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🎮 Video Games Changed My Life

Laurent Cazanove
Laurent Cazanove
@StriftCodes
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“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” — Richard Feynman
🔥 What’s Hot?
A Predictive Analysis of Valorant Gunfights
To further grow analytics discussion in the space, NRG analyst Jay Li published a paper on modeling player performance in gunfights. Results are applied to player scouting and decision-making optimization.
github.com
A Proposal For Type Syntax in JavaScript
Microsoft worked on a proposal to bring typing to JavaScript via comments. By removing the need for a build step, this aims to lower the barrier to entry for JS devs to experience the power of types.
devblogs.microsoft.com
Twitch Suffers Departures, As It Loses Touch With the Community
As Twitch lacked access to talents from the gaming industry, the Amazon’s firm started to hire folks from Silicon Valley companies with little interest in gaming. The company is now facing an exodus from their OG executives.
www.bloomberg.com
✨ Cool Things on the Internet
🍿 Something To Binge
The story of how a single developer launched a framework that would grow to become the most popular open-source Github project. Dive into Taylor Otwell’s obsession for elegant code and slick developer experience.
👉 Watch Laravel Origins: The Documentary
🌱 Something For Your Mind
I love Anne-Laure’s idea of a mind garden: curiosity seeds that you plant, that grow into a knowledge tree, that give fruits (novel ideas.) This article is her methodology for turning what you consume into productivity & creativity.
👉 Read You And Your Mind Garden
🎨 Something From Me
Video games were a big part of my childhood. I believe this has a profound impact on the adult (lol) I am now. This is the story of how a cracked, niche game development software named RPG Maker changed my life.
👉 Read Video Games Were My Creative Hobby
đź—ž The Roundup
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