Conway’s Game of Life is a fun little simulator of life using cells (blocks) to represent a life form. When a given cell has the right number of neighbors it comes to life and if it has too few or too many neighbors, it dies. There are a many blog posts out there that can help you get started creating your own Game of Life (GoL). Some are written in Python and use pygame I’ve checked out others that use the terminal to display a grid with text.

Every so often I end up with a long list of links that I don’t quite know what to do with. They’re articles, blog posts, projects and discussions I’ve come across on Hacker News, Slashdot, and elsewhere over the past few months. The are topics I find interesting, thought-provoking, or just worth coming back to. Rather than letting them disappear into the void, I’ve collected them here in one place.

https://www.jacobelder.com/2024/01/17/director-of-toy-story-also-drew-bsd-daemon.html
https://noamzeise.com/2024/07/05/mini-monitor.html
https://www.theverge.com/24144774/drinking-fountain-bubbler-button-of-the-month
https://blog.ablspacesystems.com/p/building-e2
https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/software-is-joy
https://huggingface.co/nanonets/Nanonets-OCR-s

It seems like every day I find an article or blog post that grabs my attention. Most of the time this happens during the work day and I just don’t have to time to stop what I’m doing to read the whole article. I’m creating this post/list of interesting links as a way to revist these links that I collect in my daily notes. These are a mix of development, computer hardware, design, art and sciences. In this particular list I will break out the WordPress and web development links and move those to the bottom of the list.

Once a month at WebDevStudios we dedicate an entire day to giving back to the open-source community. It’s called “Five for the Future” or #5FTF. Contributions can be done through bug fixes on open-source projects, answering questions on forums, providing translation services for projects and even building our own project from scratch.

These are the steps to add the ‘code’ command to your terminal to open a file or directory in Visual Studio Code.

A few weeks ago I stumbled across a programming ASMR video on youtube. The idea of that made me laugh, so I just had to watch. I pretty quickly became less interested in the audio coming from this gentleman’s mechanical keyboard and more with the program he was writing. Evidently he was inspired to make this video because he watched a tutorial from The Coding Train channel that built a similar terrain generator.