The trailer for Papers, Please "There's a game here" The couple's next project, to port Rocketbirds to the PS3 (which eventually racked up its own IGF nominations), required temporarily living in Singapore for roughly a year. This afforded the couple a low-cost opportunity to travel to the Southeast…

Theodore Ross Jan 9 And this is what they taught me about food, labor, and (my toxic) masculinity The short order line can be understood as a symbol of male rites of passage. Photos by Andrew Thomas Lee The grocery store in my part of Brooklyn has a small diner tucked away in the back, with a short…

J ust about everyone wants to cultivate better habits. The problem is, very few of us want to do the work to make those habits a reality. We hope they will magically develop, that one day we’ll just wake up (early, without even considering the snooze button) and head straight to the gym. Then we’ll…

The Future Book was meant to be interactive, moving, alive. Its pages were supposed to be lush with whirling doodads, responsive, hands-on. The old paperback Zork choose-your-own-adventures were just the start. The Future Book would change depending on where you were, how you were feeling. It would…

Joe Raedle / Getty On the 20th anniversary of The New York Times ’ popular Vows column, a weekly feature on notable weddings and engagements launched in 1992, its longtime editor wrote that Vows was meant to be more than just a news notice about society events. It aimed to give readers the backstory…

Chapter 1: Hello, Goodbye Apathy Chapter Text Harry Potter was not a normal boy. Most teenagers lived for summer, where Harry hated it. Most spent their days outdoors, Harry didn't. Most spent their time dreaming of girls, Harry refused to dream. When he did, he dreamed of a man, Sirius Black. He…

When I was a teenager I often used fantasy as a vehicle for escapism. Some people, when they fantasise, think about sex or dragons or wildly unlikely events like winning the lottery. I fantasised about things like having a family of twelve children, designing my own octagonal house and being an…

The Right Thing To Do by LovesBitca8 Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Mature No Archive Warnings Apply F/M Complete Work 12 Apr 2018 Tags No Archive Warnings Apply Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy Hermione Granger Draco Malfoy Harry Potter Ginny Weasley Narcissa Black Malfoy Lucius Malfoy Ron…

This is the price you pay. Photo by Med Badr Chemmaoui on Unsplash Everyone has an opinion about who you are and what you've done. They like to think they know the whole story, but few people ever will. They don't know that you were just a naive girl who fell in love at the wrong time. And gave your…

Maybe commitment could be a path toward the person I wanted to be, not a reward for becoming her Photo: Natasha Fernandez/EyeEm/Getty Images By Ashley Abramson We met in the middle of July, three weeks after I had moved back to Minneapolis. Tim, the Scandi-hip bassist of a local band my friends and…

Here’s ⁦@jrhennessy⁩ on the social compact of the work bathroom https://t.co/6CJq0IGiAa

Chapter 1 Chapter Text June 2012 Harry Potter: 10 years Draco Malfoy: 32 years The last thing Harry remembered was talking to a snake. The snake had talked back—or sounded like it had—and then the glass had disappeared, and the snake had escaped. Dudley had blubbered like a baby, and Harry had got…

Nikki, a 22-year-old journalism student from Minneapolis, is telling me about the worst date she’s ever been on, with a man called Athens she met at college. “He talked about his goals, his week, his career, his meditation, his favorite books, his respect for ‘real’ musicians and how most people…

T hink about this for a moment: Why would you ever choose to be with someone who is not excited to be with you? There’s a grey area in dating many people get hung up on — a grey area where feelings are ambiguous or one person has stronger feelings than the other. This grey area causes real, tangible…

Going through trauma therapy is a lot harder than I anticipated. Shocking, I know. I’m not sure what I was expecting; I’m not sure I was really expecting anything. It’s certainly not as easy as taking a pill and getting rid of the memories or erasing all the ways it shows up in your life now. What…

I n my office, I have a coffee mug from Stanich’s in Portland, Oregon. Under the restaurant name, it says “Great hamburgers since 1949.” The mug was given to me by Steve Stanich on the day I told him that, after eating 330 burgers during a 30-city search, I was naming Stanich’s cheeseburger the best…

This tired ideal does a lot more harm than good. Photo by Jon Ly on Unsplash L ove triangle didn’t quite cover it. We were more of a pentagram. My best friend had told my fiance a secret. One that he wouldn’t share with me. Until I threatened to dump him. That’s when he told the truth. My best…

No Democrat has won statewide office in Texas since 1994. This month, Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke almost did, losing the race for a US Senate seat to Republican incumbent Ted Cruz by an astonishingly close margin . Raised on the border, O’Rourke is fluent in Mexican culture and liberal values.…

Logic vs. Designers In my early days as a designer, I relied on Photoshop or CSS to tell me whether something was right or wrong. If Photoshop indicated that two shapes were aligned, then they were aligned. If two different shapes were the same size, then that was the case. If two colours had the…

tl;dr In this article I want to explain a few things about enterprises and their software, based on my experiences, and also describe what things need to be in place to make change come about. Have you ever found yourself saying things like: Why are enterprises so slow? How do they decide what to…

