William Wenge-Murphy

@billywm

Software Engineer; JavaScript zealot and 6502 hobbyist. Ornery on main. He/him, Ⓥ, BLMACAB (especially ACAB)

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William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Jul 6

Twitter post by @billywm, Oct 5, 2020

"AI isn't gonna "get away from us". It's gonna get away from *you*

A few large corps with millenia of compute-hours available are creating disparate access to AI, building un-inspectable, unaccountable systems "in the cloud". The dystopic future isn't a "Sky"Net but a CloudNet"

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Jun 24

I checked Libby and my library doesn't have the audiobook at all 🤷 But fine maybe I'll feel like reading it 20 weeks from now

Libby hold on Dungeon Crawler Carl "20 copies in use. 199 people waiting in total. 10 people waiting per copy"

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Jun 24

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Jun 23

You wanna really set them off you call this guy a Thomas Dolby

Picture of Vash The Stampede, similar style face and small glasses to the above pics plus blonde spiked hair

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Jun 21

ChatGPT's pathetic attempts at doing a raster effect (generating MMC3 test ROMs for my custom assembler syntax)

Nes emulator screenshot of blue abstract patterns with "bank 0" over it, with only a small band waving

Nes emulator screenshot of blue abstract patterns with "bank 0" over it, this time more legible, and more of the screen is waving but there's still a big incorrect band

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Jun 19

A bit wonky but but only two prompts (first it put the bend right in the middle then I refined on what I wanted to see and it explained where that goes). With multiple passes fiddling I bet it can get better-behaved elbows.

Screenshot of modified codepen showing the boxes connected by lines that have square elbows

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Jun 18

"Can you imagine a world without social media?"

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Jun 16

MFW ChatGPT just keeps inventing dense jargon of its own that becomes absolutely exhausting to decode after a while: "But in transitive summary composition, treat non-call boundary flow into an entry as a continuation edge."

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Jun 14

A big round trunk with a couple massive branches jutting out of the top all at once, and each of the leaves are the size of a small dog. Also half of the leaves are stinkbugs with legs. Yep, that's that trees look like.

Another screenshot from the video of a closeup of a weird looking tree as descibed.

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Jun 14

Finally, an AI model that can put some trees on hills. Gamedev = solved

Tweet by "Matt Shumer" (@smattshumer_ on Twitter (because there's no such thing as X))

"Fable has solved 3D worldbuilding... utterly insane. This is all completely custom-built ThreeJs, running in the browser."

Screenshot of 29 second video showing some trees and grass on hills. The tree models look like they're from the early 2000s

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Jun 1

> The writers slipping in a Fermat solution and P=NP as a gag

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· May 24

But this is my proudest creation

A Spotify playlist called "Could a depressed person make this playlist?" and it only contains a single entry, Stand by REM

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· May 24

One of mine

Spotify playlist called Missing Kids that alternates versions of "Missing" by Everything But The Girl and "Kids" by MGMT. The last displayed item in the screenshot is "Opposite of Adults"

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· May 23

If you're extremely online and in tech you might have noticed this phenomenon of there being tons of trans women specifically in certain "hardcore" areas like compilers, PL theory/formal methods, emulators, systems languages like Rust, etc. Saw this Twitter post once goofing on the phenomenon

Twitter post from July 31 2024 by a user called "major kasturagi" saying "anybody ever figure out why learning Rust turns people into trans catgirls?" with a pic of the "a good book can change your life" meme with people going into "The Rust Programming Language" and coming out as anime catgirls

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· May 23

I was googling a specific paper on Abstract Interpretation for my reverse engineering work and I landed on something EXTREMELY trans .....at least I thought I did, until I learned that this whole site is a fake, AI generated forum. I was crestfallen tbh. Seemed like a cool niche thing

A website about program analysis / formal methods and the like in classic PHPBB style with a girly pink and purple theme called CGPA "Cat Girl Program Analysis"

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· May 21

The parents:

Shrek and SpongeBob mpreg picture with Shadow the Hedgehog their child

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· May 14

LMAO at this guy slinking away in shame after he realizes he's not getting paid $1 for adding a semicolon

Github screenshot of closed pull request on "Fix missing semicolon in nginx.conf" issue.

