A contribution to the Codepen Halloween challenge: All the game logic is handled in HTML & CSS with absolutely zero JS.

Article that describes the steps to generate the code in MS Excelwithout using any Visual Basic or other scripting.

With Delta Chat, you can write to every existing e-mail address - even if the recipient is not (yet) using the Delta Chat App.

Overview of several approaches to rank results by an average score provided by users, and why most fail to provide a satisfying solution. Concluding with a formula that yields better results.

An article that provides a basic overview of the TTF font format, it focuses on how ligatures work by detailing how to implement a variant of the Droid font that replaces buzzwords with the word “bullshit”

A tutorial on creating an Elixir/Phoenix application to facilitate uploading images to an S3 bucket. The tutorial also includes a section on how to set up the S3 bucket permissions and the IAM user to provide access to the application.

“Clojure for the Brave and True” is a book and a collection of resources to learn Clojure

Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux

Short documentary on Nintendo’s method of making games, and how it helps this Japanese developer stand out from most other studios.

A shot by shot re-enactment of Blade Runner through the magic of Microsoft Paint. More or less.

Tutorial on GnuPG’s features to sign, verify, encrypt, and decrypt files and messages for distribution over untrusted channels like the internet.

“Have you heard the story of the architect from Shiraz who designed the world’s most beautiful mosque? No one had ever conjured up such a design. It was breathtakingly daring yet well-proportioned, divinely sophisticated, yet radiating a distinctly human warmth. Those who saw the plans were awe-struck.”

Pointers on how to improve software engineering job description postings so that they stand out more and provide more relevant information as to what the job will actually entail

Documents the process to transform a picture of a warped text (e.g.: pictures of pages from a book) and produce a result where lines are parallel and horizontal.

Notes on how to programmatically generate fictional maps that look like something you’d find at the back of fantasy novels.

Bitsquatting refers to the registration of a domain names one bit different than a popular domain. The name comes from typosquatting: the act of registering domain names one key press different than a popular domain. Bitsquatting frequently resolved domain names makes it possible to exploit computer hardware errors via DNS.

This list is for the new distributed systems engineer to guide their thinking about the field they are taking on. It’s not comprehensive, but it’s a good beginning.

The goal we set for our computer vision experiment was to detect the color of the dominant object of a picture. Searching by color is a common occurence when it comes to e-commerce websites, and while the nature of the object is usually clear in the description, its color is often more of a problem.

RimWorld follows three survivors from a crashed space liner as they build a colony on a frontier world at the rim of known space. Inspired by the space western vibe of Firefly, the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, and the epic scale of Dune and Warhammer 40,000.

This article attempts to explain weapon recoil mechanics in Counter-Strike. New players will find that recoil in Counter-Strike differs drastically from other first-person shooters, and even experienced players often suffer from critical misunderstandings about how it works.