For some reason we change the time zone throughout the year. It doesn't make any sense to me and it makes it hard when I am using applications on my vps.

To avoid confusion it is nice to have irrsi running at local time.

$ TZ="UTC-1" irssi

• XKCD Style Charting
• Napkin UI Features
• I am an idiot

• This webpage was lost in a harddrive storm crash
• You can really fuck up a game jam
• Intel unveils tiny $99 board, I have no idea what it is for
• Pokemon in Google maps
• UDP vs TCP for Game Servers

This is the worst day of the year for the internet. Terrible internet holiday you can't really trust anything you read and most of it is really just quite annoying. A part from Google Pokemon, that was cool.

There is a lot of misinformed dialog about TCP and UDP for gaming. The 1024 Monkey's article covers a lot of real issue with using TCP and doesn't fall on the normal argument "Well I am pretty much reimplementing TCP". If that was the case you probably wouldn't get much of your game done.

• Creating layers with OpenStreetMap
• Apple's Cyclone Microarchitecture Detailed
• Linux 3.14 out

Maps are cool.

Computers are now very complex, that Anandtech article really blew my mind. Mike Ash's article on 64bit arm has this the same insane sort of detail that the Anand Tech article does. Computers are cool.

I need to read some complicated tcp code. Being able to scribble all over code makes it a lot easier for me to follow the flow of what is happening.

enscript -2 -r -Ec -o - tcp_cong.c | ps2pdf - tcp_cong.pdf

I tried, but I couldn't get colour to work. In the end I don't really care if it is on paper.