So my Vampire Survivors obsession finally got the better of me. Craving for more gothic horror video games, I turned to one of gaming’s most revered series: Castlevania. Because this series’s reputation for its insane difficulty is legendary, I never dared to seriously try any of these games. But what the heck!
It’s friday, time to turn up the synths and record dumb loops!
One of the reasons why I enjoy working at Audiokinetic is because the code base of typical game middleware has two important requirements: This is interesting because these two requirements are often considered diametrically opposed. Long-term maintenance generally implies a… Read More »Your data model is not your software architecture
★★★★☆ (4 / 5) I was in the mood for some quality literature, and I figured I couldn’t go wrong with Margaret Atwood. And I didn’t! This book really reminded me of Orwell’s 1984, which I enjoyed. My favourite thing… Read More »Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale
★★★★☆ (4 / 5) I really enjoyed this deep dive into the saga around Pierre de Fermat’s Last Theorem. You can tell that the author, Simon Singh, has a lot of reverence for the work of mathematicians and academics in… Read More »Book Review: Fermat’s Last Theorem
★★★☆☆ 3 / 5 I was a big fan of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, and in comparison this one is a bit of a let down. You can tell that the author is really passionate about the time period (1666-1688… Read More »Book Review: Quicksilver
★★★★☆ (4 / 5) Most online criticism I see about this book revolves around the fact that this an IT textbook disguised and advertised as a novel. So let’s get this out of the way first: yes, this is a… Read More »Book Review: The Phoenix Project
Before I left Turbulent back in 2018, I had started to become vocal about the pitfalls of using ORMs for any project more complex than simple blog. I had started to develop this notion that as project complexity increases, the… Read More »ORMs are an anti-pattern
Reddit’s recent API pricing scandal and ensuing protests have made me think once more about openness and decentralization on the web, a topic I’ve written about before. TLDR: when you create content on the web, whoever is hosting that content owns it.
Read More »Reddit’s seppuku★★☆☆☆ 2 / 5 Same pattern as the other books: characters form groups, the groups start off in different directions, learn more about the world, and bicker a lot along the way. Finally there is a final confrontation, always super… Read More »Book Review: The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time, #4)