Kevin Purdy
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I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps, and I can’t stop
Software is eating the world and I have snacks for it How I tackled takeout, spices, and meal ideas with…
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Flour, water, salt, GitHub: The Bread Code is a sourdough baking framework
One year ago, I didn’t know how to bake bread. I just knew how to follow a recipe. If everything…
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Dystopika is a beautiful cyberpunk city builder without the ugly details
Some of my favorite games deny me the thing I think I want most. Elden Ring refuses to provide manageable save files…
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40 years later, X Window System is far more relevant than anyone could guess
Widely but improperly known as X-windows — One astrophysics professor’s memories of writing X11 code in the 1980s. Kevin Purdy…
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Cryptmaster is a dark, goofy dungeon crawler powered by word games and typing
A different kind of text adventure — Ask a necromancer to lick a shield. Type out “HIT,” “YELL,” “ZAP.” It’s…
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Sony backs down, won’t enforce PSN accounts for Helldivers 2 PC players on Steam
Purge the stain of this failure with the peroxide of victory — What will Sony do next for an audience…
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Mini Settlers is a city builder that you can both enjoy and actually put down
You can definitely get 120 frames on an RTX 4080 — No zoning, no pollution, no advisers—just squares, circles, people,…
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Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap
Tabs Versus Space 2024: The Sabotage — One does not simply suggest changing a kernel line to help out a…
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The DiskMantler violently shakes hard drives for better rare-earth recovery
Rare-earth magnet recycling — A nifty HDD disassembly tool, sure, but we also have a larger global need for magnets.…
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Sixty Four is a beautiful system design toy that reveals something rather dark
What is an idle clicker, really? — Please do not load up this game if you have real tasks to…
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