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To be fair, the earliest text adventures are brutally, brutally difficult and in many cases, very much unfair! There are nowhere near enough in-game indicators or foreshadowing of …

> An alternative could be a good 5K/6K monitor with a KVM, but this is a unicorn as well... I use a Dell U3224KB (32" 6K) in this way. Thunderbolt (usbc) is connected to a Macbook …

I actually did this back in the late 90s! The editor was called "Scorpio"[1]. It was written for the classic MacOS in some version of C with objects, maybe Think C(?). I'm not 100%…

Closer to a nibble!

This is great! Back in the 60s & 70s, before the digitization of all life on earth, there were a huge number of very ornamental, very hard-to-read fonts that were sold, generally, …

Hehe, being a Java dev since the late 90’s meant seeing a lot of bad code. My favorite was when I was working for a large life insurance company. The company’s customer-facing webs…

Mainly remote, even though I am about a mile from the office lol. They fully bought into the remote first idea. We have team get togethers generally about once a month. Very nice t…

Actually in Los Angeles, but they have offices all over the world. The home office is in Tokyo.

Usually one at a time, but sometimes they combine. Also, parts of the same task can be one or the other, so you may have to switch from fun (coding something new) to boring/annoyin…

It really depends on the type of environment and work you are looking to do. At 59, I applied for a “full stack” (ugh..not my favorite term) job at a large Asia-based multi-nationa…

>> lifelong mix of sarcasm with sincerity, skepticism with optimism Love this, perfectly said. Or, in the words of Don Martin, Thook Zak Splak KWOP!

Lovely excerpt that gives a good general overview of Mad history and highlights! I was an avid reader as a child in the late 60s to early 70s. I eventually moved on to National Lam…

I still have my original copy of "The MAD Adventures of Captain Klutz", probably bought around 1970ish. Such a singular talent. Died pretty young (68), which is sad.

Sorry to pile on to the doom and gloom around this, but I have been at a bunch of companies that tried this and have never seen it work out well. The problem is that building gener…

I think that both viewpoints are correct. I would add that, importantly, the invention of photography changed the economics of picture ownership. No longer was it necessary to sit …

Just wanted to pop in to say I think she is a terribly underrated actor. Truly a gem. For my money, the only reason that The Shining has any stakes at all is because of her incredi…

As others have mentioned, a centrifugal casting machine would have really helped here. I took quite a bit of jewelry making in college and all the lost wax casting we did was done …

I saw Sun Ra back once back in the mid-70s in NYC. Easily the most memorable jazz concert I've ever seen. My recollection is not 100%, but what I do remember is the Arkestra lined …

Yes! I absolutely lived in Think C for many years. You’re right though, it was on the way out by then, supplanted by CodeWarrior and MPW, which were both really good too.

Worked on a homegrown Mac wsywyg editor back in the 90s. Arrays worked perfectly. If you are assuming that files fit in memory, using BlockMove() was very, very fast indeed. I can …

Yes, 6144x3456@60 was working, but not at 30bit, only 24bit. Sonoma fixes that part (for me)

I can verify that an M1-M3 Mac running Sonoma (14.1.1) the U3224KB supports 6144 x 3456 at 30bit (60Hz). Under Ventura this did not work. Seems fixed now.

Writing (and illustrating) an amateur novel is the most creative fun I've ever had. Highly recommended if you have a mind to try. (trained artist, but software developer by day) I …

Seconded. This is great software sold the old-fashioned way: pay once and upgrade when you want to. The lovely lack of mental friction around this model is something I miss dearly,…