foxes in skyrim lead you to treasure, not because they are programmed to, but because when they run from the player, they are pathfinding wrt a discrete mesh whose granularity is proportional to content density. thus fleeing foxes flow stochastically towards points of interest

🐍🏅 Let the Games Begin 🏆🐍 The 2022 #SpringLeague competition officially kicks-off today 🎉 Choose your favourite Battlesnake and enter the fray at play.battlesnake.com/spring-league 🌷 Presented by DigitalOcean twilio New Relic RBC

🚨🐍 Huge Battlesnake Announcement 🐍🚨 A new way to Battlesnake called #Battlegrounds is officially open! Our inaugural Battlegrounds competition runs from May 15 to June 30th so be sure to add your favourite snake today 🗓 Learn more at blog.battlesnake.com/welcome-to-bat… ⚔️

I think we just launched the first ever developer... esports team...? These players are directly sponsored by DigitalOcean to play #Battlesnake competitively 🤯 play.battlesnake.com/t/digitalocean/

Hey GitHub that you're charging for copilot when it's trained off code that's been written for free by folks who've worked hard to help build your company's ecosystem is an extremely bad look. Signed: a former lead maintainer of the 3rd most downloaded Ruby package of all time.

*standing in direct sunlight taking 2 damage a second* augh eurgh ugh augh augh ugh eurgh ohhg

buried in github's settings (Settings -> Code Pilot) is this opt-out that y'all should probably click

The new VS Code version comes with an experimental "sticky" mode and I quite like it! 👏 `"editor.experimental.stickyScroll.enabled": true` Video alt: Scrolling in VS Code showing that function signatures are sticky.

🚨🚨 BREAKING: 🚨🚨 If you're a Google Sheets user, stop what you're doing and check this out... ...they just dropped 10 new functions on us!!! 🔥🔥🔥 Christmas came early for Sheets nerds 🎅 Let's check them out 👇

BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on ScienceInsider.

A comparison of Heroku and a few free alternatives, by Andrew MacLean and the Battlesnake community. Free offerings like these are critical to lowering barriers for all. blog.battlesnake.com/deploying-web-…

Reddit is going crazy turning MSPaint sketches into concept art using Img2img with #stablediffusion and it’s wild (1/n) H/t Emad and Reddit

New Founded & Funded: Maria Gilfoyle and @PlayBattlesnake's Brad Van Vugt discuss how to engage the developer community, how combining aspects of #gaming, #eSports, & traditional sports creates an engaging experience for #devs and spectators... and more. 👂👇 bit.ly/3cT7RyO

⚡️Episode 51 of the Open Source Startup Podcast is LIVE⚡️ Timothy Chen & Amanda_robs talk with Brad Van Vugt, founder of multiplayer game for improving coding skills Battlesnake💪 anchor.fm/ossstartuppodc…

Big news! DevCycle has acquired Battlesnake! Battlesnake 🤖🐍 We’re excited to welcome them to the team and accelerate our product and community development. Together, we are well-positioned to launch DevCycle into our next stage of growth. devcycle.com/blog/devcycle-…

One of the great things about the AI boom is that now we have a real transformative platform everyone can now admit that Web3 and the Metaverse were total BS. Silicon Valley always has to have a Big New Thing and while waiting for a real one, we must invent fake ones

to tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners! The first maze stays in one piece, so there is no path from the entrance at the top to the exit at the bottom. The second maze splits apart along the solution.

[blinking and crying in the sun] yeah the cave guys only let me see 600 flickering shadows a day now. there’s another cave but it kind of sucks. im going to go back down again tomorrow