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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Omg frickin’fiiinally 😮💨 https://t.co/v0K8a5O9d6

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
60fps/hz is the baseline for a responsive interface or game, but.. Steam Deck has made a compelling case for 40fps/hz: "30hz = 33.33 ms/frame, and 60hz = 16.66ms/frame. Meanwhile, 40hz is 25 ms/frame. 40fps is exactly halfway between 30 fps and 60 fps in terms of update speed."

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
There have been a *lot* of Tetris games: https://t.co/pRdep9LhOO

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The next battery tech will change the world 🔋 https://t.co/SMLKBKie6z

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I definitely appreciate real time raytracing (RTX) but the performance impact is still so extreme.. here’s 4K spider-man on very high settings but raytracing off with the 3070… basically perfect 60fps.. https://t.co/lqzbjfRuVj
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lizardbill
@lizardbill
*walks away without upvoting the right answer* https://t.co/cGmNMEJ1tI
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pomeranian99
@pomeranian99
One of the best things on the internet today: https://t.co/J1Hnb88z9T

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Nicknamed Humongous Fungus, it is one of the planet’s largest known organisms, and the biggest ever recorded by area on land. (pdf link) https://t.co/KsjYhFuNAM

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Is politics filling the void of religion? This would explain a lot. https://t.co/Q7fXleDmOt

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
PC FTW! https://t.co/KomKt5MZ4m .. and we can even afford GPUs again! 🥳 https://t.co/M8l1dJT7NM

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"At the same time, alas, it’s apparently becoming a badge of honor to speak up (loudly and often) when one has no knowledge, has done no homework and has no insight." https://t.co/lE0xbrN3FA

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
we've had truly excellent Batman (Arkham Knight) and Spider-Man (Spider-Man remastered) games, but where is our excellent Superman game? C'mon! https://t.co/IlwIWTxyg1 https://t.co/Brno4yJUmy
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textfiles
@textfiles
Also: If you don't use gloves, floating an anvil in mercury could be your last act on earth! Which is a pretty nice wrap-up
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betsyphd
@betsyphd
We just finished S1 of The Bear last night and I really, really liked it. Today my husband walked behind me in the kitchen an…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
To her, mass extinctions are not depressing. Rather, they illuminate life’s fundamental questions. “Ask yourself, ‘Where did you come from?’ ‘Why are we here?’ ” https://t.co/ihurr4xNCR

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
finally an esport I can relate to https://t.co/yoSVh9g5tM

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Loving the Steam Deck. 10/10 would deck again, I can’t wait to see what v2 looks like. This makes sooo much more sense than all the VR stuff. https://t.co/82WxGsPQoj

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Hey, it's Stack Overflow, the arcade video game! https://t.co/cniMFYNoQn https://t.co/FUbUFrt66z

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Saddest thing I've read today. I hope these people can get.. jobs? https://t.co/8Zlqz23vn4

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The best summary of the depraved state of mobile gaming today is this Clawee app https://t.co/JGzimqitns
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BoughtThatComic
@BoughtThatComic
8/10/72: SWAMP THING #1 was published 50 years ago today, becoming an immediate sensation, as well as one of the fines…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Which way is up? https://t.co/sSTF2wDYAx https://t.co/m5RClCZth6
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lessin
@lessin
The coming fall of the Kardashians in context of how entertainment is evolving... (aka why they are so pissed about tiktok) htt…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Finally, a long overdue safe space for us men https://t.co/rAvHCAOWEg
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tastapod
@tastapod
Occam’s Crypto Corollary: “For every posited blockchain use case, there is a solution that doesn’t use blockchain that is bot…
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Hanzo55
@Hanzo55
I honestly haven't been this excited about a raid since they launched Ulduar back in Wrath. #fbi

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The first software easter egg is commonly misattributed: https://t.co/qy2KzGNB3p
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AdamBroud
@AdamBroud
Saw this and can’t stop thinking about how much better I am at making plans than God https://t.co/7C6dENGXMi

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
If we can harness the boundless, infinite auto service contract renewal energy, we could change the world https://t.co/QpZsft7PEk

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Someone on the @discourse team posted a "JSON Pollock" to our internal Discourse 🤣 https://t.co/NpvKpshJyl

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"By satisfying the escalating demands of his audience, he got his wish of blowing up and being big online. But the cost was that he blew up and became big in ways he hadn't anticipated." https://t.co/PPTW9003ix

