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The VentureBoard backgammon set is a portable solution for travel, featuring magnetic stones but facing challenges with dice management and color visibility.
0Exit: The Game—The Polar Station
2025-06-18 • puzzle escape room polar station
The Polar Station is an escape room game that requires players to solve a series of puzzles to escape a research station near the North Pole. The game is designed for a small group and comes with unique challenges for reviewers. T...
The text discusses the challenges and lessons learned from rebranding exercises in various organizations, including the OpenSSL Foundation and Stack Overflow. It emphasizes the importance of addressing underlying organizational cu...
The Blood of an Englishman is a game about Jack and the Beanstalk, where players take on the roles of Jack and the giant. Jack's goal is to climb the beanstalk and claim the treasures, while the giant aims to capture Jack's bones....
The text is a guide for new employees at Stack Overflow to help them avoid having a bad time moderating the sites. It provides tips on how to use their new superpowers, avoid the appearance of omnipotence, and handle sticky situat...
0Using Conway’s Law for good
2025-01-20 • open source cybersecurity cryptography
The text discusses the history of OpenSSL, its financial struggles, and the split into the OpenSSL Corporation and the OpenSSL Foundation. It also explores the application of Conway's Law to the organization of design teams.
The author reflects on their time at Stack Overflow and the changes in the company's mission, and their decision to join OpenSSL. They discuss the risks involved and the creation of a warrant canary to ensure the organization is e...
The text is about the author's journey to becoming the Communities Manager at OpenSSL Foundation, the mission of OpenSSL, the Heartbleed bug, the development of the library, and the importance of privacy and security. The author a...
The author discusses the issues with his old keyboard and the process of building a new one, including the different components and the cost. He also talks about the benefits of mechanical keyboards and the satisfaction of buildin...
0Codenames
2024-02-15 • video games card games codenames word association spy novel
Codenames is a word-association game where teams select a spymaster to give clues for their team to guess the codenames of their agents. The game is challenging and rewards cleverness and anticipating the thinking of other people....
0Supporting pop-up communities
2024-01-05 • social media technology community
The author is working on a service to combine the best parts of mailing lists with the simplicity of Facebook/Slack. They discuss the pros and cons of various platforms for creating alumni groups and pop-up online communities.
The author discusses the process of running multiple Discourse sites on a single server, including the decision to move to a paid service, the use of DigitalOcean, and the setup of a proxy server to handle HTTPS and route traffic ...