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

So you want to keep your lover or your employee close. Bound to you, even. You have a few options. You could be the best lover theyve ever had, kind, charming, thoughtful, competent, witty, and a tiger in bed. You could be the best workplace theyve ever had, with challenging work, rewards…

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

Debugging Gradle tasks can be challenging, especially when you have no access to tools like Develocity or need to work offline. This post shares a couple of strategies to help you gain more insight into your Gradle build.

Insightful post from Hillel Wayne exploring how to apply the Hierarchy of Hazard Controls they learned about from a mechanical engineer to a contrived example in programming.

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

A great essay diving into an obscure font that is present all over New York City, and tracing its history all the way back to physical milling presses in the early 1900s. Both the information and its presentation are top notch

Highly interactive and beautiful view of some 100,000 books, it's hard for me to describe what makes it so great to me. Seeing is believing!

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

The creator of One Million Checkboxes is back with another fun experiment.

Simon Willison draws on his past experience working on event management websites to explain the real world problems that arise when you try to keep time for humans, along with actionable advice to minimize both your own and your users' suffering.

SwiftOnSecurity wrote this in 2014, about a fictional teenager named Jessica and how general purpose computing let her down. Must read for everyone in tech.

Another great deep dive from the Netflix team on real-world problems they face as a primarily Java-oriented shop.

Businesses prioritizing shareholder value over everything else seems to have become the norm, but I didn't know how this insane sounding behavior started and this is a great history lesson on it.