msephton

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by msephton 2mo ago
Thanks so much for your kind words, glad you enjoyed them!
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by msephton 2mo ago
I played all the first five albums! The Deepest Cut Vol 1 (1995), Haunted Science (1996), Skeleton Keys (1997), Byte Size Life (1999) and Even Angels Cast Shadows (2001) which was brand new as the boom was imploding.
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by msephton 2mo ago
Thanks for this recap. I'd heard much about their demise over the years, so it's good to hear it first hand!
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by msephton 2mo ago
It's wonderful how they kept the name of the company where she worked, Magic Button, and Blueberry, out of the press. And the veil of mystery concocted by the crack marketing team has since seen the event cross the line into possible h
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by msephton 2mo ago
Y2K is a strange half familiar, half alternate timeline sort of nostalgia, isn't it?
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by msephton 2mo ago
Please, just for this one thread, let's keep it on topic!
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by msephton 2mo ago
Each person that dies by his weapons of war makes him stronger.
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Let's all meet up in the Y2K(blog.gingerbeardman.com)
120 points by msephton 2mo ago|87 comments
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by msephton 2mo ago
JoAnne Ishimine was a volunteer, former Channel 7 LA news anchor, and actress. She had the skills! And the time, obviously.
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by msephton 2mo ago
Am I understanding correctly that around 1997 a single person transcribed 42 hours of recordings? Wild and impressive. I wonder how long it took them? Modern tools would likely do it in 42 minutes?
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by msephton 2mo ago
I'll leave it to you to find a better example.
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by msephton 2mo ago
The crash you speak of was USA-only—for example Europe where I am wasn't affected—just to point out to anybody unfamiliar with that story. That said, I think your point is a good one, it's just a different type of churn. Plus ça c
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by msephton 2mo ago
A death thread hidden behind a link? Charming.
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by msephton 2mo ago
Author here. It leaves me despondent that I can plough so much time into a project, a game, and a blog post, have someone else find it interesting enough to submit to HN, and then see the first response dismiss it as LLM-generated text—from
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by msephton 2mo ago
Hi, author here. I've always used the term postmortem to summarise a project after it has shipped: what worked, what didn't, what was kept, what was thrown out. This post has all that. It's the same use of the term as the man
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by msephton 2mo ago
Maybe, but IMHO the idea will always come first.
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by msephton 2mo ago
It’s certainly a Herculean task, not because there aren’t *type designers who use FontForge, but because there are simply too many of them for me to even consider speaking for them all. However, I’m game. Raph Levien (Inconsolata), source:
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Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989)(blog.gingerbeardman.com)
38 points by msephton 2mo ago|9 comments
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by msephton 2mo ago
You're a hobbyist...yet you know what individual software all other type designers use? That is impressive ;)
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by msephton 3mo ago
Original page title is "Hi, Jinks! - a totally new way to make games" This is my project so I can vouch for it being totally new :) AMA
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by msephton 3mo ago
Does the number × depend on how big your thinking is? If you are only 2× then you need to think bigger, aim higher, etc. I think the limit on the 2× is not the ai? Where is the limit now? I think it's unknown.
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Art as Compression(feed.grantcuster.com)
2 points by msephton 3mo ago|0 comments
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The Productivity Mirage(frantic.im)
366 points by msephton 3mo ago|153 comments
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by msephton 3mo ago
MacOS does memory compression as standard since 2013. Linux has it, and iirc even Windows has it since 10.
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by msephton 3mo ago
White Creek by publisher Pixelheart
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by msephton 3mo ago
The author, Mark Sibly, sadly passed away late-2024. But what a legacy he leaves behind.
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The Seahorse Emoji Was Real (But Not the One You Remember)(blog.emojipedia.org)
3 points by msephton 3mo ago|0 comments
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The Word "Emoji" Is Older Than You May Think(blog.emojipedia.org)
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by msephton 3mo ago
So it wasn't a dream! I'm really happy to have found this, and Happy World Emoji Day.
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Long time no sea: finding the seahorse emoji(blog.gingerbeardman.com)
6 points by msephton 3mo ago|1 comments

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