Using a game engine in a "digital cockpit" is useful for things like step-by-step 3D tutorials about a car, mapping the environment around your car, and offering more natural controls, explained Jamie Kerber, an employee of Very Good Ventures, at the FOSDEM 2026 conference. She's a lead engineer on Fluorite, a game engine for use […]

Team USA figure skater Ilia Malinin's short routine is set in part to a song from the Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown soundtrack.

Craig Grannell (Mastodon): Still, I did write ‘Why I want Apple Arcade to include classic arcade games – and why that’ll never happen’. But now it has happened, thanks to Retrocade. And here’s the bit that genuinely surprised me: Retrocade is good to the point I think it’s the best entry point for normal people […]

Apple (via Hacker News): The traditional Mach scheduler attempts to achieve these goals by expecting all threads in the system to be tagged with a priority number and treating high priority threads as interactive threads and low priority threads as batch threads. It then uses a timesharing model based on priority decay to penalize threads […]

Brent Simmons (2025): With retirement imminent — this is my last job, and June 6 is my last day (maybe I’ve buried the lede here) — I want to thank my team publicly for how they’ve made me a better engineer and, more importantly, a better person. Brent Simmons (Mastodon): I’m not retiring from writing apps — […]