The Absurdly Optimized Pancake: Leavening Chemistry, Acid-Base Stoichiometry, and an Interactive Calculator | Absurdly Optimized
A systematic investigation of acid-base neutralization, CO2 production kinetics, gluten inhibition, and the Maillard reaction as applied to a 125-gram flour batter, with an interactive stoichiometric calculator that adapts to whatever is in your refrigerator
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Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 — proves 2007 phones can just about match 1998 PCs | Tom's Hardware
The 1998 shooter now runs on Symbian hardware, with Bluetooth mouse and keyboard support added.
screen toys
Firewood Splitting Simulator! Splitshift! At last, Chess can finally be played the way we've always wanted: by haphazardly chucking a bunch of pieces at each other. Send torrents of cars smashing down into a field of cows! Summon explosive pomeranians running at full speed! Majestic penguin visualizer that you can sync to music!
A ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown | CNN
In the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Greenland and Iceland, a large patch of water is doing something very strange. While the rest of the ocean heats up, it’s been getting colder. A new study says it has the answer to this mystery — and it’s an ominous sign the world is hurtling toward one of the most alarming climate tipping points.
LaserWriter seeds
As the Homebrew Computer Club met and MITS frantically shipped Altairs, researchers at Xerox PARC were seemingly a decade or more ahead. They already knew what would make personal computers useful, and researchers were working on an ecosystem to support a typical office task. Writing and printing documents.
Every Frame Perfect @ tonsky.me
If I take a screenshot of your app at any moment, it must make sense
How it feels to be an old school web-based sports sim dev when tons of vibecoded web-based sports sims are being released « Blog « ZenGM
Back when I started working on the web-based version of Basketball GM in 2012, web development was very different. npm was brand new and hardly anyone used it. Bundling/deploying JS was very primitive, a lot of people still were just concatenating files together. And things like TypeScript, React, async/await… these did not even exist yet!
An interview with Ollie Wagner, Apple emoji designer – Shady Characters
This is a series of posts about emoji. You can read more in face with tears of joy: a natural history of emoji, available now. This is the most recent post in the series; start at the first or view all posts.
About ASCII art and Jgs font – Velvetyne
I am Adel Faure, ASCII artist operating within the Mistigris and Textmode Friends collectives. I’ve been generously invited by Velvetyne to publish Jgs Font on their foundry. Jgs Font is a typeface that I’ve created as a tribute to artist Joan G. Stark and that I use to make ASCII art (see specimen). In this article I contextualize what ASCII art is, who Joan G. Stark is, what could be seen as a “history of text mode arts”, what does ASCII Art means today, and what are the characteristics of the Jgs font.
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