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I built a simple game with a self documenting API (HAL) and let claude and fable fight. Who won?

im running asahi fedora with niri on my M1 Air and apart from display port over usbc not working (it's coming) it's perfect.

not too annoying to setup if the first thing you install is claude-cli

Weekend experiment. Im the CTO of a real bank so speed ran vibecoding a pretty complete bank ledger with real double entry accounting, FX, open currency positions etc.

Adding some facts.

No-one in Georgia could access google, everything else worked. googleapis.com and google.com seemed to be the only thing affected.

If you VPN'd out you were fine. Hilariously, we use tailscale, so thought cool, we'll enable mullvand for everyone, but ofcourse, tailscale needs google social auth to login.. so the fix for our Tbilisi team was install nordvpn, connect to that, login to tailscale, disconnect nordvpn then tunnel out to anywhere.

I spoke to Benjojo (bgp.tools) who heard the incident "was a cable cut shunt near Sofia"

Was drinking in a bar in Espoo in 2012 or 2013 and heard this from someone at rovio. At the time they used Riak db and basho were onsite and we asked why they didn't enable inter server encryption. "Because nsa pay us 10m not to". Guess nsa pulled the Riak cluster protocol off the aws fibre.

It's a risk that was very much understood and it's fully covered.

i had a similar experience working in copenhagen. read an article about copenhagen sub orbital rockets, looked up and out my window and my eye landed on the rocket i was just reading about. weird.

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QModem was the best (until everyone started pushing zmodem).

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Cool post, wish it existed 2 years ago when we started building Pave Bank, or 10 years ago when we started building Monzo.

If you're starting a bank or need a ledger these days (and aren't using a core banking provider that has one), then i usually recommend Tiger Beetle.

His name was Vile Rat. That was a weird, sad time.

I worked on a project just like this once.. a mobile phone network build in the middle east before the arab spring. 10/10 would not repeat the experience.