Thoroughly bonkers upcoming ASPLOS paper from some UCSD folks: making competitive cloud servers out of old Android phones they bought on eBay. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3575693.3575710
@pamelafox never realized you worked on wave, i briefly used it in like 2009 or 2010 to run a twelve person class slack/bulletin board/whatever. it weirdly worked but it was confusing as hell even with so few people. ended up abandoning it and replacing it was a tiny world writable webapp for asking questions async
do people use anything like yeoman these days, like, if you want to scaffold out some set of files in a repeated way for a web project. i never used yeoman enough to have strong feelings about it but i also feel like maybe people moved on? but to what??
ever since i first heard it in ~2005 or so, this song by naomi hall has been an intrusive thought that revisits me at the absolute most inappropriate times. i just have to share it here. i looked it up a while ago and it turned out that it had been rerecorded and in my opinion those new versions lack the joie de vivre of this original.
@andy_matuschak that comment about the tension between a cool vantage and the experience of making the place a useful ui at 5:00 feels like watching somebody derive the actual challenges of turning your director of photography into your architect
@ashfurrow you should absolutely play through the dlc, that review is wrong. there are bits that could be much less stressful, but we’re talking anglerfish horror not actual horror. you would, for instance at the point that review is referring to, know if you needed to consult a walkthrough. the dlc is somehow just as good if not better in some ways than the core game.