@Viz hi there, saw your job search post. I'm not a hiring manager anymore, but my peers are still hiring at https://aledade.com/current-opportunities
I know it's a total change of industry, but times are weird; maybe something appeals to you.
Ignore the cities in each posting, the company is fully remote (though continental US only for patient privacy reasons...I think you're in PA?)
Anyway, wherever you end up, I hope your job search ends well and soon.
@bodhipaksa @cstross @kalleboo Beyond 80/20, efficiency and resilience directly trade off with each other. Idle resources waiting to satisfy a demand vs queued demand waiting for a resource.
A system optimized for "efficiency" had no duplicate performers of any function. Everything is a single point of failure, and that single performer is an Indy 500 racecar needing a full pit crew and methanol fuel.
A _fully_ efficient system stops being effective: you 80/20 the userbase you serve.
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@sarahdoom It's such a pretty game! I have it on my shelf of "games I like to look at."
And then there's the technique "Doompause", which I find to be such a beautiful narrative+mechanic combo.
@len Puzzle piece! The discussions around 'cold-blooded' software might help (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38793206) Leads to frameworks like Express.
The "focus on hypermedia" & " html > css > JS" folks might be interesting (see https://htmx.org/essays/, esp the 'complexity very very bad' section) . Leads to htmx, alpine.js, etc.
Any Bell's https://buildexcellentwebsit.es/ may have some gems fro you.
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My impression is that giving up a _little_ interactivity can gain you a lot toward your other values.
@LeviKornelsen Cortex Plus has the Hacker's Guide, which is about as direct a "how to make games with this rule set" artifact as I've ever found.
Now, I've never played Cortex Plus or created a game with the Hacker's Guide, yet I do fondly remember reading Smallville + the Hacker's Guide and *imagining* the games I'd design with it, so..there's that.
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