Showing posts with label ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ideas. Show all posts

Friday, August 15, 2025

It's a match !

How I Built a Tinder for Baby Names to End a Debate

 My wife is pregnant, which is amazing. What’s less amazing is discovering that you and the person you love have wildly different opinions on what constitutes a good name for a tiny human. Our conversations went in circles. So, my engineer's brain defaulted to its usual setting: stop talking about the problem and start building a system to solve it.

Friday, January 31, 2025

Soulful architecture

Lessons from Abdelwahed El-Wakil

Sometimes, you come across something that just "clicks"! And this 30 min documentary was one of those moments.

Monday, March 18, 2019

TED talks picks

A list of remarkable TED talks that I curated from my bookmarks

Monday, September 19, 2016

You can't see any such thing.

Making an Interactive fiction game

 Remember those old text-based games known as Interactive fiction? Where you type commands to move characters around and make them interact with their environment. This was very popular in the 80s after the release of "Zork" series, and "the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy".

 It seems that the games market is saturated already. with 652,378 currently available on app store alone. most of which are one-tap time wasters or 3D world featuring super complicated graphics. You can rarely find something that is both fun to play and has a meaningful goal...