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  • ValhallaPlate, Diffusion, and Presets | Valhalla DSP
    "I view ValhallaPlate as being closely related to an SM57. Or a hammer. No need to be delicate with the tool. No need to think about things too much. It just works." I liked this line on toolmaking, especially when it comes to music technology.
    (tags: music software tools interfaces )
  • Autodesk Graphic – Mac Illustration and Graphic Design
    Much more Illustrator-like than Sketch is, in many ways, and affordable. Certainly leaps ahead of Inkscape in not being rubbish. Going to use this for lasercutting/frontpanel work, I think.
    (tags: graphics vector svg osx mac design software )
  • The Realities of Installing iBeacon to Scale – BKM TECH
    Really good article on the realities of installing iBeacons, and, secondarily, the way you develop your own internal processes just to solve workflow. I liked the trolly; I felt for the BKM very much as I read this.
    (tags: design location ibeacons installation galleries museums oof )
  • Translating Gender: Ancillary Justice in Five Languages Alex Dally MacFarlane | Interfictions Online
    Fascinating article capturing how various translators worked around their languages to translate not only the absence of gendered language _suggested_ in Ancillary Justice, but also the author's deliberate use of the feminine as a generic case. (Also, how to translate things for different cultures – what they expect and what they intimate).
    (tags: annleckie writing gender language translation )
  • ‘gazed and Confused: A Guide to Shoegaze in your DAW – Zeros and Ones
    Yes, it's a bit heavily focused on copying/emulation, but there's some useful stuff in here and some interesting starting points.
    (tags: synthesis shoegaze production music )
  • Administrate (documentation)
    Thoughtbot's engine for Rails admin UIs, sans-DSLs. Filed away for reference.
    (tags: rails ruby rubyonrails development programming thoughtbot admin )
  • Corrie’s Blog : "Leave A Pause Until It Hurts" – Memories of Peter Donaldson
    Corrie Corfield on Peter Donaldson. Lovely.
    (tags: announcing continuity radio radio4 bbc peterdonaldson corriecorfield )
  • code like you don’t have the time (tecznotes)
    [this is good] and I will remember more of it in future.
    (tags: migurski engineering software practice )
  • GTA V – Graphics Study – Adrian Courrèges
    Wonderful, dense, three-part study of one of GTA V's renderer. I like Adrian's posts because he focuses on the art of the technology, as well as the technology of the art; a reminder that game art isn't just plonking OBJ files into a world, but relies on a whole host of developers, maths, and drawcalls.
    (tags: games graphics programming rendering gtav 3D )
  • Electron
    Interesting; the wrapper Github used for Atom, as a platform. Makes building desktop applications for web-folk like me a notch easier, though as ever, I find the Javascript ecosystem baffling.
    (tags: desktop github javascript software development applications nodejs )
  • Gamasutra: Deanna Van Buren’s Blog – Architecture in Video Games: Designing for Impact
    Wonderful article from an architect who worked on "The Witness" about the role of architecture practice in game design, and all the rough edges architects see within game worlds. Good on spatial design principles, too.
    (tags: architecture design games thewitness space buildings )
  • timhunkin/initiation to museum design
    "Every gallery project needs an Andy" – and other insights from Tim Hunkin on installation design, following his work on 'The Secret Life of the Home' at the Science Museum. All rings very true for me, and glad to see it's not just me that finds this sort of stuff challenging. Also: very interesting on museum culture.
    (tags: design timhunkin installations exhibitions engineering sciencemuseum )
  • Roger Deakins – Page – Interview Magazine
    Lovely interview between Jeff Bridges and Roger Deakins – on film, and how they get made, and feel. Lots of deep knowledge and affection in this; I really enjoyed it.
    (tags: rogerdeakins jeffbridges film interview conversation )
  • thoughtbot workshops | vim for rails
    "I spend every day writing Rails code in vim, and I’ve optimized the heck out that process. The screencast contains the best of what I’ve learned for creating and editing Rails code at top-speed. Come look over my shoulder and I’ll show you my best stuff." Might give this a pop at some point.
