Wow, the CD release of Voyage of the Beagle has *the* biggest cover art downgrade. Did they not think the original art would read at a smaller size?

Family portrait

Got three job rejections in one day so: I am asking for help finding a new full-stack web development job. My website/portfolio is available at casey.kolderup.org. I'm a great team member and I've worked at small startups and medium-sized companies with success working across teams and disciplines.

Lösningen is a satirical Game Boy game about the police investigation of the murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/l...

I feel like I don't see people talk about the extremely weird LLVM-GCC era of Xcode much anymore. Maybe we'd all just rather forget

That Namiki demo reminds me that I've still got the MP3s he uploaded from that GBA DiGi Charat game way back in the day. I'm *pretty* sure these *specific* MP3s aren't online anywhere, even if there are full soundtrack recordings. Maybe I should put them up

flash sale! my game Time Bandit is 66% off for only 2 days. that’s like $3, the lowest price it’s ever been. so you can steal the game (basically) and then you can steal from your boss and bring down capitalism (in the game(?)). have fun! store.steampowered.com/app/1481910/...

You have just 1 week to play Perfect Tides before the sequel, Perfect Tides: Station to Station comes out! The games can be enjoyed out of order, but what better way to spend the week? store.steampowered.com/app/1172800/...

Namiki just shared a neat tidbit on their work on Bomb Jack Twin: the title screen music was based on a track they wrote for their MSX2-made demo tape, which they've uploaded here—before playing this tape for NMK, they submitted it to Westone (then home to childhood friend Jun Watanabe), to no avail

Ultra Resort Keroncuel (MediaCraft/Toshiba-EMI, Mac/Windows, 1997)

Only real ones remember the Michael Nesmith metaverse, Videoranch (screenshot from theslopeofenlightenment.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/v...)

Killed a bird beloved of the gods on the heaven fructified field of flowers, honestly this was on me bc before I loosed my arrow I noticed the bird was wearing some really expensive shit (hat, boots, etc) that most birds don’t usually wear.

I don't have a Nintendo 3DS, but I do have 3 Nintendo DS. Close enough?

We're not subtle with all our sassy skeeting about it, but it's probably time for a persistent, official statement about our stance on AI. TL;DR: we know what we're talking about. GenAI is harming creatives. There will be no AI features in Yarn Spinner. yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-...

re the impending gdc 2026 and discussions about safety of entering the US, I am thinking about this graph the CBC posted today about changes in travel between the vancouver and seattle areas www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We have to take the phrase "Lost Media" away from YouTubers for awhile until they reeducate themselves on what that actually means.

Instrument comments from Quazar's Funky Stars (1996)

You'd think I'd have played Asuka 120% online before, but finally actually got to try netplay out last night. Asuka 120%? It's good?? Who knew!

Saw something kinda fascinating the other day: a BBS-native comic was being labelled the "first webcomic”. Which makes me wonder if "webcomic" has transcended the "web" at this point, so something pre-internet that’s never been on the web counts.

Huh, interesting. The Bandcamp widget's "site is down" template has been updated to link to Bluesky now instead of Twitter. Feels like a sign of the times sites are starting to realize their "site is down" status accounts aren't useful for a lot of people if they can't be seen logged out.

Bangaloreans! If you love type, letters, Indian language scripts, vintage shop signage, graphic design, or art deco cinema theatres... join us for the launch of INDIA STREET LETTERING at Champaca on Saturday! champaca.in/blogs/events... Elsewhereans: Order here! www.blaft.com/products/ind...

The CBC has just posted a transcript of my recent As it Happens interview about X and Grok. I’m posting a couple of screen shots here - since they are a bit too long for alt text, I’ll post the link to the full transcript below. #cdnpoli #X #Grok #yeg #CSAM

Probably one of the best phrases I'll read today

I'm launching a new gaming website! Sometime after everything happened last year I convinced my former boss @midimyers.com to come on this journey with me, and I could not be more grateful. I'm so proud to make something I love, something I stand by, something I OWN. Learn more at the link below :')

Speaking of Titanium Court, I can now point out that AP Thomson just casually dropped a self-portrait via a screenshot of Titanium Court in an interview a year ago, when it was still unannounced, with no explanation at all of what it was or what it was doing there canvasrebel.com/meet-ap-thom...

