Cities Need More Trees(herman.bearblog.dev)

247 points by HermanMartinus 2 years ago | 115 comments

YAML: The Norway Problem (2022)(bram.us)

192 points by carlos-menezes 1 year ago | 124 comments

Why I forked httpx(tildeweb.nl)

216 points by roywashere 7 months ago | 156 comments

Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021)(philip.greenspun.com)

183 points by cute_boi 2 years ago | 398 comments

Why your blog still needs RSS(journal.paoloamoroso.com)

189 points by imadj 3 years ago | 95 comments

Why old games never die, but new ones do(pleromanonx86.wordpress.com)

269 points by airhangerf15 1 year ago | 289 comments

City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2(radical-elements.com)

150 points by lexx 23 days ago | 143 comments

Blog post by Alex Lingris, the second part of an essay arguing city-building games like Cities: Skylines 2 lack soul.

We were wrong about GPUs(fly.io)

834 points by mxstbr 1 year ago | 529 comments

Fly.io blog post reflecting on how the company's bet on offering GPU machines to developers did not pan out as expected.

How to run a city builder on 16 MHz(larstofus.com)

79 points by rex64 4 days ago | 23 comments

Blog post explaining how the original SimCity ran on a 16 MHz 386SX by spreading simulation work across frames, with similar examples from Assetto Corsa and Lumen.

A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't(housing.over.pizza)

521 points by JumpCrisscross 15 days ago | 173 comments

A browser-based simulation game where you play a housing developer in San Francisco navigating the Board of Supervisors, permits, and city politics to get projects approved.

Don't animate height(granola.ai)

436 points by birdculture 1 year ago | 252 comments

Granola engineering blog post explaining how a small CSS height animation caused high CPU/GPU usage and how to find and make animations cheaper.

I love software rendering(jamesfmackenzie.com)

337 points by speckx 10 days ago | 212 comments

A personal blog post by James Mackenzie about his love of software-rendered 3D graphics in classic MS-DOS and PC games like Quake.