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@loydcase Dragon Canyon? I like mine too. I have all the high end NUCs since Skull Canyon. Phantom Canyon is still a favorite for size/performance ratio.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"The general tone of Twitter is snarky, angry. And what I was doing was spending hours every day watching people being rude to each other, either directly or passively." https://t.co/Q7v3CsWqZy

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"The above is from a paper arguing that, since our digestive tract is much shorter than a pig's (an omnivore often considered the closest model for humans), we should actually more properly called 'cucinivores' – eaters of cooked food." https://t.co/LasuCwcbfi

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
If you are in the Bay Area and into cycling, why not cycle the entire bay?! https://t.co/X6jDxS80FK

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The Jelly Belly folks have come up with another fun way to torture yourself and your friends 🥵 .. worse than beanboozled https://t.co/3DXLWVxDpT

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
This Legends Arcade Ultimate is not too bad, especially if you can find it on sale for $400-ish. The game selection is .. quirky due to licensing but not too bad, and you can add a fuller set of games via USB stick: https://t.co/diOIM0aYp7 https://t.co/nn57dF009K

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The stuff my mom keeps! As only child you are by default the favorite child .. https://t.co/PkMCuq6ESX

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I truly loved Choose Your Own Adventure. Mom kept this one. https://t.co/nze7f79bcs https://t.co/1dqXqlusQT

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
That 15 minutes of fame we were all promised, will be subsidized https://t.co/1wuvTXkjlV
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CoachDorntastic
@CoachDorntastic
One of the most INSANE things I have ever experienced online, specifically VRChat, is that someone completely recreate…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The queen would like a word https://t.co/TvJSYlQCWF

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Hypertapping vs. rolling https://t.co/kmO2TtRmzy

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
“This franchise is all about people making the same mistakes on larger and larger scales” https://t.co/E7pQbyHMRY
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paulslocum
@paulslocum
And although slightly different, even David Crane's video game Pitfall! (1982) is an important generative artwork since it…
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BillPascrell
@BillPascrell
We just voted to keep birth control legal in America and 96% of republicans voted no. 96%! https://t.co/8l2SMt7Ggg
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JusticeKazzy_
@JusticeKazzy_
My latest for @Polygon -- I breakdown and discuss the various predatory gameplay systems in Diablo Immortal, and how thi…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
This gas station in SF (near SFO) sounds amazing, in the best possible ways: https://t.co/kXYK0YcLqQ
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waxy
@waxy
RIP Sockington: at his peak, Jason Scott's adorable cat had over 1.5M Twitter followers and was in the top 100 most-followed acco…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Netflix on the cutting edge of password sharing https://t.co/fxKWBKcYi7

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
For a person of a certain age, this is everything: Atari 2600 LEGO! https://t.co/reRWuXEmr1

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Feels like a tweet from an alternate timeline .. stay frosty, indeed. 🥶 https://t.co/yqZZfCAoEb

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Quake 4 and GTA 4, the curse of that fourth entry in the series. I forgot Q4 *existed*.
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TheStalwart
@TheStalwart
When internet stocks crashed in 2000, did internet usage also slump?
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zhuowei
@zhuowei
Never spend 6 minutes doing something by hand when you can spend 6 hours failing to automate it

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Phonetic Reversal https://t.co/wFwgmKrhgs

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Wait for it.. https://t.co/ifDfED72X5 https://t.co/zKBc5lbtAn
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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Dare you enter my abstract factory? https://t.co/PtdphhEyKm https://t.co/ToAbNjkVsb
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Nick_Craver
@Nick_Craver
There are certain phrases and advice you just keep going by decades later. One of the big ones for me is the way @codingho…
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BryanFuller
@BryanFuller
MAR 17 1979
Tom Rosinski Holds in his left hand the toy part that went down his windpipe. Surgeons removed part of the Bat…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The Axie Infinity hack was a fake job offer delivered as PDF https://t.co/aebQFs9OXP
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Rainbow_Silks
@Rainbow_Silks
this quote lives rent free in my head https://t.co/NeOczv3l04
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waxy
@waxy
An oral history of Contact on its 25th anniversary: in development hell for 20 years, it's sort of amazing it was ever made https…
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yiffpolice
@yiffpolice
Oblique Strategies is a deck of cards designed to help artists break up an art block. Each of the 100+ cards contain a poss…
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nealagarwal
@nealagarwal
I made a page that gives you increasingly absurd trolley problems :)
https://t.co/MwfoNTv4Tm https://t.co/ld5nozPMsP
https://t.co/MwfoNTv4Tm https://t.co/ld5nozPMsP

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Lockdown mode in iOS 16 for at-risk people, great stuff by Apple https://t.co/PPdqv5UouU

