A remarkable book – and resource – from Chris Brejon. All on lighting for CG animation, but as usual with this sort of reference, so much to say about cinematic lighting fullstop.

A deeply personal obit that will likely be lost to the sands of Facebook, but hey.

Via Phil G, a nice modern boilerplate for HTML pages – notable because of the excellently narrated explanation around it. Always useful to have something like this to refer back to.

Marvellous writing on one of Infocom's most notably experimental works, and its relationships to the present.

Always love seeing the state of modern CSS explained clearly, and this is great from Una Kravets. Also: new to me is "clamp", which is a lifesaver…

Finally, a set of links I don't feel ashamed to send people. Good. (Via Phil).

"A compelling 120-word critique regarding automated front-end development, as provided by a class attribute inside this simple Squarespace template"

Yes.

"Software is a spidery, ambiguous apparatus that reaches through society and culture at all levels to shape our behaviours, practices and beliefs. CGI itself is complex, expensive, time-consuming and difficult to master. The impenetrable CG image masks a complex reality of representational bias, human-computer collaboration, software politics, soft power tax incentives, 24/7 render farms, international trade deals, mineral extraction, gender imbalances, bankruptcy and wage fixing. It’s far more than nerds clicking buttons, it’s a multi-billion dollar industry whose influence continues to proliferate." This is fantastic stuff from Alan Warburton.

Well that fixes one of my main problems with that funtionality.

This makes lots of things clearer, even if the layout is a bit… eccentric.

"Capture screenshots of websites in various resolutions." Oh, that looks awesome. Really, really nice – and CLI-based.

I liked this introduction to D3 that Square give new hires – does a lot to explain the core of what's going on, without disappearing into handwavy magic.

Useful-looking list.

"Boilerplate is not a framework, nor does it prescribe any philosophy of development, it's just got some tricks to get your project off the ground quickly and right-footed." Good documentation, lots of neat tricks in here, and some good jumping-off points for further research.

Not a bad list, especially for sites needing hardcore, tight, front-end work, and that are going to face load.

Mitu makes a series of interesting connections here, though the conclusion she came to isn't quite the same as mine – which is in the comments. But there's a mass of starting points here as to notions of the "abstract", and what it might mean for games. Something I shall be returning to, for sure.