Please don't make your team work on a U.S. holiday weekend for this. Just don't hit the deploy button on this change and now there's no deadline and no need for crunch.
Nintendo was late to dip their toes into f2p game economies and it shows with the poorly balanced bell economy in (farmville-like) Animal Crossing. Turnips are a terrible way to make bells in the single-player game. You…
This seems like an issue with semver. Its idealism is not compatible with actual human behavior. The package devs clearly violated semver guidelines and npm puts a lot of faith in individual packages to take semver…
There's many different kinds of players with an equally rich spectrum of player motivations. Animal Crossing is a phenomenon for some players because games like it are released pretty rarely. For others, it's "not even…
I keep a log for each project and write down the problem I'm trying to solve followed by the idea I think solves it. If I hit a roadblock, I write that down as the new problem. Now I have to solve that before I can pop…
Slack is surprisingly anti remote work. They only offer it to incredibly senior roles. Everyone else has to jump through hoops and get approvals from many layers of middle management - it's one of those ask Mom / ask…
You have little control over businesses transmitting purchase data to Facebook or other data aggregators. Best you can do is withhold information at time of purchase. Use cash, don't give your email, phone number, etc.…
I'm always surprised that npm, a for-profit company with a lame business model, is graciously serving redundant package requests millions of times per day to everyone's CI/CD flows. One day this is going to happen for…
Because a bunch of college kids and bootcampers only learned React and are afraid of the job market spotlight moving on from where they're standing. Popularity is not a useful metric when evaluating frameworks.…
Good points. Based on my experience with whales in f2p games you will get outsized income from 0.1% of whale users, reliable income from 20% of hobby users, and one-off spend here and there from the rest. When I think…
On Firefox mobile the site navigation doesn't appear so the link literally leads to a single picture of three old naked men fighting over bread and that's it. Maybe try giving people the benefit of the doubt. And spend…
I had bought into the Firefox ecosystem down to their password manager and would have paid for premium services. Remove the ability to adblock on mobile and I'm pulling out of the entire ecosystem. What a betrayal. They…
I'm the one who switched my whole family to Chrome back in the day to get them off IE. I have no problem doing it again this holiday season. Firefox for everyone. No idea what Google is thinking. In one short decade…
I may revisit Apple devices once they're done with their headphone jack fiasco. I like their recent privacy focus. I had used them in the past and even tried to take them into their third and fourth years, but they felt…
I've probably taken under 50 photos this year so I am not a good reference point for camera features. I haven't been disappointed with the photos but I also probably have no idea what I'm missing.
I've been using the budget Moto G+ line for the past four years. I can upgrade my phone every year around Black Friday and get the latest model for sub $200. The older phones still work well and get handed down to my…
Remember when loot boxes promising valuable rookie cards of baseball players captured America's youth and squandered the nation's fortune back in the 20th century? Or the countless families devastated by beanie baby…
Sorry, I meant 3d printing in the abstract sense of making digital thoughts into real items; not as in I'm buying 3d printed goods on Etsy. I updated my original comment to remove the confusing analogy
Etsy is my go-to for counterfeit licensed merchandise. Need some video game themed dish towels? Cuff links inspired by your favorite book series? It's all there. Etsy is the genie lamp you get when you cross image…
Most general advice I can give is to make sure your games have engaging core loops at three different temporal scales: moment to moment, minute to minute, and session to session. Moment to moment is the really gamefeel…
The rule of thumb I use is to ask: if someone had shouted this in a supermarket or bank line, what would happen? Internet communities should aspire to be more like local communities. If you're a jerk in real life,…
I think all these privacy protection rulings are a step in the right direction, in that we are seeing governments respond to dark patterns similar to how they respond to spam and telemarketing. The loose thread now is…
You will get automated emails alerting you to ppl trying to access your account even if they don't have the credentials. E.g. they got my PSN info from a breach and tried to use it to log into steam or battle.net.…
I stopped doing this recently because it makes password breaches devastating and online tracking easier. Now the only stable screen name I use is for my professional persona. Everything else I sign up with whatever…
I uninstalled this software yesterday and it's not going back on my machine. I have the same criticisms as others do about a company like Zoom that only responds to security issues after they wait-and-see if it will…
Please don't make your team work on a U.S. holiday weekend for this. Just don't hit the deploy button on this change and now there's no deadline and no need for crunch.
