I've long enjoyed Christian Thompson's Python tutorials on YouTube. He's an excellent instructor. Even better are his livestreaming coding sessions, where he programs games in real time. It's useful watching him encounter bugs and figure out how to fix them. Part 1 is above, part 2 is below:
Watching this guy live code Frogger in Python is a great way to learn the language
Try Bouncing Beholder, a complete platform game in just 1,024 bytes of code
A bouncing eyeball collects coins while dodging purple grass and carnivorous plants in "Bouncing Beholder" — a complete platform game with smooth animation, physics, and randomly generated terrain. The surprising… READ THE REST
Song Pong: Syncing Pong to Music with Math
In the first issue of his newsletter, Victor Tao writes about his latest music visualizer, Song Pong: Lately I've been experimenting with music visualizers. One of my favorites is inspired… READ THE REST
Meet "Tren" — the hidden gem in "Dreams" that could be this year's best puzzle game
For Media Molecule, the developers of the immensely popular (and nostalgic) LittleBigPlanet series, the next move post-LBP seemed obvious: take the love for user-generated content that had given their previous… READ THE REST
Renting is for apartments, not your productivity tools — Own Word, Excel, and more for only $30
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This tracker improves upon the AirTag and costs less than $27
TL;DR: The KeySmart® Smart Card offers a slimmer tracking option for your items, and now a three-pack is just $79.97 through March 31. Sick of losing your wallet? Tired of misplacing your passport?… READ THE REST
ChatGPT is lying to you, but there's an new way to fix that
TL;DR: Katteb is an AI content generator that won't lie to you, and it's only $79.99 for life. ChatGPT is good for a lot of things, but telling the truth isn't… READ THE REST
