Amateur Kellin Pelrine exploited weakness in systems that have otherwise dominated board game’s grandmasters

Wiggling apps in Launchpad There's this thing called **Launchpad** on macOS which shows you all the apps on your Mac in an iOS like manner. You may already have it in the Dock, but you can also launch it as any other app. There's even a nifty trackpad gesture…

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — A plume of chemicals that spilled into the Ohio River after a fiery train derailment has broken up and is no longer a concern, Ohio's governor said Friday.

Amazon will require corporate staffers to be in the office "a majority of the time," or at least three days per week, according to a memo from CEO Andy Jassy.

Microsoft limits long conversations to address "concerns being raised."

A textbook for mathematical aspects of Conway's Game of Life and methods of pattern construction.

Couple of weeks ago, we were discussing random things at work, and we landed on the topic of discipline. One of my colleagues was praising me for having a very disciplined life. It felt as if he was talking about someone else.

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Janet is a functional and imperative programming language. It runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and *nix.

It may not be possible for us to ever reach empirical definitions of "good code" or "clean code", which means that any one person's opinions about another person's opinions about "clean code" are necessarily highly subjective. I cannot review Robert C. Martin's…

Introducing the Alles mesh synthesizer

News comes alongside change in command at Firaxis Games

30 years of WolfMUD development from 1984-2014

Carlo Sallazzo has been waiting for a double lung transplant at Vancouver General Hospital for five months. During that time, reading books and watching Netflix have been his primary ways of passing the time.

An update on two-factor authentication using SMS on Twitter

So, this is an mirror of a post from John Carmack. Recently I learned that his articles on #AltDevBlog are no longer acessible. So, in order to archive them, I am re-posting them here. These articles are definitely good reads and worth to be preserved. …

For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with.
They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs,
and then disappear when I wanted to explain my decisions.
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