Nintendo was late to dip their toes into f2p game economies and it shows with the poorly balanced bell economy in (farmville-like) Animal Crossing. Turnips are a terrible way to make bells in the single-player game. You…
This seems like an issue with semver. Its idealism is not compatible with actual human behavior. The package devs clearly violated semver guidelines and npm puts a lot of faith in individual packages to take semver…
There's many different kinds of players with an equally rich spectrum of player motivations. Animal Crossing is a phenomenon for some players because games like it are released pretty rarely. For others, it's "not even…
I keep a log for each project and write down the problem I'm trying to solve followed by the idea I think solves it. If I hit a roadblock, I write that down as the new problem. Now I have to solve that before I can pop…
Slack is surprisingly anti remote work. They only offer it to incredibly senior roles. Everyone else has to jump through hoops and get approvals from many layers of middle management - it's one of those ask Mom / ask…
You have little control over businesses transmitting purchase data to Facebook or other data aggregators. Best you can do is withhold information at time of purchase. Use cash, don't give your email, phone number, etc.…
I'm always surprised that npm, a for-profit company with a lame business model, is graciously serving redundant package requests millions of times per day to everyone's CI/CD flows. One day this is going to happen for…
Because a bunch of college kids and bootcampers only learned React and are afraid of the job market spotlight moving on from where they're standing. Popularity is not a useful metric when evaluating frameworks.…
Good points. Based on my experience with whales in f2p games you will get outsized income from 0.1% of whale users, reliable income from 20% of hobby users, and one-off spend here and there from the rest. When I think…
On Firefox mobile the site navigation doesn't appear so the link literally leads to a single picture of three old naked men fighting over bread and that's it. Maybe try giving people the benefit of the doubt. And spend…
I had bought into the Firefox ecosystem down to their password manager and would have paid for premium services. Remove the ability to adblock on mobile and I'm pulling out of the entire ecosystem. What a betrayal. They…
I'm the one who switched my whole family to Chrome back in the day to get them off IE. I have no problem doing it again this holiday season. Firefox for everyone. No idea what Google is thinking. In one short decade…
I may revisit Apple devices once they're done with their headphone jack fiasco. I like their recent privacy focus. I had used them in the past and even tried to take them into their third and fourth years, but they felt…
I've probably taken under 50 photos this year so I am not a good reference point for camera features. I haven't been disappointed with the photos but I also probably have no idea what I'm missing.
I've been using the budget Moto G+ line for the past four years. I can upgrade my phone every year around Black Friday and get the latest model for sub $200. The older phones still work well and get handed down to my…
Remember when loot boxes promising valuable rookie cards of baseball players captured America's youth and squandered the nation's fortune back in the 20th century? Or the countless families devastated by beanie baby…
Sorry, I meant 3d printing in the abstract sense of making digital thoughts into real items; not as in I'm buying 3d printed goods on Etsy. I updated my original comment to remove the confusing analogy
Etsy is my go-to for counterfeit licensed merchandise. Need some video game themed dish towels? Cuff links inspired by your favorite book series? It's all there. Etsy is the genie lamp you get when you cross image…
Most general advice I can give is to make sure your games have engaging core loops at three different temporal scales: moment to moment, minute to minute, and session to session. Moment to moment is the really gamefeel…
The rule of thumb I use is to ask: if someone had shouted this in a supermarket or bank line, what would happen? Internet communities should aspire to be more like local communities. If you're a jerk in real life,…
I think all these privacy protection rulings are a step in the right direction, in that we are seeing governments respond to dark patterns similar to how they respond to spam and telemarketing. The loose thread now is…
You will get automated emails alerting you to ppl trying to access your account even if they don't have the credentials. E.g. they got my PSN info from a breach and tried to use it to log into steam or battle.net.…
I stopped doing this recently because it makes password breaches devastating and online tracking easier. Now the only stable screen name I use is for my professional persona. Everything else I sign up with whatever…
I uninstalled this software yesterday and it's not going back on my machine. I have the same criticisms as others do about a company like Zoom that only responds to security issues after they wait-and-see if it will…