A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2(mastodon.gamedev.place)

470 points by AshleysBrain 11 months ago | 68 comments

A Mastodon thread by Tom Forsyth recounting a time-travelling bug caused by a door in Half-Life 2 during development.

One thing that has changed in the professional game industry is that(mastodon.social)

26 points by luu 3 years ago | 38 comments

The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster(octodon.social)

717 points by srijan4 2 years ago | 562 comments

A Mastodon thread by Jason Lefkowitz arguing that the 1988 USS Vincennes shootdown of Iran Air Flight 655 was partly caused by Aegis user interface design failures.

Why are there so many CPU bugs nowadays(mas.to)

20 points by riffraff 9 months ago | 6 comments

Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites(mastodon.gamedev.place)

596 points by boffbowsh 3 years ago | 131 comments

Mastodon thread by Mario Zechner explaining his project scraping Austrian grocery chain websites to track food prices amid high inflation.

A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team(mastodon.social)

841 points by luu 3 years ago | 491 comments

A Mastodon post listing recent controversial moves by Google's Chrome team, such as Manifest v3, JPEG XL removal, and Web Environment Integrity, urging users to switch browsers.