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Lost a couple of hours’ work because I didn’t check filesystem capabilities. macOS pretends it can tell the difference between two folders dir/ and Dir/ with distinct contents. Apparently the laptop drive came with the old-school case-insensitive filesystem.
mv dir/x Dir/ because I think I’m being smart and now dir/ is gone and Dir/ contains only x.
My kind of game devlog
On the challenges faced choosing Stride as the engine for a game jam, and why despite all evidence to the contrary they do not regret that choice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sopruR66LU
The Byte Smalltalk issue
…the ideas here are just so profoundly—just completely changed the way generations of programmers expect to work.
Code with Huw describes how the August 1981 issue of Byte Magazine, with Smalltalk as the cover story, changed computing for the broader public. It introduced them to OOP, desktops, and the humble mouse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSnw5pPEPBc
Shifted assumptions from “green text on a black background” TTYs and Fortran/BASIC/Pascal to OOP, desktop environments, mice, graphics on-screen.
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08
“Don’t mode me in”
(growls in nvim)
