Links worth a look, week 37

Unlicensed game discs, Shattered Pixel Dungeon's v4.0.0, and dithering from scratch

A quieter, more scattered week over on social.omgmog.net between 7 and 13 September. A roguelike’s biggest update in a while, a video digging into who’s behind unlicensed game discs, and a diagnostics lab that turns server telemetry into a Doom level, among a few other bits and pieces.

A look at who's actually behind unlicensed game discs and cartridges.

The roguelike’s biggest update yet, with a new quest, new in-game art, and six new enchantments.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon v4.0.0

An open source way to run a personal cloud on hardware I control, a rented VPS, or a managed instance.

Cloud in a Bottle

Host CPU, memory, disk and network telemetry visualised as a Doom diagnostics level, built on Brendan Gregg's USE methodology.

Elle Cordova on the modern day typographer.

Random, ordered and Floyd-Steinberg dithering explained and coded from scratch.

A single page for drawing with radial symmetry or generating mandalas from motif, palette and colour harmony presets. Nothing saved, no accounts.

Mandala Studio

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