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Oh man, the music in all their games is top-notch!

Printing the physical zines in exapunks as a reference was very cool, and a good throwback to when games shipped with boxes and detailed manuals. Spacechem was my intro to Zachtron…

I think my network card does that.

I've got this setup recently via pipewire! With something like barrier for kvm, it's great! I have an alias on each side -- one gets a new source, the other a new sink. audio_recv=…

Left to his own devices, I found Claude liked to copy the code under test into the test files to 'remove dependencies' :/ Or would return early from playwright tests when the desir…

I have the Kinesis Advantage 360 which is split but has all the non-numpad buttons. I do spend lots of time in Emacs, but also use it for plenty of gaming. Just remap in-game to ES…

I'm making a game finally! Merge-three + village sim. Hoping to actually take this one to something polished as opposed to the many half-finished prototypes littering my git repo o…

Semi-related; One of the Zelda DS games required you to close the DS (so the top and bottom screen met), which moved a mark from the top to bottom screen. Was infuriating for me, o…

Down a lot now, but likely peaked in the 70s -- Kids growing up then are likely 50-60 which are the higher turnout voting brackets. There's a lagging effect from lead exposure, so …

I wonder how much this is causing the worldwide swing toward authoritarianism. Lead exposure can cause lower conscientiousness, lower agreeableness, and higher neuroticism.[1] Espe…

Yeah, having all the defaults for system keybinds be on super is really nice. It feels like macosx lucked into this with their historical use of command as the modifier, but I also…

It's harder to learn the impact of your design decisions -- Seeing how software evolves to meet changing business goals and how the design choices made play out in the long run hel…

I've thought about this a lot in relation to typescript over the years and had various opinions -- For some time I thought it'd be better if there was an implicit `await` on every …

I was just trying this -- you can even do in-browser typescript compilation. But I was missing hot-reload -- Constantly switching between the browser and my editor. A refresh timer…

The original is open source! https://github.com/tobspr-games/shapez.io?tab=readme-ov-file

There's a few in Hampstead on the aptly-named Cannon lane. https://livinglondonhistory.com/the-history-of-hampsteads-ol...

I used to rinse with mouthwash after brushing but was told the toothpaste has a much higher concentration, so it's better to leave the toothpaste.

I'm pretty happy with our setup, though we use flags mostly for feature releases and only have a few long-lived ones. State kept in a database table indexed on customer. One row pe…

There was one in London I used to walk past all the time. It was a neat experience to shop there once, but the selection was very slim and ocado was even more convenient. I'd alway…

Could malware authors add a clickthrough EULA and be off the hook?

Levitt has his own podcast, "people I mostly admire." Interview format. I really enjoy his questions and perspectives. He asks things I don't really hear from other interviewers.

I'm really glad they exist! These days I mostly use wine via Proton/steam, but used cxoffice back before LibreOffice / google docs. Today I just use crossover to run Quicken, which…

I'd love my trackpad and mouse be separate -- It'd be nice to have the trackpad maybe constrained to the laptop screen and the mouse cover both the built-in and external one. Maybe…

Agreed the lack of closure was frustrating. Stemming the tide maybe? Don't want people to leave when they see a respected or well tenured person leave / get laid off? All happened …

A former company I was at was really weirdly tight-lipped about people leaving. I'm sure totally unrelatedly, we got dinged a bunch on our SOC2 reports improper "off-boarding" and …