Great fight. Can't think of a better way for Kelvin to turn it around than if he was to beat Shavkat.

You're right. It's a great tool to have, and a much more efficient way to do lots of things than running a linux VM.

It's real simple, see, just hold your passport up to your face..

I think Reddit will slowly bleed users as the experience gets worse but it won't collapse altogether.

I agree. It will be interesting to see if they can attract a larger number of casual users who don't care about their TOS and lack of API support for developers, or if the site dramatically loses its worth and ends up being sold for a much lower price (like what happened with MySpace).

I could see a series of successors come about eventually.

I hope you're right about this. Many of us who grew up with a much more fractured browsing experience miss it a lot. It would be good if there were hundreds - or even thousands - of reddit-alternatives, all with a few thousand regular posters each.

If you strain hard enough, you can practically smell it already.

Beautiful!

Dude, that old KDE interface really is something to behold. Love it.

Great post. The Internet Archive is a wonderful resource; I particularly enjoy browsing their vintage gaming magazine/fanzine collections, and reading old copies of High Times!

My experience with game development is fairly cursory, but I actually found Tic-80 to be a lot of fun, and a fantastic way to get used to game dev concepts without becoming too tied down learning about semantics (although, if you continue to pursue serious programming, taking semantics seriously and practicing them should definitely be part of your approach).

The main thing when learning any type of coding is that you're learning to do things that interest you. After that, a lot of what you'll learn is actually quite transferable.

So, my recommendation is Tic-80. Can I just ask, though: what passes for a "low end pc" these days? (I ask this as someone who was stuck using a Pentium 4 until September 2017, and so my current 2nd gen i5 still feels light it's lightning-quick!)

It'll be interesting to see if this changes the playing field for social networks in any significant way.