@programmax.net - Chris Blume

04 May 2026 17:18 +0000

What is going on with Anthropic limits?? It is Monday, 1:15pm. I asked AI to do one task on my code--one prompt. And it used 48% of my session token limit??

03 May 2026 04:09 +0000

Only 2 more weeks of Karazhan. I don't think I'm going to get orange in every slot. Close, though :D Proud of thank rank 298 on Netherspite. Also, how the heck are rogues supposed to parse on Nightbane?!

01 May 2026 17:58 +0000

I've been holding out on AI. I tried it a handful of times. It underwhelmed then. Plus, AI has SOOO many ethical problems. Despite that, I've been saying for a while now that it seems like an inevitability. I decided to try to commit. Gotta say...it's pretty good now.

01 May 2026 04:13 +0000

I believe Google is strongly encouraging its devs to use AI. I haven't contributed to Chrome in a while. I figure I should. But I do not have the wild AI budget they do. I am paying for my tokens out of my pocket. I wish Google would sponsor contributors w/ hardware & tokens

30 Apr 2026 22:39 +0000

14 days until @subnautica.bsky.social 2! Plenty of time to beat Subnautica & Below Zero again.

30 Apr 2026 15:36 +0000

This is Google Maps showing the main Google HQ. If you drop into street view...that definitely isn't Google HQ. Maps lets you report the mistake. I have. But it was too funny so I had to record it, too. (Also, wow. This place is beautiful. Where is it?!)

30 Apr 2026 14:13 +0000

Is the typical solution for JWT revoking to get a subtoken? I feel like it should be, but I don't see people talk about it. Have a long-lived main token that authenticate but doesn't authorize. Use it to get a short-lived authorizing token. Propagate (rare) revokes between servers that authorize.

28 Apr 2026 17:42 +0000

Oof. I'm working on my own deflate, comparing it to zlib with correctness & performance tests. zlib was 4x faster. Fair enough. This is my naive first attempt. So I crack open the profiler and... top 2 hits are std::sort and vector's realloc https://github.com/ProgramMax/maxCompression

27 Apr 2026 18:45 +0000

Published in 1995. Yikes.

26 Apr 2026 23:13 +0000

Huh. eBay is down

24 Apr 2026 20:49 +0000

So uhhhh who had $AMD and $INTC calls open? Congrats.

23 Apr 2026 01:17 +0000

FINALLY. Got the hard case (dynamic blocks) working in my deflate compression. Now to fix some edge cases & clean up the code. Then onto performance.

21 Apr 2026 12:18 +0000

Random thought: - Coders don't get a lot of "your work is amazing". - Mostly because 1.) not many people know coding, and 2.) reviewing code is work. I wonder if we can make it more digestible.

21 Apr 2026 00:21 +0000

Hey cool. My buddy got #1 global AI demo. Grats, Jack!

19 Apr 2026 21:29 +0000

I need the wisdom of C++ nerds, (summoning @hanicka.net ) A template parameter can be a function pointer type but not a function itself, right? So the badge pattern cannot be used on free functions, right? https://awesomekling.github.io/Serenity-C++-patterns-The-Badge/

19 Apr 2026 16:02 +0000

OOoooooh my god. Windows' Kernel32 ordinals change between versions. Whyyyy?!?!

18 Apr 2026 22:22 +0000

Been playing with VC6.0 recently. Soooo much easier to get ICEs. We've come a long way, baby.

17 Apr 2026 17:43 +0000

Hey @xylafoxlin.bsky.social , you might enjoy today's maptap.gg Usually, it shows you the 5 locations as pings and has a blurb about each. But today's has a lot of pings. It was a clue that something was up... Anyway, read today's blurbs. It's up your alley. https://maptap.gg/

16 Apr 2026 20:59 +0000

TIL calling GetProcAddress() for kernel32 using ordinals deliberately fails. It was an obfuscation mechanism. Secret functions were originally made visible by exported name. Those names were removed, leaving legit ones. You could still use the ordinals though. So Microsoft blocks that.

16 Apr 2026 04:27 +0000

I keep getting this urge for a more simple time in computing. I think I might setup an old Win98 box next to my main computer for a while. Maybe try to do my work on that machine.

15 Apr 2026 04:49 +0000

C / C++ nerds, Why does integer promotion exist? Is the idea to just operate on machine words as a default? auto mask = ~(uint8_t{0b1111'1111} << bits_read_); // note: bits_read_ is also a uint8_t debug output: mask = -511 *sigh*

12 Apr 2026 09:38 +0000

I'm clean-room reverse engineering zlib's behavior. (I know I could just go through the source. But when you do it the hard way, you learn all the wonky details.) That said, it is WEIRD. At the highest compression setting, it *definitely* isn't close to optimal deflate compression.

06 Apr 2026 15:13 +0000

I know this is an old trope but I'm disappointed in how slow and unwieldy computers are still.

05 Apr 2026 21:48 +0000

I think this is the first YouTube video I've seen where the presenter code switches. There is just enough English and the examples are clear enough that I can follow along. (That said, I'm not yet convinced PASETO actually solves the difficulties of JWT?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD8GH3tCE3M

05 Apr 2026 02:00 +0000

The more I think about water cooling, the more I come to the conclusion that the bulk should be external to the case. Pump(s), rad, ... I also want a bigger, slower-moving fan over a larger rad. 120mm fans seems weird. But that might lose static pressure?

04 Apr 2026 13:58 +0000

I have an old XBox One. It does not work. I assume I kept it disconnected for too long, it didn't get some critical update, and they ended all service? 1.) Online required is BS 2.) I guess I'll mod it? Microsoft, this is entirely on you. I wasn't going to otherwise.

02 Apr 2026 01:55 +0000

Oh. So Anthropic DOES value copyright. Interesting.

01 Apr 2026 22:49 +0000

*reinstalls Kerbal*

25 Mar 2026 13:32 +0000

I dislike how LLMs just predict the next word and we call it AI. That misses the point. A few days ago I started a project to actually *learn*. I figured I would give it a head start with sentence structure, nouns, and verbs. Turns out I was just reinventing Knowledge Graphs.

24 Mar 2026 16:16 +0000

Spicy take (heh): Banana pepper is better than jalapeno. And it could probably sub in for every usage??