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Lovely article on porting Retro City Rampage to MS-DOS – and making it fit on a single floppy disk; reminds me of endless battles with Extended Memory as an end-user, and a nice callback to programming chops of yore. Also: nice to know it was really possible!
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A quick useful overview of Logic's compressors – specifically, what they emulate, and how to limit them to those original parameters.
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"Steve Reich’s Clapping Music is a free game that improves your rhythm by challenging you to play Steve Reich’s ground-breaking work – a piece of music performed entirely by clapping. Tap in time with the constantly shifting pattern, and progress through all of the variations. If you slip up or your accuracy falls too low, it’s game over." Must try this.
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The ruins of the Peckhamplex, as a remarkable diorama, added to and developed over time, from the looks of it. Really uncanny.
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Ansible as software deployment tool.
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I've loved playing Her Story, and if you had any doubt that some of its success were more down to coincidence than writing – well, Sam Barlow's blog will prove you wrong. This, on Ballard's use of fragments, and that as a motif for storytelling is cracking. (And: lots of the readings of Her Story are coming about not just because of the quality of Barlow's work, but because non-linearity leads us to strange and exciting places; the skill is allowing the text to support that not by covering every base, but by hinting at many bases).
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Generative imagery, derived by running neural networks backwards on photos – and then streaming it all to Twitch, using Twitch Chat for input. It's the last bit that makes it great: as I type, nearly 10,000 people have seen this psychedelic mess (and 100 are watching right now).
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Wonderful little story from Saxey about language, gender, and singular-they, although as with the best stories, it's all in the telling. Lots of good brain-tickles in here.
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Modernist toy exhibition in London; Ken Garland et al. I must go sometime soon.
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Saved for the fact it has notes on making Rails' token based authentication play ball with spitting back the correct MIME type.