Michael Cook

Professional Java and iOS developer. I like Sci-Fi, video games, tech, TV, movies, and just learning new things in general.

Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-11-13

@foone I installed it on my 386sx on launch day. It did not perform well.

I distinctly remember the install CD had the Weezer Buddy Holly video. First time I ever heard this song or about them. It played great in Windows 3.1.

Not so much on my poor 386 under 95.

Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-11-13
A thumbnail from the ThisDoesNotCompute YouTube channel’s video on the WebTV.

It shows a Sony made WebTV box sitting on a white table with a TV style remote control sitting above it and a laptop sized cordless keyboard sitting in front of the box. The thumbnail has the caption“WebTV“ in large text in top right corner.
Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-11-12

@foone You load 16 tons, and what do you get? A few more games and deeper in debt. St. Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go. I owe my soul to Valve’s damn Steam Store.

Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-11-12

@0xabad1dea 😔 I had to use the alt text to see what you changed. I failed a test right out of Highlights magazine.

Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-11-11

@rysiek Also? Edge doesn’t count. Still chromium.

Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-11-11

@foone What evil tool do you prefer?

Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-11-09

If I bring my iPhone too close to my Apple Watch it lets me share my contact with… myself.

Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-11-07

@atpfm I know you get questions about the best way to charge your phone from time to time. This gentleman did quite a good test of that in this new video.

youtu.be/kLS5Cg_yNdM

Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-10-30

@peachymist Is he the skeleton of Flat Stanley? Or are they just in similar careers?

Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-10-30

@bagder I’ve never looked at their tool before. The first file I opened up was dinged for not having a copyright in the header block.

There was, of course, a copyright in the header block. Using exactly some of the words or characters they wanted you to use.

Not a good first impression of a tool.

Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-10-30

@luna @foone I don’t have a Bambu, but going from a printer without that to one where it’s automatic?

AMAZING.

Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-10-30

I just noticed the T-568B shirt is winning over the T-568A shirt two-to-one on the @atpfm store.

I’m so glad we can see the counts 😂

Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-10-29

Oh come on. “Spelling”? The E is on totally the wrong side of the keyboard. There’s no way I typed that.

DYAC.

Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-10-29

@indigoviolet @catsalad Does it have to be liquid? Can you cry over spelling powdered milk?

Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-10-29

@filmroellchen @kde Ha. Now *that’s* how you communicate.

Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-10-28

@hannah I wonder what the show was.

Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-10-26

@bentsukun That’s so much of Liquid Glass or other recent Apple software designs in a nutshell.

Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-10-24

@BasementDweller3000 It was. But at the same time things changed so fast it was amazing. 3D! Multi-texturing! SLI! Shaders! All in a very short timeframe.

Things recently felt almost glacial in comparison until ray-tracing, Lumen and nano-geometry.

For a long time it was just “draws polygons faster” and then “draws more frames by interpolating them”. Good but not a categorical shift.

Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-10-23

@rocketsoup This seems like where a box next to each name and the instruction “write in their rank” would be best UI-wise, but then you’d just have to hand-count everything and run into arguments over handwriting would you.

Michael Cookfoobarsoft
2025-10-22

@timixretroplays That does look great, and I like the symmetry.

But you could also use that spot for sort of a secret logo that only shows up when the light is on inside.

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