CyMonk

Answers to the five Ws: https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10083

Why not start with the home page? It provides a good overview and covers all the important points:

* The Data-Oriented Language for Sane Software Development.

* Odin is the C alternative for the Joy of Programming.

* Simplicity, High Performance, For Modern Systems

If you don't see value in these points, you are not part of the target audience.

> An Apple II in 1982 has 256 Kb of RAM.

Just to nitpick, because this was my first computer. The Apple ][+ from 1982 featured an 8- bit 6502 processor capable of addressing max. 64 KB. If I remember correctly, the base model shipped with 16 KB and could be upgraded.

i had counted on the z80 card instead.

The third game in the series is "X-COM: Apocalypse".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOM

In this case the "grouped element mindset" means not only just using allocators but also avoiding RAII by flattening the traditional pointer- based OOP AST into arrays accessed by handles.

"Bink [...] was written and researched by [...] mostly Fabian Giesen, Casey Muratori and Jeff Roberts.", Bink Video Credits

https://www.radgametools.com/binkhcrd.htm

> Casey, meanwhile, has worked on a low-level game development video series for a decade and... never actually shipped a game?

He worked with Jonathan Blow on "The Witness"[0].

As the developer of the "Bink 2" video codec[1] and the animation tool "Granny 3d"[2], his code powers thousands of games.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/210970/The_Witness/, [1] https://www.radgametools.com/bnkmain.htm, [2] https://www.radgametools.com/granny.html

e.g. on this very site.

https://gdimayhem.temari.fr/index.php?p=datas

It actually goes back to mechanical typewriters, which were limited to 70 to 90 characters per line. Commonly used punch cards also had 80 columns. Both were the inspiration for the 80 characters in computer terminals.

I am really happy with https://wezterm.org/

I often wish I lived in a world where people understood that social democracy, socialism, Marxism, and communism are not synonyms.

what you describe is called "shadow banning".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning

yep, same here. i thought pinecone is an algorithm i am not familiar with and expected to read the results of a benchmark in which delphi beats cpp, rust and dlang.

"Some games vanish. Not because they broke the law but because someone decided they shouldn’t exist. For 48 hours, these games are free, because if a game is legal, you should be free to buy it."

not minimal, but there is "iamb- A Matrix client for Vim addicts"

https://github.com/ulyssa/iamb

here is an alternative to nodal: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1727420/Midinous/

there is a rust implementation that implements smart mode.

https://github.com/eraserhd/parinfer-rust

35,69% of steam users run windows 10 in june 2025 .

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

there are alot of drm free games released on steam. you can check this in advance by looking up the depots on steamdb and if the steamworks api files are included.

FYI, you need Javascript and WebGL for the page to work.

not to forget the confrontation between bakunin and marx in the first international, over several core issues of the movement.

> What if you put a colon in a file with colon separated fields?

This problem has been solved for thirty years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_character

Why does it have a Millennium Falcon as a logo? ;)

as a teenager in the 80s i was obsessed with ripping the music from c64 games. at some point i had so much practice that i could identify the music data perfectly by recognizing visual patterns in the hexdump of the memory.

Here are charts from the mentioned KBA site which show the decline from 300.000 in 06/2024 down to 208.00 in 01/2025.

https://www.kba.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Fahrzeugzula...

https://www.kba.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Fahrzeugzula...