Rage-quit support for fish shell
I ran across a fantastically entertaining tweet this morning, advertising “rage-quit support for bash”: It’s hilarious and silly and excellent, except it only works in bash. If you run a less-common shell...
Is scarcity alone valuable? A social experiment.
Rare wines can cost thousands of dollars a bottle. Rare sports cards still fetch hundreds of dollars each. And in a disaster situation, scarce survival items like candles and generators appreciate in price remarkably. Clearly,...
Game over. New game?
Two years. Six major content releases. Twelve major event releases. The glorious return of tournaments. The less-than-glorious internationalization and Chinese launch (and then shutdown). Dozens of new mice, hundreds of new...
Online-only games are the future
You may not like it, and I may not like it either, but it’s true. You’ve probably heard about the rocky launch of the SimCity reboot. If not, here’s the skinny: EA shoehorned online-only DRM onto SimCity and...
Functional vs. Object-Oriented PHP
I was asked a seemingly-innocuous question lately that actually turned out to be pretty interesting: “Do you do much object-oriented programming in PHP, like design patterns?” (I’m paraphrasing, actually, I am...
Wait, nothing’s wrong?
I recently read a tweet that really set me to thinking: Nothing is quite so shocking as writing code which runs fine the first time. — cliffski (@cliffski) January 8, 2013 I’ve had this same thought many, many times...
Fine, eBay. Here’s your $2. I hope you choke on it.
Just a head’s up – don’t use eBay to sell anything. Save yourself the time, effort, and money. That’s the tl;dr. But here’s the rest of the story: So the iPhone 5 was coming out, and I very carefully...
Board game idea: Insider Trading
When I was younger, I enjoyed an afternoon playing the board game “Stock Ticker”. It was a new concept to me (no board to travel around), it dealt with money (and getting rich), and I was playing it with some really...
If it can happen to Reuters, it can happen to anyone
Recently, one of Retuers’ blogs was hacked, and false stories were posted as if they were real news. Now, while that’s news in and of itself, the big takeaway that’s relevant to me and PanicPress is that if...
Yes, yes he should.
Nerd humour time. I’m having some trouble with my coffeescript compiler. Every time I try to get my webserver to compile a new coffeescript file as part of developing this new website of mine, I get the following error:...