World's largest on-the-nose metaphor the 990-ft long abandoned ocean liner SS United States is being towed to its final resting place at the bottom of the ocean off the Florida coast after decades languishing at a port in Philadelphia.

RIP, old friend.
https://www.abandonedamerica.us/ss-united-states

great, long-form article on the failure of architects and architectural industry to integrate the people-sized theories of christopher alexander

you may or may not recognize the name, if you're a programmer: alexander's "pattern language" became a foundational part of the terminology used in some computing science disciplines. (sadly, most of his theories are deeply misused and misunderstood in CS)

this article provides a deeper look into alexander's architectural theories, and how they became marginalized in architectural design.

https://thesideview.co/journal/why-christopher-alexander-failed-to-humanize-architecture/

#architecture #design

Edit: someone in the thread points out that this formulation was paraphrased from Sean Tejaratchi: https://web.archive.org/web/20130621083214/http://www.readingfrenzy.com/ledger/2012/03/taking_the_piss

#banksy #advertising #publicspace

I'm a bit late to the party, but I've been making my own game engine for about 3 years now, and here are my few cents on whether or not to roll your own game engine, how to do that, and what a game engine even means:

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/programming/2023/09/15/so-you-want-to-make-a-game-engine.html

“Yes, can I help you?”

“Evening, neighbor. I just wanted to remind you that garbage pickup is tomorrow, and you seem to have forgotten to put your cans out.”