- Never accept a counter-offer – Vardan Torosyan’s Blog –
- Postgres full-text search is Good Enough (2015) | Hacker News –
- Ask HN: How do you get people to use your product when you suck at networking? | Hacker News –
- Excerpts from Digital Restoration, First Edition –
- Photos Restored Digitally by Ctein –
- Writing For Half-Life – Marc Laidlaw – PREFACE: Another file from the same disk with the Nihilanth sketches, this one, if it is to believed, written the day after we shipped Half-Life. I do believe it because the file’s creation date is indeed November 9, 1998, and I am not l33t enough to know how to fake that sort of thing. The title of this file was “CGDCTALK” but I don’t remember ever giving a talk anywhere until years later, after the success of HL2. It might have been published somewhere (perhaps near Geoff Keighley’s piece on The Last Hours of Half-Life), but if so it was probably edited, and there might be some value in the unedited braindump. If this was indeed written right as we shipped the game, then I would not be surprised if it conflicts with things I’ve said in decades since. But the guy writing this little article was there, and his memory is much better than the old guy writing this preface, so I’d be inclined to believe him over me.
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- The Half Life Saga Story Guide –
- GitHub – Gargron/mastodon: A GNU Social-compatible microblogging server –
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Bookmarks for July 23rd
- Malware in the browser: how you might get hacked by a Chrome extension –
- 3 SEO Tools For Clueless Business Bloggers –
- SEO Tools » The Marketer Toolbox –
- Goodbye Short Sessions: a proposal for using service-workers to improve cookie management on the web | Web Updates – Google Developers –
Bookmarks for July 1st through July 2nd
These are my links for July 1st through July 2nd:
- Crash Course –
- flouthoc/calc.asm: Minimal arithmetic calculator in x86 assembly –
- An audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound | Hacker News –
- What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) | Hacker News –
- Simple Ways of Reducing the Cognitive Load in Code | Hacker News –
- The Ultimate Guide To The Frequency Separation Technique | Fstoppers –
- Illustrated Cross-Sections of Major Train Stations in Tokyo by Tomoyuki Tanaka | Spoon & Tamago –
- The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans –
- jesserayadkins/lily: An interpreted language with a focus on expressiveness and type safety –
Bookmarks for June 8th through June 10th
These are my links for June 8th through June 10th:
- AV Artifact Atlas –
- Global Seismic Library, Multi-Client Seismic, 2D & 3D Seismic|Globalseismiclibrary.com –
- 1999.io –
- Practical Reverse Engineering Part 4 – Dumping the Flash | Hacker News –
Bookmarks for May 11th
- Compiler Explorer –
- Use AWS Lambda to self-host the comments for your blog | Hacker News –
- GitHub – Miserlou/Zappa: Serverless Python Web Services –