Jonathan Ragan-Kelley jrk

Approachable PL Papers for Undergrads

On September 28, 2021, I asked on Twitter:

PL Twitter:

you get to recommend one published PL paper for an undergrad to read with oversight by someone experienced. the paper should be interesting, approachable, and (mostly) self-contained.

what paper do you recommend?

Merlin's Wisdom Project

Or: “Everybody likes being given a glass of water.”

By Merlin Mann.

It's only advice for you because it had to be advice for me.

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

WARNING: Article moved to separate repo to allow users contributions: https://github.com/raysan5/custom_game_engines

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like [Unreal](https:

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	#
	# Trying to guess what the best first-choice word in Wordle might be.
	#
	# Author: Rob Miller <[email protected]>

	# Boosts the score of a word that matches the first letter, with the
	# rationale that getting the first letter makes the word easier for
	# a human being to guess
	FIRST_LETTER_WEIGHT = 2

	const app = Application.currentApplication()
	app.includeStandardAdditions = true

	function getJSON(path) {
	const fullPath = path.replace(/^~/, app.pathTo('home folder'))
	const contents = app.read(fullPath)
	return JSON.parse(contents)
	}

	function run() {

	# IDA (disassembler) and Hex-Rays (decompiler) plugin for Apple AMX
	#
	# WIP research. (This was edited to add more info after someone posted it to
	# Hacker News. Click "Revisions" to see full changes.)
	#
	# Copyright (c) 2020 dougallj


	# Based on Python port of VMX intrinsics plugin:
	# Copyright (c) 2019 w4kfu - Synacktiv

	#!/bin/bash
	###
	### my-script — does one thing well
	###
	### Usage:
	### my-script <input> <output>
	###
	### Options:
	### <input> Input file to read.
	### <output> Output file to write. Use '-' for stdout.

	:root {
	--font-size: 15.5px;
	--border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08);
	--subtle-border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05);
	--main-background-color: hsl(210, 9%, 98%);
	--body-background-color: #ffffff;
	--reference-item-background: hsl(0, 0%, 99%);
	--brackets-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);
	--empty-text-color: hsl(203, 12%, 75%); }

	<!doctype html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<title>{{ title }}</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="static/style.css">
	</head>
	<body>

	<div class="container">