Tag: Less

More Meaning, Less Words

Poetry comes in many shapes and sizes. From a haiku to a limerick, to a sonnet, there is plenty of options for any beginner or master poet. It is a great way to express emotions, practice rhyming, or capture a memory. Poetry is similar to a puzzle, and putting the pieces together comes easier for so...

Road Less Traveled

What strikes me in these lines is the power of choice and how opting against the expected can lead to greatness. Like life, making art is often about making decisions and I have found that forging my own path, finding new ways of examining the obvious, has been crucial. So much of architecture is...

Creating Space Invaders clone with PyGame in 100 lines of code or less

If you ever wanted to make Space Invaders in Python, but were too lazy to do it, here’s a short tutorial with GIFS! >>basic settings First I create the Game class that will control the game. Then I initialize pygame instance and the alien list. I set the refresh rate to 6...

The Metaverse Will Be Less Anonymous Than You Think

As you walk past the spinning pillar covered in a rotating rotation of ads, they adjust based on your previous purchase history. You see something you like and open your wallet to take a look at what you have on hand. Once opened you find it full of things you never purchased, currencies you didn...

How to write less code in tests

One year ago we started trying Maestro. It’s a game changer for the UI tests! As our UI tests were a mess, we got encouraged to try it. The results for the first use case were impressive: we reduced from more than 260 lines to just 21, almost 92% less! It’s well kn...

A Less-Crowded, Cheaper Alternative Destination to London

My trip to Edinburgh didn’t start well. Only two hours before departing via bus from London, I realized I booked the wrong bus. I booked the bus leaving the following night. It was an overnight bus, so it was already getting late. Quickly, I asked if I could reserve another night in the hos...

How Do I Become Less Obedient?

Masking Autism is all about rendering oneself more compliant to external pressure and authority. Our bodies are rebellious and our minds prone to asking difficult questions, and we are punished for threatening the existing social order in these ways until we learn to stop. We learn to leap into a...