Hotchpotch 16

Gamedev

• Feministfrequenzy published a video about Strategic Butt Coverings - Tropes vs Women in Video Games.
• Also Anita revealed the new strategy for this year's episodes: The Future of Tropes vs Women; An End in Sight. There will be more short episodes with a broader view instead of long episodes with dozens of examples.
• Cool game play mechanic: Necromorph it's about a hero who becomes whatever enemy you kill.
• How I Work for Pastry Party as a Creative Director.
• Introduction to monster design 2 - FFXIV analysis.
• Introduction to monster design 3 - 3 Principles of Monster Design.
• Introduction to monster design 4 - Designing the mole-bear 1.
• Cocos2d-x v3.10 released.
• The Witness price and pre-orders.
• Understanding your game through data - Analytics for indies 101.
• UX Walkthrough: Anatomy of a Usability Test in Video Games (Part-2).
• The Chemistry Of Game Design by Daniel Cook.
• Thimbleweed Park blog: Controllers.
• Video: Breathing life into your game's creatures through animation.

Rust

• Announcing Rust 1.6.
• The Rust team made a recent clarification to the Code of Conduct.
• Someone is working on a Cargo-based build system to (eventually) replace make.
• Rust for the Web - RESTful API in Rust, impressions - via.

Elixir

• Render different formats in Phoenix.
• Render different formats in Phoenix (2nd attempt).
• Use, import, require, what do they mean in Elixir? - via.
• Filtering from params in Phoenix.
• Writing Acceptance tests in Phoenix.
• Trello tribute with Phoenix and React (pt.6).
• Trello tribute with Phoenix and React (pt.7).
• Trello tribute with Phoenix and React (pt.8).
• Test-Driven APIs with Phoenix and Elixir - via.
• Pipe_here: An Elixir macro for easily piping arguments at any position.
• Render React with Phoenix.
• Phoenix: The difference between web and lib - via.
• Monitoring Phoenix.
• Monitoring an external tcp service in Elixir.
• Writing documentation.
• Integration tests fun with Phoenix and React - via.
• Running Elixir and Phoenix projects on a cluster of nodes - via.
• How to contribute to Elixir
• Elixir Best Practices: When to Use Structs, String-keyed Maps, and Atom-keyed Maps - via.
• Elixir Best Practices - Deeply Nested Maps - via.

BSD

• The OpenSMTPD docs are released in a new version!
• FreeBSD on EdgeRouter Lite - no serial port required.
• Let's Encrypt on FreeBSD with a shell script and Apache
• FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems now escaping
• Swift is now functional on FreeBSD - via.

Other

• Bryan Cantrill from Joyent explains why Unikernels are unfit for production. His reply was evoked by an Docker announcement: Unikernel Systems Joins Docker.
• Six things that helped me survive the 32C3 as an Autistic person.
• Krita Onion Skin Tutorial.
• Search through thousands of free (CC0 licensed) stock photos - via.
• when preloads go sideways.
• Product companies were told to exclude Rey from Star Wars related merchandise - via.
• Chaos Communication Congress: A Very German Hacking Conference.
• The game SUPERHOT will be released on 25th February.
• Announcing Contributor Covenant version 1.4! - via.
• Search through thousands of free (CC0 licensed) stock photos - via.
• Classic Nintendo Games are NP-Hard.
• Learning programming through writing Game AIs: CodinGame.