Kind of a stretch but the crossover between jaded dev/tech people and EVE Online players is high:

Mostly Harmless is an old, now defunct, EVE corp. Might be someone who ran in that that might recognize him.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/cd7ku3/disbanded_allia...

It's the description of Earth in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That's where that's from

Just reading through the notes and there are lots of EVE terms in there. They look like they're talking about something else, a new game maybe, but I wouldn't discount it just yet.

(Miners, haulers, nanite )

I think all of those also fit in No Man’s Sky.

Mostly Harmless is also a difficulty level... I wouldn't dig too deeply into the name so much as the choice.

Yea it's a bit of a stretch. I haven't played EVE in ten years though and it was the first thing that popped into my mind.

Looks like this was back in 2011 or so: http://www.verite.space/maps/influence/20110115.png (NW corner)

> I wouldn't dig too deeply into the name so much as the choice.

Why not? Every other avenue has been explored.

They seem to be a novice programmer with big ideas. Some notepads might be missing (see pg 11). I really wish the scans were better.

1-2: Ideas for a screeps AI. (Screeps seems interesting! From a brief look, it's an open-source online MMO/RTS for programmers. It's seems kind of like an AI tournament akin to Battlecode, but persistent. You write your AI in JavaScript or WebAssembly.)

3-5 (top half): Unclear. Maybe from a game idea? Maybe part of the screeps AI?

5 (bottom half) - 6 (top half): CPU time calculation for screeps?

6 (bottom half) - 10: More screeps notes.

11: A table of contents for the notepad(s). Not clear what "3s" refers to. t I think it's the name of a game he wants to make. Seems like some of those notepads might be missing?

12-15: Idea for a peer-to-peer backup/storage system.

16: "BLL", a programming/scripting language, probably short for "B... L... Language".

17-18: Nutritional wafer/bar notes. (Probably for an "all-in-one" hiking food.) The mention of "future" and "no allergies, minimum ingredients, natural ingredients" makes it unclear whether this was something he tested, or just an aspiration.

19-33: More Screeps AI notes.

34-40: "Nanites guild". Either a full game idea, or from a game he wants to make and that he provisionally titled "3s".

Links :Transcripts of his complete notebook- https://imgur.com/a/eTphrRF

I’ve posted up above, but just incase you’ve missed them here’s a the transcript of his his notebook typed up

From reading the notebook he may be a game developer. Quite a few of the pages look like notes from algorithms on rendering a game, maybe an FPS or RTS game, and he talks about outputting to the console and sprites.

Yes, though I would say amateur game developer. Like the kid who always wanted to build a game but never did, got a "real job" doing some kind of much more boring programming.

There is one point where he is musing about mapping commands to hex values within a single byte which makes me think he started programming in the 8bit era.

Full-text transcription of individual notebook pages (annotated images + .json + .txt) generated with a combination of Handprint (https://github.com/caltechlibrary/handprint) and Microsoft's Read API: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hkpqsnk858pzu7f/AADnCzr7tabArQ_xq...

This tool is good. We could also use Google Lens to extract text from the document, I tried on a few pages it captures a some more text than Handprint.

Many of these pages look to me like he was designing a game.

- p2p, client-server notes

- Class definitions and implementation notes

- Source code doing position calculations

Could it be the same person? https://steamcommunity.com/id/n0s0ck He has a comment on https://steamcommunity.com/app/464350/discussions/0/35165980...

Different nose, I don't think so.