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Currently Discontinued

In June 22nd, 2021, a programming bug in Lichess' Puzzle Storm and Puzzle Racer games caused some players to achieve excessively high scores that are otherwise beyond their abilities. See e.g. this recording of the bug by Joseph Leung.

The resulting top list is therefore based on corrupted data; compare it with the last correct list and the lists from previous days (see the links "Yesterdays list").

The Lichess developers could have decided to delete all Puzzle scores from June 22nd and to recalculate the data sets based on them. But presumably for performance reasons, they only recalculate these data sets when

Negative Python user experience on Debian/Ubuntu

The user experience of Python on a minimal Debian or Ubuntu installation is bad. Core features like virtual environments, pip bootstrapping, and the ssl module are either missing or do not work like designed and documented. Some Python core developers including me are worried and consider Debian/Ubuntu's packaging harmful for Python's reputation and branding. Users don't get what they expect.

Reproducer

The problems can be easily reproduced with official Debian and Ubuntu containers in Docker or Podman. Debian Stable (Debian 10 Buster) comes with Python 3.7.3. Ubuntu Focal (20.04 LTS) has Python 3.8.5.

Run Debian container

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

WARNING: Article moved to separate repo to allow users contributions: https://github.com/raysan5/custom_game_engines

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like [Unreal](https:

Conversion of Wine builtins to PE format

Status of Conversion

List of Wine builtin fake executables in Wine installation as of Wine 7.16:

mainline-install-7.16-x86_64/lib/wine/x86_64-windows/openal32.dll
mainline-install-7.16-x86_64/lib/wine/x86_64-windows/opengl32.dll
mainline-install-7.16-x86_64/lib/wine/i386-windows/openal32.dll

A week ago I was CC'd in on a thread about Linux packaging, and how to avoid doing it the wrong way (i.e. RPM, Deb, etc.). I've always used MojoSetup and I've never forced distributions to do any additional work, but this is still a new concept to a lot of people. Additionally, Amos suggested that I expand on Itch's FNA appendix, so here's a guide on how I package my games.

This is a bit of an expansion on my MAGFest 2016 presentation, which you can find here:

http://www.flibitijibibo.com/magfest2016/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B83CWUh0Log

I would recommend looking at that first! After that, read on...

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name Activate all Itch.io Bundle downloads
	// @version 1
	// @include https://itch.io/bundle/download/*
	// @include https://.itch.io/
	// @require https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js
	// @grant none
	// ==/UserScript==

	$(document).ready(function() {

	function ConvertGamesToITAD ($allGames) {
	foreach ($group in $allGames \| Group-Object -Property Name) {
	$games = $group.Group
	$playtime = ($games.Playtime \| Sort-Object)[-1]
	$status = ($games.CompletionStatus \| Sort-Object)[-1]
	@{
	title = $games[0].Name
	status = ([string]$status).ToLower()
	playtime = $playtime / 60
	copies = @(foreach ($game in $games) {

	#! /usr/bin/env ruby

	# NOTE: Requires Ruby 2.1 or greater.

	# This script can be used to parse and dump the information from
	# the 'html/contact_info.htm' file in a Facebook user data ZIP download.
	#
	# It prints all cell phone call + SMS message + MMS records, plus a summary of each.
	#
	# It also dumps all of the records into CSV files inside a 'CSV' folder, that is created

	#!/usr/bin/env perl
	#
	# http://daringfireball.net/2007/03/javascript_bookmarklet_builder

	use strict;
	use warnings;
	use URI::Escape qw(uri_escape_utf8);
	use open IO => ":utf8", # UTF8 by default
	":std"; # Apply to STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR