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"A quite beautiful compromise": The LEGO Skylines devs did consider brick by brick building, but decided it was too much fuss for players

LEGO Skylines is the new plastic city- builder from Cities: Skylines 2 and Surviving the Aftermath developers Iceflake Studios, published by Paradox Interactive. I've played an hour or so of a preview build, just long enough to devise a circular highway of coffee shops, glass-fronted houses, unaccountably cheerful farms, and playgrounds poking up haphazardly like fungus. Kind of like the M25, but…

"A quite beautiful compromise": The LEGO Skylines devs did consider brick by brick building, but decided it was too much fuss for players

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How I built an information portal for law enforcement agencies and almost lost the entire project at the approval stage

It's three in the morning. I'm staring at the screen where 47 unclosed tasks in Jira glow red. Tomorrow is a demo for the customer.

  • Author built info portal for government agencies facing infrastructure limitations
  • Abandoned CI/CD pipeline, wrote manual deployment script for on-premise hardware
  • Simplified user experience for infrequent, short-term system users

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