the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry

I really don’t like living in a timeline with a bad guy named “Sinclair.” 😉

“The FCC decided all by itself that radio and television were the only two parts of American life not protected by the free speech provisions of the first amendment to the constitution.” George Carlin, 1988

Time to break out the chart

Some days I want to live inside The Journeyman Project

Let's chat about Sega and the importance of multiple perspectives. thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/s... Thanks to @ftb1979.bsky.social for the thumbnail!

why in the very name of christ would you let LLMs do math, when by definition LLMs cannot fucking do math

@blitter.bsky.social place a bid on www.ebay.fr/itm/35664063... if you wanna be a hero :D

Anybody wanna be a hero? The BT GameCart has never been dumped as far as I know. I have a STB (the black Apple slab mentioned in this article) and would absolutely volunteer to help reverse-engineer this cartridge.

If you’re in Silicon Valley this weekend (Friday or Saturday), swing by the Computer History Museum in Mountain View and say hi. I’ve got a table near the front of the main hall where I’ll be demoing various “hacks” I’ve maintained over the past few years.

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

RIP to a legend. ❤️ We will all go together when we go, but when we do, Mr. Lehrer will be there to meet us. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

Between TRON: Ares and Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt” playing over the Coyote vs. ACME teaser, Trent Reznor’s work permeates throughout Comic-Con 2025.

My dad and his new best friend Jerry Beck 🤓

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany. But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

Psst... PowerBook gray is also Pippin @WORLD gray. 😉

Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:

I was forced to see this, so now I curse you all with this knowledge as well.

No level based on his song “PAC-MAN?” Come on, Al! That’s a freebie!

I will occasionally catch myself using the term “routines” interchangeably to refer to methods and free functions. Is this a sign I’m an elder programmer? Do younger software engineers still say “routines?”

The Bandai Pippin? Yeah, it runs Quake. blitter.net/blog/2025/06...

Bob Whitehead must be so proud. 😎

Rest in Peace, Bill Atkinson. Hard to overstate the massive influence Bill's work had over me, and the way we all use computers today. From his work on the Macintosh, to HyperCard, Bill was a pioneer of merging art & technology.

They should. My mom died of it at 42. Mind you, I had to get a mammogram and ultrasound yesterday, and my SAG-AFTRA insurance wouldn’t cover the latter. It’s gonna cost me $650. God bless America.

I finally tracked down (and would like to share a brief thread on) my favorite moment in children's TV history, when Marc Summers briefly, spectacularly breaks Nickelodeon Kayfabe

Not cool, Bungie. Don’t soil the Marathon brand with this kind of behavior.

Here's a list of impacted employees who are looking are looking for new opportunities and have consented to have their contact information listed ⤵️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets... We sincerely appreciate anyone who is able to provide assistance.

Cyan friends and family, we have some difficult news to share today. (More details in-thread below.)

Nintendo missed a golden opportunity by not tapping S.S. Rajamouli to make the upcoming Legend of Zelda movie.

It’ll be okay, Door, don’t worry. 🫂

If you’re going to GDC, here are some tips: Don’t try to get someone drunk. Don’t spike anyone’s drink. Don’t touch anyone without explicit permission. Don’t assault anyone. You will be found out and there will be consequences.

I don't want to add to doomerism but game devs should know this about Tim Sweeney.

The programming equivalent of “The Think System.” 😉

Duane Blehm was the indie gamer that wrote early Macintosh shareware games: Stunt Copter, Cairo Shootout… Here's a little about him and his influence on me. engineersneedart.com/blog/duane/d... #VintageMac #RetroGaming #MARCHintosh

Had to throw together a HyperCard stack over the past few days. I even dipped my toe into HyperTalk scripting again, something I haven’t done since the 5th grade. Amazing how easily old skills can come back to you. 😁

If you're near Mountain View this Wednesday, stop by to hear me talk for the first time publicly about how I cracked the Pippin's authentication mechanism in 2019.

Roughly the size of a barge? In *this* economy?!

Getting the VGHF Library ready for launch has been my full-time project for the last three years. It's been a lot of work, but we seriously think this is going to change how people study video game history. This is just the start. We hope you're as excited as we are

every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”

Dammit. I stopped here back in 2023 when I visited Osaka with @josaka.bsky.social, and briefly played the cockpit-style After Burner cab they had.

Hey, you dropped this. web.archive.org/web/20250115...

Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato

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The Elusive Programming Genius Behind Final Fantasy And Secret Of Mana Breaks His Decades-Long Silence.