Week wrap-up: Jan 26th
Here's some things to read!!
How To Submit Your Game’s Credits To Mobygames – the Developer’s Guide - Aura Triolo
Loved Aura's post about how to get your game into Mobygames. Super useful guide. Get your credits in there!!
2024 Year In Review - Loren
An absolutely incredible execution on a yearly summary blog post. What CSS!! What style!! Check out the rest of the site too!
The Visible Zorker - Andrew Plotkin
The Visible Zorker makes the source code of the game Zork visible to you while you play. An incredible idea. Andrew's blog post on the project is a fun read too.
The Dérailleur Project - Robert Jones
It's just a bunch of photos of derailleurs. That's the mechanism on your bike's rear wheel that allows it to shift gears. The chain goes through it. There are little pulleys and shit. This blog post is adapted from a photo book made by an artist who just photographed all of history's most important derailleurs. I love how different they all look. When they're taken off the bike like this, not tensioned by the chain, they're super weird looking. I love rotating this shit in my mind and visualizing what they look like on the bike.
All the movies Steven Soderbergh watched in 2024
He releases a list every year! Here's 2024. Always interesting to see stuff like this. Love when he logs like 5 things in one day, haha. I also thought it was fascinating to see his cadence for watching TV - and to see the crater in his watch habits left by the Olympics. Me too, man!!
Replacement Level Posters - Nicky Flowers
Nicky suggests a term to describe the kind of poster who represents the barely-functional warm body poster on social media platforms - the kind of person whose confused and muddled posts set the tone on places like Twitter and Bluesky.
Fires stuff
- I wrote about Mandeville Canyon a little bit ago - it's the place where the Palisades fire's eastward advancement was stopped. It's also a road used for climb training by many cyclists on the west side of LA. Well, here's an incredible photo of a giant strip of pink fire retardant laid on the westward side of the canyon by aircraft. Wild fucking stuff.
- This article from LAist is just interviews with several Altadena residents, asking them what physical objects they left their homes with before those homes burned down. Some really intense stories here. One kid, a high schooler, only brought his homework.