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But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses.
—Bruce Leverett

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📼 A Deep Dive into Id Software's DoomEd in-house Level Editor running inside #NeXTSTEP. - YouTube

Fun one from one of the good folks at the DFW Retrocomputing Group (Meetup|Facebook):

In this video, I do a deep dive into Id Software's in-house level editor, DoomEd, which was written in #NeXTSTEP and #ObjectiveC, first touring all the featu...

🔮 Web Art from "I'll Be Your Mirror" at The Modern

We linked the online part of the new exhibit at The Modern including Nam June Paik's TV Buddha, an Amiga set up with Warhol art by Cory Archangel, and much more.

A couple exhibits needed repairs on Friday: the Video Flag (probably not fixed yet after 40 years in storage) and the flamingos (probably fixed) – but hey it's free on Fridays. Here's the main exhibit page.

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🚃 Interurban Electric Railway, North Texas History Edition

For over three decades (1913 – 1948), ... several electric railways radiated out from Dallas, to Cleburne, Corsicana, Denison, Denton, Terrell, and Waco. They provided frequent passenger and package service to both the large and small communities on their routes. Not only did they have scheduled stops at West, Abbott, Hillsboro, and Milford, but they would also stop for riders at rural crossroads and in front of their houses.

Dallas Etiquette 101: Don't Go for Groceries in a Dually - D Magazine

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🤔 More than five whys and "layer eight" problems

In our "car" example, you might discover that management is forcing people to ignore the maintenance schedule while saying things like "it'll work, trust me". Or, they're doing even worse things, like ignoring safety codes that have been written in blood. [...] I will remind anyone who wants to try to tilt at such a windmill that if you are given responsibility without the power to make any changes, then you have just become the scapegoat

🧐 Making sense of TypeScript using set theory

TS types are basically sets of JS values.