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I thought this was pretty great! “Codebase and tooling as extended cognition” is a helpful way of understanding why it just feels so bad when technical debt passes a certain thresh…

I’ve seen this sentiment a lot, and I do understand it but… I just feel so completely differently. The 2000s web, early web apps and Flash, the iPhone and smartphone revolution, th…

Thanks for taking the time to write that! I really enjoyed hearing about your journey, and I learned a fair bit about the Coco too, which wasn’t really known in my part of the worl…

Maybe not in 1982, but as other commenters have pointed out, by 1985 you had the Amiga, which definitely DID have serious co-processors.

I had the same reaction, and had to read it three or four times to make sense of it. (Native speaker, with a degree in English.) I think it’s a very hard-to-follow sentence constru…

Egads, that spell checker is absolutely beautiful. I guess it’s worth pointing out that he does support one of the arguments the article makes: > But they didn't, and come to think…

Is there a mechanism for applying, or were you able to ask via a friend? This is right up my alley — I like the Lobsters format, and have long wished for a game dev-specific take o…

For a recent side project, I made a short incremental game to teach myself F#. I absolutely loved the experience, so put my hand up to do what turned into a fairly big blog post fo…

Thank you! I never understood the expression, but this explanation was immediately clarifying for me.

No-Bullshit Games [1] is a good resource for finding quality fixed-cost / premium games. [1] https://nobsgames.stavros.io/

In my country (New Zealand), while we wouldn’t expect that wealth necessarily came from cheating and stealing, the idea of money as “abstraction of reputation and honor” would be f…

I’m just on 1080p and a GTX 1070, so haven’t experienced it for myself, but from Digital Foundry’s breakdown of DLSS 2.0 in Control, it sure looks to be more than a “cute hack”. ht…

I read “niche within a niche” as referring to multi-lingual accessibility within the ‘niche’ of Gemini.

“Same rules for everyone” resonates very strongly here in New Zealand. There is a book-length study [1] on our national obsession with ‘fairness’ (contrasted with the USA and ‘free…

As I understood it, that particular activist had gone public by that point.

I think the “Reddit one-upsmanship” that the parent was referring to was actually in the other direction; i.e., people “one-upping” how long it took them to read it.

I’m pretty excited about the upcoming Playdate: https://play.date/

I've been constantly surprised about how little scrutiny that kind of statement has received in the media - American or otherwise. I thought it would've publicly raised more hackle…

My understanding is that, as a non US-citizen, I'd be generally considered 'fair game' for a lot of blanket surveillance that would not be applied to Americans. Maybe this is what …

Yep, those kind of 2d metaballs are indeed doable in GLSL - I have a WebGL proof-of-concept lying around. I really struggled to get good performance, though my shader-fu isn't up t…

Having just completed a large project with Lua, I have to say that the indice/ordinal notation thing is something that we quickly got used to. In fact, some nice succinct idioms wo…

Lua's core string manipulation has been kept (as I understand it) deliberately limited in order to keep the implementation simple. What is present - e.g., simplified pattern-matchi…

Yeah, I've basically had to institute a 'no working after dinner' rule for myself. If I have extra tasks to get done, I get up early - sometimes very early - but an early morning s…