Brian Degenhardt

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I forgot how to code. Former Twitter. Current alpinism instructor for Bellingham WA Mountaineers.

I vibe coded a thing. Er, multiple things. Two compilers, a 20kloc research grade decompiler, a binary patching platform, and a game port...

https://gardinerbryant.com/the-anatomy-of-an-impossible-port/

The Anatomy of an Impossible Port: Bringing Dead Cells to the R36S

On the PortMaster suggestions page, Dead Cells sat for a long time with 178 votes and a feasibility rating of “Low.” It wasn’t a dismissal, but it was a feeling that everyone seemed to share. The community wanted it. They just didn’t believe it could ever happen. On

The Bryant Review

I've always been better at reading code than writing it. I like doing small changes to huge codebases. My first OSS contribution was to The Gimp in 1997.

AI coding tools have made me so much better of a developer its not even funny. Theres no debate here, I'm so rediculously more effective.

One of my favourite stories of the year

If you didn't see the image in this post, it appeared on the photo wires and in many newspapers and other media outlets following the brazen robbery of the Louvre in Paris, where a group of thieves stole jewellery and other artifacts worth about $100 million (some of the thieves have since been caught). But the theft itself isn't my favourite part of this story — not even the part where the password the Louvre…

https://mathewingram.com/work/2025/12/01/one-of-my-favourite-stories-of-the-year/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

I love this, and morn what was lost too...
https://youtu.be/2z7kVH9xePM?si=Qy9sRtw36oy12qL9
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I know! I'll just move my aluminum smelter to a previously uninhabited island! *checks tariff list* Fuck!
Every attempt to code with an LLM ends up with: "Ah I see that I was mistaken to suggest that flapping your arms repeatedly would result in flight, would you like me to recommend strategies for healing your broken legs?"

"i still do not understand why runing linux app on linux wont work"

Oh sweet gaming noob on discord. You are about to embark on a wonderful lifelong journey!

I live just below the Canadian border and friends are noticing much more friction crossing the border. The assumption is a ton of people in the US are coming to Canada with no plan to leave, and the border guards are getting suspicious.
Eh, after using Slashdot, and Digg, and reddit, and twitter, now people are warning me that bluesky will enshittify and die too, and thats totally fine I'll go somewhere else after that.
But why skulls?