JamKazam: play music over the internet JamKazam is a service for playing music with others over the internet, dealing with the natural synchronization problems that come up.

Massive link dump today. I’ve been hoarding links in my Things inbox and it was time to clean it up! A 1.5° celsius pathway to climate leadership for the US Energy Innovation’s report, A 1.5° celsius pathway to climate leadership for the United States does indeed show a pathway (validated by their model), …

Distributed: live social chat app Distributed provides a chat interface with little video bubbles at the top to allow remote people to stay in touch more informally. It’s actually open source.

Fontemon: a game in a font If you ever wanted to know how far you can get with ligatures, there’s Fontemon, the game contained within a font.

Some folks at work have been looking at Dockerization of our dev environment to make it work more consistently across people’s computers. This may be less ideal on Macs, given the need to run a VM, so I’m starting some notes here about other potential options. Nix The Nix package manager is one way to get a …

In praise of messy design Tanya X. Short of Kitfox Games wrote this wonderful article about messy design in games. She described three different types of messy: shaggy, baggy, and craggy. A shaggy game design is one that forces the player to experience wildly varying systems and gameplay along the journey of the game. …

Nathan Pyle’s art tips Nathan Pyle, creator of the fantastic Strange Planet comics, has a Twitter thread of comic art tips. I like these tips because they’re fun and simple. 9 things to know about Michigan’s vaccine rollout The Ann Arbor News has 9 things to know about Michigan’s COVID-19 …

Backlinks 2021-03-16 mark looks like a handy way to maintain a directory of files outside of Confluence and keep them in sync.

Divio’s documentation system Updated to add: This doc system has a new name and new home: Diátaxis Framework. I’m surprised I haven’t linked to this already. Divio’s documentation system is a system in the best sense of the word: a way to think about, organize, and execute on something. In this …

modernc.org/sqlite This is really cool. SQLite is, of course, the super-widely used, embedded SQL database, written in C. modernc.org/sqlite is a CGo-free version of it for Go, which makes it easier to use in Go programs. The 15,000 pound horse Lubalin’s internet drama song/videos are fun, but internet drama part …