Mixed topics #
- Magnasanti- Simcity 3000 absolute maximum
- Blogpost about Magnasanti
- Shamelessness as a strategy
- kottke.org
- How Delia Derbyshire made the Doctor Who theme
- QuoDB - Find quotes in movie lines
- People spend too much time on decisions with equally satisfying outcomes
- Buridan's ass
- The Case of the mysterious holes on the seafloor
- Microship: An amphibian pedal/solar/sail micro-trimaran
- Beware what sounds insightful
- Nonlinear junction detector
- Blizzard in a rough patch or a longer decline
- Study shows anti-piracy ads often made people pirate more
- Freeciv: Open-source empire-building strategy game
- Mindustry: A sandbox tower-defense game
It's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all Is Truth Beauty and Is Beauty Truth, and Does A Falling Tree in the Forest Make A Sound if There's No One There to Hear It, and then, just when you think they're going to start dribbling, one of 'em says, "Incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles."
Small gods by Terry Pratchett
Developer links #
- Nocom coordinate exploit
- How to create a Python package in 2022
- How to create an online course guide
- DevRel first 90 days
- How Hertz paid Accenture $32 million for a website that never went live
- Technical writing courses
- pngquant for lossy compression of PNG images
- Reddit's database has two tables
- How to present to executives