Mark Arenz

Software engineer with a background in marketing and media.

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

@NPR the 9AM Eastern news update mentions that IU students “disrupted” commencement. That term implies that the ceremony was delayed or had to pause. This is not what occurred. Students booed Whitten but the ceremony continued apace. Listeners may be misled by your report.

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

Spice Hustle source, #reactjs web game based on old-school commodity trading games
https://t.co/HAJDGVCuNX #gamedesign

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

"small monthly payment" ha ha ha ha. Bwa ha ha ha! Oh, wait. Really? Ha ha ha!

https://t.co/51VYUhDt4c #twitter

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

7nm chips but not at scale.
https://t.co/BcMHEyUG4v #technology

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

Starlink may be building up an insurmountable lead in the satellite Internet market - just as they earn the ire of most of the free world for doing Russia's bidding.
https://t.co/rP0YBmSQjs #technologynews #news

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem is equal parts #scifi mystery and academic satire. I loved it for all the reasons some people find it unsatisfying.

https://t.co/MNS5pk3OXf #books

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

Remember those commodity trading games you played as a kid? Yeah, this is the same idea in a web game. Buy and sell spices and build your empire, trying not to get robbed as you travel from city to city.

https://t.co/Z0jqJVtbZ2 #games

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

Microsoft is still forcing users to open system web links in their Edge browser in spite of a long history of regulatory complaints. Seems like they're getting nostalgic for the early 2000's.

https://t.co/EcnHsoXqqf #technews

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

The Godot #gamedev community is making room for devs left behind by Unity's new pricing model.

https://t.co/wKlN9nJ6gt

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

This tiny dinoflagellate has 90x more DNA than human beings?
https://t.co/K5NyGAxiDV #science

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

I'll see your space telescope and raise you a big ol' telescope on the friggin' moon.
https://t.co/ObGdIfEk6z #science

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

"Remember that thing we said we would never do because it was a bad idea with terrible repercussions? Well, here it is" - IBM

https://t.co/PPbRLLlSzv #privacy

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

Satellite hacking is easier than you may think, far easier than it should be, say security experts.
https://t.co/sRSmc6c1oc #infosecurity

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

XTC's Skylarking is an amazing record, even if Andy Partridge claims to hate it. It might be the best XTC record, and the best Todd Rundgren record, of all time.
https://t.co/2V8hTjkXDs #music

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

Winning the Fields Medal is a dream for many mathematicians. Actually achieving it can be nerve-wracking.

https://t.co/q1LiGhXdOD #mathematics

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

Spice Hustle is a #reactjs web game based on the old-school mercantile games I remember growing up. Rack up a small fortune in an afternoon trading fake ginger around a region with towns named after cats my wife and I have had.
https://t.co/kgFnR0QDCV #games

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

Germany's wild boar population is still, decades later, so irradiated from cold war era nuclear tests that they are not edible. Not that I'm eager to eat a wild boar, mind you.
https://t.co/QCwKuU4lsP #environment

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

Show me a profitable medium, and we can find some people gaming the system with low-effort content scraping up pennies on the margins.
https://t.co/7JDxJ5JdeE #technologyNews

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

A physicist offers sensible Time Travel rules for writers and filmmakers.
https://t.co/ejkfNOUsGz #scifi #science

[Mark Arenz @MarkMakesStuff]

Fossil of long-legged "bird-like" dinosaur discovered.
https://t.co/0jOadv4p1E #science