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I’ve used trello a couple of times in the past and I really liked it so I decided to use it for this too. I looked at a bunch of templates that could help me manage a project like this. I settled on a modified version of the project management template with labels I saw in another template (I can’t remember which one). Here’s how I set it up:

I have 5 lists:

Resources

To Do

In Progress

Blocked and

Done

I group the resources I need (tutorials, guides, instructions, references etc) into cards. That way I can link the resources card to the relevant task card. Some resources might be useful in multiple cards so instead of having to copy the same links into each card I just have to link one card for easy access. To Do, In progress and Done are pretty self explanatory. Blocked is for tasks that are almost done, but for some reason can’t be finished right now. It could be because they’re waiting on something else to be done, or I’m waiting for some feedback from friends etc.

The labels I’m using are:

It Would be Nice

Less Important

Important and

Most Important

I’ve previously used high, medium and low priority and had a very hard time assigning them, but with this new system it’s much easier for me. (Words matter, who knew ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

In a nutshell, back in the early 1980s, the first widely available graphics card to support colour display was the IBM Color Graphics Adapter, which would later lend its name to the CGA video standard. Though in theory it supported sixteen simultaneous colours, doing so at an acceptable resolution required complex coding tricks that wouldn’t necessarily work on all platforms. In practice, the most you could count on was four colors - and what’s more, it had to be four specific colours. You had your choice of black/green/red/yellow, black/blue/red/white, or black/cyan/magenta/white. The black slot could sometimes be swapped out for a limited range of other colours, but the other three slots were fixed.

All three palattes saw use for various purposes, but for gaming in particular, the green/red/yellow palette was generally regarded as too garish, and the blue/red/white as too flat, so the cyan/magenta/white palette won out by default - and that’s how we ended up with a generation of games that look like this:

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