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For prototyping I usually use Kenney assets (from kenney.nl). Theres lots of assets for many types of games which lets you rapidly prototype and iterate without worrying about maki…

Interesting account of how living a democracy at a company level fails. The power of the people we pride ourselves on at a state level fails to take hold in the workplace.

I found this post by Carlos really interesting. Seeing the file size of the data for the whole world is kind of like seeing the size of all of wikipedia compressed, it fills me wit…

The book predates the song and album by about 7 years, so the album name references the book. Postman even mentioned the fact in his 1995 book "The end of education"

Wow, I just love interactive blog posts like this. For grids I can really recommend just playing around with grid areas in a tool like https://grid.layoutit.com/ I've been using th…

I dont know why but this story always makes me laugh. It is genuinely well written and mixes casual insanity with humour so well that I cannot help but laugh at it every time. Hope…

Oh nice, didn't realize HeartBeast switched to Godot. When I first got into game dev with GameMaker Studio about 8 years ago I used to watch his videos a lot to learn, I guess now …

I'm gonna start myself with something I got into again recently. I got back into game development as a hobby a couple of weeks ago (sadly just after Ludum Dare ended) and have sinc…

I thought this post[1] from exactly a year ago was a nice type of post and so to celebrate it I thought I would start another to show the diverse interest of the HN community. Chee…

Deconstruct what you already know into smaller parts until you reach "atomic" knowledge (i.e. things that cannot be reduced into other factors). At every step ask yourself "Why is …

I feel like the difficulty of finding social networks offline is an effect of the availability of online connections, something that I noticed a lot during the pandemic. Whenever I…

Yeah that's what I thought as well, especially when he mentioned how people before would just sit in front of the tv instead of online. Still, I'm not sure if it makes a difference…

What I ask myself about this article is if and how the outcome would be different almost 10 years on. "Digital Detox" of course is a thing but rarely if ever does it go beyond a co…