Hotchpotch 21

Gamedev

• Official SDK's for Sony PS 1, Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo Gameboy, Atari Jaguar Systems.
• SNES games are coming to Nintendo's Virtual Console -- but only on New 3DS.
• Introverted Networking: A few strategies.
• Behavior trees for AI: How they work.
• 2.5D fast multi-platform modeling tool to make tiles for games, icons or whatever you want!
• Tim Sweeney (Epic Games founder): Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC. We must fight it.

Elixir

• Elixir School - Lessons about the Elixir programming language.
• How to quit the Elixir shell (IEx)?
• GraphQL implementation for Elixir.
• Notes on Elixir: Getting Started with Nerves.
• Concurrent Acceptance Testing in Elixir.
• Trello tribute with Phoenix and React (pt.12).
• A hands-on intro to building modern web applications with Elixir and Phoenix.

Rust

• Announcing Rust 1.7.
• On mazes with Rust.
• Memory Management in Rust and Swift.

BSD

• Proactive Security & (re)discovering OpenBSD.
• Pre-orders for OpenBSD 5.9 are up!
• LibreSSL not affected by DROWN attack.

Other

• CRYPTOGRAPHY PIONEERS RECEIVE ACM A.M. TURING AWARD - Diffie and Hellman's Invention of Public-Key Cryptography and Digital Signatures Revolutionized Computer Security.
• CacheBleed: A Timing Attack on OpenSSL Constant Time RSA.
• Neil Gaiman to release non-fiction title this year.
• Win95/98 Paint written in JavaScript - impressive.
• Apple users targeted in first known Mac ransomware campaign. So OS X is mainstream now? :)