If you're reading this page, chances are that you're already well aware that E.T. for the Atari 2600 is one of the most reviled games ever made. I never understood why. As a child, it was one of my favorite games. I still think it's a good game. Apparently, I'm not alone.
PHP is meant to dieDisclaimer: I’ve got 10+ years on my back as a PHP developer. I started using it when PHP4 was a little boy and PHP5 only a dream in Zend’s mind. I did a lot with it, loved it, cursed it, and saw it grow and evolve, sometimes with great shame.
Responsive Typography is a Physical Discipline, But Your Computer Doesn’t Know It (Yet)For ideal typography, web designers need to know as much as possible about each user’s reading environment. That may seem obvious, but the act of specifying web typography is currently like ordering slices of pizza without knowing how large the slices are or what toppings they are covered with.
The Quiet Revolution in ProgrammingAbout every ten years, it seems, we're told that we're on the precipice of some revolutionary development in computing: The PC revolution. Ten years later, the networking and client/server revolution. Ten years on, the Internet revolution.
Don't be a Jerk: Write DocumentationDevelopers hate writing documentation. And generally, users hate developers who don't write documentation. There's a subset of users who dislike going through documentation and will prefer to go directly in the source for whatever they're doing, but they're certainly not a majority.
The Rendering Technologies of Crysis 3We can use cflow when we want to advice action be called if procedure is called within an other procedure. Code above will write x and y if and only if fact is called within a foo procedure.
Jare's blogIt’s that time of the year again, when everyone else is partying and having fun (or maybe not – WTF IGDA?) at GDC in San Francisco. I’ll try to collect any links to lecture materials I come across. If you know of stuff missing here, please tell me about it on Twitter @TheJare.
On bad code and pride by (let x)Like many developers I’ve been excited by the promise of Asm.js. Reading the recent news that Asm.js is now in Firefox nightly is what got my interest going. There’s also been a massive surge in interest after Mozilla and Epic announced (mirror) that they had ported Unreal Engine 3 to Asm.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.