A cool project from @mrdoornbos.bsky.social imapenguin.com/2026/03/brea...

How do you kill a Supercomputer?

 (Accidentally) using radioactive solder is a good way.

 IBM’s Blue Gene/L frequently crashed when running simulations at LLNL.

 Turned out that alpha particles from the lead solder in the board carrier were slamming the L1 cache with bit flips.

My latest short: youtube.com/shorts/kXzG7...

Trying out this old keyboard peripheral on the #C64ultimate ... Little bit of 'Sonic' from my daughter ❤️

Some AI 8-bit reverse engineering www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLWf...

Got a new toy today. :) www.youtube.com/shorts/71jwc...

I look at #Commodore64 demo "The Hat" by Fairlight and Genesis Project, specifically the part with the "14 balloon sprites" in a row and its "hires" scrolling border message. youtu.be/DyteWLEPKzE

Online #Zork I through III, but with an #LLM that replaces the normal input parser: infocom.tambo.co For instance, I just typed a prompt, and it translated it into two zork commands:

Remember having to swap disks all the time on 8-bit RPGs? Well, this 21-year-old beat the modern (2020) game Factorio, after converting the game to an unfathomable disk-swapping hell of over 1,000 floppies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTPB...

Of course, someone has already AI- #MCP -wrapped the new #C64Ultimate: github.com/Martijn-DevR...

A new 8K PET RPG: youtu.be/dzSJlNHcFME

An early #Commdore #PET RPG worth exploring: Dragon’s Eye ( #EPYX, 1981) youtu.be/jJfGN4Zeb7M

Another Christmas Gift, a new version of VICE just dropped: vice-emu.sourceforge.io

New version of Retro Debugger just dropped today! #c64 #reversing github.com/slajerek/Ret...

Just arrived!

David Given uses #ghidra to explore a new 6502-based toy (bypassing some "security" in the process): www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ0X...

If you'd like to msg Becky Heineman, now is the time

It's #CRX2025 (Commodore Retro eXpo) weekend! It's free to virtually attend. I'm unable to join this year, but they've got a great lineup: #c64 www.crxevent.com/presenters.htm

Michael Cranford's recent retrospective on developing The Bard's Tale (EA, 1985) www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHc5...

VALE OF THE LOST GODDESS. Right that's all the location bitmaps done and first pass on all the sprites done too. Stu wrote me a quick editor so i could link up all the rooms and add little descriptions of what you see. #c64

Looked at that #BardsTale "IRKM DESMET DAEM" red herring again... Tried a running key cipher of two plain texts. C=(P1+P2)mod26 where "A"=0 to "Z"=25, so "Z"+"B"="A". Nothing plausible, but found fun nonsense: "IF GAZE PIECHART" + "A MEME A DEAR WANT" = "IRKM DESMET DAEM"

Did a #Halloween 3D-print last night (hollow-face #illusion) www.youtube.com/shorts/uKcgI...

Visited both C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien (in Oxford) today

Planning my pilgrimage to The Cave ( @visitthecave.bsky.social ) and the Arcade Archive ( @arcadearchive.co.uk ) on the 18th. :)

My laptop died prematurely. Time to say goodbye to all these awesome stickers:

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

My buddy Jim Happel's latest gadget, the #C64 #meshtastic : www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDm...

"Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating." -- Simone Weil

Fun with my #3dprinter: www.youtube.com/shorts/pLhZk...

#LLMs that play #Infocom games: huggingface.co/blog/textque... arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23701 github.com/centerforais...

A new #willywonka DIY music box arrangement: www.youtube.com/shorts/veMXU...

Mail call:

Got a new piece of art, a slow motion frame: www.youtube.com/shorts/9m44t...

A coder at microsoft made an AI app that provides real-time sports announcer commentary on pong games: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i21w...

kudos @burgerbecky.bsky.social www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/fa...

apologies to #judyblume

This guy sat with me for a while in my backyard while I was doing remote laptop work. Cooper’s hawk? Peregrine falcon? ( #BirdIdentification in California East Bay area)

Cleaning the house and found #DisneyLand blueprints (copies) I haven't seen in >20 years: #HauntedMansion and #PiratesOfTheCaribbean

Mail call: #C64 #KungFuFlash #Barbie

Does anyone else get reviews left in their #LittleFreeLibrary ? :D @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Saffron's #mainecoon ears

A version of Missile Command for the Commodore 64 where the bottom of your screen is the game state in memory and missiles cause memory corruption: csdb.dk/release/?id=.... In the video below, a missile broke my controls and caused my cursor to get stuck moving down and to the left.

Remember when the #Commodore #PET tried to hide code from you? Let's circumvent that PEEK restriction using only BASIC... www.youtube.com/shorts/Ufj4N...

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. -- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Coding in the redwoods <3