Fun stuff

Websites:

Things to doomscroll.

• Hacker news - Obligatory.
• Legends of Localization - Website about the localization process behind japanese games. Huge comfort read of mine.

Podcasts:

The stuff one has on in the background.

• Song Exploder - Podcast about how hit songs were written. Gives a great insight into the creative process.
• You’re wrong about - Podcast about media scandals and the response of the general public.

Talks:

Knowledge for your headtop.

• The Birth and Death of JavaScript
• The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake

Tinkering:

Random stuff I’m researching.

• ComfyUI - Currently building an image -> 2D concept art -> 3D model pipeline in this for future gamedev.
• Boids - Article on an artificial life simulation. Useful for modelling crowd movements/traffic etc.
• Worldsmith - Series of articles about world generation and the random algorithms used.
• Supabase - Basically a ready-made backend for web apps.

Conferences & events:

Real world physical interaction opportunities I occasionally engage in.

• 39C3 - Hacker conference with some great talks.
• WHY - Ditto.