I've been on a decluttering kick lately trying to clear out some space for me to focus on the things that matter to me (game development, deeper understanding of computers, game design, etc.). I've noticed that what I've been putting my time into hasn't been any of these things so …
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You can't please everyone
There's the old saying "you can't please everyone". Usually folks take that to mean that there are certain people who will never be pleased with what you do so don't bother trying to reach them. But there's a secondary way to read this phrase that I'd like to explore and …
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Coding Horror: Please Dont Steal My Focus
I've seen this on several occasions under Windows, and it's enough to drive one bat-shit mad. I'll be happily tooling away when out of nowhere, a software update will impose itself on whatever I'm doing. Great, thanks! Worse is the default behavior of …
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