Dave Frampton

@majicDave
193 Followers
124 Following
623 Posts

I made The Blockheads, a mobile game released in 2013 which has been played by more than 50 million people.

Now I’m making a new world wide web from first principles, including an alternative to the http protocol: https://ktp.nz

AI is harmful and should be banned.

githubhttps://github.com/mjdave/katipo
blusekyhttps://bsky.app/profile/majicdave.bsky.social
Dave Frampton14h ago
Plague Poems21h ago
When you see the story
about how the world
now has its first trillionaire,
and when you see the story
about how laboratories
in Congo have run out
of supplies to test for Ebola,
it is important to understand
that in many ways
these are the same story.
Dave Frampton2d ago
Show threadRob Landley2d ago

The LLM bubble is the Weekend at Bernies version of the dotcom boom, which happened on DIALUP internet. The first linksys router came out the year of the crash (before which wifi and always-on broadband connections weren't readily available). The first modern smartphones came out 6 years later. The dotcom crash happened with a decade of technological growth left.

But there's no exponential LLM growth, only linear returns for linear cost increases. Silicon Valley beating a dead business model.

Dave Frampton2d ago
nytpu the wyvern2d ago

All Modern Digital Infrastructure

#AI #LLM #LLMs #FOSS

Dave Frampton2d ago
Part of my shift away from game development is this. I made a game that made a lot of kids put down their books and look at screens. Now I would like to do something good instead. https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/kids-reading-less-lower-levels-department-education-study-rcna348987
Reading for pleasure sharply down among schoolkids, Education Department report shows

New data from the Education Department shows double-digit percentage point drops in the shares of 9- and 13-year-olds who read for fun almost every day.

NBC News
Dave Frampton3d ago
This is how I’ve been removing fence posts, takes about 5 minutes for each one, minimal force required, drill + crowbar + blocks of wood = win!
Dave Frampton3d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@majicDave/116721600744408705

I’m really looking forward to recreating this same website in katipo itself. The tui style definition should be much the same as the css, but the tml will be a lot simpler and clearer than the html.

Dave Frampton3d ago

Still very early days, but my http alternative has a website!

https://ktp.nz/

We have many bespoke game engines, why only one big web engine?

ktp.nz

Katipo

Dave Frampton4d ago
Stylized text entry works YAYAYAY!
Dave Frampton4d ago

Yesterday I was out in a paddock ripping out a fence with my bare teeth when a neighbor who is a fencer offered the use of his fence staple removal tool and told me to get a tractor.

I was enjoying the process I was using, and he was a bit taken aback when I declined the tool. I tried to explain I didn't care about the fence being removed, I was just enjoying removing it, and that made things worse. I dunno, anyway it was funny, I thought I'd share. Maybe this is another post about AI.

Dave Frampton5d ago
Thomas Sturm5d ago

So the kid had more JavaScript homework (grade 10 Math).

All the kids are using VS Code, and they have the default settings with IntelliSense/AutoComplete/AI Help on full blast.

It is 100% impossible for a student to learn programming with all of this AI crap on.

Every time the kid types as much as a single word, VS Code not just completes the command or the line, no, IT ACTUALLY COMPLETES THE ASSIGNMENT.

I've now turned all of this off. There are 52 settings for "suggestions" in VS Code.