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Deconstructing the Role-Playing Video Game
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To me, a classic JRPG is pure mechanism, a kind of puzzle. Was there some way of getting the fun out of building such a mechanism—of solving that puzzle—, wrapping it with the minimal amount of functionality, the simplest thing that could possibly pass as a video game?
on Jul 16
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Software Design is Knowledge Building
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The product of software development is not code but a mental model, a theory: a specific way of explaining the world.
on Dec 29
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my blogging setup is my writing process
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To dissect a word with a keystroke feels like a superpower.
on Nov 24
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using the jorge static site generator to pack a blog anthology as an epub file.
on Sep 19
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Are We Living in a Simulation?
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I posit that it’s statistically unlikely for an engineer to get a job working on a system that isn’t either imaginary or legacy software. There is no middle ground.
on Sep 5
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Software Possession for Personal Use
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A little rest area by the road to a better web.
on Aug 23
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A Note on Essential Complexity
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The fact that we can’t remove essential complexity with a software redesign doesn’t mean that there’s nothing we can do about it. What if the problem definition wasn’t outside of our purview? What if we could get the world to conform to the software, and not just the other way around?
on Jun 26
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A Kindle integration was a natural extension to my feed reader. I had to learn a couple of things to get it working, so it seemed interesting to document the implementation process.
on Jun 22
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Code is read more than written, code is run more than read. I think this line of thought can be extended beyond code-writing, and used as a rule of thumb to identify problems and make decisions.
on May 24
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Zen Mind, Google Intern's Mind
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jorge started as a Go learning project, so writing down my thoughts on the language seemed like a good way to wrap up this devlog.
on Apr 2
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A few more things you can do on your website
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A couple of days ago I enjoyed reading James’s list of things to do on your website and, as he suggests by the end, I thought of a few more to add to the list. These are things I’ve either already done here or thought about doing but decided not to, or plan to eventually do:
on Mar 1
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Hubo un Borges antes y otro después de Norah Lange, uno antes y otro después del accidente de 1938, uno antes y otro después de la ceguera. Además de esos, célebres, hubo un Borges marginal, colaborador de la revista El Hogar, el Borges de los Textos cautivos.
on Jan 24
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Reclaiming the Web with a Personal Reader
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There’s a kind of zen flow that programmers unblock when they experience their software daily as an end user. There’s no better catalyst for ideas and experimentation, no better prioritization driver than having to face the bugs, annoyances, and limitations of an application first-hand.
on Dec 12, 2023
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Code is read more than written, code is run more than read. I think this line of thought can be extended beyond code-writing, and used as a rule of thumb to identify problems and make decisions.
on Dec 1, 2023