April 21, 2021
Do not say that calling him Austin is your preference and your right
How to Name Your Black Son in a Racist Country, an essay by Tyrone Fleurizard, from Roxane Gay's emerging writer series. [more inside]
what serious developer would use a pink imac?
sailor mercury is a software engineer but eschews the grim dark computers and peripherals that so many coders use. They created the froggy computer for fun, cute computing. They also created ComputeCuter.com, a single serving site to inspire you to make your workspace cuter with software and hardware. via Lobsters, sailorhg previously
I scream, you scream, we all scream for the right to repair
Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out. [more inside]
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That's what it's all about.
After the street sweeper comes and goes, who comes by to pick up what's left over? The hokey. [more inside]
Neck and Neck
Most of the rising generation of classic-Tetris players have already watched hours of the best performances, hard-wiring beautiful stacking strategies. As they begin practicing, they often join one of many classic-Tetris servers on Discord, where hundreds of people are online all the time, ready to discuss any aspect of the game. It’s there that they often learn the most common hyper-tapping grip—holding the controller sideways, with the directional pad facing up—and how to properly tense the right arm so that it shakes quickly and consistently. They study the principles of developing a relatively even stack with a built-out left side, and discuss how dropping a pair of tetrominoes in a complementary orientation can reduce the need for a timely T-piece. From The Revolution in Classic Tetris [The New Yorker; archived version] [more inside]
Keith Burgun's 4 Interactive Forms
"Within 'interactive entertainment', there actually exist a number of forms – patterns of design that work in a certain way. Only by understanding these forms can we proceed with guidelines for better interactive system design." MeFi's own Keith Burgun, a game designer and game design instructor, discusses mapping, solving, evaluation, and understanding in four categories of interactive entertainment.
Kindness is making a comeback.
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