The creator of Flappy Bird deleted it today. Pulled it from the app stores at the peak, reportedly $50k/day in ads, because the fame “ruined his simple life.” One Vietnamese dev, one impossible bird, tens of millions of downloads, gone by choice. Phones with it installed are already listed on eBay for thousands. I have 100% believed this industry could produce every kind of story except “man walks away from money,” and here we are. Genuinely moved by it.
Satya Nadella is the new Microsoft CEO, announced Tuesday. Bill Gates is stepping back from the chairman role to advise. The cloud guy won.
Mercedes dominated the first F1 pre-season test, while Red Bull’s new engine barely completed a lap. Record-setting design, meet real-world thermal limits. There’s an engineering metaphor there about how your beautiful architecture performs under real load, but my FPL auto-pick credentials don’t qualify me to make it.
Sochi Olympics opened Friday. One of the five snowflake rings failed to open during the ceremony, a rendering bug at the Olympics, and we are all one team.
TIL: requestAnimationFrame. Built a dumb Flappy Bird clone this weekend to learn canvas. Mine is worse. It’s so hard to make a game feel right.