Rob Lach 💖
@roblach.bsky.social
The world is easy to change. I Love Computing. RobLach.com Now: Disruptive Infrastructure. Before: Games, Art, Non-Profit 🇺🇸
Anyone here an expert on the claims made to advertise technologies? I'd love to learn about the proportion of claims made about technology as time-saving claims vs enjoyable in other ways There's a lot about whether labor-saving tech actually yields leisure, but I am esp interested in promises made
Wanna play JS Joust on the Chicago River? Maybe with a couple other games & some chill DJs? Good news cuz tomorrow THAT’S HAPPENIN! A Lil Bit JS Joust at the Wild Mile is from 7-11pm on Sat, July 18th. It’s free & your friends will be there (we are your friends!) Info 🔗 bitbashchicago.com
🧟Beatdown City Survivors🧟 Eradicate hordes of monsters in this 🗽Immersive 👥survivors roguelite 🌃set in a destructible city OUT NOW! 🛠️fun weapon crafting 🐱large cast of characters 🏗️dynamic environments 🔊pumping soundtrack Play the demo/check it out today! beatdown.city/bdcsrstm
Energy harvesting from waste heat... Would throw $1b into getting these membranes cheap enough (look at those pressure differentials) www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_I0... jtecenergy.com/technology/
JTEC 5 min Overview
YouTube video by JTEC Energy
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Top500 Updated (super computer top list) 1 China (National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen) 2 USA (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) 3 USA (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) 4 USA (Argonne National Laboratory) 5 Germany (Forschungszentrum Jülich) www.top500.org/lists/top500...
Binging truth to the surface is always the best argument. youtube.com/shorts/Cckq1...
The Tactical Illusion: Mass-Producing Male Survival Anxiety
YouTube video by Eric Cracks China
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I don’t really care about the personal convictions of a man in a… button-up bomber jacket and a zipper shirt? What?
The Extraordinary male Mandarin Duck, the lighter one is the female is soft colours brown-grey with white and hint of blue at wing. They live in Eurasia. Life span is 3-6 years in the wild, and 10-20 in protected areas.
“Jacobs went on to record more than 10,000 concerts, with increasingly sophisticated equipment, over four decades in Chicago and other cities. Now a group of devoted volunteers [is] digitizing and uploading them one by one.” apnews.com/article/aada... archive.org/details/@aad...
Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove
In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz.
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We're giving away 100 FREE copies of Defining Technologies of Our Time for libraries, universities, government offices, and educational institutions! Don't miss your chance to snag one 👀 form.jotform.com/260566324386...
State of generated musical artists global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202602/14/...
Anyone have experiences with self-publishing and print-on-demand they are willing to share? I'm trying to make a print of a book available at-cost, and looking at different providers. It feels like Amazon/KDP is most accessible, but it does have A Vibe. Looking at Blurb and Lulu, but welcome advice.
Today is the 10th anniversary of this gif of me showing how to make games on TV.
Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.
Alan is brilliant (and friends too)
Draknek & Friends@draknek.bsky.social · 10mo agoReminder: Spooky Express is OUT NOW! 🚂🧟🧛 Take charge of the only rail service willing to carry the undead passengers of deepest, darkest Trainsylvania. Steam: s.team/a/3352310 itch: draknek.itch.io/spooky-express iOS: apps.apple.com/app/id673842... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.
Great video to get a solid understanding of what building a data center takes from the local government perspective. youtube.com/watch?v=V-uc... #datacenters #md
Inside Your County Government: Data Centers
YouTube video by Charles County Government
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YouTube useless re: energy recovery ventilators. Will patiently wait until @techconnectify.bsky.social wants to throw one into their house
🚨HUGE News🚨 🐸BIG HOPS is a froggy platformer with deep movement, fresh tongue-gameplay, where you use powerful veggies to grow paths forward! ✨Free demo out NOW 🎮Coming to Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 in Q4 2025 💰Our publisher dropped us, so we're KICKSTARTING (links below)