Linkblog/2025/03/05
Why FastDoom is fast, Google expands AI slop into search, s&box update, Maggie's Antilibrary, Basecamp's Local CI, Gardener wins £1m prize due to website bug.
Fabien Sanglard - Why FastDoom is fast
Fabien discusses FastDoom, a Doom port that aims to modify the game as little as possible from a feature set / graphics perspective, but instead aims to boot performance on older systems, the ones Doom was designed to run on in the first place.
As with other Fabien artciles, great read.
Google - Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode
AI Overviews are getting a Gemini 2.0 upgrade and expanding to more people. Plus, we’re introducing a new experimental AI Mode.
Great, not just an AI summary at the top of Google search, but an entire page!
As Riley said after posting this:
SLOP MODE
Matt Stevens - [s&box] February Update
More updates from Facepunch on the “spiritual successor to Garry’s Mod and a love letter to Source 2”.
Andrew J. Hawkins - Car prices expected to increase by as much as $12,000 thanks to Trump’s tariffs
I will likely be driving my beautiful 2012 Toyta Matrix into the ground, not because of increased car prices, but because its a vehicle that goes from point A -> B and doesn’t guzzle gas.
But poor folk that want newer vehicles…
Books I like the idea of having read.
My own bookshelf is close to an antilibrary, I have a feeling with Maggie she’s the type to have actual read a lot… I for sure read a ton of small form content (see how much I post on this linkblog), but I honestly
From Maggie’s March 2025 update.
basecamp/gh-signoff - Local CI. Sign off on your own work.
A GitHub CLI extension for local CI. Run your tests on your own machine and sign off when they pass.
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Dev laptops are super fast these days. They’re chronically underutilized. And you already own them. Cloud CI services are typically slow, expensive, and rented.
[…]
Run your test suite (
rails test) and sign off on your work when it passes (gh signoff).You’re the CI now. ✌️👀
I kinda like this, the amount of money I’ve seen companies spend on CI is… a bit much.
Thankfully, my current job as well considers developers having highly specced laptops a priority, so I could most def. be a CI runner.
However, we do rely on merge queues, something I assume this approach would not jive with.
Basecamp has made some interesting choices as of late to rely on the cloud less and less, which I support.
They however, have also made some other technical choices I disagree with quite heavily, and socially not have a clean slate as well.
Their book is kinda good though… at least the good bits.
Tess de la Mare - Gardener wins case against Paddy Power over £1m prize
A gardener who was told by Paddy Power her £1m jackpot from an online game was a computer error has vowed to “enjoy retirement” after a High Court judge ruled she was entitled to the entire sum.
One million pounds, from a bug.
Nice.