Writing a procedural puzzle generator

I've seen a lot of discussions in the last week about the Web Environment Integrity proposal. Quite predictably from the moment it got called things like "DRM for the web", people have been arguing passionately against it on HN, Github issues, etc. The basic claims seem to be that it's going to turn the web into a walled garden, kill ad blockers,...

In articles and discussions about monorepos, there's one frequently alleged key benefit: atomic commits across the whole tree let you make changes to both a library's implementation and the clients in a single commit. Many authors even go as far to claim that this is the only benefit of monorepos. I like monorepos, but that particular claim makes...

A couple of months ago I finally had to admit I wasn't smart enough to solve a few of the levels in Snakebird, a puzzle game. The only way to salvage some pride was to write a solver, and pretend that writing a program to do the solving is basically as good as having solved the problem myself. The C++ code for the resulting...

There was a bit of discussion on HN about data representations in dynamic languages, and specifically having values that are either pointers or immediate data, with the two cases being distinguished by use of tag bits in the pointer value: If there's one takeway/point of interest that I'd recommend looking at,...

Game downloads on PS4 have a reputation of being very slow, with many people reporting downloads being an order of magnitude faster on Steam or Xbox. This had long been on my list of things to look into, but at a pretty low priority. After all, the PS4 operating system is based on a reasonably modern FreeBSD (9.0), so there...