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The PTO doesn't have to be all or nothing. Would a more strategic 2-week (or 1-week) break be better received? Also as a more passive job-seeking strategy, you could leverage your …

Extremely well said.

It may be helpful to consider the matter from the lens of 'what is my core competency'. I had similar existential questions recently, and pursued an MBA to that end (after realisin…

Is this about the original Sim City, Sim City 2000, or does it cover all of them in a general way?

My advice would be to dip your toes into some of the languages / frameworks that the "specific tech stack" jobs are wanting, so you at least have some exposure to it. Then, you can…

The hip swivel worked well, functionally, but I always lamented how stiff the character animation looked because of it. Was the vertex compression responsible for the wobbling/swim…

That is an excellent resource. Thank you for sharing

Agree with this. For me, being able to tweak Quake (when it came out) was massive. You could poke around in QuakeC, make a funny model / map etc. The fact that customisability exte…

Similar thing in Terminator: Skynet back in the day. Shoot at the moon and you get an "Ow!" message appearing in your status area. A few more potshots and it literally falls out of…

Certainly id's code is clean and well-structured, however I always had a tough time trying to grok it as a layperson. Comments (those within the functions) are relatively sparse, a…

This nomenclature was often used in licensed Quake codebases to indicate places where a vendor would put their own Mission Pack-specific alterations into the code. I guess they jus…

Great story, thank you for sharing. I had a similar experience merely as an attendee at a local meetup. I submitted an idea for a quick talk, performed well, and this set me up wel…

For things like doctor's appointments and being at home for tradespeople, I just put them in my work Outlook calendar as 'private' appointments. I may also make an alarm on my phon…

This might not be what you want, but you can direct the Wayback Machine on the Internet Archive to explicitly remember specific URLs. More info here: https://help.archive.org/help/…

Thanks for that. I was still wondering why the flashing couldn't be achieved on a running system as-per the usual method of updating the proprietary manufacturer's BIOS. I found th…

Fascinating. So he's loaded a full instance of Dos/Win3.1 onto the chip used for the Thinkpad's BIOS itself? Very cool. One thing I didn't understand was why it was necessary to di…

Try the "Pause notifications" feature. Users will be informed of this state when DM-ing you, which can serve to reduce the volume of messages. In the same menu, you could also choo…

This has happened enough that I've come to identify a pattern. For me, it's a combination of a poor environment (bad configuration of team, project or workplace) and plain-old gene…

In terms of storing your credentials, is your current Excel file password-protected? If not, I would do this at a minimum if you are committed to the Excel approach, and it's very …

For Github (can't speak for Bitbucket) you can consider the alternative authentication mechanism of Personal Access Tokens (PAT). This is simpler to use than an SSH keypair, and ca…

A very nice little mixed-media editor. Slightly more heavyweight in terms of file dependencies than I'm used to on Windows (but makes sense given cross-platform origins). Strikes m…

That's a very sad story. I hope he's doing well now, if he's still around.

Loving those double-res Sim City 2000 sprites from SimHealth :) Beautiful.

As someone who is getting into TypeScript from a strong C# background (i.e. getting pulled kicking and screaming into modern web dev through necessity), this article was incredibly…

Nice set of 8 articles (so far) detailing the author's journey. Features Quake nostalgia :)