Author: insecure_automaton

Little bit of this, little bit of that.

Procedural generation of Pitfall! worlds on the Atari 2600

January 10, 2023 by insecure_automaton

Evidently, each unique room was generated w/ only 1 byte(!) of data: https://evoniuk.github.io/posts/pitfall.html

Fuzzing the Github API

January 8, 2023 by insecure_automaton

Been futzing around with fuzzing lately, came across this to read for later: https://ludovicianul.github.io/2020/10/05/github-api-testing/

One of my goals for 2023 is to write one game per month to keep my programming skills from getting too rusty. I created a baseline PyGame template to help w/ some of the repetitive tasks that come w/ that goal.

Clone it from my Github here.

Akka Arrh

January 6, 2023 by insecure_automaton

Oooooooohhhhh….looks killer: https://atari.com/products/akka-arrh

Various sites, re: sci-fi depictions of UIs

May 21, 2020 by insecure_automaton

Sci-fi Interfaces: https://scifiinterfaces.com/

HUDs + GUIs: https://www.hudsandguis.com/

saji8k: https://www.saji8k.com/blog/

Speculative Identities: https://speculativeidentities.com/info

Interface Love: https://ilikeinterfaces.com/

A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.

April 17, 2020 by insecure_automaton

A conversation with the mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson on quantum electrodynamics, climate change and his latest pet project: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-math-puzzle-worthy-of-freeman-dyson-20140326/