miniblog.

I had the pleasure of attending the Making Smalltalk event at the @ComputerHistory today! Adele Goldberg and Dan Ingalls were there, plus some videos from Alan Kay. "One of the tests of a programming language: can you write a debugger in it?"

Bevy is a game engine written in Rust with a superb project introduction: https://bevyengine.org/news/introducing-bevy/ Videos! Clear rationale! A ton of examples with screenshots of the results!

Online videos are often a great historical reference for obsolete computer games, because they show the game in context of an active community: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/05/06/how-youtube-lets-plays-are-preserving-video-game-history/ (I suppose this also applies to MUDs and online communities that aren't gaming related.)