★★★★☆ (4 / 5) Great study on the psychological and sociological effects of losing faith in humanity. A realistic sci fi story which reminds me a bit of the movie Arrival. Not quite the same subject matter, but dealt with… Read More »Book Review: The Three-Body Problem
Last June, Audiokinetic sent me to Seattle to attend the W3C Workshop on Web Games. While I was there, I gave a short talk on our experience in porting Wwise to the web platform using Emscripten. It’s now on Vimeo,… Read More »Porting Wwise to the web
★★★☆☆ 3 / 5 I am truly torn about the quality and value of this book. Five years ago, I would have given it five stars. That was before I started worrying about performance of computer programs. First, this book… Read More »Book Review: Working Effectively with Legacy Code
2018 was a rather special year. It was the first year I spent as a father of two. It was the year I finally decided to jump ship and try new challenges professionally. And it was definitely the most psychologically… Read More »Emerging from 2018
★★★☆☆ 3 / 5 Gave up halfway on it near the middle, because it’s a real painful slog. Ended up finishing it two years later, and am actually glad I did. I am even thinking about reading the second volume.… Read More »Book Review: The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
★★★☆☆ 3 / 5 Good plot, but way too long. The first 35 chapters could have easily been reduced to about twenty without losing any major plot points. Adding meat around the narrative is good, but this novel takes it… Read More »Book Review: Passage
This week marks the completion of my tenth year at Turbulent as a software programmer. It also marks the completion of my tenth year as a software programmer, period. Time to reflect on that period a bit. When I first… Read More »Ten years
★☆☆☆☆ 1 / 5 This thing is barely worth the paper it’s printed on. It’s just dreg. Fan fiction material artificially promoted to official canon status. The plot is thin, most characters (all except Sloane) are uninteresting, but what really… Read More »Book Review: Aftermath (Star Wars: Aftermath, #1)
Lately, I’ve given a lot of thought to the way the web is going. I’m not the only one. I’m no dinosaur (though not far off at this point), but I’m old enough to remember a web where users would… Read More »On decentralization and openness
★★★☆☆ 3 / 5 Short but fun read. Now I know how to play baccarat! Fact Sheet Author: Ian Fleming Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780142002025