If you've tried to use a trackball with MAME you may have hit an issue related to stuttering inputs created from an analogue input. I think I've found a solution worth sharing.…

Documenting my journey emulating Golden Tee Fore! in MAME on custom hardware.…

I was reflecting recently on what makes a software development effort successful. Effective planning? A capable team? Supportive stakeholders? There's probably a robust answer here alone, but what caught my attention in hindsight is when small initiatives towards a larger goal don't materially contribute to success. You wouldn't know that…

If you've even been in a bar sometime in the early 2000s, odds are that you likely spotted a Golden Tee arcade cabinet in the corner. If you're lucky, you've played it before: you recall the satisfying feeling smacking a trackball as hard as you can, admiring the crude graphics…

I've had this problem for years where I plug my Mac (dated all the way back to 10.6 Snow Leopard) into an external display, and the text appears exceptionally fuzzy for what should be a crisp display. In my case, a Philips 298P4, an old 29" ultrawide display. Everytime…

In Apple's (AAPL) most recent quarterly filing on July 31st, they announced their fifth ever stock split, this time as a 4-to-1 split. While companies like Amazon have historically decided against stock splits, in favor of a higher price (which may discourage short-term traders and thus reduce volatility of a…

Source: Serj MarcoBack in May, I started to notice that some of the requests on a project of mine had gradually gotten slower and slower in the past few months. While the app itself was relatively snappy, it got to a point where in production, simple page loads were taking…

Source: Matt Anderson (dribbble)It can be easy to become blind to the amount of engineering that goes into websites and applications that seem so simple in premise. Google Search, uploading a photo to Facebook, sending a Snapchat, liking a tweet. All actions that happen thousands of times a second,…