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

Miscellaneous collection of blogposts from people who had to debug some really strange computers.

Discover the unique design challenges of creating a spherical planet out of Minecraft-like blocks.

A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004

For one of my network storage PC builds, I was looking for an alternative to Flatcar Container Linux and tried out NixOS again (after an almost 10 year break). There are many ways to install NixOS, and in this article I will outline how I like to install NixOS on physical hardware or virtual machines: over the network and fully declaratively.

A quick look into the process of creating a font.

Or would you?

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.

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

A great interview with Chris Person of Aftermath, who has over the course of the past 2 years has become something of a VHS decoding savant

Fun dive into the history of Git's autocorrect feature

An ongoing mini-series documenting specific, often niche parts of the JVM. They're all pretty short and to the point, and the author encourages to treat them as chapters in a book as they reference each other quite often.

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

A somewhat dated but still quite useful list of things to look out for when diving into building distributed systems

Super interesting stuff, it's wild how capable OpenType is.

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