple+M4+10+Core&id...

So i5-14600K is 1.57x on multi-core, slightly worse on single-core. $235 for the CPU versus $599 for a whole system. Could maybe match the total price, but Intel won't be able to come anywhere close on the power efficiency.

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