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#457 - News Diver |
Weekly Newsletter; News Diver#457 - Thursday 05th March, 2020groups.google.com/group/socoder-newsletter Every Thursday, Bright and early, or later, or snoozing. ; Hello WorldA much simpler week, this week. Normal stuff, like the 30th anniversary of my Grandad's passing away, and my sister going for her first round of radiotherapy. Just normal, mundane, everyday life. Life goes on. The world doesn't change just because your cousin's killer has been banged up. Boy, February was a rough one.. Roll on Animal Crossing, when I can completely chill out, and only have to worry about paying off an insane mortgage to a crazy raccoon. SoCoder; Flapping LabelsRychan continues his creation of NES Carts with the wonderful addition of lovely little sticky labels, as well as trying out different types of card/paper to try to find just the right sort for a box.socoder.net/?GotoPost=74485 ; Crunching StringsDan's posted some Blitz code to help compress data.It intelligently combines Hex strings, compressing pairs into shorter strings, but knowing when not to do so, if the resulting string would be larger. socoder.net/?Snippet=74479 ; JNK TitlerJay's cobbled together a Javascript version of his Titler app, allowing you to throw in the title of a game, and have it generate a half-assed logo for the game.As with all of Jay's hastily cobbled together projects, it's probably best not to use this tool to make the final product, and instead use it to motivate you towards the final goal. socoder.net/?Topic=7803 SoWordy; BaggedThis week's word of the week is a nice and simple word.Bagged! Could mean anything, and all manner of game ideas can be spawned from it. As a slight change of direction for the Word of the Week thing, though, why not tell us a nice story about the best bargain you've ever bagged? socoder.net/?Topic=7800 SoDangerous; Security Alert!LetsEncrypt had a slight gremlin issue, this week, and asked everyone impacted by the bug to redo their certificates.A worrying trend in modern day computing is that nothing is truly secure, everything's getting hacked at any given moment, and you should only ever, really, post online what you KNOW will be "OK" to post online. Basic rules that we've all lived by for the past 20 or more years. SoCoder's certificates were all updated ASAP, and all should be fine and dandy. Thankfully, nothing on SoCoder should be important enough that it could've been any kind of serious danger. Unless your SoCoder password is the same as your Banking one.. .... Probably best to change your password, if that's the case! socoder.net/?Topic=7802 SoOffTopic; Who FinaleWhat a glorious finale that was.A number of complainers online that it was a bit too "talky", and too backstory heavy, and not what a finale should be. Screw those guys, I loved it!! As a Classic Who fan, it hit just the right amount of waffle for my tastes. socoder.net/?GotoPost=74484 ; Picard ActionA decent episode of Picard helps ramp up the speed of the show from 5 to about 58!socoder.net/?GotoPost=74474 SoMuchMore; MathsPakz lets us know of a Twitter poster, @FreyaHolmer, who frequently posts gamedev maths and other such handy things.Follow for more! socoder.net/?Topic=7796 twitter.com/FreyaHolmer ; Tracking the CoronaAs Coronavirus takes control, we all send wellwishes, and share scary tales of virus riddled horror.socoder.net/?Topic=7799 KiloTube; Red Dwarf - Series AA - Episode IIView on YouTube ; ClampageAdam shows off some clampsyoutu.be/HrYrcJTv4H4 ; Coronavirus LatestThe latest news, from the room next door.youtu.be/NAgydBbF5mQ ; Musical Interludeyoutu.be/SBqim20BtgM; Set the dateMarch the 8th is the day!youtu.be/A4oby25Ni6c ; Tragedy for SethOne if his writers gets into a nasty accident.youtu.be/c70PKm0Q9r4 MegaTube; Hacking An ArmFor Music!!View on YouTube ; Bizarre AnimationsJazza discovers Cyriak!youtu.be/KWnGyAAU9J4 GigaTube; Doctor... Who?A look back at the initial concept.View on YouTube ; Flippin' DrawingJazza flips his world aroundyoutu.be/-jx75YAvZto 80s Cover CornerView on YouTube youtu.be/la3fH25O9WU youtu.be/nl1azv5SIDY youtu.be/luFgsb5TsqU TVCover CornerView on YouTube VGRemix CornerView on YouTube youtu.be/8hDpNgOCDMA youtu.be/pF--QVLYyD4 youtu.be/9aRvegdCaCs ------------------- Load, Next List! |
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