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3 MB is still pretty big... try a rewrite in C.

Seems to be a tradition rooted in the original Maniac Mansion. In Thimbleweed Park the multiple characters became tedious due to having to walk multiple people all over and pass it…

But how much time per week does an SWE actually spend writing code?

Every government is an attacker.

This was really frustrating me. YT started recommending this channel and I could recognize the voice as an AI impersonation but had no way to know if it was at least reading someth…

I think you're not technically wrong, but you're defining NAT differently than the majority of people you're arguing with (those who assume NAT also implies a firewall blocking inb…

It's there in the name - "Rust graphics community" as opposed to simply "the graphics community". Language fetishization above the end goal - or, rather, the language fetish is the…

Apple is already sending spam notifications for stupid bullshit like that F1 movie.

If gRPC overhead is critical to your system, you've probably already lost the plot on performance in your overall architecture. You make a fair point about smart pointers, and medi…

He definitely made games . Chris Crawford was one of the first known names in game design, a few years ahead of contemporaries like Sid Meier whom I expect you'd still recognize. C…

The 8x16 font from the Atari ST's hi-res mode is pretty slick if you like something bold and a little futuristic. https://github.com/ntwk/atarist-font (or rip it directly from the …

Not ideal, but MS-DOS seems to me like the most practical universal software platform. DOSBOX isn't going anywhere.

There's still a few Common Lisp features the mainstream would benefit from ripping off. Relevant here is the condition system. Conditions and restarts are still foreign enough that…

Today by, way of your screenshot, I discover Asm-Pro. Just got into Amiga recently (by way of receiving one from my uncle's closet..) and have been meaning to backfill my shameful …

Probably true, but it still stings that this dubious piece of software (speaking as a former iTerm2 user still holding a grudge) had been spraying my passwords and random terminal …

Oh, I don't know - in my (admittedly limited and very individual / company-specific) experience, the senior management was hard to relate to from the perspective of us rank and fil…

From my perspective (for me, personally), the closing of Google Reader killed blogs. That's when I largely stopped reading them. Other readers seemed not worth the trouble, for var…

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But that's like half of computing.. every new tool the world inflicts on you, configured in Jojo's Awesome Configuration Language, with some arbitrary made up grammar punctuated by…

Salmonella as a Service!

SDL1 had no high-level graphics system - you either got a raw framebuffer, or an OpenGL context.

There's some irony in this for me personally. My most recent major "I quit Apple" rage moment was trying to get Flameshot (which I use routinely on Linux) working on my Macbook, so…

China, supposedly.