emilygorcenski.com
Twitter, like many technology companies, fell into the classical trap by thinking that they, the technologists, were the innovators. Technologists today are almost never innovators, but rather plumbers who build pipelines to move ideas in the form of data back and forth with varying efficacy. Users are innovators, and its users that made Twitter unique.
github.com
3D-printable hexagonal mirror array capable of reflecting sunlight into arbitrary patterns
opb.org
Many video games like Alan Wake and Days Gone use the Pacific Northwest’s woodlands to create mystery and build tension for players. But Lake isn’t following that narrative. It’s set in the 1980s, and players take on the role of Meredith Weiss, a woman in her 40s who moves back to her hometown to deliver mail. While putting letters in mailboxes and leaving packages by front doors, Wiess begins to reconnect with the community she moved away from.
youtube.com
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github.com
Memray is a memory profiler for Python
manton.org
When a company gets too big, they inevitably forget why they exist. Not even the greatest, mission-driven companies seem to be able to escape this fate. The only way to stay true to your roots is to stay small.
schneier.com
A clever hacker used a “flash loan” feature of another decentralized finance project to borrow enough of the currency to give himself a controlling stake, and then approved a $182 million transfer to his own wallet.
twitter.com
Please watch this incredible speech from Michigan State Senator @MalloryMcMorrow, who is not standing by.
polygon.com
“Everything we do is to create kind of an alternative to touch-screen psychosis,” Kouthoofd said years later on an episode of the Panic Podcast. “It’s very effective for, like, a smartphone, but for a gaming device … A gaming device to me is almost the same as a musical instrument. It’s about zero latency, muscle memory, and you need to feel that you are in instant control of everything that happens. That tactility, however you solve it, if it’s pressing a button or turning a knob or a crank, it’s very important for the whole experience and the joy of being in control and using your hands.”
apoorvaj.io
Image compositing is the process of combining one or more images into a single one. Compositing can be done in any number of ways, but a very common way of doing it is to use the alpha channel for blending. Here, alpha is loosely treated as opacity.