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A quiet week in web performance is a useful chance to investigate the evidence and problems teams already have.
When the Church of the Invincible Sun needs dirty deeds done Sister Svangerd heeds the call. This time all she needs to do is help her pet priest steal a book. Easy, right? Second in the Loyal Opposition series, wherein Svangerd and her...
Every nation seems determined to claim Shakespeare as its own. The English insist he belongs to them by birthright. Europe continually reinvents him through radical reinterpretation. Based on Carnegie Mellon University’s astonishing...
I have been a Lobsters member since June 2018. In the eight years since, I have submitted 220 stories to the site. I downloaded my entire submission history via the Lobsters API, and here’s what I found when I analyzed it. ContentsGrowth...
I have been working lately on “Outpost”, a video adventure for the ZX Spectrum 48K. It is a bit metroidvania in some ways, because some objects unlock abilities that allow access to new areas. I guess we could say it is a bit more like...
A little wind noise, a little connectivity flakiness, and a little lip-sync issues from YouTube, but look at that view! 🤩 Back to business, it's the Brinks Home FAQ I found most interesting this week. I mean, how do you write your own...
For emerging theatre-makers, there is often an expectation that every project must be everything at once. Commercial but artistic. Personal but universal. Experimental but accessible. The result can sometimes be work that feels caught...
WHEN THE SAGE OF SCARBOROUGH SAW THROUGH THE SWINGING ‘SIXTIES 1969: nearly half a century ago, and this was Alan Ayckbourn’s breakthrough. Philip Breen’s direction respects the author’s taste for in-the-round production (which the Old...
They (?) call them the "eclipse chasers" but I don't know what they call themselves. They fly across countries to stand in a field and wait for the sun to disappear. They have special glasses to stay safe. Special cameras. Special...
For the last few weeks I’ve been trying to sandbox agents on my machine. Coding agents and other autonomous ones that fire on a trigger and run a workflow while I’m not watching.
More gaming with nearby friends.
Celebrating 10 years of exploration, discovery, and adventure in the vast, ever-expanding universe of No Man's Sky. Happy Anniversary to Hello Games, No Man's Sky. It is 10 years, and hopefully another 10. A sequel would be great....
I had to move out of my office on Stanford’s campus. I had retired from the Graduate School of Education in 2001 and since GSE had allotted offices in one of the two education buildings on campus for retired professors who, like myself,...
Kamandi, The Last Boy On Earth #34 Date: October 1975 Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: 25¢ 2013 Price Range: $2.00 - $22.00 Stats: 18 color pages plus ads and "The Time Capsule" column Written & Drawn by: Jack Kirby Other Artists: D....