I'm in the New York Times today talking about bots and disinformation. And how the Great Bot Scourge is mostly exaggerated and misunderstood.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/science/social-media-bots-kazemi.html
picked up this pattern by brilliant textile designer and former space engineer AYUFISH https://ayufishint.shopinfo.jp/pages/1764446/page_201707070037
@cblgh may i have an 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header on tao.cblgh.org/endpoint svp ; - ]
If you've been following the walkout at Riot Games, you might be interested in what happened in 1998 when developers at a Canadian game studio threatened a walkout. (Spoiler: working conditions were improved.) I wrote about it for Vice Games (formerly Waypoint) today.
don't order from russia what you needed yesterday
been authoring gamepad support for my part time project over the last couple months. the modern approach to this is whitelisting recognizable devices toward xinput-style spec.
having written support for iCade devices (because i am able to) it is an interesting mess to reflect on -- tech conceived as an april fools joke come to fruition, eventually killed by apple for piratic hubris.
even (especially?) community projects prove resistant to legible device standards...
http://developer.chaoticbox.com/files/amalgamatedicademappings_v7.pdf