    (tags: screencast vim rails development tools editors thoughtbot )
  • One More Go: Rhythm Tengoku, or Why plucking the hairy onion makes a new woman out of me – Offworld
    "…it turns out that a GBA and a cart isn’t any more use than a GBA on its own. It’s only when you build a machine out of a GBA and a cart and a me that you’ve got a real Rhythm Tengoku Machine. Bolt those three components together and you’ve built an entirely new organism, an extraordinary creature who can shoot ghosts, dance with monkeys, and climb stars like staircases."
    (tags: games play writing hardware offworld gba rhythmtengoku )
  • Kloonigames » Blog Archive » 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of Uniqueness
    "You’ll win the game if you’re the only one playing the game at the moment in the world. The game checks over the internet if there are other people playing it at the moment and it’ll kill the game if someone else is playing it. You have to play the game for 4 minutes and 33 seconds." High concept, I'll give it that.
    (tags: games space surreal abstract globalgamejam silence solitary johncage nordicgamejam )
  • BBC NEWS | Technology | Video game helps with fire drill
    "Durham University's Dr Shamus Smith, who helped spearhead the project, told BBC News that that while bespoke 3D modelling software was available, modifying a video game was faster, more cost effective, and had better special effects." Quite true. Although: "gamers" tend to treat it as a game, wheras "non-gamers" treat it as a training exercise, and behave accordingly.
    (tags: games technology simulation training fire safety source seriousgames )
  • PC Pro: News: Q&A: Microsoft defends return to DRM
    Microsoft on their new MSN Music service, weighed-down by DRM. I don't normally link to stuff about DRM, but frankly, every single response in this is comedy gold.
    (tags: interview music microsoft mobile comedy drm )
  • Science News / Gamers Crave Control And Competence, Not Carnage
    "The results from two surveys, based on responses from over 2,500 people who participate in an Internet chat group focused on video games, found that the inclusion of violent content did nothing to enhance players’ enjoyment. What did matter was feeling in control and feeling competent. “Games give autonomy, the freedom to take lots of different directions and approaches,” says Ryan."
    (tags: games play research control motivation violence agency )
  • Loco Roco 3d Wallpaper by ~kheng on deviantART
    Beautiful.
    (tags: games 3D wallpaper artwork via:offworld locoroco )
  • Bobbie Johnson: Why I'm finished with 'social media' | Technology | guardian.co.uk
    "Social media is people. People talk about stuff. The end." Yes.
    (tags: journalism media social guardian socialmedia bobbiejohnson )
  • Speculating with Shoulda — GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
    You can now use Shoulda macros in RSpec as well as Test::Unit. Thanks, Thoughtbot! Might take a poke at this some time.
    (tags: ruby testing thoughtbot rspec shoulda )
  • GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
    "The tests are the program. Without the tests, the program does not work. Tests are not something that should be left for the inexperienced; tests are the hard part."
    (tags: programming development ruby rails rubyonrails testing thoughtbot )
  • Lexical Analysis of 2008 US Presidential and Vice-Presidiential Debates – Who's the Windbag?
    "The analysis presented here explores word usage in the 2008 US Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates. The purpose is to explore the structure of speech, as characterized by the use of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, and noun phrases. The speech patterns of opposing candidates are compared in an effort to identify characteristic value and personality traits."
    (tags: words wordle visualization linguistics syntax analysis politics debate )
  • Build Your Own Marriage Proposal
    "How I asked my GF to marry me in Little Big Planet. My (now) Fiancee was playing the level. She was so shocked she kept playing and knew i was filming. Afterwords we hugged, she cried, and I gave her an engagement ring." This is amazing in so many ways, not least of which that she wasn't the first person to paly it.
    (tags: littlebigplanet mores social marriage engagement games play creation ugc brilliant )
  • Finding the Time to Bleed – Team Fortress 2
    "The suits took issue with every brave, authority-questioning page of our Meet the Sandvich script-specifically that there were supposed "similarities" between it and the 1987 action film Predator, and more specifically that it was word for word the 1987 action film Predator."
    (tags: writing valve tf2 script humour funny predator roadhouse )
  • Longshot Comics » Comics Worth Reading
    "Each issue of this unique title is 3,840 half-inch-square panels of nothing but dots talking to each other. The concept is that everyone is drawn so far away that all you can see is a dot. And the dots do stuff. Like smack each other, or give birth, or die. It’s brilliant, it’s hilarious, and it’s mind-blowing."
    (tags: comics longshot shanesimmons )

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