Announcing Patchy, my work-in-progress lightweight "sort of Photoshop 5/6 level" alternative image editor for Windows! Open source & free. 15 MB installer here: github.com/SethRobinson...

Good software devs release when "it's done". Me? I release when "I'm done" as in, can't stomach working on it any longer

Released V2.37 of Toolfish with yet another audio feature - it can adjust the volume of just the app in focus. (hotkey to adjust Windows mixing) Makes it easier to watch youtube during the boring parts of games. github.com/SethRobinson...

a ton of openclaw instances and AI driven startups died this morning. No more free tokens I guess, only surprised anthropic allowed it this long

Tech tip (?): The dog-walking lights I ordered from AliExpress came the wrong color (I ordered blue) and too bright. Check out this easy hack to sort of fix 'em that even a dumbass like me can do:

Got a new printer - it prints on anything, even curved potato chips! So far I've been using it as a $2100 labeler, its camera positioning system makes it dang easy (and addictive) to use. Hrm, what else can I print on... (Credit: some pics are from @Yumcans's game Popslinger)

Fancy rocks are boring. If you're going to propose, may I suggest:

Photo from last night at Kyoto station. They are letting people play Tetris on the massive stairs, using 15,000 LEDs. Met some friendly players, a pro with the coolest Tetris jacket scored 48K+, she ruled. ( 京都 大階段 )

Despite the lack of legs, my @pollenrobotics reachy robot danced off a table and damaged three motors. Finally sourced replacement motors (was hard in Japan, sold out), so hopefully we'll get this sassy little guy back online. Don't place it near the edge of a table!

Early work on an AI that can play Pokémon TCG Pocket only by watching the screen. Got to the point where it can reliably 'see' the cards and match them up to its internal card db to generate a super-prompt that produces structured movement advice

Been experimenting with OpenClaw (w/Opus) to send me daily Japan news digests. It doesn't get blocked grabbing news and photos because it just switches to a real browser (on its VM) when needed. Today's version: rtsoft.com/temp/daily_d...

The Reachy-mini is a lot of fun. It really is like having a useless Starwars droid. Some tips: Can't set it up? At least one feb batch (including mine) got botched and needs to be reflashed. Speaker too weak? Can hack apps with a gain, helped a ton.

"buy me a used Ghost of Yotei for PS5 if you can find it for < 5400 yen, no confirmation required" <shrug> I don't feel like trusting AI to do this is that crazy now, it works. (brain: Opus 4.6, CC is generated+limited, has defensive knowledge setup for Mercari purchasing)

Blog: OpenClaw: I gave an AI my credit card and let it loose on Amazon www.codedojo.com?p=3243

Toolfish V2.35 released! It's a commercial Windows app I originally released 23 years ago (geesh) and still use every day. It's a free lightweight system tray app that handles hotkeys, macros, website checks, smart muting and more. Open source on github: github.com/SethRobinson...

Year is starting off with a bang... my 8gpu homelab beast machine died again. :/ One of its two Seasonic Prime TX-1600 power supplies kicked the bucket. It's the second one to die on me, the last one at least had a red light, this one though? Nothing.

Can confirm the C64U works great with the PadSwicher64. Can also confirm jumping across a river is still damn near impossible in this game

not sure I would trust "de-risking" my game launch to these folks. I mean, the email is about 35 years too late

Will my Japanese improve if I read manga written for kids? Gonna try. Of course, as usual, I had to procrastinate actually doing that by writing tools to (in theory) help me study better

Finally got around to dumping the ripoff known as cPanel to admin my websites. Instead of $47 a month I now pay $0 with Virtualmin GPL. Only took like an hour to switch over, smooth import process.

Our cafe is hosting its annual Halloween retro-gaming night tomorrow, and I’m enjoying choosing which games to feature. I’ll focus mostly on multiplayer fun as usual, but include a few oddities too - including the only horror game on the Virtual-Boy

Randomly found a possible solution to an extremely esoteric problem that's keeping me from running 8 GPUs on a specific motherboard ( WRX90E-SAGE ) ... From pewdiepie?! what a world we live in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JzO...

For those who use ComfyUI via its API (as usual, a rather niche audience to be sure), take a look at the ComfyUI Workflow Converter Endpoint I released on GitHub today: github.com/SethRobinson...

IP Spy: I made a box that gets the IP address of a device (Raspberry Pi project) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MbK...

Some claim that the issue with running small or two-person indie game studios is our inability to accept criticism. Hogwash! On a separate note, here's what you'll hear if you reach out to RTsoft support: (the Google Play store requires us to have a public voice line for some reason)

My old LD jam game (and Proton SDK sample) Looney Ladders running on the Wii!