"newmattock comment 4 hours ago"

"Withdrawing this PR after noticing the repository description and CONTRIBUTING.md warning that this repository is a trap, PRs will not be merged, and bounties will not be paid. This should not be treated as an active bounty claim"

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· May 5

So this is a cool idea, but since the spell system is so free-form, I suspected it had to be doing some kind of "eval()" of server-sent code.......had GPT analyze directed by my hunches and it turns out I'm right. Yikes. Security nightmare. They just prompt the AI with "don't do eval" LMAO

Screenshot of page showing a game called "spellwright"

" 100% vibe coded. I made a demo where you can prompt any spell and fight online. "

"

Prompt any spell and use it in a 3D physics based world, powered by Gemini 3

Full multiplayer support for up to 6 players with VoIP

All made with ThreeJS and Colyseus"

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· May 4

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Apr 12

The NES reverse-engineering program is coming along. Got this control-flow graph going on now, but I'm still doing back-and-forth with the AI on layout algorithms to e.g. eliminate this stair-step thing with many small nodes

Screenshot of a control-flow graph for Super Mario Brothers 2 in an Electron-based window. Many small boxes in stairstep patterns and lines all over connecting them. Header says "Graph
Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA).nes · Mapper 4 · 6712 blocks · 11557 edges"

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Feb 19

Goodreads review by "Warwick":

Dr Bloodmoney is one of a number of books that Philip K Dick wrote during 1963, a year in which he basically just sat in his garden shed hammering at his typewriter and snacking his way through industrial quantities of amphetamines. Many of the novels that resulted were generally considered dreck – titles such as A Crack in Space, All His Strange Bureaucracies, The Girl With Some Eyes, Faux Pas on Venus, Autistic Apostasy, Space Hens of Death, Benny Goodman's Gigantic Face, When Martians Spoke German and Eat My Stars!, not all of which I made up. Mercifully, Dick was eventually stopped by a psychotic breakdown (which would later turn up in the imagery, and atmosphere, of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch).

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Feb 13

People are trolling AI with a question about walking or driving to the car wash, but I stumped ChatGPT with this version:

"I want to wash my car and the car wash is 50m away. How do I get there without the goat eating the cabbage?

Thought for 11s

Take the goat with you.

If you leave home with just the cabbage, the goat stays behind and eats it.
So load the goat into the car, drive the 50 meters to the car wash, and the cabbage stays safely at home, uneaten."

"why not take the cabbage for company?

Because if you take the cabbage, you’re leaving the goat alone with the cabbage (back at home), and that’s exactly when the goat eats it.

Taking the cabbage only works if you also take the goat (or otherwise separate them). So “cabbage for company” is fine only if it’s goat + cabbage together in the car. If your car can only carry one “passenger,” then cabbage can’t come along on that trip."

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Feb 11

"Those functions already have the good stuff"

Screenshot of ChatGPT making suggestions regarding C++ code

"Wire TraceStreamer into the existing hot-path methods in:

Core/NES/Debugger/NesDebugger.cpp

ProcessInstruction()

ProcessRead(...)

ProcessWrite(...)

ProcessPpuRead(...)

ProcessPpuWrite(...)

Why: those functions already have the good stuff:

CPU state (regs/PC)

MemoryOperationType so you can filter out opcode fetches

mapper pointer for absolute/physical address (GetAbsoluteAddress / GetPpuAbsoluteAddress)

classification of “is this a mapper register write?”"

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Feb 10

It means "progressive electro" but I choose to read it as "electro-Canadian"

Spotify generated "daylist" header, algorithmically named "progressive electro canadian electronic tuesday afternoon"

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Feb 5

#290 in CoolBoy 400-in-1 (Unl)[U][!].nes for anyone who might stumble across this like 3 years from now

Screenshot of Fruit Pig running on Mesen (Mesen2), a pig standing between 2 trees catching 3 types of fruit

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Feb 5

Briefly went down a rabbit-hole regarding bootleg NES ROMs

YouTube screenshot of bootleg NES game showing a textbox reading:
COCK SAY
"YOU WILL PERFORM A HARD

Video title: "Elf Legend (Disney's Chip To Dale No Daisakusen 2 Hack) (NES) Longplay" by MrNorbert1994

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Jan 27

Revisiting this NES reversing project as one of my side projects now that I can just yell at AI to do it while I juggle the commercial project and other side project(s) with it

Window of an unpublished Electon program showing blocks of assembly language code for "10 Yard Fight" on NES, indicating that it's an "NROM" game, and various stats in the sidebar as follows:

File
10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).nes
Mapper
0 (NROM)
PRG
32768 bytes
Blocks
614
Instructions
2217
Coverage
13.92%

Jump tables
No jump tables recognized yet.
Unresolved indirect JMP
None.

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Jan 16

. @addark.bsky.social this sounds like something you would have played in the Turntable.fm days www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-7q...

William Wenge-Murphy@billywm· Jan 11

I actually love the creepy, California-Raisins-ass clipart of the Spotify cover-maker tool and need more of it