Red Sonja is back in a brand new feature film and it's more interesting than some other recent fantasy efforts.| GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT
There are plenty of times where my brain doesn’t realise that my foot is on a collision course with a piece of forniture, but most time even I can tell if I am going to hit someone walking in the opposite direction. How does that work I wonder? Certainly our brains do not start computing […]| ReachableCode
Meet the new conan report diff command. And learn how to easily compare your sources and more-| blog.conan.io
Tune: “When I Was A Lad” (H. M. S. Pinafore)—Anne Braude, “The Ballad of Conan” in Niekas #31 (1983), 41 The first fandom of Robert E. Howard’s Conan of Cimmeria arose…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Gary Con XVII illustration by Chet Minton| ZENOPUS ARCHIVES
Explore how to use raylib for game development with the newly free CLion for non-commercial use and manage dependencies with the Conan C++ package manager plugin.| blog.conan.io
Laurent Mantese s’aventure sur les terres de Robert E. Howard et livre avec La sonde et la taille, un roman sombre, violent et organique. Âme sensible s’abstenir. Amateurs-rices de fantasy horrifique : foncez ! « La mort nous hante, la vie nous a défaits » Dans la citadelle royale de Kaldré, le concile réunissant les principaux seigneurs […]| Diaspora Galactique
If you're of a certain age, the phrase “sword and sorcery” conjures up visions of muscular barbarians and busty damsels fighting monsters or evil wizards on paperback covers illustrated by Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, or Jeffrey Catherine Jones. But did you know that the subgenre had no name for the first 30 years of its existence? And do you know how the term for the genre of “sword and sorcery” came to be?| Seattle Worldcon 2025
Aside from “What’s best in life?” there are two sentences from the Conan stories that are more or less widely known, even outside REH fans. The most likely winner would be “Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,” the borderer said, still staring somberly at the Cimmerian. “Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of … Continue reading Writing dense descriptions and generative rhetoric.| Emperor's Notepad
As it’s probably obvious by now, I’m not a fan of CMake. I don’t like the weird syntax, the verbosity of the language, the flawed concept of multistage build system generation and external dependency management which seems like an after thought. I can’t deny though, that CMake is very popular and has a lot of traction so, it’s the necessary evil until we all, as an industry, decide on some other solution.| twdev.blog
Helium Comedy Club: Philadelphia! I am doing standup in your city for the first time on Wednesday! Come out! Link to tickets above.| John Roy