Year: 2018
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Layout Land: CSS Grid
Jen Simmons is doing a great job of introducing the core concepts of CSS Grid with this (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbSquHt1VCf1x_-1ytlVMT0AMwADlWtc1). These videos have been a huge help to me getting up to speed on the state of the tech. Highly recommended.
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Haunted Floating Eye Release 2 is Now Available
The Love2d game jam is over, but I’m not finished with Haunted Floating Eye yet. Release 2 dropped on Saturday, and is now available for download. I wrote a little about the release.
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How Defective Guns Became the Only Product That Can’t Be Recalled
[An enraging story][link] from Michael Smith and Polly Mosendz, for Bloomberg: > Taurus sold almost a million handguns that can potentially fire without anyone pulling the trigger. The government won’t fix the problem. The NRA is silent. Gun manufacturers have long held an unassailable position in American business and politics. They need to be reminded…
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Female Fandom and Figures in Mystery Science Theater 3000
[A really cool article from poplurker about MST3k][link], which is an all-time favorite of mine, and the women behind the jokes, the fandom, and more. [link]: https://poplurker.com/2018/02/27/women-of-the-not-too-distant-future-female-fandom-and-figures-in-mystery-science-theater-3000/ “Women of the Not Too Distant Future”
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Reddit, Tumblr will fight for net neutrality with protests this week
The Verge on the [internet-wide #OneMoreVote protest scheduled for tomorrow.][link] I will be participating, too. Let’s give Ajit Pai the worst week of his shitheaded life. [link]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/26/17053380/reddit-tumblr-net-neutrality-protests “The Verge: Reddit, Tumblr will fight for net neutrality with protests this week”
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The Great Stink
Laurie Penny has some advice for men in the current cultural moment, and it is good advice. This passage, near the end, caught me right where it was aimed: >Suck it up and let go. Let go of your resentment at women’s lack of patience, let go of your wounded pride, let go of your…
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New Game: Haunted Floating Eye
Created for LÖVE Jam 2018, my latest game is called Haunted Floating Eye. It’s something like a tower (lair) defense game, mixed with cruelty, base building and ennui. The jam has ended, but voting is open for the next 12 days. I’d really appreciate it you tried it out, and voted on the on the…
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New Video I Worked On: 3D Scanning Best Practices
My colleagues at Occipital and I put together [this tutorial video] for customers of our Canvas home scanning application. I wrote the script and did the voiceover. My co-worker Karla Estrada shot, edited, and starred. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqJbFn5rJfE&rel=0 “Canvas: 3D Scanning Best Practices”
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KDE Bug Executes Arbitrary Code Based on Name of Thumb Drive
[This][link] is one of the dumbest and most dangerous bugs I’ve ever heard of. From the KDE security list: [link]: https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20180208-2.txt “KDE Project Security Advisory” >When a vfat thumbdrive which contains “ or $() in its volume label is plugged and mounted trough the device notifier, it’s interpreted as a shell command, leaving a possibility…
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Lanetix Inc Fires Workers for Attempt to Unionize
You can add Lanetix Inc, the developer of a subpar CRM, to the list of [wannabe union-busters][link]. They’re also now on the shitlist of every decent engineer in the world. We don’t forget this shit. >The union alleged in the complaint, which was filed with the NLRB Jan. 29, that the company threatened the software…
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City Pop Radio
Van Paugam has been putting out these awesome mixtapes of 1980s Japanese City Pop, and now there’s a 24/7 streaming channel. It’s hard to argue with that pitch: Travel back in time through the haze of memories that aren’t your own, and melodies frozen in a particular place in history.