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I created Papers, Please in 2013 specifically for desktop computers with mouse control. Now, here, in 2022, desktop computers no longer exist and all computing is done via handheld mobile telephone. Time to update this dinosaur. These thousands of words and megabytes of images will cover some bits of porting the game…
In this blogpost I argue why it's strongly recommended to use ZFS with ECC memory when building a NAS. I would argue that if you do not use ECC memory, it's reasonable to also forgo on ZFS altogether and use any (legacy) file system that suits your needs.
A minimal guide to everyday Git for solo developers: initialize a repo, add files, commit changes, view history, and restore earlier versions.
I run FreeBSD as my daily driver on both my main workstation and on all my servers and I have been running FreeBSD since about 1999 because I consider it an amazing operating system. In this article I will address some of the technical reasons for choosing FreeBSD over a GNU/Linux distribution.
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.3, the third release from the NetBSD 9 stable branch.
As a man of wide-ranging curiosity, Terry Pratchett was drawn to personal computers early. In 1981, he purchased a Sinclair ZX81 in kit form and soldered it together successfully. He soon upgraded to a Sinclair Spectrum and then to an Amstrad CPC 464 , which was his first computer strong enough to run a practical word…
Understanding how the group by and having clauses work can help us write more efficient SQL. I want to demonstrate this with an example…
My informal survey reveals the decline of an insipid but historic genre
I can’t believe I have to write this down right now, but my dear friends, medieval people bathed regularly. Yes. I assure you. I am very serious. It is true. In fact, medieval people loved a bath a…
Procter & Gamble has driven research on TMAO and heart disease since 2015
The Black Chamber was founded by the U.S. Army and the U.S. State Department in 1919. The Secretary of State terminated funding in 1929, famously writing that "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail."
We’re announcing that Meta AI has built and released BlenderBot 3, the first 175B parameter, publicly available chatbot complete with model weights, code, datasets, and model cards. We’ve deployed it in a live interactive conversational AI demo.
A major reason that cryptocurrencies have become such a problem is that mainstream journalists normally just regurgitate the hype they are f...
After 9 months of development, Godot 3.5 is out and it comes fully packed with features and quality of life improvements! This includes a new Navigation system, 3D physics interpolation, Label3D and TextMesh, an Android editor port, asynchronous shader compilation, and more!
Nix is all about applying functional programming to files and processes.
A new tool to empower everyone on the web with privacy-respecting online identity and consent-based data sharing
arc42 is a template for architecture communication and documentation. It is a proven, practical and highly pragmatic approach and takes the pain out of documentation.
Michał Tajchert — Chief Technology Officer. Mobile, platform & eCommerce engineering. Warsaw, PL.
I’m not really one to brag publicly about expensive toys, but a few weeks ago I managed to get one that’s really something special. It is a Curta Type II , a mechanical digital 1 calculator manufactured in Liechtenstein between the 50s and 70s, before solid-state calculators killed them and the likes of slide-rules.
It’s That Blog Post. The release one, where we round up all the last of the features approved since the last time I blogged. If you’re
A pocket guide to Neapolitan nonverbal communication.
...long live its subpar replacement
How snippets in Google’s search results are being improved by forming them around where quoted words or phrases occur in a web document.
Does it ever feel like the internet is getting worse? That’s been my impression for the last decade. The internet feels now like it consists of ten big sites, plus fifty auxiliary sites that come up whenever you search for something outside of the everyday ten. It feels like it’s harder to find amateur opinions on…
Advanced Web Application Architecture allows you to spot what kind of code you're dealing with:
It’s hot these days, it’s unusually hot, even dangerously hot, in a lot of places a lot of the time. While America has been hit hard this summer, it seems that Europe has been hit even …
Use connect-web to generate compact, idiomatic TypeScript clients for your Protobuf APIs.
