- How To Teach Someone A New Game, in a way that they’ll actually want to play it with you again. John and I had a Memorial Day board game party. I wish I had read this first! HT Greg.
- About our “broken” fan culture. Aja had a lot to say about that one article that equated writing fanfiction with threatening content creators if you don’t like how a show ended.
- Also, if you like reading about fandom (and getting recommendations for new fanfiction to read), check out The Rec Center newsletter by friends/journalists Elizabeth and Gavia. They haven’t had much anime fandom news—yet, but recently had a guest-curator write a great introduction to Kuroko’s Basketball fandom.
- The people who make anime don’t make enough money to live near animation studios, leading to lots of wasted gas, time, and money, an insider claims. I was surprised to see the scenes in Shirobako where Aomori drives to animators’ homes to pick up drawings, and I guess there’s truth to that. HT Zoe.
- Get ready to watch some OLD anime! Funimation acquired the rights to the first anime ever, a clip designed to raise Japanese children’s spirits during WWII.
- How to Worry Less About Being a Bad Programmer. We got a new intern at my office! I’ve been taking him under my wing to teach him CSS, and he was surprised about how often I google things I don’t know. Like this article states, I used to think that meant I was a bad web developer. Now I realize nobody has it all memorized, and this is the easiest way to find solutions.
- I was on ANNcast last week fighting about video games and chatting with Zac and Jake about an anime I just started, Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress. I love Jake’s article introducing the show to people wondering if it’s just an Attack on Titan clone.
- I’ve spent HOURS these past two weeks watching Gundam X and Gundam ZZ, the glamorous life of an anime reviewer! My Gundam X DVD review is here; my Gundam ZZ review… well, I’m about to go write it.
Screenshot via Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
2 Comments.
Memorizing APIs is overrated. As long as you have the right idea of what you want to do, how to do it and when to do it – just Google the specific API you are looking for.
Also, 3rd party vendors always use different APIs conventions so you will never get it right 100% whenever you try to memorize it.
I’ve been reading your blog for a while – how is the web industry going so far for you?
@neojp:disqus thanks for commenting and sorry for taking forever to reply! (I’m way more talkative on Twitter). Web development is mentally tiring but very educational! More than that, it is confidence building. Having a grasp on development makes me understand the web better. If there’s anything specific you’d like to know, tell me!