What hath Satoshi wrought?

This game made me want to become a programmer.

Via Rodd Clarkson​

Originally shared by Luft Hans

Colossal Cave Adventure now available as Free Software and in GitLab.

“This code is a forward-port of the Crowther/Woods Adventure 2.5 from 1995, last version in the main line of Colossal Cave Adventure development written by the original authors. The authors have given permission and encouragement to this release.”

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-first-text-adventure-game-ever-is-finally-open-source

This is a pretty amazing story.

Via Emlyn O’Regan

Originally shared by Damn interesting

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/28/australian-convict-pirates-in-japan-evidence-of-1830-voyage-unearthed

Design for the whole world not just the first world.

https://building.calibreapp.com/beyond-the-bubble-real-world-performance-9c991dcd5342

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/functional-programming-in-js-with-practical-examples-part-1-87c2b0dbc276

Hyperbolic to be sure. I’m not sure what to make of this but Google’s AMP certainly has got a lot of web content producers riled up.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2017/05/19/open_source_insider_google_amp_bad_bad_bad/

Originally shared by Roberto Bayardo

A blog post about Kotlin, the newish language becoming “standard” for android development. It’s from Steve Yegge, whose legendarily wordy rants are always a fun read.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2017/05/why-kotlin-is-better-than-whatever-dumb.html

Another good one from Eric Elliott​.

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/elements-of-javascript-style-caa8821cb99f