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Cake day: June 12th, 2025

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  • Much as I’d love to dunk on both AI and the US military at the same time, this is an intentionally misleading article title.

    For one, it omits the fact that there’s more text in the prompt after “CREATE A WAR”. It’s illegible, but looks like it could be “REPORT” or even “STRATEGY”.

    For two, the department’s explanation is that “WAR” in this context stands for “Weekly Action Report”, which A) is consistent with the fact that the US Military LOVES its acronyms, B) lines up very nicely with the illegible word possibly being “REPORT”, and C) is exactly the kind of thing that LLMs are ostensibly for.



  • Metroid: Dread. Awful controls, and REALLY awful late-game bosses. Sucks, cause there’s otherwise a lot to love about it.

    Nine Sols. With only one exception, every boss started with a good, fun, design, and then felt compelled to escalate to the point that all the fun was ruined, and then keep going. Again, really sucks, cause there’s a ton to love about it.



  • I literally discovered this yesterday when I sat down to look for options to play Halo with my son, which he’s expressed interest in for a while now. $50, no split-screen co-op, and an always-online requirement with third-party account linkage. Yeah, I’ll be dropping that $50 on a used physical copy and a second controller, after digging the 360 out of the garage. Piss off, Microsoft.


  • Anecdotally, from a programming support community I hang out in…

    i’ve never seen anyone promote the values of Clean Architecture in the practical world. The only reason I even know about it, really, is because it’s a pretty popular topic for amateur/beginner developers to come in and ask about, because they read a book or a blog article about it, or are being taught about it in a class. And the response is always, universally, “Don’t use Clean Architecture, use Vertical Slice Architecture.”

    I get the vibe that it’s been popularized in the same pattern as microservices or lambda functions: someone at a super-scaled company like Google or Amazon published a blog post about it, and how it works for them for some niche scenario, and everyone latched on to it as trendy, despite the fact that their scenarios are NOTHING alike