The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of online content by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string (or substring) of letters that appear to have an obscene or otherwise unacceptable meaning. Names, abbreviations, and technical terms are most often cited as being affected by the issue.

Covering the topics too dull to be covered by more exciting gamedev blogs.

We are artists who don’t create art. We are creative souls driven not by emotion, but by the rigors of logic an mathematical perfection. We write poetry that is not about love and desire but about function and procedural complexity. But we too seek beauty and aesthetic perfection in our work. If you put three programmers in a room, each of them will probably have a different opinion on how the code should be structured, what practices should be followed or even what language and/or text editor should be used. The most interesting part is that all of them will probably be correct, or at the very least have valid points.

Gohufont is a monospace bitmap font well suited for programming and terminal use. It is intended to be very legible and offers very discernable glyphs for all characters, including signs and symbols. Here is what it looks like :

when you're done, hit ALT 3 times

TextFX7

"Keener news-followers, however, wondered at the events of the winter of 1927-28, the abnormally large number of calls placed upon the stack, the swiftness with which that list was sorted, the disturbing lack of heap allocation throughout the proceedings, and the secrecy surrounding the affair."

"LivingConcepts was written to enable students of the Algorithmic Art and Artificial Intelligence class given by Prof. Remko Scha at the University of Amsterdam to explore the often difficult concepts that are presented in the course. "

videogames development glitches

"By playing our games, you're training computers to solve problems for humans all over the world."

"This is the prototype for the soul of The Sims, which Will Wright wrote on January 23, 1997."

Python source code

"This is a site for large data sets and the people who love them: the scrapers and crawlers who collect them, the academics and geeks who process them, the designers and artists who visualize them."

The CityEngine is an academia software for the creative and efficient creation of digital architecture. Scientific papers, movies, pictures and other information about this high-level design tool can be found

osc for processing

Bullet is a 3D Collision Detection and Rigid Body Dynamics Library for games and animation.

an open source 2D physics engine written primarily for games