So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design.

TIL you can debug Nix builds interactively in the sandbox itself

Gwen Lofman's living collection of links that has some incredibly good stuff.

A work in progress tutorial for GPUI, Zed editor's underlying GUI framework.

Transcript of Mary Poppendieck's landmark presentation titled "The Tyrrany Of The Plan"

Short and to the point post about designing things with a little trust in your users to intuit a relatively easy model rather than papering over the slightest complexity with things that erase the mental model of the underlying concepts.

Super interesting look into the #Steam discovery queue system and the impact it has on your game's visibility on the platform

Super interesting deep dive into why the Android calculator app is so much better than iOS', and the incredible amount of work Hans Boehm put into making it so. I have never been more interested in calculators than reading this post!

Great read on the state of the AI industry post the release of DeepSeek R1, which has shattered the idea of AI training only being available to the biggest players in the field.

Fun dive into the history of Git's autocorrect feature

A great round up of interesting stuff, mostly centered around C++

Great write up on password hashing techniques and their pros and cons

Anything I say about it will ruin the delight of experiencing this page for the first time.

A great read about a bunch of smart hackers who converged around the One Million Checkboxes game and started hiding secret messages inside it, their eventual discovery by the game's creator and everything they accomplished while the game was still up. Honestly made me a tiny bit emotional.

Surprisingly bullshit-free breakdown of all the considerations that went into creating a brand new front page carousel component for the JioCinema apps.

Just beautifully written. I would recommend reading this even if you are in a good place mentally.