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Sea of Thieves Launches Season 20 With Custom Seas
25+ min ago (569+ words) " We're giving you the keys to the seas " From hosting multi-crew hangouts and concocting competitive game modes, to simply snapping stunning screenshots with a Free Camera, Season 20 invites all pirates to enjoy the Sea of Thieves session of their dreams…...
Modiphius Entertainment Announces XCOM: The Miniatures Game
1+ hour, 21+ min ago (193+ words) Modiphius Entertainment revealed a brand-new tabletop title on the way as they have partnered with 2 K Games to make XCOM: The Miniatures Game. This is both a solo and co-op adventure wargame in which you'll explore the world of XCOM…...
FIDE World Team Blitz Day 1: Carlsen, WR Chess Back In Business
2+ hour, 8+ min ago (1251+ words) The final day of the FIDE World Blitz Team Championship starts Sunday, June 21, at 2 a. m. ET / 08: 00 CEST / 11: 30 a. m. IST. The speed of play increased dramatically in Hong Kong as we switched to three-minute blitz, with two seconds added each move. The two-day…...
Blocks, Procs, and the "&" Bridge
2+ hour, 45+ min ago (377+ words) &blk in a parameter list turns a block into a Proc; &proc at a call turns a Proc back into a block. You can't store a block in a variable " Ruby won't even parse it: A method can carry at…...
Cache Stampede in Go: Preventing Thundering Herds with Singleflight, Stale Caching, and Request Coalescing
2+ hour, 51+ min ago (433+ words) Yet some of the most expensive production incidents begin with a single innocent event: A cache entry expires. Nothing is technically "broken." Your cache simply stopped protecting your database. This phenomenon is commonly known as a Cache Stampede, and if…...
Go's Simplicity Is a Lie " And That's Exactly Why It Scales
51+ min ago (39+ words) You have been writing Go for two years and you still cannot explain to your manager why it took the company six weeks to ship a "...
I built a distributed job queue in Go to understand how they actually work
5+ hour, 6+ min ago (212+ words) I have used job queues my whole developer life without knowing what was inside them. So I built one. Not a wrapper around an existing queue. A full implementation from scratch with Redis, Postgre SQL, goroutines, and real failure handling....
Rabble Game Announces New Tabletop Title Sprout
5+ hour, 53+ min ago (180+ words) Rabble Game has revealed a brand-new tablet-top title on the way, as they'll be testing your green thumb in Sprout. The game revolves around keeping plants healthy and vibrant as you've decided to adopt one too many for your space,…...
I built a Python -> C transpiler. Then it transpiled itself.
6+ hour, 30+ min ago (266+ words) A few weeks ago I needed to run Python scripts in initramfs " the tiny Linux environment that exists before your actual OS boots. No interpreter. No dynamic linker. Nothing. So I built Transpilatron: an AI agent that takes Python code…...
Moves of the Diamond Hand is an unfinished, irresistibly weird dice-based RPG
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (25+ words) Moves of the Diamond Hand, from developer Cosmo D, is an Early Access RPG set in an offbeat cyberpunk world with unique dice-based mechanics....