Perfect Tides: Station to Station has been nominated for two IGF awards: -Excellence in Narrative -Seumas McNally Grand Prize This is such a tremendous honor, and what a nice hurrah as and the team and the playtesters and I race towards the finish line. Nomination list: tinyurl.com/2zzt8sw4

Angeline Era has been nominated for Grand Prize and Design awards in the 2026 Independent Games Festival!!! 🎇 (And a shout-out for Audio)!! Thank you for the honor and congrats to all the nominees!!

You might remember my IGF blog post where I described going crazy over an "Unannounced Project by AP Thomson". Well, that's Titanium Court, and it's no longer unannounced. Looking forward to everyone else getting to try this because it's something very special. store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/...

I had the honor of meeting Yoshiro Kimura last year at the Onion Games office in Tokyo, and got to listen to him talk very earnestly about game development and Stray Children and, well, life. www.ign.com/articles/str...

Like 12 years ago my friend sent me this picture from his work and it immediately, permanently changed the name of this utensil in my head. The bytes were fully overwritten. I don’t remember the former name of this item and frankly I don’t care

NEW: A city in Virginia was debating whether to end its contract with Flock. An unsolicited email from Flock's CEO labeling concerned citizens as "activists" who "weaken public safety and normalize lawlessness" sealed the deal to end it. san.com/cc/democracy...

3. Segasonic Cosmo Fighter This is a game meant for a kids ride, so it's over in a few minutes with nothing to it and I sure can't emulate the ride part at home either, but I played it because it has the funny Sonic voice They should bring this voice back imo

At no point was I prepared for where this sentence was going

僕がヘタなんじゃなくて、飼い主の投げ方がヘタ。がんぼるぞい！ translation: It's not that I'm bad at catching, it's that my owner's throwing technique is bad.

Canada legal nerds: I am trying to figure out what this character in Clifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg is on about. It has bugged me for years and I cannot find such a case. Also we've had computer crime laws since 1985 and this story takes place in 1986. Any thoughts?

Razing Core at MAGFest Homebrew Showcase representing the SEGA Master System! 😎 A big thank you to @megacatstudios.bsky.social for putting on the display, and picture courtesy of @shanelynch.bsky.social #mastersystem #homebrew

Actually now that I think about it if you've got DJ Food's Jazz Brakes Vol. 2 and are up with helping me out, I'm curious to find out just how similar these are.

Kenichi Obi - The Pride of Blame (1994) www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOP8...

“The new paper may come as no surprise to any Floridian who owns a jet ski or is a crocodile.” defector.com/if-you-give-...

Great read on the rediscovery of an Adventure variant, most famous for being playable on CompuServe back in the day: quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2025/12...

Heh, that's interesting. A rare 90s techno track I've got was flagged as containing content from a DJ Food track, and now that I've looked it up... yeah, they sound *very* very similar. At a minimum both based on the same looping sample.

the PC88 port of XeGrader, the recent Druaga-esque puzzle-STG by Hydlide series creator Tokihiro Naito, is up for sale on booth, ¥3980 https://valgus.booth.pm/items/7812568 🇯🇵 you're getting raw d88 files for use with your emulator of choice free demo https://valgus.booth.pm/items/7814722 🇯🇵

OK I'm back to signing out of this app on my phone. I really don't think it's that good for my brain rn for the same feed to be a mix of casual chat about hobbies/career things and panic-inducing world events. Probably needs a little more separation and more friction to browsing.

The City of Vancouver continues to provide real-time text updates about council meetings exclusively on a website that produces mass amounts of deepfake non-consensual sexualized images of minors

I announced a few days ago the long-lost Adventure 751 from CompuServe finally being playable. Here's my first post on my series on the game, where I give a deep dive into the history as well: bluerenga.blog/2026/01/01/a...

Kenichi Obi - The Pride of Blame www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOP8...

Highly recommend reading this story about a reporter casually finding out his wife is a world Tetris champion: archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

Yet another screenshot from the unreleased DOS version of what became Laser Lords in CD-i. I wish I had the raw BBS archives to find out how these made it online, given how little coverage there is of the DOS version. Was the company promoting it on a local BBS? An individual dev?