Obsessive Star Trek thought: If I crash into this thing now, the Edo will demand my execution

Cooking up a lil’ Mate wall simulator to distract myself from other ambitious ideas for @deadline-berlin.bsky.social this weekend or just because I love writing tools? 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-nw...

I wish the nerds would have put a kill switch into all their inventions. “Oh, so you hate science and want to use the internet to destroy humanity? Not with our tech! You’re free to build a bible-based smartphone for yor christian-nationalist cult, though.”

Age verification check: Learned HTML on the Commodore Amiga by looking at page sources, with a dial-up connection that went through a special Datex-J (ex-Bildschirmtext) page that acted as an internet gateway. But that was already the modern days, with a 68030 CPU at 50 MHz and 6 MB of RAM.

So, the iPhone has genlock support now? Pfft… 1985 called! #amiga #appleevent

I really miss HTTP referers… While I can understand the security and privacy reasons why the major browsers killed them off, I would really like to know, for example, where the recent spike of interest in heckmeck.de/demoscene/wo... came from in the US.

Love me some custom Amiga pointers! heckmeck.de/blog/prototy... #amiga

My week in A.I. (ranked by vibe)

The collaboration I didn’t know I needed 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJW_...

“Nations are a social construct”

A new personal record in the effort per silliness ratio, in 512 bytes. Don’t know if it’s above or below 1.0 though – it’s *really* silly and niche. 😅 Erst mal einen schönen schwarzen Kaffee, heiß und lecker! heckmeck.de/demoscene/te... #amiga #demoscene #sinnlosimweltraum

Lovely: Teletext-based pricing display at Nordlicht 📺❤️ nordlicht.demoparty.info

Das Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe empfiehlt: Im Falle einer Katas-trophe in keinen Helikop-ter steigen! www.bbk.bund.de/DE/Warnung-V...

Ran out of excuses not to write that little sizecoding tool I always wanted to write. Great fun and gains – or rather, losses! -20 bytes so far… (It lists the most frequent bytes, words, and opcodes in the uncompressed code and data, so I can try to reuse them.) #amiga #sizecoding

Me: Nah, I’m not much of a gamer. Also me: Oh, you can play games on the Apple TV? MUST. GET. 3 STARS. IN ALL THE LEVELS

Tech-Bro-Firmen erobern die Welt bzw. Einkaufszettel

Wikipedia einerseits (unbeholfen wie ein Grundschulaufsatz) und andererseits: auch unbeholfen, aber mit Absicht? Kann mir vorstellen, dass Wilhelm Genazino dieses hübsche Biographiefragment (zweites Bild) gefallen würde.

Preparing the final touches for my techcamp.hamburg session at the Hamburg office. And by final touches, I mean all the touches 😅

Quote post this with a picture of the aircraft you'll accept as a bribe.

@losso3000.bsky.social has made a blog post mentioning the end part of our recent demo heckmeck.de/blog/aw-shif...

Was dreaming that the Vatican’s infrastructure would stop working after a prolongued period without a pope. The pope helicopter wouldn’t take off without a passenger, and eventually Indiana-Jones-like ancient contraptions would be triggered by the empty throne:

@revision-party.bsky.social’s deadlines are approaching ruthlessly. Should I aim for a “cool” release or go full-dorky? I think I am partial to one of the alternatives already…

Oh, an interesting new article on developers.chrome.com. I wonder what it says? DAS ELEMENT. That’s the whole page. 😂

Endstation Edeka-Center Göttingen

Faszinierend: Wenn ich das richtig sehe, wurde die aktuelle „Stern“-Ausgabe von einem 14 Jahre alten InDesign-Bug heimgesucht. „hn“ → „ā“

One of my favorite projects ever! Here’s a somewhat nicer gameplay video I made a year ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnvF... #worms #amiga #teletext

Always wanted to make tons of #demoscene friends in no time, as well as the warm and fuzzy "I made this!" feeling at Revision? Then you're in luck, we are still looking for a few people who would like to join our Infoteam! wanted.scene.org/post/250/rev...

Apparently, Google Chrome now uses the window border color for checkboxes and radio buttons instead of blue, like the web gods intended? Thanks, I hate it!

Nifty: Live 68k code prototyping #demoscene #amiga heckmeck.de/blog/prototy...

also “real”: actively looking for opportunities to include a diagram 😅

Twitter bizarr: Der Wahlaufruf führt zur Bundeswahlleiterin statt zur AfD?!

„Flatterstrom“, „Dunkelflaute“ – wieso klingen diese Kampfbegriffe eigentlich immer nach Durchfall?

Choo-chooo! Here’s a belated Valentine’s card in 512 bytes, with sound. :) heckmeck.de/demoscene/to... Made for @lovebyteparty.bsky.social’s 512 byte oldschool competition

Quote with your first computer. Plus/4 FTW! (shout-out to German discounter “Aldi”) bsky.app/profile/loss...

Going for that ole playboy model to test your graphics experiments? Nah! I’m using a truck! 😉 demozoo.org/graphics/4621/

Sehr schade, dass die flotten CDU-Wortspiele im Wahlkampf so wenig zur Geltung kommen: „KANNzler“, „Datenchancen statt Datenschutz“, „aus der wunden Wirtschaft wieder ein Wirtschaftswunder machen“

Sometimes I miss cuteoverload.com, especially the “Cute or sad?” category… (stills from www.tiktok.com/@thatgoldend...)

The year’s 2025, and 5-in-1 is the best we can come up with? Pathetic.

Finally!

Keine Lust mehr, auf Twitter zu posten, aber denke gern an diesen Tweet zurück, der mir ein Like von @pastewka.bsky.social eingebracht hat.

Advertise your account using one (1) Simpsons image

Spotted a Guru Meditation in TNG’s “Q Who” (S02E16). It’s missing the error message, though, how are they going to debug this? 🤓

I’m busy! Don’t make me tap the status light

Ulkig: Heute zufällig auf die Gesellschaft zur Stärkung der Verben gestoßen (neutsch.org), die neben vielen hübschen Sprachverbesserungen „Entniene“ vorschlägt (umwunden, ablässig, …), da kommt dieser Cartoon. Die Leseprobe deckt „O“ wie „Odorant“ leider nicht ab… (neutsch.org/images/d/d9/...)

Hot take #amiga

Apparently, when you google “Luc de Groot”, Google switches everything to Calibri. Nice one

Here’s my entry for this year’s Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge: An Amiga alert in 64 bytes of code! #vccc2024 heckmeck.de/demoscene/ge...

Very excited to see all the #vccc2024 solutions soon – including the inevitable “Dang, I could have saved another 4 bytes this way!” moment, which is part of the fun! logiker.com/Vintage-Comp... The screenshot might be a little spoiler of my Amiga approach this year… 😉

Synthwave × Xmas = today′s advent calendar door on Yle Teletext yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...