T w e n t y S i d e d
Usually when people link me I see the trackback and I visit their site. I check the place out, read some posts, maybe leave a comment, and if there is anything that catches my eye I like to link them back.
However, I’m never sure what to do in a case like this. Looks like the author is responding to my wordpress plugin, but it seems sort of pointless trying to leave a comment. The author might be saying “this is a great plugin”. They might also be saying, “this idiot made a plugin that only works in English”. Either one is true.
Waitaminute…
Okay, I just tried Babelfish and it did an impressive job. (Any level of coherant translation out of a computer is impressive in my book.) Looks like the author just made a version of the Useless Stats plugin for Japanese speakers. Nice!
What is Vulkan?
What is this Vulkan stuff? A graphics engine? A game engine? A new flavor of breakfast cereal? And how is it supposed to make PC games better?
Twelve Years
Even allegedly smart people can make life-changing blunders that seem very, very obvious in retrospect.
Video Compression Gone Wrong
How does image compression work, and why does it create those ugly spots all over some videos and not others?
Stop Asking Me to Play Dark Souls!
An unhinged rant where I maybe slightly over-reacted to the water torture of Souls evangelism.
Object-Oriented Debate
There are two major schools of thought about how you should write software. Here's what they are and why people argue about it.
The best free online Japanese->English translator I know of is Excite Japan’s: http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/
Rough translation: “Useless Stats displays simple analysis (logs?) data on the management dashboard sidebar.”