Hotchpotch 24

BSD

• Why OpenBSD?
• OpenBSD 5.9 released (early!) - more information here.
• FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE Release Notes.

Elixir

• Writing a Blog Engine in Phoenix and Elixir: Part 10, testing channels.
• Writing a Blog Engine in Phoenix and Elixir: Part 11, better UI.
• What makes Phoenix Presence special, and a sneak peek.
• Fuzzy String Matching (in Elixir).
• Joe Armstrong created a video about reversing a list, demonstrated by cards.
• ExGuard is a mix command to handle events on file system modifications.
• Supervising multiple GenServer processes.
• Inspecting, changing and debugging Elixir project dependencies.
• Automatically run your Elixir project's tests each time you save a file.
• Bikeshed 57 with José Valim: Mutability Ruins the Whole Party.

Gamedev

• King (of Candy Crush Saga fame) released their Defold game engine free of charge!
• Study combs through 155 Gamasutra postmortems for what went right and wrong.
• Here's a look at the original design pitch document for Diablo.
• The Making of Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
• Related: The SCUMM Diary: Stories behind one of the greatest game engines ever made.
• Also related: SCUMM co-creator digs up game design treasure trove.
• Last but not least: A Look Back at the Legacy of SCUMM.
• Looking back at the Dreamcast controllers that might have been.
• Punch Club has been pirated over 1 million times.
• SNES Super Mario World turned into Flappy Bird, by code injection.
• 5 Tips For Teaching Game Design to Non-Gamers.
• Xamarin now free and Open Source.

Rust

• ArcadeRS 1.13: « Boom! ».
• Redox is a Unix-like Operating System written in Rust with ZFS support.
• Rust Forge.

Other

• Day of the Tentacle - Orchestral.
• Malware scam appears to use GPS data to catch speeding Pennsylvania drivers.
• Switching SSL certs to letsencrypt.
• North Carolina Enacts Law To Allow LGBT Discrimination.
• juCi++: a lightweight, cross-platform C++-IDE supporting C++11, C++14, and experimental C++17 features.
• d’Oh My Zsh - How I unexpectedly built a monster of an open source project.
• How one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript - read more here: I’ve Just Liberated My Modules.
• Day of the Tentacle Remastered has been released!
• Joe Armstrong on Why Markdown Sucks.
• Poul-Henning Kamp: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar - Quality happens only when someone is responsible for it.
• Swift 2.2 has been released with official Linux support.
• This Map Shows How the Apple-FBI Fight Was About Much More Than One Phone.
• Body Language & The Male Gaze - Tropes vs Women in Video Games.
• The Hawkeye Initiative uses Hawkeye and other male comic characters to illustrate how deformed, hyper-sexualized, and impossibly contorted women are commonly illustrated in comics, books, and video games.
• If your interested in computational theory check out: Complexities of some well-known games.