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Always fun to have a question, then find the answer using a tool I helped build! https://t.co/wNVQ96LnrB

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
baseball is weird https://t.co/vbO9aVl0PZ? radio shack is weird https://t.co/xD3YDqhdzo scam texting is weird https://t.co/bK6dWVooqq TL;DR things are weird
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gknauss
@gknauss
Irony is not dead — it’s holed up in the middle-aged white-person living room of the house I visited yesterday, along with a _…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Finally, a use for this key! "There’s an option in the BIOS that, when enabled, means the Scroll Lock can be used to disable/park the E-cores, meaning nothing will be scheduled on them when the Scroll Lock is active." https://t.co/v6VVRHQyrb
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john_harper
@john_harper
A fun video breaking down the elegant logic behind rolling a bunch of dice and taking the highest (Blades style, or D&D ad…
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ianbremmer
@ianbremmer
one of the most disturbing demographic data trends you’ve ever seen.
the united states—pre-pandemic, mind you—vastly unde…
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phil_lol_ogist
@phil_lol_ogist

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Art frauds are getting a lot better, as the stakes go higher and higher: https://t.co/4EvN38NJka

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The guy who saw Morbius 5 times went to every Rainforest Cafe in the US https://t.co/PU3VI8Bggz

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I wanted to like Rogue Legacy 2, but .. I just really, really dislike 2d platformers. I always have. I could kinda get into Sonic and Mark of the Ninja but those are the rare exceptions. Ugh. 2D Platforming is sooo boring to me.
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pomeranian99
@pomeranian99
"The Trump model, in other words, is more the South in 1850 than the South in 1950, more John Calhoun than Richard Russel…
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jamieson
@jamieson
EXCLUSIVE: I spoke with Medieval Times workers about why they want to unionize their castle. What they deal with is nuts: gue…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Wow, a mini PC with a built in GPU dock! Optionally bring your own full-size GPU and power supply. Very cool. https://t.co/P6R2IwCeaO https://t.co/Afcjq2XMyu
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ZachWeiner
@ZachWeiner
I see a lot of people asking why Americans don't just move to Europe. Some thoughts:
1) Some of us live on old farms and h…
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SJohnsdottire
@SJohnsdottire
Pro-lifers don't like complexity. At 17 weeks my placenta detached and he was much too small. I thought I felt my baby's…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
And when the inevitable political rubber band whipsaws back to the right, I can only imagine the horrors we will see under a *fully* republican controlled government. I will donate, I will vote, absolutely, but I'm mentally preparing for what is coming. https://t.co/bpCkOVwEsn
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Foone
@Foone
I love this. It's a calculator, for Windows 3.1
Sold in a box. it doesn't do all that much more than a plain calculator, but it…
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Rainmaker1973
@Rainmaker1973
Left: how humans see starlings.
Right: how starlings may see each other - with bolder markings and more colour
The amaz…
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DMokryk
@DMokryk
1/5 After the 🇷🇺Russian missile strike on 🇺🇦Kyiv this morning (a civilian building has been hit, injuring a little girl and ki…
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KristyT
@KristyT
Don’t walk, run to try these. Listen, trust me on this one.
Bring this small joy into your life. https://t.co/kc7skxASGp
Bring this small joy into your life. https://t.co/kc7skxASGp
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scottdaros
@scottdaros
My wife and I made another cat #claymation! Magical Cat is a project we do between jobs to loosen up and enjoy #animation.…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
This is perfect; I've always held a grudge against Myst and its spawn. Just my personal preference, not a judgment on the genre! Even though it sucks! https://t.co/ge6lyQx2IH

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
voting *the right senators* into the senate would indeed get us out of this; note the problem senators cited here: https://t.co/jxH7ZLzBsT https://t.co/FOOLvi3VqQ
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cbouzy
@cbouzy
⚠️We are observing inauthentic accounts replying to people angry about Roe v. Wade and trying to dissuade them from voting in N…
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scottedelman
@scottedelman
The Onion isn't taking any prisoners today. https://t.co/qB9JWZQq6f
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psaffo
@psaffo
20+ years ago, I observed that there was a 50% chance that the US would not exist as a nation by mid-century, and have been rid…
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ericlaw
@ericlaw
The #1 thing the GOP Death Cult relies upon is your apathy and willingness to believe that voting does not matter.
They've s…
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NickLutsko
@NickLutsko
Here is the first song from the new Joker musical https://t.co/3cwH9Phz2D

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Gotta love the Mold-A-Rama! https://t.co/5HrnFK28X1