5 days ago

Most obviously, plan9port derives from Plan 9 from Bell


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6 days ago


Neither of us had prior experience developing mobile apps, but we thought, “Hey, we’re both smart. This shouldn’t be too difficult.” Freedom Chat CEO Tanner Haas





I saw this Mastodon post from Andy Wingo recently: in these days of coding agents and what-not, i often think of gerald sussman’s comment that one no longer constructs systems from known parts, that instead one does basic science on the functionality of foreign libraries; he was right then and i hate it as much as i did 16 years ago


05 Mar 26

The flipside of these kinds of mechanics.

…is when levels start to depend on them. If a room is designed assuming coyote time or wall jump exchanges or the extra double jump if you do it before leaving ground, it becomes more stressful than forgiving. Lots of games have levels that depend on you needing to deliberately coyote time and that feels super bad.

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