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Stop changing your sprite sheet to fix animation speed

An eight-frame animation does not have a fixed duration. At 8 fps it lasts one second; at 12 fps it lasts two-thirds of a second; at 16 fps it lasts half a second. Before drawing or generating more frames, check whether the problem is missing poses or the time each pose stays on screen. We maintain

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Frontend

What a Language Needs Before It Can Compile Itself

Code: Megapixel99/lambda-language lm is a small low-level language I wrote: static types, explicit memory, no closures, no garbage collector, and four independent backends that emit C, WebAssembly, ARM64 and bytecode for a VM. Its compiler is about 4,400 lines of JavaScript. The obvious next quest

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AI & ML

OpenMontage: what it does, and where it does not

OpenMontage is an open source project you can run yourself today. This is a look at what it does, how to get it going, and the situations where reaching for it would be a mistake. What it actually does Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio. Describe what you w

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AI & ML

AI Development Rules Needed Regression Tests Too

I had already reached an uncomfortable conclusion: Giving an AI coding agent better instructions was not enough. So I started building repository-level governance around things like source-of-truth ownership, review behavior, evidence, scope, and lifecycle. The repository became more consistent.

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DevOps

Crontab syntax basics, and how it differs from WP-Cron

"What does */5 * * * * actually mean?" — anyone setting up a scheduled task on a server has probably stared at that row of asterisks at some point. If you run WordPress, you may already be familiar with inspecting WP-Cron's internals through WP-CLI, but the actual crontab syntax used by the OS itsel

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