Quick question: Bob says something to James. James is upset and goes to have a cry about it. Who is responsible for James being upset? Is it Bob, for being mean? Or is it James, because he obviously has emotional development to do? If there's 100 points of responsibility, how…
Edit (2020): This was written before Fortnite became the battle royale game it is today. When I wrote this, "Fortnite classic" was the whole game. Epic went a totally different direction than I was thinking about. I've been playing a bunch of fortnite over the last week. Below is a…
There's an old joke that computer science is a lie, because its not really about computers, and its not really a science. Funny joke. Everyone laughs, then someone says "Yeah but it sort of is about computers though, isn't it?". Feet shuffle awkwardly. Someone clears their throat and before you…
Programming is close to godliness when you're deep in a problem, code is thought made real. In that space you stop existing as a person. You're just a conduit for creation. Squint at the right moment and you can catch them those sparkling cracks in reality at the corners of…
On Friday I accepted a challenge to clone Reddit's /r/place in a weekend. And I did it, and its live, and its amazing: Being able to build this in a weekend isn't genius. Its possible because programming is made up of 2 activities: Making decisions (95%) Typing (5%) Reddit…
I've written a fair bit over the last few months on other mediums (FB and Hackernews). I'm going to start collecting some of that content and reposting it here. From here: Performance of modern web apps is simply awful compared to their native counterparts by any measure. They load slowly…