Story of my work life: a feature I implemented in late 2024 has finally been tested by the embedded side. Who cannot make it work, and cannot send my code anything that even triggers any of the errors or warning about dodgy versions of that packet. I fear the spec they gave me has been changed significantly since I 'finished' my side (complete with test tool that sends those packets)

#CodeMonkey #Dev

A friend of mine asked for my advice about #codingforkids .
He's a teacher on #elementaryschool and wants to start a small #coding project.

I can remember software witch uses coding-blocks for childeren to build small games.

A quick search on #google gave me #codemonkey

Not sure if this is what I'm looking for but we'll see.

https://www.codemonkey.com/glp-coding-for-kids-abs/?utm_campaign=cm_gs_p_kw_eu_en_abs&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=540118681416&utm_adgroup=teaching_children_to_code_bmm&utm_placement=&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=8527993397&gbraid=0AAAAADQwBlMrH1VOV77ZSr44v53hmusXl&gclid=CjwKCAiAybfLBhAjEiwAI0mBBiuilgos-p1xkYEfoBYx9XhepBvPVLRtSvCqyQVU9tSdhobsubaUUBoCswIQAvD_BwE

When the dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was a #codemonkey and had to earn a crust bit flipping...
... I have developed eleventh commandment. Purely because of hours(days/weeks) of wasted time, chasing bugs that were not there.

The 11th commandment is;
👉 CHECK YOUR DATA 1ST👈

And so, I have burned two full compute cycles, trying to render a skull with the interior 'illuminated' with no light (0.0) on the interior faces.

The problem: Back-face darkening only works for faces pointing AWAY from camera. But inside a hollow object, the far wall faces TOWARD you.
We need the original geometric approach - but it failed for concave meshes.

When in #Blender (a reminder I have nearly 0 working knowledge with it), I found that both the inner and outer faces are identical.

The solution, while hacky, is entirely workable. Esp. since the skull object will be small when rendered.
Create a small sphere INSIDE the skull and because its a different object, we can assign 0.0 darkening to it.

#3d #3dprogramming #vibecode

Whats this then?
For the last couple of days, I have been implementing a 3D web objects rendering project. Its eyecandy bling for my #grafana #prometheus stack.

Im nearing the end of the Minimum Viable Product (on the presentation layer).

I am 'coding' in #Javascript something I have familiarity of approximately 0.2.

So I thought it would be worthwhile to create some metrics from all the coding prompts.

The ratio of feature ready to buggy results is actually pretty decent.
It starts to get into the weeds towards the end, because I am developing 'featuritis' and pushing the initial spec.

Otherwise, the error to code ratio is comparable to the old school #programming but I suck as a #programmer regardless if its by hand or by #AI 🤡

N.B. The diagram is my invention, I might fiddle with it more to track #vibecoding efficacy and analytics

#llm #codemonkey

Do you crave cool?
Here it is.
Does not matter if you love #edm #techno or not...
@switchangel codes music line by line, her narration is part of this cool #trance track she magics line by line.

Whether you're a #codemonkey a #music #geek or just a #neurospicy unicorn
You will thank me for this gem.
Love it!
https://youtu.be/GWXCCBsOMSg?si=x2n3UonVu7qIhGw-

Why Did a $10 Billion Startup Let Me Vibe-Code for Them—and Why Did I Love It?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/why-did-a-10-billion-dollar-startup-let-me-vibe-code-for-them-and-why-did-i-love-it/

I've gone back 40 years.

When I started out in computing in the 1980s it was common for programmers to carry around a utility library: a personal toolbox so you don't have to keep re-inventing your spanners.

That kind of stopped once programming languages' libraries got so big they practically encompassed everything.

/cont'd

#rust #programming #codemonkey