Things I’ve shared and commented on, from other people’s websites.
Discover how to find the best Mario Kart 8 build using the Pareto frontier method. This interactive guide explores multi-objective optimization of speed, acceleration, and other key stats to help you beat your friends on the race track.
This is so unbelievably nerdy. I love it.
I now see why I keep losing at Mario Kart!
RollerCoaster Tycoon didn’t just give millions of fans an infinite toolbox of fun to build the theme parks of their candified dreams (more on this later), but helped to demystify the whole adjacent theme park industry, and make it less male dominated.
I have spent probably too many hours playing this game. I enjoyed it so much I recall it getting me into trouble with my parents when I snuck onto the family computer and turned off a different game my dad was playing just so I could be a tycoon!
I had no idea of its wider impact. It’s inspired people to get into rollercoaster design as a profession and diversified the industry a bit in the process.
I wonder if my other favourite game of the 90s had a similar impact.
What weeknotes are, how weeknotes work, and how to start writing weeknotes of your own
I’ve never managed to get into the habit of week noting; but Giles’ excellent Doing Weeknotes guidance has inspired me to give it another shot!
More, soon.
With the recent revival of personal websites and blogs, however, a lot of people are rediscovering a more thoughtful and persistent alternative: sharing links on their personal websites.
The latest edition of the Own Your Web newsletter chimes perfectly with what I’ve been trying to achieve by adding more short-form blogging formats to my website.
Not every blogpost has to be an essay. Sometimes, you just want to share a link, and maybe add a quick comment.
Olly Alexander will represent the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest with his song Dizzy.
This wasn’t quite what I was expecting it to be, but I think I like it! It’s been a worm in my ear all day.
I’m fairly sure the synth chord progression is sampled from this Pet Shop Boys track.
Soon, though, WhatsApp will do the previously unthinkable for its 2 billion users: allow people to message you from another app.
Fascinating to see how the EU Digital Markets Act is starting to have real world impact on the products we use each day.
The mental overhead of juggling between messaging apps is brain space that I could do with getting back. I can’t wait to move all my messaging into one app. Oh, the glorious simplicity! That is, if they manage to execute, and if all my other messaging apps also choose to interoperate.
I don’t have a problem with being reminded of the rules - but I do have a problem with almost all of these training modules, and it’s this: they tend to treat grown adults like children
At this rate, I’m going to have to get an “I agree with Giles” t-shirt.
Corporate “e-learning” doesn’t respect people’s intellect or, perhaps worse, their time.
They’re not even that information dense. Most of the content could fit on a single side of A4.
Come to think of it; I suspect most people would be happy to read a stack of 1 page policies and then sit the stupid tests.
I noticed a lot of people don’t have a link to their RSS feeds on their sites or have the correct metadata for auto-discovery
This post has prompted me to update my own RSS feeds. It’s been a long time since I’ve given them an overhaul.
I’ve recently been adding new post formats to the site: replies and comments, boosts and sharing, quick notes and lists. My RSS feed, though? Just plain old blog posts.
Not any more. You can now subscribe to more than a dozen feeds from my site with lots of different post formats. All of them are available on the feeds page, and RSS readers should auto-detect all of them too.
If you’ve got a website, do as Robb suggests: expose your RSS!
I installed it, I met some people, I had an adventure, the story wrapped, I am now free to get on with my life
I couldn’t agree more with this sentiment: video games are getting too damned big.
I don’t need hundreds of repetitive and frustrating side quests. Just give me the main storyline, make it thrilling, and don’t make it so long that I lose interest.
Cocoon was a recent, excellent example of this. It was only 6 hours long but every minute of it was brilliant, and ended just when it needed to.