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I don't care about the formatting, I care about the available data types. JSON is just easy to use since it includes arrays/hash-tables and it is already supported by a large numbe…

I see some asking for stack support in the logs, and that is something I would be looking for. Often when an error happens on a server it might be inside some generic utility. At l…

I am reminded of the story of the fat cat that I recently read in a Brothers Grimm collection. In case it is not familiar to you: A cat and a mouse decide to team up and store up s…

Originally when I started out in the gaming industry in the early 2000s. There were close to zero code tests written by developers at that time at the studios I worked for. However…

I could write an entire blog post on my opinions on this topic. I continue to be extremely skeptical of TDD. It is sort of infamous but there is the incident where a TDD proponent …

It's such a tiny thing, but my pet peeve is exclamation marks in error messages. "Something went wrong!" is something I see a lot of engineers do. I don't usually call it out but i…

TikTok scares me in the same way that DALL-E scare me. DALL-E is very, very good, but still obviously flawed. But behind the flaws I know it will get better. Like the original iPho…

This makes me wonder if a future job description will be the equivalent of an AI whisperer. Someone who learns how to prompt AI so well that it becomes their job.

I once interviewed with a crypto exchange and after getting the offer I noticed it was for contract and not full-time as had initially been offered. I went back to them and said I …

I love this idea and I could see myself using it in 1:1 meetings with my direct reports. One of the advantages of getting older is the experience one gains. It is often the case th…

I don't know if it is the same word but it reminds me of a joke a Brazilian friend told me when we were discussing how it can be hard to translate jokes. He mentioned that someone …

I know this is a crazy thought and not inline with a lot of the blizzard hate - but why don't games like this allow more gifting style mechanics? I consider the Twitch gift sub mar…

I have fear that the cathartic pessimism we sometimes enjoy ironically is turning into a chronic fatalism. It's like a habit that has become an addiction. I think the author was in…

I've been thinking about a life-sim type game with a rogue legacy type spin. Basically you get N actions per day (3, 5, 7, whatever works) that depend on your characters age. You m…

This is a fair criticism of how I chose to tell the story. The line you quoted was supposed to refer to the character introduced in the second paragraph and not to a generic stereo…

When I first started programming I was pretty lucky to get a job at a games company. My first lead was a veteran who had shipped a lot of AAA titles and he loved his war stories. H…

The amount of money a reseller is willing to pay for his goods to appear in a curated list is likely to always be higher than the amount of money a consumer is willing to pay for a…

I watch a lot of YouTube and a fair amount of Twitch. Sooner or later every creator talks a bit about their anxiety working in that content creator grind. On Twitch, taking a day o…

I think this is partially due to meditation being strongly associated in Western culture with New Thought [1] type movements. This diverse movement is the inspiration for most of t…

I wanted to keep my post short so I didn't list all of the ways I feel we express this tendency. Others mentioned podcasts and talk radio but Youtube and Twitch are great examples.…

People often say they will keep old TV shows like Friends, How I Met Your Mother or The Office on in the background. I think it simulates the feeling of having familiar social conn…

I argue that patterns learned on individual tests would apply to new tests. There are a set of patterns which have already been called out here. Translation, rotations, exclusions,…

I used to do well at these pattern matching tests with consistent scores in the range 125 - 135. This one I hit 118 but I ran out of time around question 32. I got stun locked on a…

> When code running in a virtual thread calls a blocking I/O operation in the java.* API, the runtime performs a non-blocking OS call and automatically suspends the virtual thread …

I've been thinking about how asmr relates to music quite a lot lately. Some people think it is just a weird thing, but asmr videos of people brushing onto mics are getting millions…