So we finished decompiling Lego Island (youtu.be)
It’s always fun to find out about a project after it’s delivered something rather than before.
Lego Island was one of the first 3d games I watched my PC fail to run back in the day. But even if you don’t have a strong affection towards this particular game, it’s really interesting to see what a practical decomp project looks like. Often decompilation is used in malware analysis-trying to rebuild a nontrivial PC game like this is rarely a successful project. Kudos to the devs.
isle.pizza
The aforementioned decomp has yielded a playable web build!
Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen (ft.com)
Funniest article I’ve read in a while.
Free Audio Plugins (docs.google.com)
Some enterprising Redditor has taken it up on themselves to log and review all of the free audio plugins they’re trying. There’s a vast ocean of free Audio Plugins out there, so this is useful. Over a hundred plugins reviewed. They have a YouTube channel here.
betterworldbooks.com
A site I didn’t know about. Pretty good deals on ex-library books. Not as good as library book sale deals, but a decent selection for the price.
Contra Ptacek’s terrible article on AI (ludic.mataroa.blog)
Mataroa old school fisking an article with some real zingers. You love to see it.
The Arcade Fire Problem (hearingthings.co)
If you’re an Arcade Fire fan the question is probably not ‘Did pink elephant suck’ but rather ‘was Suburbs the last good album or Reflektor?) Not the single best article to come out about this record, but maybe the one that best captures the disappointment. The record feels, dare I say, court mandated.
Omnimax (computer.rip)
Deep dive on Omnimax, the IMAX related film format used by science museums to project films onto the interiors of planetaria. Good clean fun.
Airmass (magmasphere.bandcamp.com)
Amazing, pilotredsun vibes with a dash of Aphex Twin (Specifically 28 organ)