Totally agree--this is a part of why Deathloop is the first of Arkane Studios's games that I abandoned without winning. A "save the game when you quit but delete the save when you continue playing again" feature akin to that of old-school roguelikes could've fixed this, I think.

Really glad to see this game getting a second chance! I happened to run into very few bugs when the game released in 2020, so I enjoyed it a lot and was bummed by all the negative press it got. Awesome to see the creators have all their hard work acknowledged now.

i love how much Godot Engine cares about having a small footprint. after downloading gigabytes for every new unity/unreal release it's such a breath of fresh air, along with not having to worry about licensing shenanigans.

Just started using GitHub Copilot with a new Rust project and am blown away in all the obvious ways. One unexpected benefit: if the AI doesn't give me good suggestions, it's sometimes because I haven't named things well. So it's implicitly encouraging me to write readable code.

Most of the time, I welcome Github Copilot's suggestions, but sometimes I really just want to figure something out for myself via code, and Copilot feels more like a backseat driver in that context.

So far Copilot feels like it's taking all the boring parts out of programming, which effectively makes coding more fun? I guess that was unexpected.

just used the <dialog> element for the first time and it's so nice and comforting and non-apocalyptic

One of my favorite new UX patterns is when a site expands a video at the very top of the page just as I've started to read it.

My dad completely missed the computing boat in the 80s and 90s, but he's trying to learn now, and it's hard because all this is tacit knowledge now. I *really* wish tutorials like this still existed for folks like him. Maybe I should just send him the 1984 Mac User's Manual.

Marveling at Mediawiki's ability to always redirect me back to where I originally wanted to go, through account creation, login--any kind of intermediary. So few sites are capable of this anymore. Most are amnesiac and just send me back to the homepage.

This is what I've been working on for the past few weeks!

Even though I'm currently on iOS, I've started viewing green message bubbles as punk. As in "Wow, you have the audacity to defy Apple and do your own thing, despite the implied social stigma of the green bubble. Respect."

Today I fixed my first open-source bug for work. Our product uses Mermaid, but a flaw could cause the user's browser to hang: github.com/mermaid-js/mer… It felt good to give back to the community. I really enjoy my job but I've missed contributing to open-source projects.

I think my favorite technology of the past 15 years is Firefox 🔥's URL bar. This thing is my long-term memory. I can type in a few words I vaguely remember from a page I visited years ago and boom, I'm there.

I love this paragraph from Jordan Magnuson◾️'s gamepoemsbook.com. If not for this, I would have simply kept telling myself I ought to write a game poem, and left it there. But this paragraph made me finally learn Bitsy and create one.

Finished watching my first film on MUBI and was pretty pleased with everything. My favorite bit of UX: when the movie is over, they just let the credits roll, instead of shoving the next piece of content in your face.

this is a beautiful paean to view source cordite.org.au/poetry/game/so…

If you told me a year ago that my favorite game of 2023 would be a free-to-play, live service gacha game from China, I would have been incredulous, but here we are. This post captures a good deal of what I love about Honkai Star Rail: pcgamer.com/no-game-captur…

A year ago I wouldn't care, but now that I play Honkai: Star Rail, I have thoughts. I find Honkai's battle pass healthier than subscriptions, because their benefits are retroactive for the month they're bought in--with subs, I feel pressured to play to "get my money's worth".