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I had three consecutive “okay I’m sold” moments as the MinnMax crew discussed Été, and that’s before I even found out the exploration mechanics are essentially a riff on PowerWash Simulator 💜

This game does *a lot* — I didn't expect the renovation and decoration aspects to be so in-depth, in addition to exploring and painting. Yet everything it does, it does extremely well. Gorgeous, funny, a pleasure through and through.

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Été (summer) is a relaxing painting game set in Montréal. Color the city to explore, create artworks on canvas, collect stamps in your album, decorate your studio, fulfill commissions from your neighbors, and unleash your inner artist!

New math rocks just dropped 😍

@marcus_eckert@mstdn.social

Made an interactive prototype for some new interactions. It maps a fully functional SwiftUI view to a video.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run

Pivot to AI: Proton Mail adds a bitcoin wallet. Yes, really.

Proton Mail adds a bitcoin wallet. Yes, really.

We wrote last week about Proton Mail adding an AI assistant that just sent a wafer-thin slice of your email in plaintext to sit on Proton’s servers — unlike the zero plaintext that was stored there…

@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange

One of the biggest security expertise redpills is this is unironically a good idea and the time spent making fun of it was ill-advised for most users whose physical security threat is not a factor in comparison.

@timbray@cosocial.ca

Super interesting story about Murdoch dynastic struggle. Papa Rupert is trying to give control to fashy oldest son Lachlan, cut other saner siblings out of the picture. This is not only entertaining but really matters: [gift link]

The Secret Battle for the Future of the Murdoch Empire

Rupert Murdoch, the patriarch, has moved to change the family’s irrevocable trust to preserve his media businesses as a conservative force. Several of his children are fighting back.

TIL that rich entrepreneurs tunneling under major cities to explore ill-thought modes of transportation isn’t a remotely new thing.

Beach Pneumatic Transit - Wikipedia

You know what, Google’s search results have gotten bad enough in the last couple of years that I could give alternate search engines a shot again. Because fuck that bullshit, whether the idea came from Google or Reddit.

And I guess Kagi’s out if my subscription fee’s gonna go back to Google anyway.

@charliemchapman@mastodon.social

Adobe Illustrator's new generative shape fill tool is pretty cool

Take a crummy sketch and turn it into a totally editable vector drawing. For quickly generating some simple assets this is going to be really handy

TIL you can get custom printed duct tape and gaffer tape 😍

(But only in bulk 😒)

@Infrogmation@mastodon.online

Ian Muir explains the context for the Crowdstrike Microsoft disaster.

I’m discovering a whole bunch of interesting indie PC games via Youtube playthroughs that I should absolutely have known about from the number of gaming blogs I’m subscribed to 😒

I guess I might have heard of them if I were still on Xitter 😡

This looks absurdly realistic for such a niche game, made by two people in their spare time (in five years, though — I can’t imagine sticking with a project for so long).

OUTBRK on Steam

Storm Chasing Simulator

@theresnotime@fox.nexus

“This wouldn’t have happened on Linux” I say smugly, as I copy and paste a command from a 2008 forum post, three hours into trying to get my fucking WiFi working on Arch.

@alyx@shorks.gay

Tip for software companies. Your stock price can’t crash when you release a bad update if your update manyages to take out the stock exchanges

How is it acceptable to anyone that an app essentially publishes your address book? And it took the previous political scandal for them to even *allow* hiding it?

I don’t understand what they gain from being stubborn about this. It’s not like they need to prove that many people use the app, it’s a given by now.

I don’t understand how people can have few enough apps on their home screen to consider leaving gaps between icons. My screen and dock are full of *folders* and I still have several panes. (The App Library isn’t the answer, I’ll just forget the apps exist.)

@Patricia@vivaldi.net

Here I am innocently watching Edward Tufte’s keynote on data visualization and then he absolutely MURDERS economics 💀

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Still wish I actually found playing the game enjoyable, but very appreciative of this muppet-ass planet I found on my very first trip to space 😍

That ought to either look incredible or run terribly in VR. (I can't be bothered to fish my Quest out of the depths of the cupboard it's sitting in — especially in the middle of summer.)

@stephaniewalter@front-end.social

Okay, this is sooo cool: mazeletter is a collection of nine infinitely tiling maze pattern fonts. This means: you can write something, to build fun geometric patterns, you can then download.
Resource:

Mazeletter

Pattern Font Collection

@bradellis@hachyderm.io

And users want it too! When I worked at Lyft, we would carefully design a few variations of a feature. Test them all out. The winner? Whatever Uber already did. Whatever Mail already did. Whatever Messages does. Users don’t want to find your weird Share button. They don’t want to relearn how to use things. They enjoy familiarity between products. Just as our tools drive us toward conformity, so do users.

The Unreal 5 era of solo game dev is 😵

(I'm going through this YouTube channel as market research.)

The UNBELIEVABLE Cosmic Horror Game NOBODY Saw Coming

Welcome to Chordosis! Chordosis is an AMAZING alien cosmic survival horror game made by a single person. The graphics, the sound design, the storytelling…e…

1979 and they've got everything, even weird-ass input devices 😮

1979: Will WORD PROCESSORS start a HOME WORKING revolution? | Past Predictions | BBC Archive

Luke Casey examines the impact of the microprocessor in the workplace. Already, the adoption of word processors and text editing software in offices has been…

I’m watching streams of Escape the Backrooms and the amount of content in a game that sells for under $10 is ridiculous — I’m not giving up on the idea but this isn’t a great market to try and break into. Eh, what else am I gonna do, the App Store is a lot worse and I don’t want to learn Swift.

Realized belatedly I ought to play the Monkey Island adventure in Sea of Thieves before I’m out of Game Pass. Doubt I’ll finish it in time, it’s meatier than I expected — and the insult sword fighting sequences are glitchy.

I’m seriously jealous of lifelong fans getting to enjoy such a loving recreation of the series’ world. (Point-and-click games weren’t a big part of my childhood. They were too frustrating before wikis came around.)

@soren.iverson@threads.net

Apple Health see how far you scroll every day

Giving Jedi Survivor a quick shot before Game Pass expires. I still don’t understand why people like this series. There isn't a single aspect that actually feels good to me, whether that's combat, traversal, exploration, or story and dialogue 🤷

If I hadn't just finished God of War (2018) I'd assume I've gotten too old to enjoy character-action games. Come to think about it, Fallen Order may be a big part of why GoW sat on my drive for a year and a half, with me feeling like I wouldn't enjoy it.

Forgot how much more fun I had with Forza Horizon 4 in the snow. I’d have stuck with the game a lot longer if I’d been able to pick the season at will, instead of having to wait for the one week of winter out of four.

With how popular Horizon 5 has been, the next game could probably afford to split the player base by letting people switch between summer and winter more freely. I don’t have the slightest expectation they might do that — but it’d be nice.

@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social

How do ‘tear-off menus’ actually work, you ask? Here’s what it looked like in Rhapsody. Just keep dragging on any menu and it would pop out into its own, standalone panel. This was app-specific — only the current app's menus would show — and they would preserve their location between launches. So if you wanted e.g. TextEdit's ‘Edit’ menu to always be onscreen, it would remember that preference

@dustin@pdx.social

I wonder if Apple should bring back menus that you can rip off.

You could do this in HyperCard and MacPaint in like System 6 which I genuinely found useful, but those menus were essentially utility windows in disguise.

But! You could also do this in Rhapsody with *any* menu. They killed it at some point before releasing Mac OS X. I recall there being APIs related to this feature in early versions of AppKit.

Wow, it’s a shame Media Molecule had to give up on Dreams and never ported it to PC.

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