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A (directed) graph is a set of nodes, connected by arrows (edges). The nodes and edges may contain data. Here are some graphs: All graphs made with graphviz (source) Graphs are ubiquitous in software engineering: Package dependencies form directed graphs, as do module imports. The internet is a graph of links between webpages. Model checkers analyze software by exploring the “state space” of all possible configurations.

This week sees the first Anniversary Sale of Catalog, the official store for Playdate games. This means it’s also the anniversary of the launch of Sparrow So...

🚀 A fast WebAssembly interpreter and the most universal WASM runtime - wasm3/wasm3

Finally, Axelrod and Hamilton's brilliant paper on cooperation: I feel hard-pressed to think of any other paper in biology which draws such far-reaching and universal lessons for all of life based on such simple reasoning and mathematical arguments. https://t.co/D1BfZV6FH3 pic.twitter.com/M1FZKaCtlX— Ash Jogalekar (@curiouswavefn) January 23, 2024

This post is a rough recreation of a post from someone else that I saw years ago and now can’t find. If this rings a bell and you know the original,

v buckenham | artist / curator / game designer / creative technologist / etc | based in London, UK

LÖVE (which I will write as love because my keyboard doesn’t have an Ö) is a neat program that’s mostly intended for writing games with lua. We’ve been using it to write an image viewer. There’s a lot of ways to package a love project up for distribution, and some of them ship a copy of love with the project and some don’t. Since my distribution provides the version of love I need, I can create a .love file with all my source code and assets in it, and then I can run it with love path/to/myprogram.love. A .love file is just a .zip with a different file extension, so that’s pretty easy to do.