The games industry is weird because we are always trying to create systems that keep the game just hard enough to stop people from seeing the rest of the product. My thought process all started from this Tweet: We agonised … Read more
I like using Vim to make ASCII art. I don’t use any plugins; Vim already has a bunch of built-in features that are super useful for making ASCII art! _ _/_Z _ / |// / |/ __/_/_/_/_/ This article is … Read more
When working on my latest book, The Secret Life of Circuits, I wanted to keep the artwork real. My beef with the diagrams in popular electronics textbooks and online tutorials is that most of them are fake. At best, they’re … Read more
This is 768 servers. To some, that looks like a lot of computers. To those managing the infrastructure for apps with millions of customers, executing millions of queries per second, pretty normal. Products at this scale frequently require thousands of … Read more
In the twenty years I’ve been making games, I keep returning to the idea of blending the digital and physical worlds through ARGs like Perplex City and location-based games like Zombies, Run! It’s as if the act of mixing worlds … Read more
In our AI reflex-app builder we generate massive amounts of Python code. Sometimes, this code generation fails in rather trivial manners; positional parameters after keyword ones, returns with values in async generators, using outdated syntax conventions from previous versions of … Read more
2026-06-13 (Electronics) This page discusses sealing metal through borosilicate/lab glass: other chemistries behave quite differently. When making vacuum tubes, the glass is actually the easy part: premade tube stock of almost any size is easily available. Heating the end of … Read more
Catlantean 3D is a side-project I’ve been slowly building in my spare time for over a year, and I intend to release it on Steam next year. Your browser does not support the video tag. My goal was to build … Read more
I will never be a great snowboarder. For various genetic and non-genetic reasons, my knees are barely capable of surviving a three-hour hike, let alone the landing after a 1080. In fact, I’ll probably never be a snowboarder at all, … Read more
