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This is a great callout. I think for a newcomer this is where loading an existing game (like Celeste...) and just changing sprites or updating logic gets you some of the non-built …

It falls short on your 3d request, but for someone new to things I'd go down the pico-8 rabbit hole. There are some really spectacular (given the limitations) 3d games, but they're…

Pairing A Patriot's History and A People's History makes for some interesting perspective. They don't really offer explicit points/counterpoints, but they certainly frame things di…

- childsplay https://childsplay.en.uptodown.com/ubuntu (mentioned elsewhere) - doudou linux http://www.doudoulinux.org/web/english/index.html (an entire linux distro that wraps gco…

I'm new-ish to a management role and trying to figure out how 1:1, 360 reviews, annual reviews, and team dynamics should be working. I'm currently doing something like: http://impe…

DevOps is a moving target right now, and a lot of great fundamentals are linked here already. I'd also recommend subscribing to, and reading old issues of: https://sreweekly.com/ h…

I've got a 5 year old Leopard and a 1.5 year old Wild Dog that are perfectly satisfactory. I have a month old Oryx, and my sentiment follows the general comments - I'd probably spe…

If you did have an iTunes account, you were prime for an iPhone purchase. That demographic had a clean experience of buying a mobile device that was super-capable (someone could pr…

Monetizing was Apple's success, but in the early iPhones, I'd argue it was a lot of carry over from iTunes. Apple forced you to have an Apple ID, and associated with the Apple ID m…

Not strictly related, but on your second point - http://www.libertypuzzles.com/ makes some really great puzzles that have very unique ("whimsy", iirc) pieces. I've gotten a few for…

Kiwi Crates (and Koala - haven't tired the older age targeting boxes) are excellent, our 4 and 5 year olds love them. The results don't have a lot of longevity, at least for the Ki…

I use a git hook that builds locally on commits to master (with some cleaning just in case I was testing weird things from non-master). I host on s3, but I don't think the s3 trans…

This is great supplemental data, much appreciated!

Lots of people are already using it, so it has familiarity (I was thinking more than pgbouncer, pure conjecture though). I think if you wanted to have the simplest possible solutio…

This seems robust, but feels like more moving parts than are necessary. I feel like HAProxy with PostgreSQL + Bucardo (multi-master + at least one slave) would achieve this, and ne…

Packer is great for generating AMIs, particularly if you're already using some form of config mgmt. It will let you tie in your existing puppet/chef/salt/ansible/shell/etc. and out…

This got me; often you want clock_timestamp() or timeofday(). I wrote about it, too - http://imperialwicket.com/postgresql-getting-now-in-function...

ELK and others have been mentioned and are great tools, but if you want a more simple solution within the Sql realm postgresql with table partitions works well for that particular …

Per-second metrics and a (claimed by netflix) pluggable system for custom metrics that's likely easier than pushing custom cloudmetrics data. Some data from Netflix employees here:…

Since logstash was already mentioned, it's worth putting https://github.com/elasticsearch/logstash-forwarder here, as the logstash team built it as a solution for logstash-type nee…

I made a data star supporting weather/water sensor data in postgresql that heavily relied on table partitions for handling performance [1]. We had it on pretty weak machines, repli…

That's a meaningful data point, and impressive! Nonetheless, I think Opera is exceptional for a few reasons and for a smaller dev, there's little practicality to J2ME. It's much mo…

Another huge challenge with J2ME application development is the marketplace options. Most of these are carrier controlled, and you must pass certification tests per carrier, per de…