Touch Arcade's review of 10000000, brilliant puzzle/RPG for iOS
— I was addicted to this all weekend #
Knight Capital accidentally deployed test suite into production
— the trading software bug caused $440M in losses, wiping out a 17-year-old firm in 45 minutes #
Highlights from EA's The Sims cloning lawsuit against Zynga
— the RGB values for skin tones were exactly the same #
Mat Honan's post-mortem on getting hacked
— they bypassed his security questions for iCloud by phone with Apple tech support #
The Twitter Political Index
— running sentiment analysis on tweets that mention the candidates; it tracks nicely to Gallup polls #
Ascii Street View
— by Peter Nitsch, of course; related: painting in ASCII with a paintbrush (via) #
Original Spelunky ported to Javascript
— using GameMaker Studio's new HTML5 support; no sound, but very playable #
The first functional 3D printed gun
— weapons are now disallowed from Thingiverse, but the model's still up there #
Wired on the design of the Def Con 20 badges
— crypto puzzle, viral game, and reprogrammable platform rolled into one #
Diana Kimball's case study of Cards Against Humanity
— going from an idea to a Kickstarter-funded Amazon bestseller #
Robin Sloan's book review written in Javascript
— so good; related: Kill Screen's interactive memoir of Ico #
Portland man found not guilty for stripping at TSA checkpoint
— the TSA may still choose to fine Brennan and place him on the no-fly list #
Polygon's The Evolution of PC Games
— music remix with audio culled exclusively from the original games #
Books of Adam on falling in love with videogames
— owning Earthbound as your very first game would set the bar pretty high #
Fez technical postmortem
— I liked the bits on the designer vs. programmer dynamic; crazy that it was a two-person game #
Marissa Mayer becomes Yahoo's new CEO
— first smart move Yahoo's made in years, but it's hard to turn that ship around #
David House's grand jury testimony in the Bradley Manning hearing
— that guy has balls of steel (via) #
Marc Maron interviews Dan Harmon on the end of Community
— six years after Arrested Development, networks still don't know how to handle fan favorites #
Betaworks buys Digg assets for a rumored $500k
— the end result of their disastrous redesign and not listening to their users; patents and team sold separately for more #
Kyle McDonald's story of his Secret Service raid following People Staring at Computers
— you might remember his project, setting up software on Apple Store computers (via) #
Analysis of the 450,000 leaked Yahoo Voices passwords
— apparently Associated Content, the content farm they acquired in 2010, stored passwords in plaintext #