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From the blog archives.
SeasonGlow turns an Apple TV, Mac, iPad or iPhone into a seasonal display: eight animated autumn and Halloween scenes with music, plus the Balloon Pilot game. Here are the Apple versions, with an early look at Windows, Linux, C64 and Amiga.
I asked GPT-5.6 Luna to help build a Sudoku game for the Commodore 64 in 6502 assembly language. This post documents the experiment: the early proof of concept, the handoff to GPT-5.6 Sol when problems appeared, what worked, what broke, and the plan for a more graphical C64 version. At each phase I create new …
With an increasing number of YouTube videos claiming ‘we are meat’, we are all NPC’s in the matrix and that all there is to us as humans, this video showed up in my YouTube timeline recently and is relevant. YouTube video’s from Tom Bilyeu in particular are about that Matrix/NPC subject matter. AI Summary: This documentary-style …
Still some work todo, look for the next blog post where I get more time in programming with Qwen 3.5. Previously it has done some implementation work in swift, it did ok with codex as the agent cli. Request) Grok on June 8th 2026 Based on our last conversation about local llm’s using ollama on …
Before this small discussion, I had reasoned in my mind that Claude Fable 5 was perhaps built on top of Opus, that from Opus to Fable (Mythos) was a smaller stretch of time, and compute effort. A small chat tho confirms its independence from the other models, at least what it has been given as …