Alan Bradburne

[Alan Bradburne @alanb]

Ever since I first read about the Enigma machines and the work to decode them, I've been totally fascinated by them.
Getting to see them up close at Bletchley Park, I've always wanted to take apart and understand exactly how they worked.

So now I can...

https://t.co/1S4F55cHve

[Alan Bradburne @alanb]

@MyTwoYen If wife or kid suddenly can’t make it, I’ll shout! (Although wife is the mega-fan so she’ll make it come hell or high water!)

[Alan Bradburne @alanb]

Claude says this build is gonna take 3 years of development. So… done by morning then

[Alan Bradburne @alanb]

Little thing to make tracks from Suno sound a fair bit better and less crunky https://t.co/awibCTriXO

[Alan Bradburne @alanb]

I love being told I’m n idiot for building something because… someone else built a similar (and not very good) thing previously. What is wrong with their brains?

[Alan Bradburne @alanb]

@andrewculver 😮

[Alan Bradburne @alanb]

@ken_c_lo I’m so sad I had to cancel at the last minute. I love the design for the conference, I should have known it was your work!

[Alan Bradburne @alanb]

@ChanceArthur The device is great! it's very solid and an excellent modern DS emu device

[Alan Bradburne @alanb]

I mean, since it was already running arch…

[Adam Tal 🚀 @TalAdam]

September 2026 Hacker News Hiring Index:

539 job postings in September. That's 25% more than August (430) and 25% fewer than September last year (722). The 12-month average is 700.

Median pay went up to $195k. (1/6)

[Alan Bradburne @alanb]

So, yeah, we didn't stop there. Built a custom build of Arch with custom gfx drivers and whatnot. Got it down to sub 5 seconds.

[Alan Bradburne @alanb]

Another one to file under "just tell it to make it faster"

Got an Anbernic RG DS+, a Nintendo DS clone running linux and their DS emulator. It's fantastic, but the stock OS takes 21secs to boot. There are are some alt OS's but I don't need that, just this without the slow boot.

So, Claude, make it boot faster. Got it to 15secs.
Bro, you can do better. 13 secs.

Not good enough. So 'we' wrote a new (and _significantly_ better) rom launcher in rust.
Down to 11.5secs.

My dude is like, that's it, I've got nothing else. And I guess I'll give him a break. I think that's acceptable. For now.

[Alan Bradburne @alanb]

@ShirazAkmal @AIandDesign Oh man, burning discs for it was a total pain, wasn’t it? It was so fussy.

[Alan Bradburne @alanb]

@NomadDragon7 Congratulations on both this and your visa! I Loooooove Portugal.

[Alan Bradburne @alanb]

I am Cookie’s personal assistant.

[Peter Cooper @cooperx86]

OK I finally put the core part of my physically modelled piano synthesizer on GitHub for anyone who's interested or can make use of it somehow: https://t.co/h55OZGuC8o

[Alan Bradburne @alanb]

Gutted to have to cancel attending Kaigi on Rails today. Wife is sick and hospitalised for a few days 😞 One thing that made it less painful was telling Instinct to simply "cancel all plans for the trip" and it dealing with all the Japanese website forms and getting as many refunds as possible.

[Alan Bradburne @alanb]

@andrewculver Can’t wait to see what you do. It’s gonna be amazing 🙌

[Alan Bradburne @alanb]

For those interested https://t.co/Wl4CktWq4o and https://t.co/NIkb8jBuqm

Big part of the speed gains were changing boot order, compressing the kernel (faster to load small file and decompress than load large file) and a neat readahead that fetches the OS files before needed.

[Alan Bradburne @alanb]

Another one to file under "just tell it to make it faster"

Got an Anbernic RG DS+, a Nintendo DS clone running linux and their DS emulator. It's fantastic, but the stock OS takes 21secs to boot. There are are some alt OS's but I don't need that, just this without the slow boot.

So, Claude, make it boot faster. Got it to 15secs.
Bro, you can do better. 13 secs.

Not good enough. So 'we' wrote a new (and _significantly_ better) rom launcher in rust.
Down to 11.5secs.

My dude is like, that's it, I've got nothing else. And I guess I'll give him a break. I think that's acceptable. For now.