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Yuki Miku daiyo does a dance on a roof!

A delightful and emotional visual novel.

Because Git and GitHub are too cowardly to already be setting the default branch from a white supremacy reference to something simple like “main,” here are instructions to fix your code repository.

The lore behind Fall Guys is as adorable as the little beans.

I've seen people at every place I've worked just... share things like this with any webpage with a text input box and it's never set right with me.

I stumbled upon this neat community of women makers the other day.

I am oddly excited about the possibilities of using React Hooks in CLI tools.

I picked this game up in early access a few weeks ago and I’ve put a lot of time in to it.

This is pretty cool, I will definitely be writing some custom scripts for it.

I can't believe it took a study for this to be apparent.

I have now published publicly for the first time the code that powers this website.

Translations with DeepL feels more accurate and more natural.

Hey I just wanted to share that I open sourced a weekend experiment I made a few weekends ago to track pitch frequencies.

Don’t trust anyone who wants to depict pigs as anything other than violent and bigoted.

As a girl who learned web development on Neopets, this is very much true and close to my heart.

The audio clip on the article is HORRIFYING.

While we're criticizing TikTok for hiding "ugly" and "poor" people from their platform, they have also admitted to discrimination of other protected groups.

Earlier today it was falsely going around that TikTok was banning Black Lives Matter from their platform.

Sometimes you need to help your family out from miles away.

I’ve been looking at this app for a while, but it really feels like the closest thing to Final Cut Pro on the iPad (or iPhone?)

This post is nearly five years old and yet still as relevant as ever, as Facebook still does not like that queer people use their website.

I think about this video from Polygon a lot.

It also appears no one makes a living on Steam, a platform built upon a race to the bottom of sales.

Every once and a while Patreon doesn something bad and then I can't help but remember this article from before The Outline laid everyone off recently.

A new plugin from Microsoft for their code editor allows people to collaborate in real time on projects.

Adam Conover explains the history on Nintendo’s push to push women out of gaming.

Tracey Lien’s 2013 piece for Polygon reminds us that Nintendo invented the myth that games are for boys.

"Amazon did not “give” us PTO — we took our PTO from Amazon’s greedy hands.

Maybe Nintendo is finally growing up?

Congratulations to the employees at Glitch!

"Don't touch my phone / No touch my heart” A fun Miku music video from BIGHEAD, apapico, caseif, and Incept

This is pretty wild!

Grace Robertson digs in to why the politics and self-congratulatory nature of Michael Shur's television shows trip him up and make for awkward television.

Anthropomorphic fonts.

A two hour documentary about the horrifying truth that is Amazon.

Congratulations to the employees at Kickstarter!

Nico Deyo comes in holding no punches: 'The inhuman coloration to their skin and general lankiness denotes an otherness, but everything else feels oriented towards sexiness, creating a line of mean, angular villainesses—like fuckable Lamborghinis.'

This game was a surprise delight!

A lot of people talk about 17776 by Jon Bois, but I was initially introduced to his work through this: a non-linear essay about Jon Bois that is probably more than 17776 words long by Colin Spacetwinks.

npckc is probably one of my favorite indie game creators. npckc rose to popularity with this game about taking your trans friend to a onsen, and it’s just so good.

This was such a fun read from Colin Spacetwinks about how Sonic is cool enough to fit in to any mold you want.

Hatsune Miku comes to Switch!

A few days ago I was pondering what the environmental difference in buying an ebook from amazon versus buying a physical book was.

Reporting from live from News39, it's Hatsune Miku, Meiko, and other virtual youtubers reminding you to stay hydrated on behalf of a Japanese bottled water company.

This is amazing.

It’s fascinating to hear from the people behind this game.

I’ve been loving every bit of Kentucky Route Zero since it came out 7 years ago.

It’s good to see Panic shamed in to doing right by the game pop up after throwing their weight around like nasty bullies.

A webcomic about a gay disaster, a punk skunk, and lots and lots of puns.

Hi my name is Melanie.