Rust, a Game Review
07 June 2019 Disclaimer: As a mod of /r/rust, I see a lot posts and comments confusing the game with the programming language. So I decided to write this humorous take. I kept hearing about this “Rust” game that Mozilla of all companies has apparently been working on for four years supported by a loose […]
Show HN: Twine – Gorgeous open source multiplatform RSS app
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Gitlab’s ActivityPub architecture blueprint
ActivityPub support | GitLab Docs This page contains information related to upcoming products, features, and functionality. It is important to note that the information presented is for informational purposes only. Please do not rely on this information for purchasing or planning purposes. As with all projects, the items mentioned on this page are subject to […]
Constructing a Four-Point Egg
Constructing a four-point egg – Tony Finch For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, I have been investigating elliptical and ovoid shapes. The Wikipedia article for Moss’s egg has a link to a tutorial on Euclidean Eggs by Freyja Hreinsdóttir which (amongst other things) describes how to construct the “four point egg”. I think […]
What it was like to be the subject of a longitudinal study (2023)
In my earliest recollection from the story of my life as a human lab rat, I’m 7 or 8 years old. I’m sitting in an experiment room in Tolman Hall, a Brutalist building on the north side of the University of California, Berkeley, campus. In the room, there are two people: a man and me. […]
1-Bit Pixels Encoded in E. Coli for the Display of Interactive Digital Media
1-Bit Pixels Encoded in E. Coli for the Display of Interactive Digital Media Motivation Doom is a first-person shooter game released 1993 in which a player assumes the role of a space marine, unofficially referred to as Doomguy, to fight off hordes of undead humans and demons trying to take over the Solar System[1]. What […]
The Hobbes OS/2 Archive logs off permanently in April
Updated Bad news for OS/2 fans: the Hobbes OS/2 software archive is to be shuttered once and for all in April. The Hobbes OS/2 Archive, run as a service by the Department of Information & Communication Technologies at the US New Mexico State University, has announced its impending demise. As of April 15, the site […]
XFaaS: Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions at Meta
This is one of several papers I’ll be reading from 2023’s Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). If you’d like to receive regular updates as soon as they’re published, check out my newsletter or follow me on the site formerly known as Twitter. Enjoy! “XFaaS: Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions at Meta” Background Function-as-a-Service […]
Satellites Are Becoming the New Cellphone Towers
29 Jan 2024 4 min read Starlink sent and received texts over a 4G/LTE connection between mobile phones via its latest generation of satellites, called v2mini, for the first time this month, following similar projects from Amazon, Apple, AST SpaceMobile, Huawei, and Lynk Global. Starlink—the satellite constellation operated by SpaceX—will offer text messaging to subscribers […]
Why Custom GPTs are better than plugins
On November 6, 2023, OpenAI announced Custom GPTs. Since then, over 3 million GPTs have been created, with over 200.000 of them made publicly available. Fundamentally, Custom GPTs come with pre-configured actions and capabilities (e.g., do something in app “X”), as well as specific embedded knowledge for the task they have been built for. That […]