Ryan Barrett
radicalbyte.bsky.social
Ryan Barrett
@radicalbyte.bsky.social
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"We made it so easy to program that any idiot could do it. So they do." - hn/bregma

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Funding/support from American oligarchs is a FAR more significant threat to British democracy than that from the Kremlin, which has a. a fraction of their cash and b. approximately zero popularity.
December 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
In Dutch, "-en" is plural. You need to use the singular form - "partij", or use the name of the party - ":de VVD willen".
December 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Yeah the platforming bits were rock hard. The puzzle levels were fine once you learned them.

Thank goodness for the Action Replay :-)
December 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't keep my boxed copy of this, it went to the skip with the rest of my C64 collection back in the day (thankfully someone there put my collection aside and rescued it).
December 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I've only ever done that with rapid prototyping tools; back in the day I could build an entire SaaS product of screens and functionality in MS Access in a week or two including iterating on the design.

That was then actually used/tested to validate the concept quickly and cheaply.
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I would suspect that they like it as long as it's treated as a specification and the expectation isn't that it gets put into production after a "couple of tweaks".

It is almost certainly move useful than a Figma or Photoshop design.
December 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Wow! Is he willing to talk about it? I'm CTO at a startup (tech-ish) and am trying to convince my colleagues to vibe code all of their crazy ideas as I'm convinced that it's the best way to try out ideas and to specify things.

They all love AI but then in a "magical thinking" way.
December 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Woah what for? I thought that they were largely limited to "stealing" (getting access to via an extremely dodgy looking deal with the Tories) NHS data.
December 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🤣🤣🤣
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM