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A Scottish hardware hacker finally finished an Xbox 360 mod he'd started nine years earlier.
The thing that helped him get it done in 2026? A cheap Raspberry Pi Pico, used to dump the console's firmware and program the existing glitch chip.
Nine years to finish a project. That's perseverance on a level I can respect 😂
It's funny how "just add user accounts" sounds like such a small job.
Until you start dealing with email verification, suspended users, deleted accounts, password resets, bots, expired tokens and people signing up twice.
The login form is definitely the easiest part of the whole bloody job.
I'd actually love to see more people building small software again.
One PHP file. A bit of HTML. Maybe SQLite. No accounts, no build process, no complicated deployment.
Just a useful little tool that does one job.
Not everything needs to become a SaaS business.
One advantage construction has over software development is that when something is built badly, you can usually point at it.
A web app can be completely broken underneath and still have a beautiful dashboard, green status indicators and a very convincing loading animation 😂
Researchers put four AI agents into Minecraft and told them to defeat the Ender Dragon.
27 hours.
2,783 programs written.
605 deaths.
About $520 in estimated API costs.
They actually managed it, on Easy difficulty.
I'm impressed by the autonomous programming, but 605 deaths is still pretty funny 😂
I'm building a tool that inspects websites and lets AI be unnecessarily rude about what it finds.
One rule I've made absolutely clear: the AI can write the insults, but it can't change the actual measurements or scores.
Seems like a fairly sensible arrangement for AI in general 😂
I miss software where you downloaded a program, double-clicked the installer, and that was the end of it.
No account. No workspace. No onboarding questionnaire. No monthly subscription.
Just an application that did whatever you downloaded it to do.
One of my websites had 42 new registrations in a single day this week.
32 didn't verify their email or log in.
That's 32 new "users" if you only look at the signup numbers.
I'm starting to understand why people love vanity metrics so much 😂
Put an advert for one of my websites on another one of my websites today.
I'm both the publisher and the advertiser.
Might send myself an invoice at the end of the month and complain about the advertising rates 😂
Heading to Christchurch early tomorrow morning for the long weekend 🥳
No computer, no marketing, no building, no emails! Just watching the young fella playing in a football tournament. Time to touch some grass💪
(I’ll have my phone though so don’t think you can talk about me behind my back🤣)
Project Glasswing is fascinating and terrifying.
We've reached the point where AI can find and exploit vulnerabilities that have escaped human experts for decades.
The same technology can help secure the internet or tear it to shreds.
Lars Jansen retweeted
90% of your marketing effort is invisible to AI. the brand campaign. the event sponsorship. the podcast ads. the influencer partnership. the conference booth. the swag. the billboard. the retargeting pixels. the email nurture. the webinar series. AI sees none of it. AI sees: the H1 tag. the meta description. the schema. the product page text. the FAQ. the comparison page. the review schema. the structured data. the 10% of your effort that lives in HTML is the 100% of what AI reads. the other 90% builds human awareness. important. valuable. but invisible to the machine that increasingly decides who gets recommended. you're investing 90% of effort in the channel AI can't see. and 10% in the channel 51% of buyers now use.
Does your Ubuntu VPS config contain:
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";
?
Mine do, saved me some work💪
I've been working on a website that judges other websites.
Somehow it's ended up with an absurdly over-engineered, futuristic interface that looks like it should be controlling a nuclear reactor.
All that technology just to tell somebody their website looks like shit😆
A dev has managed to get USB 3 and experimental USB4/Thunderbolt support to Windows 98 SE.
Windows. Ninety. Eight.
The project is called xHCI98, and there's a wonderfully detailed write-up of how it was done.
I have no practical use for this whatsoever, but I'm very glad somebody decided it needed to exist 😂
There's a special kind of developer maths where paying $8 a month for a useful tool is outrageous, but spending an entire weekend building your own version is perfectly reasonable.
I don't think we're always trying to save money. Sometimes we just want an excuse to have fun building something 😂