Posts tagged "variety"

On conversations of debate and exploration

Dear friend, I appreciate your so-called engineering mindset. It's great to aim to approach things rationally, to understand things from the ground up, to do analysis of how systems work and how ea...

Vim visual block mode for column editing

The visual block mode in Vim lets you edit text simultaneously across adjacent lines, similar to the “Alt-drag” feature in modern editors, but there’s more you can do with it. One of the basic form...

Temple of Fascism

Judge Calls in the 21st Century

A modest proposal to reform the system of summoning judges to assist players in need.

For the joy of making it

I. In the bottom section of Y Combinator's website we read: Make something people want. Make. Something. People. Want. Make. It's about making. Creating. Crafting. This is about art. Not fine art, ...

Tony Warriner – Revolution: The Quest for Game Development Greatness Book Review

I wrote a book review on Tony Warriner’s Revolution: The Quest for Game Development Greatness. The post Tony Warriner – Revolution: The Quest for Game Development Greatness Book Review appeared fir...

Tournament Simulator

A tool to help with top 8 math, designing prize structures, cEDH tournament structures, etc.

Rising Mobile Bills Will Worsen UK Digital Divide

I wrote an article for Previous Magazine called Rising Mobile Bills Will Worsen UK Digital Divide. The post Rising Mobile Bills Will Worsen UK Digital Divide appeared first on Hammy Havoc.

Don't Go to TCG-Con

I explain why you shouldn't go to TCG-Con.

The Duality of Machine

In which I am grumpy about bad philosophy of mind.

Airfoil

The dream of soaring in the sky like a bird has captivated the human mind for ages. Although many failed, some eventually succeeded in achieving that goal. These days we take air transportation for...

An Actually Intuitive Explanation of P-Values

Academic science revolves largely around one number, the "p-value". This number has been the cause of a huge amount of confusion, so I spent a week trying to figure out what it actually means. I th...

Surviving cEDH

I ran my first cEDH event this past weekend. It was ...interesting.

Who is knocking at the door?

A few years ago, after being bored of watching hundreds and thousands of failed ssh login attempts to my home server, I asked myself: what are these folks trying to bruteforce with? OpenSSH would l...

🗨️ plagiarism is the currency of the internet

I call it “plagiarism is the currency of the internet”:

Enabling Full Disk Encryption on Dell XPS 9320 with Ubuntu 22

I did not find a clear set of instructions on how to enable full disk encryption on a newer Dell XPS 9320 that came with Ubuntu pre-installed. This machine is now replacing an older XPS13 (9360) th...

🗨️ A Predictable Ui Is A Good One Until Generative Ai

We judge an interface as “good” if the user knows what to expect, and is never faced with results or feedback that seem out of the blue or confusing to them. I still think this is true, but maybe w...

Old School Geo Toolbox

Bringing this up as part of the blog so that it does not get lost. Back in 2020, Ed suggested that I presented at Geomob BCN, an event for geospatial enthusiasts, and that I shared some of the old ...

When hope and gloom unite

This is the Matrix and I am Neo. Not because I am the One — I'm not. The reason I am Neo is because I really can fly, I really can stop bullets, I really can download knowledge to my brain. The rea...

Poor Man's Apps Script Performance Metrics

Not so long ago, I was writing about measuring Apps Script function performance, in particular those offered as part of the environment by Google. As add-ons get more complex and we rely more on ot...