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“So what does a game designer do? Are you an artist? Do you design characters and write the story? Or no, wait, you’re a programmer?” Game design is one of those nebulous terms to people outside the game industry that’s about as clear as the “astrophysicist” job title is to me. It’s also my job
16 Jan, 2025 The Simplest Guide to Writing Great Documentation Writing documentation has never been easy, not even for developers who love sharing their knowledge. It’s one thing to build a software tool, but explaining it to others in a way that’s simple and clear is a whole different challenge. One common mistake in writing
Earlier this year, I attended CfgMgmtCamp in Ghent and listened to Adam Jacob’s “What if Infrastructure as Code never existed” keynote. Note: I’d like to extend a huge thanks to Adam for taking the time to review this post, and for an unnamed person for consistently reviewing these posts and for inspiring the thoughts here.
What if you had an isolation anomaly with yourself? If you’re receiving this as an email, thank you for entrusting me with your email address, I know that’s a big ask and I am honoured to be gracing your inbox. If you’re seeing this via RSS or just got linked to it, and thus didn’t
Here’s a rant from my evil twin Tyromight, which I publish without endorsement as it appears to be an unhinged polemic with no constructive solutions.Say that when people apply for their first driver’s license, 1% get Executive Platinum licenses. For life, they get free use of toll roads and can drive 20% over the speed
David Banks, Department of StatisticsCarnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 15213 The most important question we can ask of historians is “Why are some periods and places so astonishingly more productive than the rest?” It is intellectually embarrassing that this is almost never posed squarely — I can think of only two articles (Gray, 1958 and
After faculty protests and a debate over racial equity, the state’s public universities reconsider whether high school students can skip a foundational course.California is one of 17 states that now offer data science to high school students as an alternative to Algebra II.Credit…Jim Wilson/The New York TimesSince 2020, California has led a contentious experiment in
HELP SUPPORT MY WORK: If you’re feeling flush then please stop by Patreon Or you can make a one off donation via ko-fi Ever since discovering these crazy wireless LEDs I’ve been messing around with wireless charging technology. So far I’ve been a bit disappointed with what I’ve been able to do, it’s been great
Nothing had prepared William Passano for a new technology introduced in 1960 that threatened to upend his medical publishing business: the Xerox 914 photocopier. The machine offered the ability to produce cheap and quick duplicates that allowed the government’s National Library of Medicine to mass photocopy articles from his company’s copyrighted medical journals. Passano eventually