Breaking -- thanks to the Surge Synth Team, Mac, Windows, and Linux are all stable with downloadable installers. Fantastic. And some notes about why this matters:

standard ebooks does beautiful work with public domain titles and there are a lot of great new ones available today, including maltese falcon, stuff from christie, faulkner, kafka, hughes, lardner, sayers and more standardebooks.org/blog/public-...

if you put on "Music for 18 Musicians" by Steve Reich at exactly 23:28:36 on new years eve, a maracas will start at exactly midnight. Start off your new year right.

C64 Jenga: players run a random POKE each turn, first to crash C64 loses 10 P=0:PRINT "C64 JENGA" 20 X=INT(RND(1)*4096):Y=INT(RND(1)*4096):Z=INT(RND(1)*255):P=1-P 30 PRINT "PLAYER " P ": SET 1)" X "OR 2)" Y "TO" Z 40 INPUT "(1/2)"; C 50 IF C=2 GOTO 80 60 POKE X, Z 70 GOTO 20 80 POKE Y, Z 90 GOTO 20

so by way of eschewing sp**ify, anyone care to share their favourite albums of 2025? would love to give'em a listen.

As always the problems begin when *other people* use python, a group that includes your past self from two weeks ago

ssh tiny.christmas a global christmas carol in the terminal :)

Myst Online is genuinely free and comes with the Ages Beyond Myst single-player portion, it still holds up as a good (co-op!) puzzle adventure and will run on nearly everything

First thought when reading about the Anna's Archive Spotify dump: "how high would you have to set the playback speed to stand a chance of listening through 300 TB of music, anyhow?"

Incidentally, if you suddenly feel like making your own Original Atmospheric 3D Space Landscape (do not steal), the browser emulator Infinite Mac - infinitemac.org/1993/System%... - also has a copy of Bryce 1 under "Infinite HD - Graphics - KPT Bryce"

Consider making 2026 the Year of the Personal Website. Even a little thing on Neocities works. It’s just nice to have a home base on the internet that you don’t have to deal with bsky mods are random popping into every post and if something goes wrong with your host, you just move it elsewhere

This is neat if you're mixing/mastering sound, it's not a gamechanger but it is a handy plugin for just getting a combined spectrogram/loudness analysis up quickly

Finished Bits & Bops, very fun game in the vein of Rhythm Heaven - thankfully a bit more forgiving than RH, but it also loves a good visual fakeout to make sure you're paying attention to the beat

casual reminder that you can install real actual firefox on android and slap ublock origin on it

Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net

A very irregularly updated thread of cool web toys with a creative bent (1/n)

Well it’s not 50 but there’s 39 brand new indie DOS games for anyone to play and talk about

new definition of retro: a console that Skyrim has not been released for

I apologize but (1/3) Signs of the Sojourner, Critters for Sale, Hypnospace Outlaw, Silicon Zeroes, Gunpoint, Ape Out, The Roottrees are Dead, The Eternal Castle Remastered, Pizza Tower, PRODUCER (2021), Old Skies, Noita, Kentucky Route Zero, Machinarium, Rhythm Doctor, Caves of Qud, Frozen Synapse

What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again? Hopefully: Implementing custom word-wrapping logic in PostScript - fun exercise in stack-based programming, but in the end the better solution was to make PDFs (bah) directly

Thanks to the wonders of emulation, the best Christmas game ever (and the greatest Amiga coverdisk game that never was), Ludosity's Garden Gnome Carnage, is playable now in your browser. www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/...

IMO the only part of the Swedish effort to make a "canon of important cultural works" Norway should emulate is the online portal the Swedish government set up to let people nominate important works

Challenge level for the "which video game deserves a polished rerelease?" prompt going around - what's the game you had the *worst* time with but you still want to see remade? (Either because there's just *one* thing that needs fixing, or it's still interesting enough to merit one, free choice)

Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%, OR = 3.393, p < 0.001).

somebody: "but you got into Eurorack to get away from your computer after work. Remember? Cables! Knobs!" <hunched over keyboard> me: "oh let me just finish that Strudel script making some bubbly music"

pokemon drawn by a person that's never seen them from their bulbapedia descriptions pokemum5.wordpress.com

periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides

Put enough hours into this that I still find myself looking for a "Route through InterNIC" option in my VPN app

A little annoyed this never got a CD or official digital release - it's a really good track, I just don't need more reasons to start buying LPs www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXae...

I just want to put this out into the universe. If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.

Wrote a little script to select and play random games from the PS1 library (skipping ones I've played before) So far, 2 out of 10 have been completely OK, 1 in 10 are fantastic hidden gems, and the rest have been bizarre Classics of Game candidates

sometimes i remember "calque" is a loanword and "loanword" is a calque and i fall in love with the amazing weirdness of language yet again

All of my new followers who are confused hearing we have C23, C++23, and the bleeding-edge on the Sega #Dreamcast, here’s the FOSDEM 2024 talk in the GCC devroom about our quest to bring modern things to 1999 game console: archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedul... #gamedev #retrocomputing #cplusplus

I wrote an article about how to craft and present the most powerful album you can. you can read it - it's free and full of good advice for folks of all experience levels with releasing music. put your best foot forward! (thx to @quarkimo.bsky.social for being a fantastic editor on this piece too!)

Welcome to bluesky! Here are some things you should keep in mind: * You can dance if you want to * You can leave your friends behind * Because your friends don't dance and if they don't dance they're no friends of mine

Powerful move of kindness you can do at work almost every day is when someone junior or outside your department goes “I have a dumb question” and then asks a totally reasonable question, hit em with a “not at all a stupid question” or “actually great question” and then answering it.

100% on Burnout Legends ...the Nintendo DS version

Fellow preservationist Robert Robichaud got in touch to share that he was recently involved in a game preservation project regarding Norway's first adventure games. A great article worth checking out: spillhistorie.no/2025/09/11/n...

Boards of Canada's Olsen performed on a PDP-1. Holy shit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...

Watching the first season of Kaiji should count for 10 ECTS as an introductory course in applied game theory and probability

It’s sort of the opposite problem to the Internet, a socially transformative technology which didn’t have a lot of anticipatory literature in SF. Decades of storytelling about AI have primed people to ask the wrong questions about it and expect the wrong things

Sketching out a theory #synthesizers #eurorack

📣 ICY TOWER IS COMING BACK Stoked to announce that we're making a brand new Icy Tower game, ready for the 25th anniversary next year! Check out the trailer, spread the news, and wishlist on Steam :D s.team/a/3014860 More in thread 👇🧵

have YOU ever wanted to make SNES music? songs that could play on a real console?? well guess what - you can!! and you can even do it from the comfort of your favorite DAW. version 2.0 of my SNES Chiptune Guide is out now, updated and fully overhauled on its own website: samplemance.rs/snesguide/

It's Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2's 25th anniversary tomorrow/today. I put out a new version of my patch for the PC release that I think finally makes it the definitive version to play: github.com/PARTYMANX/pa...

*This* is how you make a movie

#GodotEngine 4.5 has finally arrived! 🎉 With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone! godotengine.org/releases/4.5/

wsl is the same as linux except when it's not. you will find those cases out one by one. it's an adventure

heat district

Neat Foobar2000 trick: you can order albums/tracks by file modification time, right click a set of tracks, pick Sort -> Sort by... -> and set "$date(%last_modified%)" as the pattern Handy if you suddenly happen to have a lot of new albums to listen to ;)