Links

A collection of moderately useful or interesting articles for reading. Note that articles (one for now) related to Japan are stored separately on that page.

• Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice remains one of my go-to guides for new software engineers or early career people in software-adjacent fields. If this sounds like you, this is a good read and I strongly agree with this advice.
• Do You Really Want to be Doing This When You're 50? – Do you want to be building software forever?
• Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry
• Milk Kanban
• Sell yourself, Sell Your Work ...
• Spaced Repetition Systems Have Gotten Way Better

Many people have asked me about Terraria networking or have asked how to do game networking properly, from the perspective of Terraria, which does nothing correctly. Though methods have become more advanced, the basics stay the same:

• Latency Compensating Methods in Client/Server In-game Protocol Design and Optimization by Yahn W. Bernier (2001) remains my favorite bible on how to do multiplayer game networking correctly, end-to-end, with minimal drawbacks.
  • Of particular note in this article is the “Umm, This is a Lot of Work” heading.
• Source Multiplayer Networking provides a very good overview of entity interpolation and techniques for implementing end-to-end client update loops with snapshot based prediction and server-side authority.

These are blogs or small websites from independent people who are probably less well-known, but interesting and probably worth following or at least checking out.

• マリウス.com - Has the cool factor of being an IDN user (rebel?) despite nothing supporting IDN very well.
• dimden's hotel - One of the biggest “small web” sites in terms of complexity, uniqueness, vibes, etc.
• Allie Meowy | Edward Snowden's Favorite YouTube Channel
  • Investigating a forgotten Edward Snowden Quote
• Photo Akiba - Photo blog/archive documenting 秋葉原 in Japan

• nekoweb - Free static hosting service with a very cute aesthetic and a directory of smaller sites.
• neocities - Free hosting service, “geocities 2.0” with a similar exploration page to nekoweb. Very cool!
• omg.lol - Another small web service, with a lot of cool supporting services, like DNS, email forwarding, fediverse hosting, a pastebin, a URL shortner, etc.