The designer notes ep with Charles Cecil has a lot of really entertaining anecdotes about how chaotic the early UK games industry was:
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Designer/Programmer of Glittermitten Grove and Something Unannounced.
JPfragments from a late 18th century graphics API (wax-sealed epistles recovered from the wreck of a clipper):
"the Work shall be enumerated thus:"
"this frame the Work shall be a matter of Indices"
"i am most eager for you to begin the Work"
"as for the matter of the vertices, haste is of the utmost - spare only 16 Royal Bits for each"
"i remain your most faithful and humble servant"
"the Work shall be enumerated thus:"
"this frame the Work shall be a matter of Indices"
"i am most eager for you to begin the Work"
"as for the matter of the vertices, haste is of the utmost - spare only 16 Royal Bits for each"
"i remain your most faithful and humble servant"
Xumbra 
erachatterScott Miller (Apogee/3D Realms): "We licensed the song "Don't Fear the Reaper" to use in Prey (2006) for $10k in 2006. Today it's $150k
https://www.resetera.com/threads/scott-miller-apogee-3d-realms-we-licensed-the-song-dont-fear-the-reaper-to-use-in-prey-2006-for-10k-in-2006-today-its-150k.1488808/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/scott-miller-apogee-3d-realms-we-licensed-the-song-dont-fear-the-reaper-to-use-in-prey-2006-for-10k-in-2006-today-its-150k.1488808/
Scott Miller (Apogee/3D Realms): "We licensed the song "Don't Fear the Reaper" to use in Prey (2006) for $10k in 2006. Today it's $150k
Just a fun fact, and some context for when discussing licenesed music in video games. The alien abduction sequence in question https://xcancel.com/emeriticus/status/2042744315970011364#m https://xcancel.com/ScottApogee/status/2042991723379372455#m
Somewhere in Australia there is a cockatoo who has watched all of the Primitive Technology Guy's labours, and is now ready to found their own civilisation
kottke.orgFarmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere. The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”. https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement
Wesley MooreOh nice! The developers of Little Snitch have made a version for Linux. Like they say at the start of the post, I never found an alternative I was happy with when I switched from macOS to Linux. Although, with vastly more open-source software in my workflow it was also less necessary.
Little Snitch for Linux — Because Nothing Else Came Close
Recent political events have pushed governments and organizations to seriously question their dependence on foreign-controlled software. The core issue is simple and uncomfortable: through automatic updates, a vendor can run any code, with any…
Jocelynephiliac 
This all really good, love this. It's all analyzing social behaviors, not code at all.
"Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns."
https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/
Enfys 🏴 🏳️⚧i released an Atari 2600 demo with some friends at revision this year and managed to win 1st place in the oldskool demo compo! it's been in development for about a year now so was really cool to see it finally out :3
https://demozoo.org/productions/389801/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEJ0A8Wvdxs
https://demozoo.org/productions/389801/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEJ0A8Wvdxs
The rarest ASMR content, a kakapo chick yawns into the nest mic at 2026-04-06 05:52:30
