I have been recently playing the game Wilmot’s Warehouse. It’s a puzzle management game about managing a warehouse where you receive items and also deliver orders. It’s very relaxing yet its fun. It also resembles programming in such a way that it is difficult to scale. The game is easy in the early minutes where…
Author: Gibson
Some bake, some like to garden, some play video games. I suck at all of those but I like coding
Why I’m Losing Trust in Open Source
Back when I was starting to code several years ago. I picked up The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond and I was blown away at the idea of free software. Just in case you are not familiar, free software as in freedom and not free beer. Free software back then was this super…
Recent TCP vs UDP Experience
Recently, I’ve made a new feature (but now removed) to ScreenSherpa where it loads the screen instantly after pressing the connect button. When I mean instant, I mean in about 1 second you’ll see the host screen immediately. This was meant to fix the long handshake times via webrtc. I still have no clue why…
The no-architecture source code architecture
When I start a project I usually just write the part on whatever it is needed at that time. There is no planning, no notes and no white board and I just do whatever my intuition is telling me. I feel if I stop coding the momentum will stop and I reset. I would then…
The story so far
A long time ago The first time I got into programming was in high school and they just thrown out the old typewritters back then and replaced them with IBM PC XT. My school had also setup the computer laboratory air conditioned. But it was rather too hot because there are about 15 IBM PCs…
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