dennisvennink

136 karma · joined April 9, 2015

twitter.com/dennisvennink github.com/dennisvennink

dennisvennink··on Celeste is hard, but its creators are smart about difficulty

I’ve been following one of its creators on Twitter[^1]. It’s been incredibly inspiring seeing this game come to fruition from humble beginnings.

[1]: https://twitter.com/noelfb

dennisvennink··on An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense

The first advice I always give people that are trying to get into Italo is to check out Flemming Dalum's mixes: https://soundcloud.com/flemming/sets/flemming-dalum-mixes

dennisvennink··on An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense

Classic!

Some of my personal favourite, unintelligible Italo tracks:

Sensitive - Driving: https://youtu.be/Qprd11nRO7c

Alex Valentini - Beautiful Life: https://youtu.be/-CbtAaPPLAg

Fockewulf 190 - Gitano: https://youtu.be/kto_Yi0Bec4

dennisvennink··on An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense

There’s an entire genre from the 80s called Italo Disco that contains unintelligible English lyrics. It’s very charming in a way (and is excellent music to listen to while programming).

dennisvennink··on What's new in Swift 4.1

Implementing conditional conformances alone removed a lot of duplicate code from the standard library. I always like to think that the amount of gyb[^1] files in the source code is a good indicator of how far Swift is in its development.

[1]: gyb, a template processor, is a workaround for features that the standard library needs, but that are not (completely) implemented yet.

dennisvennink··on List Comprehension in Swift

Indeed. Feels more like a zip (or convolution) to me.