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The Rise and Fall of the Game Boy Advance: A Retrospecitve

2025-03-30

The Game Boy Advance (GBA), released in 2001, revolutionized the handheld gaming market with its powerful 32-bit processor and impressive launch titles. However, its lack of a backlit screen and the eventual rise of the Nintendo DS ultimately led to its decline. This article provides a detailed look at the GBA and its iterations (GBA SP and Game Boy Micro), covering hardware specifications, gameplay experiences, market performance, and comparisons to other Nintendo handhelds, showcasing its triumphs and shortcomings.

Link Rot Investigation: Personal Blogs Face High Risk

2024-12-24

Blogger Wouter Groeneveld conducted a link rot investigation on his blog, Brain Baking. He checked 3179 external links across 453 posts, discovering approximately 7% were broken, with 404 and 403 errors being the most prevalent. Broken links stemmed primarily from personal blogs, followed by corporate sites and other resources. The findings highlight the lower stability of links on personal websites and a high link rot rate in academic papers. The blogger recommends website builders use permalinks, linkers carefully choose their targets, and consider local storage for external resources.

Go: When to Say No

2024-12-14

A developer, after years of using Go, is switching back to Java. He finds Go lacking in several areas: limited looping options, absence of higher-order functions, cumbersome error handling, overly restrictive coding style leading to verbose and hard-to-maintain code, and an immature package ecosystem. While acknowledging Go's suitability for infrastructure projects, he advises against its use in complex enterprise applications.