#gamedev trick: If you need to calculate the sum of a bunch of random events, it can be approximated very cheaply using the normal approximation of binomial distributions. Quick writeup since bsky posts can only be so long: seequ.dev/posts/005-bi...

Rabbit hole: 1. Start making a game. 2. Decide to script it with lua for easy moddability. 3. Realize I now need to describe the UI in lua too, 4. Realize no existing GUI library does quite what I want and plays well with lua. 5. Make my own.

What is Apple up to?

The actual next generation of UI development? pangui.io

Never forget YAML is a superset of JSON. if you dislike YAML, you can just dump JSON into the YAML file and call it a day.

I have spent the last five hours trying to get Plex to *not* show subtitles and I'm about to break something.

There's some serious irony in the CSS Working Group having such a hideous blog. www.w3.org/blog/CSS/

Short writeup on using the date extension in sieve rules. It was surprisingly difficult to find good information on this. seequ.dev/posts/004-of...

I just want to say Fastmail is fantastic. www.fastmail.com

Apparently triggering links on mousedown is very controversial. I use it on my own sites since I find the user experience superior. Saving a good 100ms is significant. And holding a mouse in place during a click is harder than you might think if you're disabled. What are your thoughts on it?

TIL about the scrollbar-gutter property. It lets you reserve space for a scrollbar, even if one isn't visible now. Prevents content from jumping if the user doesn't use an overlay scrollbar. #webdev developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Fun little experiment. Grabbing my Bluesky feed every 5 minutes to update the static feed in my blog. seequ.dev/bluesky/

TIL quotes around HTML attributes are optional. Behold!

Just found this option. Settings > Thread Preferences. It's so good.

I've been having fun with Zola. The introduction takes a few minutes to complete and you're off to the races. Builds take a few milliseconds and you get live reload out of the box. Highly recommend it if you want to make a blog or any other static content. www.getzola.org

It's incredible how much time fiddling with css ends up taking every time. Might be a skill issue.

@jaz.bsky.social Is there a writeup somewhere that goes to the details of how the ATProto federation works?

I got a domain for Bluesky and figured I might as well finally start a blog using it. seequ.dev/first/

I hate YAML. Took me a while to figure out why the pipeline is saying "docker build requires exactly 1 argument."

370k Cities Skylines 2 players got malwared through the Traffic mod. - forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/thread... - www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH_8...

The Quiet Posters feed is the best thing since sliced cheese.

Hmm. pythonspeed.com/articles/alp...