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Tim Misiak

@timmisiak

OS/systems engineer. Worked on WinDbg for a while. I write about low level tech sometimes.

On bluesky: @timdbg.com
On mastodon/fediverse: @[email protected]

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Y’all should root for Ladybird. It’s a significant accomplishment. Web is here to stay and we need more engines. x.com/awesomekling/s…

Tim Misiak (@timmisiak) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I cannot sing enough praise for UFO 50. This collection is an absolute bargain for $25. I've only played about 5 of the games so far and I've gotten my money's worth. Retro style goodness from some of my favorite indie devs.

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I'm pretty impressed with advanced voice mode in chatgpt. It seems to handle switching between languages within a single utterance pretty well. Interestingly it seems like the text transcription doesn't always capture both languages even when the response seems to respond to both

Tim Misiak (@timmisiak) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It seems like every company has the "whoops I rebased wrong and now this PR emailed every person in the company" problem

Tim Misiak (@timmisiak) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Who decided on macos that Cmd + Tab uses a stack for apps and Cmd + Backtick uses a ring for windows within an app. How does that make any sense?

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I tried using ChatGPT and Claude to create a small breakout game in JS. They gave me nearly identical games with the exact same colors, spacing... and bugs!

I tried using ChatGPT and Claude to create a small breakout game in JS. They gave me nearly identical games with the exact same colors, spacing... and bugs!
Tim Misiak (@timmisiak) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I think a lot of people don't see this coming, but communication skills are going to be more important than ever in most industries. Clear, unambiguous documentation will be as helpful for AI as it is for humans.

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My 20 year old alarm clock is finally dying, so my new project is to build an alarm clock out of a raspi and a cheap 7 inch LCD. Wanted an oled but I can't find one in the right size. Now I need to figure out what pointless features I should add.

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I'm thinking about what a programming language would be like if every single function call could potentially be distributed to another compute node, controlled by a runtime. Does anything like that exist? Closest I can think of is erlang but that's not quite what I'm going for.

William R. Messmer (@wmessmer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you update WinDbg and debug user mode, you may notice a few new icons on the "extensions" tab related to "snapshots". There's now an extension included which can take and debug process snapshots in conjunction with a live process.

If you update WinDbg and debug user mode, you may notice a few new icons on the "extensions" tab related to "snapshots".  There's now an extension included which can take and debug process snapshots in conjunction with a live process.
Tim Misiak (@timmisiak) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Really enjoyed interviewing Sy Brand about "Building a Debugger". This is a wonderful book for anyone who wants to learn more about how an OS, compiler, and debugger work together. It's not just for people who want to build a debugger!