Greg Donald 🤘

Author. Software maker. Provocateur. RC flyer. Bibliophile. Runner. Gamer. String bender. Metalhead🤘.

Greg Donald 🤘gregdonald
2026-01-11

@yoasif Your "Python for Dummies" strawman is irrelevant.

Greg Donald 🤘gregdonald
2026-01-11

@yoasif Good luck finding a CPU designed by a human with a pencil.

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Randahl Finkrandahl
2026-01-09

The right question is not, “Why is ICE attacking left leaning cities, killing people, and targeting minorities?”

The right question is, “What happens after they are done with the minorities?”

Greg Donald 🤘gregdonald
2026-01-02

@josh It is, on the BSDs.

Greg Donald 🤘gregdonald
2026-01-02

Claude can't do BASIC. The line numbers and GOTOs seem to be deal breakers. I thought an occasional RENUM would help but it did not. It was entertaining spending a couple hours watching it try and fail though 😀

Some BASIC code.
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MIT just made aluminum 5x stronger with 3D printing

sopuli.xyz/post/38846069

Greg Donald 🤘gregdonald
2025-12-28
Greg Donald 🤘gregdonald
2025-12-28

I finally got around to wrapping my Typescript version of Blackjack into a proper VS Code extension. Now you can play Blackjack in your VS Code editor.

marketplace.visualstudio.com/i

Greg Donald 🤘gregdonald
2025-12-27

@penryu Sorry. I am sometimes a sub of cultures.

Greg Donald 🤘gregdonald
2025-12-27

Reading "could care less" when the author clearly meant "couldn't care less" makes my eyes bleed.

The author may claim it's sarcasm, but as a level 10 sarcastic, I can confirm that's not how sarcasm works.

Greg Donald 🤘gregdonald
2025-12-23

Happy Festivus, to all who celebrate!

Happy Festivus!  To celebrate the holiday season, a charitable donation in your name has been made to:

The Human Fund

Money for People.
Greg Donald 🤘gregdonald
2025-12-22

"It's all about the oil. Regardless of the flag upon it's soil."

youtube.com/watch?v=cc8Xg2QNemM

Greg Donald 🤘gregdonald
2025-12-19
Greg Donald 🤘gregdonald
2025-12-19

@boldoutlook Just use the SageMaker DropDuplicates API! Or the AWS Glue FindMatches API!

Greg Donald 🤘gregdonald
2025-12-15

@sysedit This used to be an online book: zigbook.net/ More info: reddit.com/r/Zig/comments/1pad and zigtools.org/blog/zigbook-plag.

People were upset because the project claimed no AI was used while lots of Github commits implied otherwise.

I made a vibe coded gif and I've been putting it in my READMEs: gdonald.github.io/88x31/i/vibe

Greg Donald 🤘gregdonald
2025-12-10

@fingers What I'm deliberately not doing is hiding it. The Zig book guy hopefully taught us all a lesson about hiding it and trying to lie about it. So I label all my public vibe-coded code so no one thinks I'm being dishonest about it and then they can avoid it (and me too) if that's what they want to do.

To each his own.

Greg Donald 🤘gregdonald
2025-12-10

@fingers Achievement, no. Fulfillment, as a horrible typist, yeah, somewhat. Enjoyment, off the charts.

I was asked if I possessed the skills to do AI-assisted coding in a recent job interview. Employers are thinking of it as a skill now, so there's that.

Greg Donald 🤘gregdonald
2025-12-08

I just got hit with a 45% blind tariff from FedEx from an Amazon purchase from 3 weeks ago. There was nothing at checkout telling me I would have to pay this. I got the invoice from FedEx in the mail today.

Thanks Republicans. Your felon rapist lunatic president sucks.

Greg Donald 🤘gregdonald
2025-12-08

@OpenForum A small language model is one that uses 8-bit floats. Did I win?

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