Asked ChatGPT for advice, believed it, bought the wrong thing. I was chabotaged.

There's a place near my house in Kyoto called Angel Scat Studio. The acronym is A.S.S. and I think about it daily.

Amazing pic!

Split Fiction was a blast. Twice as big as you'd think, packed with clever two-player mechanics. Shame about the writing, though. Most cutscene were a grating, artless slog of whiny dialogue and clumsy exposition... the skip button wasn't just a relief, it was self-defense

Akiko: I need a countdown timer that overlays our mahjong scores on the tv, I guess there's probably a webpage I could use for that and... Me: But will it have sound effects and ten-chan?!! <a short while later>:

EVENT: June 14th (Saturday) 6 PM - Indie Creators: Code, Games, & Electronics - Have a drink and hang out with fellow creators! If you've got something to show off, bring it: www.meetup.com/c2kyoto/even...

Talk about niche: I've open-sourced the Japanese Riichi mahjong scoring and season tracking Google Sheets stuff I wrote for C2 Kyoto's Mahjong nights, in the very unlikely event there's a mahjong parlor (or group of friends) out there that needs it! github.com/SethRobinson...

So veo3 is available in Japan now, so please watch yourself folks. Gotta use common sense to detect the deluge of lies coming. You can trust me though, so here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmzI...

What's the most expensive off-the-shelf video/computer game ever sold? (not counting special bundles/promos/stunts) As near as I can figure, Samurai Shodown V Special (aka Samurai Spirits Zero Special) on Neo-Geo AES, 2004 - $359.99 (~$610 today)

Tried Antstream's "Retro Classics", (why is the app called Pleasantville btw?) - the good news is they got streaming to work at what feels around 66ms latency. The bad news is that isn't good enough for twitch games like River Raid, it's noticeably "wrong" if you compare it directly to a good setup

Scenes from Osaka Expo 2025 last Tuesday. Lines everywhere. Word is they panicked over slow sales and priced season passes way too low ($160 USD). Now it’s a madhouse - there’s even a wait to get into a freakin' Family Mart!

ANNOUNCING YET ANOTHER TRANSLATION THING I MADE: UGTBrowser - a chrome extension that does inline translations (and optional creative tasks) on web pages using top LLMs. More an experiment, but hey, it works. Needs your own API key. Free & Open source. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ugtbr...

I’ve been experimenting with AI-assisted coding for weeks. In fact, a recent project (UGTLive) is roughly 80% AI-generated. Paradoxically, AI coding is the easiest thing in the world to start - but the hardest to clean up and debug.

Announcing Universal Game Translator Live! It's a complete rewrite of UGT that's built to do real-time game translations. YouTube video of it in action: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFrW... It's very beta, but it's on GitHub now: github.com/SethRobinson...

Early screenshot of a new "real-time game translator/thing to help study language" I'm working on! (Game I'm testing with is Konohana 2) If I can get it to a good place, I'll throw it on github, it's sort of a complete evolution of UGT rewritten in C# and Python

Tried out OpenAI's "Deep Research" by generating a chart of Nintendo launch pricing over the years. Seems about right, but unless I checked every #... hrmph.

Will be exhibiting some, er, classic CD-i games this Saturday... You won't find THESE at the Nintendo Museum. More info: x.com/c2kyoto/stat... (image from: www.reddit.com/r/zelda/comm...)

We've been running weekly public Riichi Mahjong games in Kyoto for over a year now. Akiko is hellbent on spreading the gospel of jansou rules mahjong to everybody. A chombo is an unforced error penalty that makes you want to shrivel up and die. Here, we do this...

Behold, a My Vision with My Audio mod! Will be easier to show at our retro event coming up. (Credit to @benjedwards.com for making me want to try it)

who doesn't like to unwind with a little mahjong after a long day? A complaint through: No way to disable the music (?) and the only way to turn it down is to use a screw driver on the console itself!

Did some maintenance work on Dink Smallwood HD, built V2.08 for PC, web, iOS, and Android. (iOS and Android versions waiting on approval) Yeah, it's 27 years old and free, but as long as people are still making add-ons for it, I'll keep my versions running as long as possible

Random thought: We need robust global "Entity Verification". Like D-U-N-S (app developers know what that is) but with options to share multiple levels of proof, including anonymous options, like a beefed up unique advertiser ID

Speaking of Android, companies that don't "verify" are mass-getting removed, should cut down on crap and scams. I was worried because our Japanese corporation name on papers submitted looks different than the English version but I was "organization" verified in 30 minutes!

Trying to re-build my apps for Android, they've been partially delisted for not being updated since '22. Good time to get rid of all the twitter links in my stuff - they don't show recent tweets to people who aren't logged in (bsky and mastodon do) so a bad way to share news.