Backlinks 2021-04-01 Saltcorn lets you create web-based Database applications with a drag and drop interface. It’s open source (MIT-licensed, even) and written in JavaScript. 2020-04-22 This is a long article, but with good details on aspects of Databases that will likely trip people up. See: Things I wished …

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Things are not always as they appear Check out this octopus decloaking and cloaking and Richard Wiseman showing the power of perspectives in creating illusions. Wiseman’s Quirkology YouTube channel has lots of great stuff.

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JamKazam: play music over the internet JamKazam is a service for playing music with others over the internet, dealing with the natural synchronization problems that come up.

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Massive link dump today. I’ve been hoarding links in my Things inbox and it was time to clean it up! A 1.5° celsius pathway to climate leadership for the US Energy Innovation’s report, A 1.5° celsius pathway to climate leadership for the United States does indeed show a pathway (validated by their model), …

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Backlinks 2021-03-28 Estimating software projects can be hard, but it’s something that people have always had to do and have come up with tricks for it. Project Management often requires having a sense of when we’ll finish. Dan North describes Blink Estimation, which involves getting experienced people in …

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Distributed: live social chat app Distributed provides a chat interface with little video bubbles at the top to allow remote people to stay in touch more informally. It’s actually open source.

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Fontemon: a game in a font If you ever wanted to know how far you can get with ligatures, there’s Fontemon, the game contained within a font.

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Some folks at work have been looking at Dockerization of our dev environment to make it work more consistently across people’s computers. This may be less ideal on Macs, given the need to run a VM, so I’m starting some notes here about other potential options. Nix The Nix package manager is one way to get a …

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In praise of messy design Tanya X. Short of Kitfox Games wrote this wonderful article about messy design in games. She described three different types of messy: shaggy, baggy, and craggy. A shaggy game design is one that forces the player to experience wildly varying systems and gameplay along the journey of the game. …

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Nathan Pyle’s art tips Nathan Pyle, creator of the fantastic Strange Planet comics, has a Twitter thread of comic art tips. I like these tips because they’re fun and simple. 9 things to know about Michigan’s vaccine rollout The Ann Arbor News has 9 things to know about Michigan’s COVID-19 …

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