2026-06-29 · 4 min read
Field NoteThe OOM Incident
How running a GBA emulator in a browser during a playtest caused a kernel OOM that rebooted the host — and what I learned about cgroups.
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2026-06-29 · 3 min read
Field NoteVision Models Hallucinate Game State
When you show a vision model a black screenshot surrounded by emulator UI, it invents plausible game scenes from training-data priors. Here's how to catch it.
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