Macintosh Turns 40
The Macintosh computer, which has played a pivotal role in shaping personal computing and design principles throughout the entire tech industry, has turned 40 years old. The first Macintosh debuted on January 23, 1984 as a groundbreaking product. Distinguished with friendly unique hardware design, a revolutionary graphical user interface, the ability to speak text aloud, … Read More ⌘ Read more

Play Tetris on the Mac (or Any Device) via the Web
Tetris is a classic and fun game that has hallmark simple yet challenging gameplay. Something about trying to piece together falling geometric shapes into lines is satisfying, and considering there are some studies that demonstrate Tetris may be good for the brain, what’s not to like? But if you want to play Tetris on your … Read More ⌘ Read more

** A scrappy fiddle **

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I’ve had fun playing at implementing a very basic visual programming system over the last few days. I like the direction I’ve s … ⌘ Read more

@xuu@txt.sour.is Despite that these AoC math text problems are rather silly in my opinion (reminds me of an exercise in our math book where somebody wanted to carry a railroad rail around an L-shaped corner in the house and the question was how long that rail could be so that it still fits — sure, we’ve all carried several meter long railroad rails in our houses by ourselves numerous times…), these algorithms are really neat!

** an approximately programmer-shaped person **
I was recently interviewed by Manu for his People and Blogs series! It was a great honor to be suggested by Piper for that, and I had a blast responding to all of Manu’s questions.

The December Adventure is in full swing. There are so many fun adventure logs this year. I’ve been mostly focusing on building toys with [Decker](https://beyondloom.com/ … ⌘ Read more

Destiny 2: The Final Shape перенесли с февраля на июнь 2024 года
Как и говорил Джейсон Шрайер.

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Bungie опубликовала пресс-релиз с прежней датой релиза Destiny 2: The Final Shape — Шрайер говорит игрокам не надеяться
При этом на странице DLC появилась пометка, что дата может измениться.

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Shaping the GitHub of the future as COO
GitHub is driving the future of software development and, after 10 years as a Hubber, I’m more energized than ever as I take on the role of COO to help bring our vision to life. ⌘ Read more

Cosmic Queries – The Shape of the Universe with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Delilah Gates ⌘ Read more

New Year’s Eve 2023
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How to create a keyboard shortcut to export the current slide in Keynote
Lately I’ve been using Apple Keynote to create graphics for using in videos and blog posts. It’s a quick way to arrange things on a page, copying and pasting most things just works, and there are enough built in shapes and tools to get the point across. However, after spending a full day creating graphics for a video, I found myself frustrated by the number of clicks required to export a single slide at a time. ⌘ Read more

** Thoughts on accessibility in smol computing **
What follows is my attempt to spark a conversation in a few converging, but separate communities I lurk in.

I’ve already had a bunch of amazing conversations around this topic with a lot of people. Those conversations helped to shape what follows. Thanks to everyone who was willing to think this stuff through with me.

Before I get into it I want to say at the top this isn’t meant as an accusation against anyone in these communities, nor the goals of t … ⌘ Read more

How The War in Ukraine Will Shape The Future with Irwin Redlener ⌘ Read more

Pilot Priority List
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Here’s how academic research is shaping GitHub Discussions
We strive to understand how developers collaborate and work on GitHub, and we sometimes partner with academics to better understand how we can improve our products. Here’s how we did that to build and evolve GitHub Discussions. ⌘ Read more

Tractor Beam
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Shapes of Exoplanets ⌘ Read more

Webb
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The ReadME Project: A look back at the community stories that shape us
In August of 2020, we started highlighting stories that showcase how developers, maintainers, and organizations are moving humanity forward through The ReadME Project. ⌘ Read more

creating vocal tract shapes using the monome grid, and then morphing between them using something like !gest. #halfbakedideas

I want to somehow use my monome grid to build out coarse vocal tract shapes for a physical model like !voc or @!(sndkitref “tract”)!@. 16 diameters with 8 steps of resolution, or 32 diameters with 4 steps of resolution. #halfbakedideas

Listening to Dance with the Dead - Eye Of Madness from their album The Shape

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Yeah, jabber.org is in a bad shape. I have an old account there and ‘donated’ it to the conversations compliance tester. Was afraid when I saw the result.

Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/how-the-new-art-form-of-coding-came-to-shape-our-modern-world/

The Software That Shapes Workers’ Lives | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-software-that-shapes-workers-lives

Giles Bowkett: How Vim Shaped My Writing http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2016/10/how-vim-shaped-my-writing.html

Plot-shaped Level Design | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/05/18/plot-shaped-level-design/

I’d love to see Trigger do a Geobreeders series. The premise had so much potential: a multi-generational war between chuunibyos with computer sigils and shape-shifting cats made of radio waves who live on the internet.

“Shaping our children’s education in computing” by Simon Peyton Jones - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-xgWLYQc4g

How Eric Hobsbawm helped shape the global Marxist imagination | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-eric-hobsbawm-helped-shape-the-global-marxist-imagination

Decoding the Unusual Shape of the Nepali Flag - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nepal-flag-shape

Pro tip: avoiding the signifiers of commonly-understood identity constellations both allows you to shape your identity beyond cliche & jams the signal used by advertisers to classify you.

How hunters paved the way for the American environmental movement - Vox https://www.vox.com/conversations/2018/6/12/17449154/hunting-culture-shaped-masculinity-the-nra-and-environmentalism

The Shape of Code » Premium mediocrity is software engineering’s demographic http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2018/05/21/premium-mediocrity-is-software-engineerings-demographic/

Band name of the day: night shape

Social engineering is engineering. When you design software used by people, the community is not an externality – it’s shaped by your design, & therefore your responsibility.

The World’s Most Famous Actor Whose Face You’ve Probably Never Seen https://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/doug-jones-star-trek-discovery-the-shape-of-water

Concept-Shaped Holes Can Be Impossible To Notice | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/07/concept-shaped-holes-can-be-impossible-to-notice/

How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes | Literary Hub http://lithub.com/how-the-kkk-shaped-modern-comic-book-superheroes/

When computer predictions end up shaping the future. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/09/when_computer_predictions_end_up_shaping_the_future.html

Bezos and Musk Are Shaping the Worldviews of Future Space Settlements - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywzazy/jeff-bezos-elon-musk-space-settlements-overview-effect