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Game development serves as a vibrant canvas for one's creativity. Especially when focusing on small games, which are simple to create and instantly enjoyable, one can quickly immerse oneself in their allure. Through this article, I aim to delve into the joy of crafting small games.
The relentless accumulation (and management) of snow.
Some people have asked me why I blog and why I value writing in general. These are my reasons, in roughly decreasing order of importance to me.
Swipe Right on Your Dream Job
Want to learn something new? Get a personal teacher as soon as possible. If you don't have enough money to pay someone, find a mentor among your friends o...
Personalized learning can feel isolating. Whole class learning can feel personal. This is hard to understand.
Engineering, Robotics, AI, Technology
Exploratory interfaces for navigating photos
Social media aggravates the ego. Virtuous content drifts to the extremes and becomes counter productive at scale. Focusing on external validation is futile and robs the soul of a deeper meaning.
Transcription of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar 7 March 1986
(Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned)
Truth time! I love transparency because it takes away the uncertainty and illusions. It helps and inspires people to plan and execute based on facts, not bullshit.
My $200, 12-year-old Thinkpad has outlasted two high-end Macbooks
Advertisements straddle 48,756 miles of asphalt like 60-foot weeds. US billboards are windows into America's soul: strip clubs, bible verses, casinos, lawyers, and fast food.
Your knight for my pawn, and you have to take it.
Everyone has heard about the so-called “types of learning styles” auditory, visual, kinesthetic, and so on. And almost everything has been said about it. But what if there is a different categorization of learning? Maybe one that gives more inside? Well, I think there is. This time we split the act of learning just…
Twenty years... a significant chunk of a human's adult life; while so many things in my life have changed since May 2003, the blog has remained a constant companion. This milestone inspired me to do some archaeology using the amazing Wayback Machine . It didn't have the very first post, but I dug up one from just a…
This post was inspired by the tool jrnl which has been mentioned on hacker news.
My view on the state of social media in late 2023
a Review of my time in therapy
if you're lucky, you haven't. you're still using a microwave from the 1990's or something like that, and it still works just fine. after all, how can a microwave be made any better? you put stuff in, and the water in the stuff heats up. there really isn't much innovation to be done that wasn't already done half a…
My software developer colleagues often ask me where I do get all the time for reading all the tech books or articles, watching conference talks and listening to podcasts. I analyzed my consumption for November and December and here is, what I did (and that's only the tech related content): List
Zach Simone's homepage. iOS developer from Sydney.
