Flash games are a very important part of game dev history. But despite millions of games available on thousands of websites, I only ever played or will ever play tower defense games.
A very useful calculator for determining win/draw/loss probabilities for two players given their ratings.
This is a clear article which argues that the most effective way to train VO2 max is low intensity, high volume training.
An overview of microtypography via the Microtype LaTeX package.
I'm not convinced all of the microtyped examples look any better than the naive spacing...
Nice intro to writing basic terminal user interfaces with ANSI escape codes.
On some of the rationale behind Emacs key binding conventions.
I was annoyed recently when a Vim theme I like[1] only used the standard 16 ANSI colors in 256-color terminals (like Apples' Terminal.app which does not support true/24-bit colors). But there are advantages.
Joe "begriffs" Nelson's tips on using Vim.
Interview with the guy who crated the vifm file manager (25.7.2008)
some nice vim tips
How to quickly edit SVG figures in Inkscape (using a custom Xlib-based shortcut manager) and insert the results in a LaTeX document. Gilles Castel is a note-taking wizard.
Inspiring overview of how to take real-time notes in LaTeX using Vim with the Ultisnips plugin.
Takes a look at some problems in font rasterization (anti-aliasing, hinting, etc).
Some actually good/informative threads on letsrun
A valuable contribution to the oral history of pool checkers. There's also a book (I haven't read yet) by Peggy Fleming which includes interviews with every living member (in 2010) of the Capital Pool Checkers Club in Washington DC.
But this article really overstates how exotic pool checkers is, even compared to straight American checkers. It says non-crowned pieces can move backwards; but while they do capture backwards, you can't move them backward without capturing. It also says that kings move like chess queens, but unlike Frisian checkers pieces only ever move diagonally (so kings move like a bishop in chess).
Pool checkers is very much like international draughts played on an 8x8 instead of a 10x10 board (like Brazilian checkers), with the only exception that when capturing you don't have to capture the maximum number of pieces available if you don't want to.
So it is also nearly identical to Russian checkers, except a piece must end its turn on the back row to get crowned (in Russian checkers a piece can get crowned an then continue jumping).
On compiling a Swift program for Mac OS 9.
Interview with founders of two Parkrun USA groups.
A documentary about scholastic chess in Illinois.
Trying to find out if small quantities of Levirex can be purchased for homebrew shoes...