tags: tech,hacking,elxiir,phoenix,liveview,ai
## A series of prompts: making a weird pong game, only with AI
I wanted to make something the other day and couldn't get any ideas.
I started thinking about infinite games and ended up at playing pong against a wall.
I figured I would implement it and ...
tags: tech,git
# Tangled.sh: Git collaboration on ATProto
I recently learned about a neat little project earlier this week.
I saw [a skeet from my friend Steve](https://bsky.app/profile/steveklabnik.com/post/3ljgsbr2by22k) talking about this weird Git collaboration thing.
And the way you joined i...
tags: tech,elixir,python,live_view
So, I like making friends.
## [You can now run arbitrary python code on this blog](https://www.bobbby.online/python-demo)
At work, we have so many developers.
Pepsi is a really big company.
So, I decided I should give the python developers a place to run their co...
tags: tech,hacking,elxiir,phoenix,liveview
# Some new tech demos
## I've been hacking on some silly LiveView demos
### Cursor Tracker
[Demo](https://www.bobbby.online/cursor-tracker)
This is simple. We
1. track each users cursor position
2. keep that state
3. allow users to see each others posi...
tags: tech,hacking,elxiir,phoenix,liveview,silly
# Mirror Mirror on the wall#
## Lol, Hi, so
I was thinking about how [people used to mirror websites](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_site) the other night and I thought of a funny joke.
What if one was born more recently, didn't remember thi...
tags: programming,elixir,fun
# How a fun idea came about
I just had a bunch of fun the other night, and we had to enjoy the scene in a very old school way.
We were not allowed to use our phones, so it was everyone enjoying the show like the old days.
Much like the old days, you also had to wait i...
tags: programming,elixir,fun
# A Quick Typewriter-Set Letter Project/Experiment
I decided to start off by coding up a vim-style scroller for live skeets.
Let's say I have a context called `Social`, with a function `sample/1` that returns lists of skeets.
Who cares where they come from, its a sim...
tags: music,nyc,memories
# I pulled the Paul McCartney Tickets
[Dustin](TODO LINK BSKY) texted me that he was skipping our breakfast date around 8:30.
I was taking [Simon](TODO) to the vet and decided that I should go join the line with him for Paul McCartney tickets.
I missed out yesterday narro...
tags: tech,programming,fun
# A Fun Experiment
I am playing a lot more with these LLM models and everything lately.
I also will soon have a very fun server-like rig at home to play with these on.
I will have a 64 core threadripper, 128gb RAM, a 12gb Gefore NVIDIA 2060 or whatever card, and 8tb of su...
tags: serious
# On what happened
I made a [thread on bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/yburyug.bsky.social/post/3lhkh2batdk2u) about the insane happenings inside the DOGE government happenings at the treasury.
In short, this was a constitutional crisis.
We live in unprecedented times.
I think thi...
tags: programming,funny,games,recurse-center
# A hilarious shared keyboard key
I saw [@itseieio](https://bsky.app/profile/itseieio.bsky.social) made this new website.
[Global Caps Lock](http://globalcapslock.com) -- it works on linux, mac and windows.
I was able to fire it up in OSX pretty quick...
tags: preservation,tech,history,love
# A Me Museum
I view this space as a place to curate the best and most interesting of myself I guess.
If I were to someday just die in a random tragedy, I hope that this website will have so much "bobby stuff" that even if I am gone it will supply those I love...
tags: links,blog,tech
# On making a link blog
I decided I want to keep a link blog in general.
This is inspired by [Simon Wilison](https://simonwillison.net).
So, I guess his blog is my first link.
[He also writes on his approach here](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/) which is ...
tags: economics, government
# On the United States and Sovereign Wealth Funds
> [...] the US already has a sovereign wealth fund; it owns a special class of perpetual preferred that is entitled to 21% of any company's income, with payments held back if the company's cumulative earnings are below t...
tags: blog, programming, elixir, phoenix
# Building and Deploying This Blog
## Introduction
I didn't want to have an Ecto dependency here because I am serving static content.
So, I made the app LiveView but didn't add Ecto at all.
I have vendored the posts in to `priv` and read them all out from t...