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Thanks! Would love to hear your thoughts if you get a chance to play it. I'm currently working on adding a few more towers and challenges. After that maybe I'll deep-dive into the …

Hah, I thought a lot about this problem while developing Sky Lobby, a mobile game (iOS / Android) about controlling and automating elevators. In the game, some of the elevators are…

That's a great point, and yes, probably. Perhaps society is pushing in two opposing directions, the tech-enhanced and the purist / artisan. Whether one will win or they will be abl…

At first glance, it looks similar to Conductor ( https://www.conductor.build/ ). It seems like a lot of these tools are converging on the same general ideas. Could you share a comp…

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Love the simple landing page! How big is the free tier? The pricing slider seems to show that you pay $39 for anything more than 0 requests.

Thanks for the great article, you've inspired me to take another shot at making a habit of learning through spaced repetition! I had a question: how much time do you typically spen…

Here is another one I thought of the other day. Q: Given V (the number of vertices), E (the number of edges) and L (a list of the edges) for a connected undirected graph, determine…

Out of interest, how do you find such auctions in the UK?

At least some of the books you mention arguably can be (and are by Google) classified as biography, so they would not be removed by the rule of thumb. But perhaps a better way of p…

Although I haven't read Tracy Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine", Google categorizes it as Biography, so if you buy that then by the rule of thumb it would not be off limits. And…

It is indeed machine-solvable; I wrote a solver for regexcrossword.com puzzles a while back ( https://github.com/hermanschaaf/regex-crossword-solver ). It was great fun, maybe even…

I'd like to know whether this is true, and if it is, how are they accessing information from a different open tab? My hope is that the Linkedin support staff is misinformed in this…

Robot Turtles looks great, thanks!

Do you have any recommended toys (preferably physical, touchable objects, not software) for teaching young children the fundamentals of coding? I understand that at this age they m…

This sounds like an interesting mix between a ToDo list and a wiki, and it would help set up repeatable processes in an organization. Is my understanding correct? With the task tra…