Reposts

A curated list of links to articles, videos, and everything else that I deem excellent.

Blog posts

Software disenchantment by Nikita

The absolute state of modern day software development’s problems: huge lack of performance, bloat, bad UX and more. The article is available in other languages too.

Oil it or Spoil it! by Lars Doucet

Very insightfull article about how to design/polish mechanics so they don’t frustrate players.

Does Microsoft OneDrive export large ZIP files that are corrupt? by Johan van der Knijff

An article that dives step by step into how they were able to find the issue behind OneDrive sometimes exporting “corrupt” ZIP archives.

Talks (video)

Wat by Gary Bernhardt

A classic 15 minute talk that shows a lot of the weird behaviours in JavaScript with a very funny comedic note.

Preventing the Collapse of Civilization by Jonathan Blow

Another classic talk, where Jonathan Blow talks about how information about technology degrades and gets lost over time.