A chip8 interpreter was a project that a lot of interviewers liked on my resume a few years back, obviously this is a few (read: many) levels above that. Good work.

i used a chip8 emu written in c using sdl and a while back no interviewers found it interesting :/ loading a game cart was a mistake i guess

> i used a chip8 emu

I used CHIP8 (on an RCA COSMAC VIP out "in the garage" bought with money from mowing lawns), would never have put it on my resume ROFL. Big Bad FORTRAN programmers would have looked at it and said "awe...ain't that cute." I did have 1802 assembler on there though. By 1992, at least one interviewer suspected I might be an "Easter Bunny" (not real) before finally meeting me. That's when I started scaling it back a bit (dropping a dozen assemblers, old languages like APL, etc.) I kept scaling it back for decades until eventually it fit on one page, but the people reading it didn't know what they didn't know (citizens of the dystopia) so my resume is only a formality anyway. (I probably should reduce it down to two or three sentences at this point. But back in the day man, I was almost typing (with an actual typewriter, also "out in the garage") in the margins --heh.) Hmm, valid question: How long before LinkedIn is an AI that conducts the entire search and hiring process? Also, WTH are we reading about CHIP8 in 2025 for...it's a dopeass dystopia, that's why. :D

A chip-8 interpreter is a common toy project for people interested in emulation.

I don't think people are building it to show off to employers as a portfolio project.

It's just a fun little weekend project. I find it's also a decent way to pick up the syntax for a new language.

Then what was the comment I quoted?

I’ve use an P51 for about a year now with no issues. I initially bought 6bay DAS, but I’ve since moved to pure SSD storage inside the laptop.

The author’s FPGA Placer post is also an interesting read

I’m working on a pretty simple rss-to-email service. Currently a few friends are beta testing it but anyone is free to check it out and give feedback: https://anomail.co/

This was a fun read.

We’ll keep raising the amount of knowledge needed to be employed until it’s no longer sustainable. This is just the nature of capitalism: extracting as much value from someone’s salary as possible.

As a student who graduates this year, I notice that something like 90% of students seem to rely on LLMs.

I’ve seen some students toss in 5+ files of code into GPT just to prompt it over and over again, hoping it produces a desirable output. When it fails too many times they open a new chat and try again. I’ve heard conversations about the best way to prompt the AI to do our assignments for us.

My supervisor once told me that if you want maximize your career earnings, only a masters is worth it. Of course he said this in regards to engineering, but I found it interesting at the time.