When Cards Go Bad | MAGIC: THE GATHERING
this is about M:TG (obviously) but a lot of stuff here is relevant to designing, e.g., skill trees
Emerald Source Code Commentary
"[A] book in the spirit of "A Commentary on the Sixth Edition Unix Operating System" that examines and explains the source code of one of the most popular video games ever made, based on the decompilation work of PRET."
Impossible Word: Toward a Poetics of Aphasia | The Poetry Foundation
"The notion that the language of one (Cummings) is considered legitimate due to its production by an autonomous will or intention into language and its subversions, and the other (Wernicke’s patient) not so because it is an effect of illness and therefore an unintended accident, reproduces a system of value contingent on the Western subject of colonialism-capitalism. The division of poetic versus aphasic (read: not-poetic) speech is layered with the racism, heteropatriarchy, and ableism of a colonial order that also continues to delegitimate other syntactical and linguistic deviations found in linguistic practices."
An Indigenous Modernist Artist Finally Gets Her Due
"[T]he top panel of each piece... captur[es] the essence of her subject through narrative symbols and shapes... The middle panel riffs on the imagery established in the first panel, zooming in on particular forms to create a graphic pattern, inflected with Art Nouveau style... The third panel brings in Native imagery, often referencing Plains Indian culture, stories, objects, and motifs used in beadwork and leatherwork." gorgeous
African American Craft History – Syllabus
tons to explore here, esp David Drake
A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT
"[S]tudents [are] creative young people, so they empathize with robbed creators. They want tools that help them, not hinder them. And a lot of them are (rightly) concerned about the environment, so they’re shocked to learn that ChatGPT takes ten times the amount of energy Google does to answer the same question, usually worse." Also the Jared White quote: "You can literally just not use it"
Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100) — The Public Domain Review
"Here sonic absence is visualized, and it is yellow.... Auditory interruption gets transposed onto the textual plane, as the rectangle veils the ruled lines it floats above.... The effect becomes all the more palpable when we consider that the manuscript may have been read aloud."
“Multiple Worlds Vying to Exist”: Philip K. Dick and Palestine (by Jonathan Lethem)
"... in Dick’s novels, again and again, the veil of a unitary reality is ripped off, in favor of the revelation that we live in an existential abyss—one that is also an existential plurality. However painful the transition may feel, the true nightmare isn’t this abyss of infinite possibility but the attempted imposition upon it of a single viewpoint."
Gameboy Development Forum / New to Game Boy programming, made a version of Snake
good tips toward stack allocation in gameboy assembly
AI in education is a public problem | code acts in education
"AI in education can be characterized by ‘critical hype’—forms of critique that implicitly accept what the hype says AI can do, and inadvertently boost the credibility of those promoting it. The risk of both forms of hype is schools assume a very powerful technology exists that they must urgently address, while remaining unaware of its very real limitations, instabilities and faults or the complex ethical problems associated with data-driven technologies in education."
Adactio: Journal—Unsaid
"There’s a quote by Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen that UX designers like repeating: 'Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context. A chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.' But none of the speakers at [the conference] chose to examine the larger context of the [generative AI] tools they were encouraging us to use."
Terence Eden / ActivityBot · GitLab
"A single PHP file which acts as a basic ActivityPub bot server"
FatFinger.JS — CCS Working Group
jeremy douglass breaks fatfinger.js for fun and profit
Gingerbread
"a tool for converting vector artwork to KiCAD PCB files that lives in your browser"
Wordplay
"a programming platform designed to be global, supporting all of the world's languages, but also be about the world's languages. A platform on which everyone can create, with whatever abilities they have, to share interactive content that anyone can experience. For youth and young adults who want to express themselves through interactive words, emojis, and typography, playfully and artfully. Not with the goal of getting power for themselves, but to create a computational world that recognize the incredible strength and necessity of our beautiful differences."
GRAIL Text Recognizer
very informative essay with good inline demonstrations
Roblox: Inflated Key Metrics For Wall Street And A Pedophile Hellscape For Kids – Hindenburg Research
"beyond inflated key user metrics, our in-game research revealed an X-rated pedophile hellscape" has to be one of the worst buried ledes of all time
The Stallman report
christ what a piece of shit
Easing Functions Cheat Sheet
i always lose track of this site, which is very nice
Agile’s insistence on co-location is disabling | Thudfactor
"Fully remote work combined with regular and easily-accessible video-conferencing mimics much of the hub-and-spoke workspace design. In some cases ways it works even better. Video conferences can handle arbitrarily small or large groups of participants without any conference room conflicts. For those of us with other needs — with ADHD, anxiety disorders, hearing or vision loss, or mobility issues — we are more free to create the kinds of workspaces we need without impinging on other people’s work styles or space. A brightly-lit but cramped office space, again with long desks but pushed close together."