- Dev
- Front End Dev is a mess.
- Another C++ Book to keep you in the straight and narrow?
- Game Studio Ownership - The great purchasing
- Vectorized sort from Google
- PYSnooper
- Old school text to speech C code
- Pixel Art - Common Mistakes
- Debug forwards and backwards on Linux with RR
- Python 3.11 speed boost
- Slow loading in GTA V
- Technology
- Human
- Software
Dev
Front End Dev is a mess.
Coming from a C++ background I still think this is a problem with web development and I think it’s starting to affect C++ development.
https://www.breck-mckye.com/blog/2018/05/why-is-front-end-development-so-unstable/
Another C++ Book to keep you in the straight and narrow?
https://www.cppstories.com/2022/embracing-modern-cpp-book/
Game Studio Ownership - The great purchasing
https://i.imgur.com/QprOdzH.png
Vectorized sort from Google
PYSnooper
New to me, debug python without littering your code with print(). Surely not!
https://github.com/cool-RR/PySnooper/
Old school text to speech C code
An online version is here.
https://github.com/s-macke/SAM
Pixel Art - Common Mistakes
Very nice work, great tips in here.
https://derekyu.com/makegames/pixelart2.html
Debug forwards and backwards on Linux with RR
Python 3.11 speed boost
I don’t use python for speed but it’s always nice to get some for free.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=python-311-benchmarks
Slow loading in GTA V
This article came up on my radar again. What was notable was the comments on HackerNews blaming the developers for not being curious. They clearly don’t work in a modern game development company where you are siloed, tired and sometimes totally inexperienced.
https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/
Technology
This stuff is inspiring. Shoulders of giants etc. Xerox PARC.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-parc
Private Translations in Mozilla
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/local-translation-add-on-project-bergamot/
Micro Python
Embedded python software and hardware.
QUIC
For some reason I ended up reading this Wikipedia page on a protocol I don’t care about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC
OpenBSD on a Pine64 board-like-thing.
Always good to see a BSD booting on something odd
https://bsandro.tech/posts/openbsd-7.1-on-pine64-rockpro64/
List of UNIX Window Managers
Cripes there are a lot of window managers out there for UNIX. I thought there were about 20!
https://www.gilesorr.com/wm/table.html
Human
It’s decided: decisive people no more accurate than self-doubters
This feels like bull to me.
People pay (by hearing adverts) to listen to white noise?
Justice is hard, I hope this isn’t true.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-depp-heard-verdict-is-chilling
Who are the Celts?
The weirdness of race rears it’s head again. Odd academia, skull measuring and the mythology of archaeology.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0017b0b/ardal-ohanlon-tomb-raider
Software
New Inkscape is always good.
https://inkscape.org/news/2022/05/16/inkscape-12/
Linux on old iPads - lets hope so.
I’d rather it was a BSD but finding a way to use old iDevices would be good for the planet in many ways.