Tech lead, senior developer, founder of Police Rewired, Newspeak House fellow, Escape the Review gamer. (he/him)
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I am delighted to announce the release of my latest project:
Fully documented source code for The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond’s 1986 masterpiece.
Here’s the repository; deep dives coming soon.
See thread for details.
1/9
https://github.com/markmoxon/the-sentinel-source-code-bbc-micro
Devs in tiny teams! 👋
How do you manage peer review? What's important, and what cool solutions have your team come up with to get around the drawbacks when there are so few of you? How about when there's a tight deadline?
👉 pol.is/4bjbbvxvuh
Cycling boosts health, the planet, and the economy! 🚲
✔️92,000+ km of EuroVelo routes across Europe
✔️Nearly 10M bikes made in the EU yearly
✔️1.35M cycling-related jobs
Through our European Declaration on Cycling, we are committed to boosting cycling in the EU, including
🦺 Safe cycling networks in cities
🚌 Better links with public transport
🔋 Deployment of charging points for e-bikes
🚴 Bike highways connecting cities with rural areas
Find out more about the Declaration: https://europa.eu/!RF6q43
omfg the font used in this famous anti-piracy campaign used a pirated commercial font.
Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (https://bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v) She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (https://web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf). So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time! 📎
I gave a talk on Elite at hack::soho earlier in the year, and the video’s now available on YouTube. It's a whirlwind tour of three fascinating aspects of Elite: procedural generation, 3D maths and the split screen.
Gosh, I talk quickly when I’m having fun! 🤣 I hope you like it.
Mark Moxon
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