dev

• How we made Befriendus ludicrously accessible

  • “Structured programming” on Wikipedia

• Stanley and the Death of Sourcemods

  • “Making a Moddable Game?” Thread, 2015
  • “Mod Support comes to Robo Recall” Unreal Engine announcement
  • “Godot sandbox & modding support” github issue
  • “Safe multiplayer modding” reddit thread
  • “Allow to import and load external assets at run-time” godot proposal
  • “Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)” on .NET docs

• Tabs or Spaces?

  • /u/ChaseMoskal, Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces
  • Alexander Sandberg, Tabs for Accessibility
  • Jamie Zawinski, Tabs versus Spaces: An Eternal Holy War.

fandom

• Trouble a-brewin' at Redbubble

  • Eevee, “Copyright is broken”
  • Tom Scott, “YouTube’s Copyright System Isn’t Broken. The World’s Is.”, video

• W.D. Gaster and fake depth

  • /u/Karibil_Watar, Further Stratifying Gaster and Sans Development
  • Folding Ideas, The Stanley Parable, Dark Souls, and Intended Play
  • hbomberguy, Perverted Sentimentality: An Analysis of UNDERTALE
  • Adam Millard, What Was Undertale Actually About?
  • The Unbearable Now: An Interpretation of The Witness

• More on the Hiveswap Odd Gentlemen Debacle

  • Sarah Z, “A Brief History of Homestuck”, a video essay about the Homestuck fandom that includes a summary of my Hiveswap work

• Why Act 6 Hits Different

  • Func McLovin, Slurs in Homestuck (Video)

• The Hiveswap Fiasco

  • GiovanH, “Hussie Exploited The Odd Gentlemen & Backers”
  • Shadok, “HIVESWAPQUEST” (video)
  • everythinghiveswap.tumblr.com is a blog that has a large historical backlog of Hiveswap news and rumors
  • Sarah Z, “A Brief History of Homestuck”, a video essay about the Homestuck fandom that includes a summary of my Hiveswap work
  • Fredrik Knudsen, “Star Citizen - Down the Rabbit Hole” (video)
  • Jason Schreier, “12 Successful Kickstarters That Never Delivered”
  • posts tagged #hiveswap on thewebcomicsreview.tumblr.com
  • Funk McLovin, “What PR? A response to Sarah Z”, a video response about the aftermath of Sarah Z’s video and What Pumpkin’s PR in general
  • A much briefer recap, but only up until 2017.

gaming

• Post-Ch2 Deltarune Theories

  • suzyundertale, “How we know the person in the intro of Deltarune is almost certainly Gaster”
  • inbarfink on the lack of consequences in the Weird Route
  • inbarfink on Ralsei’s knowledge and characterization
  • agnesmontague possible isolated vocals in Big Shot “Please Knight, answer the phone, pleaaaase–ha ha ha, all the suspense is making me wait, to tell you how much it’s ringing! Please Knight, answer the phone, pleaaaase–ha ha ha, all the suspense is, all the suspense is, tell me what you’re really selling!”

• VR First Thoughts

  • “Leaked Zuckerberg Email Reveals Facebook’s XR Strategy, ‘Our goal is not only to win, but to accelerate its arrival’” Ben Lang on roadtovr, 2019
  • You Will Lose All Your Oculus Games If You Delete Your Linked Facebook Account” Adam Bankhurst on IGN, 2020
  • “Oculus co-founder is leaving Facebook after cancellation of ‘Rift 2’ headset” Lucas Matney on Techcrunch, 2018
  • “The Design of the Portal Locomotion”, Freya Holmér

politics

• Is (git) master a dirty word?

  • sfc, Regarding Git and Branch Naming
  • Mallory Knodel, Terminology, Power, and Inclusive Language in Internet-Drafts and RFCs
  • NISTIR 8366, Guidance for NIST Staff on Using Inclusive Language in Documentary Standards
  • Python Issue 34605: Avoid master/slave terminology
  • GitLab, The new Git default branch name
  • On Redis master-slave terminology
  • Catalin Climpanu, GitHub to replace ‘master’ with ‘main’ starting next month
  • Carolyn Heinze, Why GitHub renamed its master branch to main
  • Master/Slave terminology concerns on Wikipedia
  • Linus Torvalds banishes masters, slaves and blacklists from the Linux kernel, starting now
  • an old twitter thread in which I point out that GitHub making git changes while it still actively enables ICE is bad

• Your engine hasn't earned your rent

  • Bryant Francis, “Going forward, Unity devs will need Unity Pro to publish on consoles”
  • Daniel Sperl, “Flox is phasing out - a Post Mortem”
  • YoYo Games Subscriptions FAQ
  • Gregor Hohpe, “Don’t get locked up into avoiding lock-in”, on software lock-in in general

• 5G's standard patents wound it

  • Eli Greenbaum, “5G, Standard-Setting, and National Security”
  • Elyse Dorsey, “How the Google Consent Order Alters the Process and Outcomes of Frand Bargaining”
  • Wikipedia, “Reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing”
  • Raghav Bajaj, “What Are Standard Essential Patents and Why Do I Need to Know About Them?”
  • Theresa Hitchens, “US Risks Losing 5G Standard Setting Battle To China, Experts Say”
  • Brian DeLacey, “Strategic Behavior in Standard-Setting Organizations”

• YouTube broke links and other life lessons

  • Luke Plunkett, “Please Stop Closing Forums And Moving People To Discord”

• Twitter Blue is a late-stage symptom

  • Cory Doctorow, “Why it’s easier to move country than switch social media”
  • Tom Scott, “This Video has %s Views”, video
  • Failory, “What Was Google Reader”
  • Yahoo! Pipes on Wikipedia
  • Twitter, “About Twitter Blue”
  • RSS Bridge on github
  • Create a Problem, Sell a Solution meme

• Tweets about the attack on the Capitol

  • Social media footage from 2021-01-06 on the Internet Archive

• Nintendo: It's about control, not piracy

  • Kotaku, “Nintendo Shuts Down Smash Tournament Over Some Absurd Bullshit”
  • Polygon, “Nintendo wanted to shut down Super Smash Bros. Melee Evo event”

• How Apple destroyed mobile freeware

  • Riley Testut, “Thoughts on the App Store”
  • Quora thread, “Can you make money on a free app without advertising?”
  • Forbes, “‘Malicious’ Subscriptions”
  • Doctorow’s example of the App Store as “felony contempt of business model”

rp

• ja, es kawaii

  • Barbarossa on Kickstarter

tech

• The joy of RSS

  • Get Fluent Reader on github
  • Adi Robertson, Are you still using an RSS reader?
  • Luke Smith, A Guide to Using RSS to Replace Social Media
  • https://getrssfeed.com
  • RSS Bridge on github