Read this in your twenties and understand it, don't wait until your thirties or forties. https://t.co/mE7kWz38tM

By Oct. 5, 2018 11:46 a.m. ET Can you help me with this Excel formula? When Anand Kalelkar started a new job at a large insurance company, colleagues flooded him with instant messages and emails and rushed to introduce themselves in the cafeteria. He soon learned his newfound popularity came with…

Apple The state of the Apple Watch is good. Tim Cook continues to hail its popularity, albeit without any hard sales figures. Most pundits felt it outshined the iPhone at last month’s Apple media event. The new Apple Watch Series 4 seems to have been received well by reviewers . watchOS 5 is a…

My friends at Six Apart recently asked me to make a list of blogs that I enjoy. I think they're planning to use it for their new Blogs.com project. Unfortunately, I'm late getting it to them (typical), but if it's still useful, I'll post it here in a day or four. As I think about the blogs I've…

I only wanted one thing out of 2018’s iPhone event: a new iPhone SE. In failing to provide it Apple seems to have quietly put the model out to pasture — and for this I curse them eternally. Because it was the best phone the company ever made. If you were one of the many who passed over the SE back…

Katie Martin; Adult Swim If the universe is indeed run—as users of cutting-edge psychedelic drugs will occasionally suggest—by nine-foot-tall interdimensional locusts with lawn-mower voices and glittering, loveless minds, who program our life patterns on cold locust computers and grind their…

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nearly every night of our lives, we undergo a startling metamorphosis. Our brain profoundly alters its behavior and purpose, dimming our consciousness. For a while, we become almost entirely paralyzed. We can’t even shiver.…

I walked past the stage and sat down at the bar, the neon lights illuminating my pink teddy, shadowed eyes, and crimson lips. I ordered my first drink of the night and took inventory of the club. There were a few listless customers scattered around, hunching over bar stools, and a dancer circling…

Apple recently marked the 10th anniversary of the App Store—its online vehicle for distributing iPhone and iPad applications—with a retrospective on its website , noting that developers have earned more than $100 billion through the store over its life span. Shortly after the App Store opened for…

There are many factors which can be a catalyst for bad software, from the tools being used, to the quality of communication inside your team, to the personal stake developers have in its success, to the testing methodology you use. I propose that there is one problem chief among them, an impetus for…

Chances are that you’ve never heard of General Magic, but in Silicon Valley the company is the stuff of legend. Magic spun out of Apple in 1990 with much of the original Mac team on board and a bold new product idea: a handheld gadget that they called a “personal communicator.” Plugged into a…

How to create natural gestures and animations on iOS At WWDC 2018, Apple designers presented a talk titled “Designing Fluid Interfaces” , explaining the design reasoning behind the gestural interface of iPhone X. Apple’s WWDC18 presentation “Designing Fluid Interfaces” It’s my favorite WWDC talk…

The finale of Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) sees the quest for the Holy Grail reach a dramatic conclusion. The film’s villain – the Nazi collaborator and artifact hunter Walter Donovan – knows that drinking from the sacred goblet will bring him eternal life. But from a…

Resources July 12, 2018 July 12, 2018 Mike Picarella wanted to protect a co-worker from humiliating sexual harassment. He didn't expect his own life to be destroyed in the process. By David Dayen ILLUSTRATIONS BY KRISTIAN HAMMERSTAD 1 New Job Jitters On May 5, 2011, Mike Picarella’s first day at…

Credit Eleni Kalorkoti Skip to contentSkip to site index Opinion Motherhood in the Age of Fear Women are being harassed and even arrested for making perfectly rational parenting decisions. Credit Eleni Kalorkoti Ms. Brooks is a writer. Leer en español CHICAGO — I was on my way home from dropping my…

Yes I am very late to this. But I am also very annoyed so I am adding my voice to the now sustained chorus of complaints about Apple’s redesigned Mac keyboard: How very much it sucks. Truly, madly, deeply. This is the keyboard that Apple “completely redesigned” in 2015, in its quest for size zero…

Some years ago, I had a colleague who would frequently complain that he didn’t have enough to do. He’d mention how much free time he had to our team, ask for more tasks from our boss, and bring it up at after-work drinks. He was right, of course, about the situation: Although we were hardly idle,…

Vacation is exhausting when you go places. It’s often a time of awkward experiences—donning bathing suits, struggling with foreign tongues, trying to have fun where you know no one and none of the customs. That’s anything but relaxing. The only kind of break that doesn’t require a follow-up vacation…

A rooster crows and awakens my family at the farm where we are staying for a long weekend. The air is crisp, and stars twinkle in the sky as the Sun rises over the hill. We walk to the barn, where horses, cows, chickens, pigs, dogs and cats vie for our attention. We wash and replenish water bowls,…

So excited to finally share the fruits of an investigation I've been obsessing over for months. The fruits themselves are..... bittersweet https://t.co/PXZ5Wk7g4J