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Why this game UI is rebuilt every frame

For his Odin game, ThePrimeagen moves from retained UI to rebuilding a small interface every frame. The complexity does not vanish. It moves into places he finds easier to reason about.

Historical map gores designed to be assembled into a globe

Ten ways to fold a round world from open data

Daniel O’Donohue turns NASA, USGS and Natural Earth data into printable globes. Splitting a map into faces is not just decorative: it changes the projection problem.

A CMF Phone 1 smartphone seen from the back on a surface

His server is now an Android phone

A CMF Phone 1 replaced seg6's personal VPS. The useful detail is that the project got better when Android kept responsibility for the hardware and Linux moved on top.