I don't write nearly as much as I would like to, but I'm trying to get back into the swing of things. I write about videogames and am hoping to write more tech stuff in the future
I don't blog as much as I would like to, but I feel like writing is more of a necessity for me than something I love. I have this desire and want to communicate my thoughts, and writing just so happens to be the best way for me to communicate that. I also take the opportunity when I blog to improve my writing, and maybe try different methods of expressing my thoughts and analysis (I mostly blog about videogames).
This is an awesome book! I remember being blown away as a kid playing Morrowind. I had no idea what was going on, and got killed by a Nix-Hound pretty quickly. But once I started to understand the mechanics and what I could do, I was blown away. I don't think many games that I have played have matched the sheer oppression and alienness of Morrowind. There are giant mushrooms everywhere. Almost no one likes you or cares about you. There are multiple political issues and maneuvering going on between the Great Houses and Guilds. It's truly a fantastic RPG.
EDIT: Was rushing, but updated with the exact quote here so people don't need to go digging :)
I believe this is the story OP mentioned [1].
> Windows 95? No problem. Nice new 32 bit API, but it still ran old 16 bit software perfectly. Microsoft obsessed about this, spending a big chunk of change testing every old program they could find with Windows 95. Jon Ross, who wrote the original version of SimCity for Windows 3.x, told me that he accidentally left a bug in SimCity where he read memory that he had just freed. Yep. It worked fine on Windows 3.x, because the memory never went anywhere. Here’s the amazing part: On beta versions of Windows 95, SimCity wasn’t working in testing. Microsoft tracked down the bug and added specific code to Windows 95 that looks for SimCity. If it finds SimCity running, it runs the memory allocator in a special mode that doesn’t free memory right away. That’s the kind of obsession with backward compatibility that made people willing to upgrade to Windows 95.
I do API development for the web. My machine runs Ubuntu 16.04, and my work is almost completely in JavaScript and TypeScript.
I have Node.js setup, and I have TypeScript installed as my first npm package, since the scale of my work is made so much more manageable by it.
Locally, I run WebStorm by JetBrains. It has a lot of useful plugins, and it’s build in Debugger is invaluable when debugging large, complex code. I use Docker for MongoDB and Postgresql. PGAdmin is extremely valuable for Postgres.
Git is used all the time to check in code, and most of my code is self-documented/JSDoc, since I’m not really a big fan of writing external documentation unless it is user facing.
I don't write nearly as much as I would like to, but I'm trying to get back into the swing of things. I write about videogames and am hoping to write more tech stuff in the future