RIP Asheron’s Call, 1999–2017

Baka Neko kills Tuskers

After 17 years, Turbine & Warner Bros. finally pulled the plug today. I spent about 1,000 hours in high school playing AC instead of doing homework.

I poked around with my old account last night, but missed the actual shutdown. Here’s Leafcull’s anticlimax (via /r/AsheronsCall):

See also: “i have this damn ass patron his name is zell dincht”

rydermackay/TouchBarDemo

My Touch Bar talk went OK. I didn’t die, anyway. Here’s the sample code if you’re into that sort of thing.

(Source: github.com)

Retrospecs is a fun app.

Retrospecs is a fun app.

Cocoa Cargo Cults

  • synchronizing user defaults before every read and after every write
  • creating __weak self references for use inside animation blocks and completion handlers with well-defined lifetimes (e.g., set to nil after call)
  • never using Interface Builder
  • never using autolayout
  • always using autolayout
#brands

#brands

Ole Begemann: NSProgress

Informative and well-written. Today I learned QTMovieModernizer (new in 10.9) is yet another example of undocumented, albeit welcome use of NSProgress.

Submitted my first Mac app and shaved my “Ship It!” beard. Now I’m a radical dude.

Submitted my first Mac app and shaved my “Ship It!” beard. Now I’m a radical dude.

Tab Closed; Didn’t Read

cf.

“Good design is as little design as possible.”
Some German motherfucker

Higher Order Fun: The Guide to Implementing 2D Platformers

Rodrigo Monterio outlines the different ways to build a platformer. Very well written. I keep coming back to this.

The Braid level editor looks like a mess.

Physics engines make shitty 2D platformers

Want to make your game feel floaty and bland? Just Add Physics!™

batsarentbugs.info

I have a domain buying problem.