The FullScreenMario project burned brightly for a few short weeks in October 2013 after Boing Boing lauded it as “a pretty impressive example of what HTML5, in-browser functionality can do.” A few days later, it went viral on Reddit and by November, attention turned to scrutiny, and Nintendo took the project down with a DMCA request. Josh Goldberg speaks of his former project with a bit of pride—i

The modern open source ecosystem offers software developers many benefits, from facilitating faster application development to providing difficult-to-develop functionality such as AI/ML. However, these benefits come with risks that require consideration. After all, when you include third-party code of any kind into your software, you’re accepting some level of unknown risk—and that’s where supply

As someone makes more money, expenses once considered luxuries can suddenly become seen as necessities: It’s called lifestyle creep. In the world of software development, we can suffer from a similar affliction: stack creep. Where hardware limitations once restricted developers to a minimalist approach, increased processing power, memory, and storage have led many down a more maximalist path. It’s