Welcome to the Yockyard! It’s my collection for things like development, games, and design
Keyboards are the bottleneck into getting things done, communicating, and existing effectively in the modern world. Having a good keyboard that lets you type well and effectively is paramount. The Wren is a stellar keyboard in a crowded market - and it’s open source!
Self-help books are comically verbose, and usually unhelpful. They’re not badly written so to speak, but if they were maximally helpful they would be shorter, and more direct.
I speak unapologetically: I’ve seen bad work from insistence on using “cute tricks.”
Abuse an integer overflow.
Rely on floating point weirdness.
Use JAVA- oh wait no, well …use Kotlin?
Be stupid about the code you write. Cute tricks weaken your craft, and sow regret. By focusing your mind on impactful code you build more and better software. Hopefully, you’ll write code so stupid that future you will be able to read it and know exactly what it does (and why).
This was the year, and I’m happy to report it went pretty well
It’s a new year, so it’s time to do some new year’s resolutions. Mine is to colocate my unit tests!
It’s not something like
Put your Unit Tests right next to the thing they test. There’s no better way to do it
When I’m playing any game - cardboard, electronic, or even some sort of physical game - whenever I am moderately inconvenienced, I’ll say, “Bad Game.”