Whilst the official rebar documentation only covers usages on Unix, turns out it was really easy to get going on Windows too, even without resorting to installing and using cygwin. Here’s some quick steps: clone the rebar repo in the root of the repo, run bootstrap.bat (you’ll need Erlang installed for this) copy the generated [...]

It is the summer, a time to cool off and enjoy vacations – so let’s keep it light, and hopefully fun, today! A couple of days ago, during his recent San Francisco visit, @tomaspetricek brought up an idea that I found intriguing. What if you had two images, and wanted to recreate an image similar to the first one, using only the pixels from the second? To make this real, let’s take two images - a portrait by Velasquez, and one by Picasso, which I have conveniently cropped to be of identical size. What we a[...]

In our MMORPG title Here Be Monsters, we offer the players a virtual world to explore where they can visit towns and spots; forage fruits and gather insects and flowers; tend to farms and animals in their homesteads; make in-game buddies and help each other out; craft new items using things they find in their [...]

I don’t usually review hardware here, but I think this device stands out as being particularly useful to people who take a lot of notes and/or read a lot of research papers. I read about the Sony Digital Paper DPT-S1 for the first time about a year ago and couldn’t help but be impressed. It […]

I don’t usually review hardware here, but I think this device stands out as being particularly useful to people who take a lot of notes and/or read a lot of research papers. I read about the Sony Digital Paper DPT-S1 for the first time about a year ago and couldn’t help but be impressed. It promises the […]