Peter Cooper
@cooperx86
Father of three and GitHub user #118. Into programming, LLMs, AI, and piano/music theory. Full-time computer grifter.
Latest grab for my boxed programming language collection: Turbo C++ 2.0 with sealed manual and disks! Bought somewhat blind for £20 off an eBay listing with no description 😅
The Online Safety Act is a well intended but shoddily written and dangerous piece of legislation that damages the UK. I can’t blame sites that just block UK IPs now.
Wikipedia threaten to limit UK access because of the Online Safety Act – a disastrous piece of legislation that's already caused several websites to shut down in the UK.
The "Notable People" map is a fun timewaster! tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people – it's the globe with thousands of notable people overlaid at the place of their birth. Zoom in on your town and see who comes up.
The dialup era is back, thanks to Cloudflare. It takes *14 seconds* to load this blog post on my otherwise fast connection. (But under two seconds on a cache-wiped reload but the CF cookie in place.)
An LLM just described JPEG artefacts as "crunchy little ghosts" and honestly, I’ll never call them anything else again.
It's a bit like Vibe Composing back in the day.
Remove the idea of Vibe Coding form your mind. AI will help you write tons of code, following your plans, but... you have to review it, fix, change, plan next steps and more.
Doing some research into CPU history and I've noticed we've just passed the 20th anniversary of the first multi-core desktop CPU, the AMD Athlon 64 X2. It simultaneously feels like eons ago and no time at all!
This is the deadest week for developer content I can remember in a long while. Been a struggle on several newsletters this week. Hopefully it's just the heatwaves and holidays..? 😅