A fun read.

One of NetHack4 developers playtested several NetHack variants and told their findings and thoughts on balance in great design.

I've never got to Sokoban in NetHack. I basically don't know how to play. Despite that, I enjoyed this ridiculously long article.

Also, it was the first article in 6 years in the blog. Luckily, RSS catches everything.

Killed by Google is the open source list of dead Google products, services, and devices. It serves as a tribute and memorial of beloved services and products killed by Google.

Stories like this make me want to get a GBA SP, but the prices for screenmodded GBA:s make me unwant.

Красиво! Надо себе выбрать завяз нормальный, а то я как-то плохо шнурки завязываю. Меня Б. как-то учил крутому узлу, но я забыл.

Христофор приплывает на землю счастливых людей и сразу думает о том, как его отнять. Чем всё закончилось, знаем.

... we are heading to the world where 10% of population would be able to produce all the goods needed.

... How is the 90% going to make their living?

They are not. If nothing changes they are going to die of hunger. And even worse, once that happens there will be only 10% of the population left, so the market shrinks to one tenth of its original size. At that point only only one tenth of the survivors — 1% of the orginal population — will be needed to produce all the goods. Thus, 9% will be left with no work to do and will also die of hunger. Now, of course, the demand plummets to 1% of what it used to be in the past and, given the improved efficiency, only 0.1% is needed to satisfy it. 0.9% is left with no work, is starved to death etc. Vicious circle perpetuates until the last human being dies of hunger.

All in all, there are three possible solutions:

1. Decrease efficiency

2. Work less

3. Consume more

I think the initial problem is wrong. We still need at least some millions of people to sustain the world. We can't go to one person in the limit who will manage a farm, a factory and an internet server all by themselves.

The author says the proposed three solution won't solve the problem long term. Yeah, they won't. They aren't solving it now. Says a universal basic income might help, but says it's a topic for another day.

See also /408

Take the cost of introducing new abstractions to your code in consideration.

A fish in the water doesn’t know what water is, a fish would also be a horrible swimming instructor.

The subjective experiencer definitely knows something that the observer doesn’t, but there are probably things that the observer can understand that they can’t and they might not be able to ever grasp it.

I check this one every time

Антон Жиянов рекламирует свой новый реестр. Там показано, как расширение в Го подключить, может пригодиться потом.

Search engine optimisation (SEO) is killing the web. Bots are writing text for other bots to read, wasting electricity and contributing to our downfall. The faster this bubble bursts, the better. I’m intent on helping it into the abyss. This is my Butlerian Jihad.

So what’s the alternative?

Link aggregators that allow people voting, with federation to allow for different communities to form, and moderation to prevent vandalism, hate-speech, spam and trolls. And then search there.

Edbrowse, a text based editor browser.

Mini computer easel is complete. I will continue to think about how to make it more stable/solid, but seems quite workable for my purposes.

the #conlang nerd in me is so tickled that more than one person has designed and/or build #tokiPona keyboards 🤓

There is a non-zero chance that I may try to make a pi zero terminal or something to use with the discord and toiki.social at some point

The keyboard is cute! A symmetrical layout. 3 keys for fingers, except for the index, which has 6; 3 thumbs. Low profile.

There are several tens of members. New members are accepted.

Unit tests are not a panacea. End-to-end tests are often much more useful. Some things cannot be tested at all. Think before testing.

They predicted we would have to work less now. We work the same, and we have a lot of “bullshit jobs”. I don't like name, but the term seems to be popular, so I'll stick with it for now. Why such jobs emerge? People need work, and if there is no real work, they are fine with fake work.

GRR Martin has a nice way of captivating the readers while still killing the characters all around the story. Usually, that wouldn't work, but he has a trick.

They identified several problems with Markdown and proposed solutions to it for a future markup. I know of a good solution, which has no such ambiguities — Mycomarkup. Although a lot of points of the article do not really apply, as Mycomarkup is missing some features...

Why in C = means assignment

RMS was right with the four freedoms. Copyleft was the solution all along. Then Ploum lists the freedoms and a new obligation:

• The right to use the software at your own discretion

• The right to study the software

• The right to modify the software

• The right to redistribute the software, including with modifications

• The obligation to keep those four rights, effectively keeping the software in the commons.

A surprisingly cute Linux-related news forum.

Very true! Some time ago I came to a similar conclusion, and since then try to not joke like that.

An extremely vibeful site. Don't forget to check the Gopher version too! And Fedi too.

A good tool to test if your site is compliant. Mine is, somewhat.

The oEmbed spec

Mark up meetings.

Find a web page made by an IndieWeb community member.

Does not work for some reason.

Добро пожаловать в Швецию на русском языке! Найдите ответы на все ваши вопросы о Швеции и шведах здесь.

Красивый официальный сайт страны! Прикольно, не знал, что так бывает.

Половина июня позади. Друзья и родственники собираются на самый шведский из всех шведских праздников: Мидсоммар.

Лендинг солнцестояния.

Play Yume 2kki in multiplayer with your friends, no account or downloads required.

Ortho33 is a constrained input system designed to work with a 3x3 ortholinear keypad, such as the one found on a standard numberpad.

Fediverse Network Statistics

Mastodon is the biggest with big leap. Second is Lemmy (wow! big growth). Mastodon has 7.5 mln users, Lemmy has 622 k usrs. Misskey has 328 k users.

Create your own train subway map with our metro map maker! Draw the perfect transit map design, then download and share with the world for free.

Used it to map my and B.'s Minecraft metro system.

Encycla is a new kind of encyclopedia that makes it easy for anyone to share what they know.

See also: http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/EncyclaWeb

Прикольный подход, позволяющий для пикселяртовых анимаций иметь отдельно анимированный скелет и текстуру.

Durden is a program that identifies, counts and, optionally, marks and/or cuts out and saves unique tiles in a given image file.

Красивые пиксельные штуки

Most of subservices are offline for now. However, I've found a Betula of theirs!

• https://links.riskiwah.xyz

A third-party docker container for Betula

TL;DR: Because it's good.

Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior. It draws strong influence from HyperCard, as well as more modern codeless or “low-code” creative tools like Twine and Bitsy. If Jupyter Notebooks are a digital lab notebook, think of Decker as a stack of sticky notes for spatially organizing your thoughts and making quick prototypes.

It's fun and look pretty. Exports to HTML and to a custom format.

Open source avatar generator inspired by GitHub avatars. - rrivera/identicon: Open source avatar generator inspired by GitHub avatars.

The 9 blocks.

Followed up by the author enabling the system on their blog.

A collection of bad practices. Some of them I like!

You need a good team to go forward.

Get the right people or you'll just waste your time, energy and health!

Кому хочется впихнуть как можно больше, могут взглянуть на "Hello, world" в ELF всего 114 байт (это я знаю достаточно давно). А вот сегодня встретил компиляторы с Forth, Lisp и C всего 512 байт!

https://github.com/cesarblum/sectorforth
https://github.com/jart/sectorlisp
https://github.com/xorvoid/sectorc