Will Do
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The Modern Gaming Litmus Test

Things to avoid in modern games.

How Unicode Country Flags Work

How do you encode politically-contentious country flags?

Bad Unicode Assumptions

All the ways in which you’re wrong about Unicode.

One Chance

The game that lets you play it only once.

Server-To-Server Authentication Schemes

A tour of motivations, techniques, strengths, and weaknesses.

RED Metrics

Metrics for understanding request-driven program performance.

Don’t Use JWTs

Use session tokens instead.

Dopamine Nation

The numbers of how things affect the release of dopamine.

Data-Driven Software Interviews

Software interviews suck, but they don’t have to.

What Happened In 1971?

Lots of things got worse.

Open Letter To Pause AI Experiments

All of a sudden, the consequences of technology are a problem.

The Strenuous Life

Theodore Roosevelt on success.

The Man In The Arena

Theodore Roosevelt on critics.

The Benefits Of Gratitude

What they are, and how they work.

Save Will

The blurb for my old blog.

No One Owes You Anything

A letter written by a father to his daughter about his most important truth.

Always Change, Never Finish

An interview with an Agile Coach.

The Mythical Corset Oppression

It turns out that women know what they’re doing when they dress themselves.

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