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Is Open Core really open, or is it abandonware?

Beware ye who enter, here be personal opinions. I’ve never understood reading time estimation widgets. Why did these get so popular? Is it because they’re easy? I mean, you can grab one off npm no problem. Baldur suggests a theory in his piece about estimated reading time...

De brief is ook beschikbaar als PDF. Prof. Dr. Frederik J. Zuiderveen Borgesius legt terloops in zijn brief uit waarom het voorliggende voorstel juridisch onhoudbaar is. Verder schreef ook ISOC NL een brief. En dan is er nog de brief van Prof. dr. J.-H. Hoepman. Hier de brief van Bits of Freedom, Amnesty International, Cyberveilig Nederland en NLdigital. En afsluitend, de brief van HET expertisecentrum op dit gebied, Offlimits. Alle brieven zien het niet zitten.

What does Open Core actually mean, and is it Open Source?

I’m thrilled to share that we’ll be part of Level Up Tasmania 2024, a fantastic celebration of our local game development industry. This event, running from September 27-29, 2024, showcases the creativity and innovation thriving right here in Tasmania.

The main showcase will unfold at PW1 in Hobart on Friday and Saturday, featuring over 30 Tasmanian-made games. It’s a rare opportunity to see the breadth of talent we have in our state, all under one roof! Come along? Tickets are free and available now.

Rick Rubin gives this advice about working in the studio with artists when making an album: [Let’s say] We’ve recorded twenty-five songs. We think the album is going to have ten. Instead of picking our favorite ten, we limit it to: “What are the five or six we can’t live wi...

Many people will be familiar with Anna Sorokin, also known as Anna Delvey, who was one of the most high-profile of the wave of hipster grifters during the 2010s. Today, she's beginning to pivot into some kind of reality TV/competition game show participant, playing on her ce...

Another set of links I found interesting:

• So cool: Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap
• Great Barrier Reef already been dealt its death blow
• The benefits of special interests in autism
• How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids
• PIXHELL Attack: Leaking Sensitive Information from Air-Gap Computers via ‘Singing Pixels’

Thanks for reading!

Can technology explain subjective experience?

It’s hard to really take in, after all these years, that most people have no memory of the day. The majority of people in the world were either not born, or not old enough to be aware of what was going on, and then many who would recall are either gone or their memories have...

Keygen is joining the Open Source Pledge, committing to donate at least $2,000 per-developer annually to support Open Source.

The history of all the mistakes I've made trying to detect loops in graphs while writing my puzzle collection.

Stanford psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues came up with an interesting study in human behavior. Subjects were given incomplete words and asked to complete them with the first word that came to mind. For example, you’re given the fragments B__T and CHE__ and you wr...

It’s been a busy week! Here are some interesting links:

• How the Oldest Company in the World Has Survived Nearly 1,500 Years
• How does banking work?
• Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch
• Tabbed out on the Oregon Trail
• An unverified source, but it all sounds like it makes sense. How horrible: Buy, Borrow, Die - Explained

See you next time!

The West Coast Space Show was a fantastic success! We had a great time presenting our space-themed show and activities for kids and adults alike, all around Tasmania’s West and Central Coast.

We’re so grateful for the support we received from the Australian Government via National Science Week. We ran the show all over the West Coast and Central Coast of Tasmania, including amazing places like Strahan, Zeehan, Queenstown, and Ulverstone. In total, we spoke to more than 255 people.

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I look at some people’s personal websites and think, “Stupendous! If I ever reach that zenith of personal web design, I will call it quits.” Then I read a post by them later and they say something like, “Gah! I just really don’t like where I’m at with my personal website.” A...

How we verify correctness

One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton, make tweaks, click around more, more tweaks, more clicks, etc., until I finally consider it done. The clicking around a ton is the important part. If it’s a page transition, that means going ...