Not really a language you would write in but WebAssembly. I have this dream of a single WASM runtime environment across web, desktop, mobile with devs writing apps once, compiling them down to WASM, distributing them over the Internet, and users running them on any platform they like.

SaaS vendor about to be DoS’d: “(chuckles) I’m in danger”

Aliens.

“Hi team, customers observing BigCannon is missing enemy about 90% of time since latest update. Red faction reported issue 4pm ET today and opposing Blue faction was able to re-pro. Can we get all hands on deck to deep dive and push a fix by midnight so both sides can start reliably shooting at each other again before tomorrow morning? Thanks”

Oh jeez I completely forgot about the pan flute. I’m pretty sure my DS mic was broken so those were all torture :,(

I really liked Spirit Tracks.

Train gameplay was actually enjoyable for me (especially the way it got used in one of the end game fights was so cool). It was also nice that Zelda was an actual part of the game and helped solve puzzles instead of some princess locked away in a castle.

I played Phantom Hourglass much later and Spirit Tracks honestly just felt much more polished and fun.

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I hope not. I’m pretty sure me and my coworkers would be at each others’ throats if it were not for some form of typed JS holding our Frankenstein codebase together.

Back in middle school I wore a Woodstock shirt to school and one of my classmates came up to me and was just like, “Oh man I love Woodstock”. I literally had no idea Woodstock was even a thing (I thought it was just some random words on a graphic tee). Wanted so badly to just tell him that I only got it because I thought the bird on the guitar looked cool but ended up getting tongue tied :,)

Congrats! Game looks really cool! Best of luck

I am now undistracted and back to slowly trudging through Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I’m about 80% of the way through. Everyone’s dead and Kong Ming’s just captured and released some dude like 7 times.

Jekyll is what I use. There’s a lot of canned themes out there: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/themes/

Friend recommended me Project Hail Mary which has been a lot of fun. It’s a sci-fi book by the same guy who wrote The Martian. I usually have trouble paying attention and doze off when reading but this one has surprisingly kept me engaged!

Not programming per se but my sister thinks it’s okay to have 300+ Chrome tabs open and just memorize the relative locations of them whenever she needs something. She’s lucky she has a beefy computer.

My vote is Go. I’ve tried to make web services in both before and personally always found Go easier to use without noticeable performance trade-offs (even for real-time websocket apps). I feel you could always optimize more later if you start actually seeing performance issues.

It involves two people sitting where the the arrows are pointing :P

It would’ve been a “stellar” student in the “universe”-ity though

“Urk!”

The vampire gasped shortly after sinking his teeth into me.

“Jesus Christ! You taste awful!”

He continued to gag for a bit, or so I imagined anyway. I was too busy reeling from the shock of being bitten by a supernatural being to pay him much attention.

“Oh God it’s like I’m swallowing industrial-grade chemical waste! My first meal of the day and it’s this hot garbage!”

I was still in quite a lot of pain but not enough to let a complete stranger beat my ego to the ground.

“Hey man, chill. You’re the one who assaulted ME. Why are YOU complaining!?”

“Because I can’t stand it anymore! The way you humans do things. It’s totally wrong!”

“Hm?” I cocked my head. “Totally wrong?”

“Yeah! It’s freaking unnatural! You know why your blood tastes so rotten? It’s because all you humans eat these days is processed junk. Sweets filled with high fructose corn syrup, meat made from animals jacked up on growth hormones, canned food chock full of additives and preservatives like sodium benzoate and ascorbic acid-”

“Ascorbic acid’s a naturally-occurring vitamin though,” I interjected but the vampire ignored me.

“And that’s not counting all the vices you humans partake in! Smoking, alcohol, drugs, all that nasty stuff gets into your bloodstream, you know? Then when a starving vampire like myself comes along for a nice meal, they’re greeted to this absolute atrocity!”

“I mean I think I prefer being less appetizing.”

“Ugh. I knew I should’ve listened to Ichijou and moved to an Amish village overseas. At least those guys are a bit cleaner than the average human. I’m gonna find something edible for breakfast. Go fix yourself man.”

At this point I was starting to get annoyed. My deltoid was still sore from the bite, and this vampire seemed to be both deaf and more of an organic food freak than an upper-class housewife.

“Wait.”

The vampire stopped mid-step and growled, “What?”

I looked him in the eye, “Do you know why we humans love to eat?”

“…”

“It’s because we made our food taste good.” I continued. “Maybe for vampires, sucking blood is just a matter of obtaining nutrition, but for humans, food is more than that. It’s a triumph of our efforts.”

The vampire scoffed, “And your point?”

“Well, good things don’t find you. You have to make them yourself. That’s what sets us humans apart from you vampires. You vampires consume garbage right off the street, but we humans don’t. We take that garbage and mold it, thinking, inventing, re-thinking it until it becomes something valuable to us.”

The vampire and I stood in silence for a while before I eventually broke the pause.

“Anyways. I gotta get going. You’re free to tag along if you like though,” I added.

“And why in the world would I come along with you?”

“Well I know a place where you can get better blood, a whole lot of it too.”

“Hm?” His interest suddenly piqued, “Where are you going?”

I smiled, “The hospital!”

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Years later, I read, in the news, the story of a young Tokyoite who had created a subscription-based healthy living start-up. The business model is quite unique. It’s entirely based on blood work, all in-house too. You get your blood drawn and tested on a regular basis. The results come back with a rating plus all sorts of statistics that most other places wouldn’t normally measure. You also get recommendations for improving your health based on the report and are supposed to follow them to improve your rating for the next visit. Most interesting of all, once you reach a high enough rating, the company actually makes you eligible for a blood donation program that pays you instead for getting your blood drawn, sort of like a reward for getting healthy.

After finishing that article, I was left with a vague sense of wonder. It seemed that guy had become a bit more human since our encounter.

Huh, I barely got SD to run on a gtx 1070 which has 8GB. Funny thing was that it didn’t run out of memory ONLY if I disabled the NSFW filter lol