June 2011
1 post
Top 10 Reasons #SocialGames Still Suck
1) Background music on the web = fail.
2) Whether I’m playing Zombie Zone or Furry Faire it’s the exact same mechanics.
3) Daily deals and bonuses that would make an infomercial barker blush.
4) Your stupid game falls below the fold (probably okay, just missing more “invite friends” tabs).
5) Getting cross-sold while I’m actually trying to play THIS game.
6)...
December 2010
1 post
Const: The Final Chapter
I was more or less weaned on C/C++, and one of the many *-isms I developed from that weaning (like ++pre-incrementing variables in for-loops for efficiency’s sake) was placing constants on the left side of comparisons to avoid accidental assignments (e.g. NULL == x). This practice has carried over to my Java code, serving no purpose other than to make people not used to writing code this way...
September 2010
1 post
My JS1K compo entry - "The Legend of Ecma" →
August 2010
2 posts
via flylighter @ selectbutton
July 2010
11 posts
iloveimages:
Link Dump - Thursday July 29th, 2010
Adventures in fashion, food, photography, art and street style in Seattle and beyond.
Awesome palette cycling demo with HTML5 canvas. Suddenly it’s 1988 again.
Startup Lessons Learned at Dropbox.
For posterity's sake
I added some really old code to github tonight, I guess just to semi-immortalize this stuff that I sunk untold hours into for no apparent reason.
http://github.com/newobj/taz - a general purpose game/simulation engine. (ca. 2000-2004)
http://github.com/newobj/ffwd - audio/video code, VSTs, standalone apps. (ca. 2002)
Is it prime? This regex can answer that question:... →
I (heart) Tumblr
Posterous has taken a nasty war footing lately in trying to draw users off other services and onto theirs. There’s something odd about this overt competition in a space where people traditionally play nice, and more importantly, is not zero-sum. In short, it’s soured me on Posterous, whereas before I was actually slightly positive, since they have some features I like (like password...
March 2010
1 post
February 2010
2 posts
July 2008
3 posts
June 2008
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April 2008
1 post
March 2008
4 posts
February 2008
3 posts
January 2008
2 posts
November 2007
8 posts
September 2007
3 posts
WatchTECHNOVIKING!!! HAIL!!!
WatchThis kid makes the drummer from Hella look like Meg White.
August 2007
4 posts
