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Eric Thompson
Hi, I’m Eric or @cyanbane, I have been writing on the internet since before the “internet” When I was 12, I started my first BBS and started interacting with others on what would eventually become the web today. Door games, hacking and phreaking texts, warez, gamez, and ASCII Art were fantastic and hooked me from a young age. I eventually took up Visual Basic 6 to create a Dungeons & Dragons character generator, and here I am 30 years later, still loving coding. I am a coder by trade and have had this blog for over two decades. It has evolved over time and interests, and I have found myself multiple times just canning all of it and going back and starting it fresh. The site you are viewing now is probably about my 30th iteration, and it is slowly coming up on it's 25th anniversary. Welcome to it.
August 2026
September 2026
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All posts (33)
Over the past couple of months, my development desktop has gradually changed into its new form. This is the interweaving of AI into almost all of my workflows. I have a widescreen main monitor that I do most of my “concentration” work on, positioned in the middle of three monitors on my home desktop setup. The two...
"Humanity needs to wake up, and this essay is an attempt—a possibly futile one, but it’s worth trying—to jolt people awake.""For example, AI models are trained on vast amounts of literature that include many science-fiction stories involving AIs rebelling against humanity. This could inadvertently shape their priors...
Great read:What has Docker become?Docker Inc’s journey from containerization pioneer to AI-focused platform has been anything but straightforward. Here’s what their strategic shifts tell us about the company’s search for identity.Tuan-Anh TranI remember when Docker hit, almost seemingly overnight over a decade ago....
Tuesday nights are always busy at our house. I took my son to his volleyball practice and then to a local card shop where he plays the One Piece Trading Card Game every week. These mini-tournaments can last anywhere from an hour (when he doesn’t do well) to much longer, like last night, when he did do well and a lot...
I've had Desktop Heroes running on a side monitor for the past week or so. It's a fun little Cookie Clicker–style game that I enjoy watching from time to time. It needs minimal interaction, and you level up characters and progress as you normally would in a small RPG. The "screen" for the game is the bottom 2/5ths...
We play some type of card game each night at our house, usually during dinner. For Christmas, I was given Unstable Game's Twisted Cryptids which we are really getting into and which I will probably post about soon. However, over the Christmas break, we really wanted to learn how to play Lorcana.The local shop that...
I have been playing a lot of Season 11 ( THE NEW PALADINS ARE HERE, THE NEW PALADINS ARE HERE! ) Diablo IV over the last week or so and was looking for a good tier list of all the Nightmare Dungeons for this season since I always seem to be full of entry Sigils ( aka Dungeon Keys. ) Here is a good Google Doc in...
Loved this little game. A neat cross between a loot shooter and an advancement-path chooser. The premise is that you are trying to clear slimes from a 2D plane in the quickest way possible to advance levels. There are about ten different ways to embellish your stats along the way, which are introduced at a good pace...
Ball x Pit is the first game I have tried ( and succeeded! ) to get all the achievements for in about a decade. I have let the game marinate for a good while since I "finished" it to come up with why I enjoyed this game so much. I think ( similar to Dave the Diver ) I liked it because of the combination of games...
In the early ‘80s, longtime friends and Clearwater businessmen—DiGiannantonio, a liquor salesman, Droste, a real estate executive, Johnson, a brick mason by trade, as well as L.D. Stewart, a painting contractor, Ken Wimmer, a partner in a painting business, and “Uncle Billy” Ranieri, a retired service station...
Today I went downstairs earlier in the afternoon to start to download the new Battlefield 6 Open Beta. Was pumped to play it tonight. When my wife and son suggested we watch KPop Demon Hunters tonight after dinner I was a but miffed as I wanted to jump into the beta.I relented and I am really glad I did. I did not...
My dad traveled a good bit when I was growing up and we would always go to ( back then ) Atlanta's Hartsfield airport to pick him up. Back then you could walk right up to the gate without a ticket and wait for your loved one to disembark. So one of the highlights as a kid was always riding the airport trains. We...
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