Reflections and advice after making a few simple games in Bevy.

How does git store different versions of a file? What about a commit? Find out creating your own commit without the help of git.

When the Allaire brothers were looking for a way to build websites, nothing stuck out. So they built their own and called it Coldfusion.

Tesla cars are shoddily built pieces of shit liable to fall apart and malfunction in dangerous ways at inopportune moments. No, this is not a blog from 2012! It is also not a blog from 2015 or 2018 or 2022. It is not even a blog from two weeks ago about Tesla’s…

Discover the incredible journey of a 1690s peanut variety making a comeback. Explore the history and revival of this unique crop.

VileR's blog: old school PCs, games, graphics, programming, fonts, demos, and so on.

TLDR; Thirty years after the advent of the first instant messaging services, we still haven't reached the stage where instant messaging platforms can freely communicate with each other, as is the case with email. In 1999, the Jabber/XMPP protocol was created…

Marketers are prone to a prediction. You’ll find them in the annual tirade of trend decks. In the PowerPoint projections of self-proclaimed prophets. In the feeds of forecasters and futurists. To understand the extent of our forecasting fascination, I analysed…

Update: see what's entering the public domain on January 1, 2025! Tweet January 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1928 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1923! By Jennifer Jenkins

This document exists to lay out some general principles of running a small social network site that have worked for me. These principles are related to community building more than they are related to specific technologies.

Maybe a poem will help remember complicated power-saving settings for SSDs. Here goes. "ALPM for SATA, not N-V-M-e. The latter needs ASPM, and A-P-S-T"....