@jmoiron.bsky.social I watched my father's VHS of Venus Wars when I was a kid and thought it was amazing that the main character was named Hiro. It's not so unusual of a name, but this was a few years before Snowcrash and I've always wondered if there is any connection there.
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@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The fact that they relegated Isono's art for the sequel (unreleased in the US until 2017) to the instructional booklet is a real miss in my opinion, but at least we have it in some capacity.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Isono's art was retained despite the Japanese box being sold and designed in portrait, like VHS boxes. North American SNES boxes were always landscape, so they cropped a beautiful close up that arguably leaves more to mystery and the imagination.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Was just admiring Hiro Isono's work on this instagram gallery yesterday:
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His hauntingly beautiful art adorned the box and instruction booklet for Secret of Mana (聖剣伝説2) in an era when Squaresoft games tended to commission westernized art for it...
@jmoiron.bsky.social After an IDF sniper shot and killed Shireen Abu Akleh through the back of her blue press helmet, officials blamed it on Palestinian militants before claiming it was an accident. Israeli police raided her funeral procession and beat mourners with batons.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/1...
jmoiron/monet 0d8f8a6 update post edit with grow/shrink icons to allow control over the width of the editing environment
jmoiron/monet 569949a make content textarea only vertical resize and make the preview pane grow/shrink with it to allow more flexibility in backend editing
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I've had a similar "humans are bad at code reviews" insight in the past but came to a different conclusion, which is that we think their value is technical but it's actually primarily social. An AI reviewer won't mind the tedium, but I love your insight that they're too deferenti...
@jmoiron.bsky.social My father is from a town about 15km away from this vineyard! My uncle has an orchard nearby.
My benchmark for Portuguese whites at this price point is Pera Manca, but this is going on the watch list. Dão has some surprisingly good whites IMHO.
jmoiron/monet 2bb3b89 update lesscss, add a loader to the content-rendered section for slower connections as the wasm is like 6 mib
@jmoiron.bsky.social This happens a lot in software engineering. Normally, experience teaches you humility and you learn to assume you're just missing something.
If, however, you are a narcissist, you will never build the self awareness to score this game appropriately, hence DOGE, Twitter, and the ...
jmoiron/monet a390f01 migrate off of justvector, update fontawesome, minimize the woff to make it much more light weight, update social links and icons
jmoiron/monet 09e9c72 font extraction and combination across different source woffs.. the tool might be done?
jmoiron/monet 20a8101 claude updated its own md spec, started on the tool, we have a cli interface, sample spec, and spec parsing
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Finally, there is a lot of hype around AI doing these kinds of tasks in "an afternoon", but outside of running many agents in parallel, I'm not seeing it. It's a fun workflow when the stakes are low, but I'd hate to be in the position where I would feel compelled to use it to hit...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Also, my time estimate for myself would involve some intense work to put that much code down. It would feel good, but it'd be tiring too. Keeping Claude on task is far less taxing work.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: If/when? these models are 10x or 100x faster, this will absolutely be quicker than hand-writing code. As it currently stands.. it feels like it's maybe 85% as fast as I could manage for the whole project, but that includes a lot of time waste putting it back on the rails.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Initially I was very impressed, but I made a mistake by giving Claude a black box description of what I wanted, and I spent a few curious hours with it going down a garden path, fascinated to see if it might actually lead anywhere. It didn't.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Claude's performance degrades noticeably as your project grows (it gets distracted easily), so creating software in independent units and then integrating them in a parent unit that is itself simple is key. This is already good practice but it will be even gooder practice w/ LLMs...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The writer of those specifications would really need experience both building the type of software they want Claude to make AND experience with some of the dumb things Claude likes to do to be successful.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I can totally see how an "agent swarm" approach could produce fairly sophisticated software successfully and to specification, with "manager agents" that prevent it from indulging in its bad habits and break it out of cycles.
BUT...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: It has some "bad habits" that it will consistently get stuck on, consuming time and precious tokens unnecessarily. The tool I was building was a Go tool, and it kept trying to create little one off files to test with `go run`, which can't work, then back out of that and write a r...