Good morning! A little change of scenery…
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
Good morning! Here, have a cat picture for a change!
I enjoyed the Barbie movie but originally found its message to be pretty ham-fisted (beyond the shock of a movie about Mattel dolls even having a message to begin with). But this excellent video essay points at Barbie actually being too subtle for some… plus lots of other good and insightful stuff.
To all the people pronouncing “GIF” with a hard “G” because it stands for “Graphical”: I wish you good luck for pronouncing “LASER”.
“What We Risk by Normalizing Poilievre’s Politics”: given he’s adapting Trump-like populism to Canada, we know exactly what we risk. And we’ll know even better in about, errr, 174 days or so.
Since last time I looked at personal finance software years ago, it looks like they all migrated their handling of banking credentials to something called “Plaid” which asks for your bank password, phone number, and date of birth and I’m like NO FUCKING WAY
Steve Jackson Games’ online store, Warehouse23, has turned 25 this week… oh my. I remember back when buying stuff on the internet was new and weird!
Last week the #UE5 Sequencer dev team had our first real gathering in California, including a hike up Hill 88 on Friday! We’ve been working together daily for the past 5+ years and some of us met for the first time 😅 #gamedev
The diversity of people and bodies in the Apple Fitness app is really good — hats off to whoever is responsible for that!
Good morning! May is off to a good start!
