Lately, I’ve been playing WARDOGS. I’m lousy at firefights in FPS games, but this one is so much fun. I spend a long match finding enemies, marking them for teammates, and taking shots with a sniper rifle. I thought I would get bored after one match, yet I keep wanting to play again. ...
Lately, I have been playing Splatoon Raiders. Before its release, I thought it would be like a Splatoon Hero Mode with loot-driven action RPG elements. I also enjoyed playing ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN, so a game where I could grow stronger while picking up weapons and gear sounded like something I would enjoy. That expectation was not wrong. But once I actually started playing, I found that growing stronger was not the only fun part. Combining weapons and gadgets lets me do things that were never possible in previous Splatoon games. ...
“AI utilization” is becoming commonplace in the engineering community. In such an era, I’ve been thinking about what kind of engineer we should aspire to be. On one hand, there’s the “Brilliant jerk” type engineer—those with overwhelming technical skills but who neglect teamwork. On the other hand, there are engineers with decent technical skills who excel at AI utilization and serve as team facilitators. Through extensive use of Claude Code, I’ve come to see that the latter has a brighter future ahead. Let me share my thoughts on “the future engineer archetype” based on my experience with AI tools. ...
About MarkItDown On December 14, 2024, Microsoft released something interesting. It’s a software called MarkItDown. It’s a tool that converts various files into the Markdown format. Quoting from the official repository , the formats that can be converted are: - PDF (.pdf) - PowerPoint (.pptx) - Word (.docx) - Excel (.xlsx) - Images (EXIF metadata, and OCR) - Audio (EXIF metadata, and speech transcription) - HTML (special handling of Wikipedia, etc.) - Various other text-based formats (csv, json, xml, etc.) - ZIP (Iterates over contents and converts each file) As you can see, it handles a wide variety of files. ...