Shahar Tal

A father and hexdump tattoo owner. Opinions are my own, except when they are my wife's. he/him.

[Shahar Tal @jifa]

fuzzing UTF-8 strings pro-tip: Ⱥ (U+023A) and Ⱦ (U+023E) are the *only* code points to increase in length (2 to 3 bytes) when lowercased.

[Shahar Tal @jifa]

@sagitz_ אלוף

[Shahar Tal @jifa]

It’s not scope creep, it’s featuremaxxing ✨

[Halvar Flake @halvarflake]

My dad had a mug labeled "the stupidest programmer has the largest program" - I inherited the mug. In times of AI slop, this is truer than ever.

I really wish I could get AIs to write *less* code to achieve the same thing.

For most PRs I want to run a loop "please cut all fat".

[Shahar Tal @jifa]

מפתיע לא מפתיע בחזיונותיי מזה שנים סידני סוויני בעזרת נשים

[Shahar Tal @jifa]

@OwariDa @bl4sty I need this embroidered.

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@halvarflake I appreciate him being very honest and human about it and surfacing human vulnerabilities in the process, he seems bright. However, it was very sparse/repetitive and too defensive imo.

[Shahar Tal @jifa]

More to come from the magnificent Check Point AI Research team 🧙‍♂️✨ https://t.co/T00o4gz3fB

[Shahar Tal @jifa]

@justAnormalDudu @ShaharTweets עבר למאק, נשאר עם הזיכרון והמשמעות.

[Shahar Tal @jifa]

@TalBeerySec @OfirWeinstein @DorDugy hello, world\nAAAA

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@TalBeerySec @OfirWeinstein @DorDugy זה המשיך והדרדר

[Shahar Tal @jifa]

@TalBeerySec @OfirWeinstein @DorDugy 👋

[Shahar Tal @jifa]

@DorDugy לא הבנתי איפה cmd

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@OzTamir כמובן שהוספתי כתוביות ותרגום לכל הסרטונים בהיסטוריה, ולקינוח הפרדה לשוטים וחיפוש סמנטי על כל מה שנאמר או רואים בכל שוט.

[Shahar Tal @jifa]

עברתי תהליך דומה אבל על כל הוידאו שהיה לי בהיסטוריה של 40 שנה. האנלוק כאן הוא פרומפטינג טוב לגמיני. הוא מסוגל להרבה כשמסבירים.אחר כך ביקשתי קליפ עם עריכות לא טריואליות, היה די מעניין אבל יצא לו קצת גרוע כמו סוכן לא מוכשר. ואז אמרתי לו: תן לגמיני לראות ולתת לך הערות במאי ועורך. זה היה מטורף הוא פשוט אמר לו כל מה שרציתי עם איזה קאט צריך להאריך ומה לחתוך אחרת. אמרתי לו לעשות עוד סבבים וזה הגיע לרמה מטורפת.

[Shahar Tal @jifa]

@liadagmon מוקדם יותר היום ביקשתי מקלוד לנתח את עצמי לפי הכתיבה שלי ליומן ממוחשב משנת 1997-2005 ואז גם להצליב מול שיחות הICQ שלי שנשמרו במלואן. תודה לעצמי הצעיר ששמר ומאוחר יותר צרב גיבויים כל שנה. מרהיב ומרתק ואני מקנא בילדים שלי.

[matteyeux @matteyeux]

"Revisiting SecureROM Adventures".

Talk is about the SecureROM and an usbliter8 variant by iH8sn0w

https://t.co/n3WTOHRCL9

[Shahar Tal @jifa]

@guyru_ @wizzair

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@0xjprx Congrats my man. Grab your cape.

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@jonathanroizin מספיק אחד

[Shahar Tal @jifa]

Nice project, but even more so a screenplay-worthy emotional rollercoaster tweet with shock, reveals and plot twists. I’d binge it on Netflix.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

I wrote a new Task Manager that runs natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux. You can get it now at https://t.co/OZcq1axGTb ... but why?

Well, it started as an argument over whether you could vibe code Microsoft Word today. I didn't think so. But I figured... maybe something simpler like Task Manager. But you can't just tell Claude, "Hey, write a task manager!" Well, you can, but it'll be hot garbage.

Then my kid blew out his appendix and needed surgery, so I had a couple of days in waiting rooms to tinker with the idea. I broke out my new M5 MacBook Air, and I put together a 107-page spec, like I was some caffeine-addled PM from the 90s. Everything you could ever want to know about a task manager, how it works, what it should do, and what it should look like.

By the time he was out of the hospital, I had a rough app working. But then he started bleeding internally, needed emergency surgery and a blood transfusion. Happy to say he's all better now - but suffice to say I had the rest of the week to tinker as he healed.

But why write a Task Manager? Because when I wrote the original in '95, it was on a P90 or something equally weak. Updating, scrolling, and painting without using more than a percent or two of the CPU was the modest goal.

Now that we have 5 GHz CPUs and GPUs to help, why not push the limits? Animate everything at 60Hz, instead of once a second. History mouse tracking, a summary page, and all the features I would have added then if the hardware had allowed it.

My autism leads me to embrace neon and high contrast in a way that's not to everyone's taste, so there's a saturation slider to control the color. But this one goes to 11.

You can also select from a bunch of DEC VT220-inspired themes like Green Phosphor, Amber, or White. And I added Blue to match my VSCode theme!

The code is fully native: Direct2D/DirectComposition on Windows, UIKit on Mac, and Qt on Linux. The UI communicates with a shared CPP core, which branches out to platform-specific helpers. There's NO electron, HTML, JSON, etc.

Thanks to David and Rutger for their help along the way, I couldn't have done it this quickly on three platforms without them!

If you've got some cycles to spare, give it a try and let me know if you run into any issues!

https://t.co/OZcq1axGTb