Another old TV series I started (re)watching lately is Mission: Impossible. Hard to remember a time before Jim Phelps, but Dan Briggs is pretty good too! It all hold up well, it’s suspenseful and often clever. I totally want to make a #TTRPG out of it!

The fact that Andy Weir is a borderline-libertarian who doesn’t want “politics” or “social commentary” in his sci-fi isn’t surprising. Even in software engineering I’ve met a lot technically incredibly clever people who are dumb as a brick when it comes to anything else.

There are only two meals: breakfast, and dessert.

Went to see Project Hail Mary with the family! Verdict: good good amaze amaze

Technology Connections on renewable energy: I like the way he frames things here, it’s an interesting way to think about renewables. What comes after the fake ending shouldn’t be anything anyone doesn’t know already though.

Speaking of “Prince of Persia”, here’s a compilation of behind-the-scenes footage!

I’m really enjoying Ars Technica’s “War Stories” from classic game developers. Here’s Jordan Mechner explaining how the game design of “Prince of Persia” was influenced by the Apple II’s memory limitations.

Since TTRPG “crunch” is back in the online discourse, I guess I could share again this old blog post of mine where I split crunch in different categories: system crunch, silo crunch, and options crunch.

Yaaaayyy Jenny Nicholson is back!

TFW probably a good portion of the people laid-off by Epic today are looking at Video Game Worker Unions…