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The city of Wellington, NZ, is as far from the Equator as which famous US city? Now you can find out. CC-licensed photo by DVincentNZ on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. … Continue reading →
A guest post by Scipio202 that analyses million dollar ttrpg Kickstarters, focusing on the high-cost whale tiers, which generated an average of 23.25% of funding.
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I’ve been putting off writing about this because I wasn’t sure how I felt about it and it took some time to work through. Long story short, someone is selling physical copies of Pocket League, the Gameboy game I developed 5 years ago. If...
In my teenage coding days around 2001, before I used version control systems, and for a long time, I spent a lot of time reading code just to somewhat memorize it and to know what happens where and when and how I got there. This state of...
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Authority lets you announce things. Influence lets you achieve them. Most leaders never close that distance.
Cassandra at the Wedding. By Dorothy Baker. 256 pages. According to New York Magazine, everyone is reading Cassandra at the Wedding. Based on the number of Goodreads ratings, this is not actually true1, which is a shame because it is...
Tjarnarskóli is one of the most distinctive buildings in Reykjavík.While first-time visitors to the city are often impressed by this distinctive red-roofed yellow-sided landmark, they are usually mystified as to its function as there is...
The Rook starts intriguingly with an amnesiac woman with strange powers who receives information in the form of letters from herself written before she lost her memory. And I've read that part, which was decently written, until I...
I want to talk about this moment in time, this AI era, through the lens of grief. Grief is a powerful response to loss. When we think about grief, we often think about death, but it’s taken me a long […]