Stories by Tomte

Best Minecraft Seeds (2022)

Where does Dwarf Fortress stand after a decade defined by its own successors?

There’s Toxicity, and There’s Toxicity (2017)

'Kung Fu Panda' Hits a Sore Spot in China (2008)

We found that almost no respondents currently report probabilistically

TikTok’s Enshittification

The Craft and Community of Ice Harvesting (2021)

Customer Service Obsession: Kayenta Games (2021)

BrainFacts

ECG Wave-Maven

Driving to West Berlin during the DDR days (2021)

How to read Nancy (1988) [pdf]

RFC 7282 – On Consensus and Humming in the IETF (2014)

East Germany’s plans for a space-age autofocus SLR (2021)

Publicly Available Standards

Ggplot2 book: the book contract with Springer. (2014) [pdf]

Why Tipping Is Impossible to Get Rid of in America

Ragel State Machine Compiler

Drug-resistant cases of gonorrhea detected in the US

The Nitpicks of Power, Part I: Exploding Forges