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>The string processing is powerful, but inconvenient when you want to do things like indexing by offsets or ranges, due to Unicode semantics. (This is probably a good thing in gene…

In absolute terms the number of people with deep knowledge here is probably higher than it’s ever been. The ratio has changed, which is what I think he’s actually lamenting here. H…

If they are competing with each other such that neither are getting done are they really priorities?

I would not have been as kind to FF7 as this author was. By any modern measure it is a bad game. The raw story material and the character design is fantastic. But the gameplay. The…

Seems like Jonathan Blow, the creator of Jai, releases a game every decade or so. I wonder if the plan is to release his next game in a couple of years. Presumably it is written in…

My mobile game https://smoldungeon.com doesn't make me any money. Was very fun to make though

The author mentions the following: fn add(x: Option , y: Option ) -> Option { if x.is_none() || y.is_none() { return None; } return Some(x.unwrap() + y.unwrap()); } The above looks…

Is Elon Musk this century's Howard Hughes?

I wrote a short guide for how I did some of the pixel art in Smol Dungeon. Hopefully I kept it approachable. https://smoldungeon.com/pixel-art

I think that's how the Hey email service does it.

What a cool project, I bet they learned a ton doing this.

I run a few websites on a single Linode, they're quite snappy if you don't do too much. No fancy optimizations required, just keep it vanilla, you can make great websites with just…

One of my all-time favorite works of non-fiction. Essential reading for software engineers.

I don't know if I would agree that the final scene is more readable - especially the treasure chest. I can't deny it looks much nicer though! I spent a lot of time tweaking the spr…

It's still around in some places, CrossFit gyms still include sit-ups and GHD sit-ups in their programming. But CrossFit and ill-thought movements go hand in hand.

How many floppies to install Windows 9.93?

Thanks! Yeah it struggles with periodic functions that are wide. For example it successfully crosses zero with sin(PIxN/5) and delivers reasonable results for sin(PIxN/3). For your…

how would you describe the pattern of the first one?

I wrote a little hobbyist AI project [1] with no neural networks at all and was delighted with how good the results were. Definitely think the field is ready to start incorporating…

These ideas extend well beyond the realm of streaming apps too - so much of the software I use day to day is shockingly bad. Far, far too much churn driven from ladder-climbing obs…

Oh thanks! I'll do that, I do not know anything about SEO.

I made a little dungeon crawler game that I needed to make to prove to myself I could actually ship a complete game, which has been a struggle for me. https://smoldungeon.com