Hotchpotch 35

Elixir

• Syntactic Extension with Elixir Macros.
• Publish-Subscribe in Elixir.
• Writing and Publishing Elixir Libraries.
• ejabberd joins the Elixir revolution.

Elm

• Elm Maybe - Dealing with null/Nothing.
• Testing in Elm.
• Writing Friendly Elm Code.

Gamedev

• Video: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past's dungeon design.
• Video: The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening's dungeon design.
• Video: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time's dungeon design.
• Video: Krita brushes tutorial - How to use the color mixing brushes.
• Video: Classroom Metrics - Real World Case Study for Games in Schools.
• How Pokémon Go Fails to Capture Learnability.
• Chrono Trigger's Design Secrets.
• Video: Are Women Too Hard To Animate? Tropes vs Women in Video Games.
• Video: Krita brushes tutorial - How to use the color mixing brushes.
• Composition in Level Design.
• How to Write a Game Design Document.
• Boss Battle Design and Structure.
• Video: Overview of the game asset creation process in Krita.
• Video: The game asset workflow: Concept 1 - Learning.
• Video: 8 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics Outside the Box.
• Patch the process.
• Video series: 12 Principles of Animation.

Rust

• QuickCheck for Rust.
• A catalogue of Rust design patterns.
• The Little Book of Rust Macros.
• The Rust Platform.
• Video: PolyConf 16: Owning Ownership: How Thinking About Ownership Prevents Bugs / Sean Griffin.
• In the video "In Rust We Trust" Alex Burkhart explains design decisions of Rust.

Other

• Video about programming language design: Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated.
• Jargon from the functional programming world in simple terms!
• Maybe the Cookies API should not exist.
• What’s less great is a team of highly-paid and highly-skilled people all using Chrome on a recent Mac Pro, developing in an office half a mile from almost every server they hit, then turning around and scoffing at people who don’t have exactly the same setup. [...] I’m saying that something has gone very wrong when basic features that already work in plain HTML suddenly no longer work without JavaScript. 40MB of JavaScript
• Websites and apps now operate on the magnitude of milliseconds. But such speed can make users skeptical or even confused, so companies are responding by building slower, more deliberate interfaces.
• Let's Encrypt Root to be Trusted by Mozilla.
• Mastering Programming.
• When to use unstructured datatypes in Postgres–Hstore vs. JSON vs. JSONB.