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Author here. I wrote this many years ago (2017?) while exploring techniques to create art that I could put up on my walls :-) If you enjoyed this article there are more similar one…

Does anyone know if there is something similar for 2D platformers?

Can I ask how you find the fastest links between countries and the servers for them? (Background: during my vacation last month I was playing an MMO from the APAC region but with s…

It really depends on the complexity of the topic and the accent of the speaker. Most videos I watch at 2.8x. Otherwise it's 2x.

These are a nice set of tools. I used this long ago for extracting onset times from audio files: https://sighack.com/post/extract-onset-beat-times-from-audio...

I really enjoyed the courses at: https://learnwatchmaking.com/

I wonder if there exists a Sci-Hub equivalent for ISO standard PDFs somewhere.

I know the feeling. I'm also motivated by small wins. However, at some point you have to face the realization that you need to power through some drudge work to get to those wins. …

Thanks to working from home during the pandemic I recovered some extra time from my daily commute, and I've been taking guitar lessons online. So far I've tried Skype and Zoom but …

Amazing how Stripe consistently executes fantastic solutions for all the very real and difficult pain points of building commercial products on the web. Fantastic work!

I've worked on several solo projects in the past. I've personally found the below stack to be quite productive: Frontend: NextJS + Tailwind Backend: Flask Ops: Heroku + addons

Interesting. Do you have some reference or link where I can learn more?

Very nice! I like your way much better than the one in my writeup :-) I'll refactor things over the weekend to use this approach if that's OK with you.

Agreed. The patterns are the most interesting bits. Actually, just the fact that there exist patterns is pretty amazing. It's unfortunately hard to see them through the notation an…

Oddly, for me it was the opposite! I used to be confused on why modes required modifying certain notes from a major scale until I tried deriving them in the way shown in the articl…

> Do I have to read x86/arm spec + pcie spec + acpi spec + usb spec? Pretty much, yeah. There's a reason not everyone is sitting around writing hardware drivers. The alternative is…

Honestly, this article presents a fairly ridiculous comparison. You could bump deploy times on Heroku to 20 minutes and I would still use it without a second thought. At best, I'll…

The graph approach (e.g. Wikipedia) is pretty much useless without a search engine (e.g. Google) directing you to the first useful node in the graph. When is the last time you just…

Can anyone more knowledgeable comment on the details and significance of the comment regarding the frequency of formation being a normal distribution? > Straight away, they noticed…

https://bellard.org/ Clean, well-documented projects showcasing demos that end up having huge impact. Some of these projects single-handedly spawned entire tech ecosystems. (see FF…