One of the things I wish would move out of common usage is the whole "insert-name-here" mode of communication.

Standard communication:

Bob: Hey, how's it going?

Alice: Good, how are you doing?

"insert name here" communication:

Bob: Hey Alice, how are you doing?

Alice: Great Bob, how are you doing …

Problem:

SYLK files that are just CSV files with ID as the first few characters. CSV files can also have ID as the first few characters.

You are Excel, a widely used (and mis-used) application for reading in .csv files. You encounter a file with ID as the first two …

I've been wrestling with several pieces of the game I'm building. The basic premise is a game where the players all are part of a corporation building a computer to compete in the marketplace. I've been playing with the general design of the computer and how to represent it in …

Well, as you can no doubt tell the Fate game learning challenge hasn't been what I would call a rousing success. I've gotten way out of the habit of working on the challenge the same way that I did for the Machine Code learning challenge. But I have been working …

I've been pretty lax in posting updates about my progress with making my Fate game but hope to make up for it with a larger post on why I chose Fate for this game.

Fate was originally a hack on the popular Fudge RPG. Fudge is one of my favorite …