I got sucked into a LinkedIn post on “Why Dictionaries are 7 x slower than arrays”, and shuddered as the BigO crowd leapt all over it, completely missing the point entirely. It wasn’t supposed to be about O(n)Log(banana)^Transformer. It was about memory. And computer architecture. So please, indulge me, here is the real reason why…

I thought it might be an interesting time capsule to look back on whats installed on my beloved steam deck. There’s 80 games installed. Eighty. So not only do I had a huge library of unplayed games, I have a large collection of installed and unplayed games on the steam deck. This may be a…

On Christmas Day I was lucky enough to get a copy of Tynan Sylvester’s “Designing Games”. Santa, and more likely my wonderful wife, do read my letters! Tomorrow is Hogmanay (Scotlands excuse to start drinking even earlier on New Years Eve), and I am most of the way through the first of many readings and…