Congratulations to #RocketWerkz and #KittenSpaceAgency for their progress, and making one small step for kittenkind in their public build. Space games in custom engines are my jam! Great work gang, wishing you the very best in the next leg of the journey, and I am looking forward to seeing more.

Just discovered, via a brief power outage, that parts of my house only work because of a polluted DNS cache and rebooting the system correctly resulted in broken things not working. Now I have to fix things.

This week in #EliteDangerous . Vanguards is live! Join the ranks, discover squadrons to join, fight side-by-side, pool resources, and explore the galaxy together. Play your way. Thanks to all the members of the team that made this come together.

Ask not mow much you can break your fast, but how much the fast can break you. Feeling hungry this morning. Our cats have weird breakfast habits. But they don't get coffee with theirs. :)

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This week in #elitedangerous. I'd only just found enough triangles for my Type-8! now I really have to up my game. Those of you who already know me as a Lakon pilot will have no surprise at my excitement over the new T11. Work starts on porting the new ship soooon.

Wait how fast does light go in a leap year?

It seems embarrassingly self serving to talk about #elitedangerous on social media these days. I soak up the good - and the bad - from the community and let the voices of many in to my own piloting experience. I've never stopped being a fan, and many thanks to the community of players I'm a part of.

Spent a grand moment with twitch open watching a few #elitedangerous streams today. I always catch a mix of partner and non partner channels. Launch day is always exciting, but this was something else. From humble origins to the beast it is today, it's a pleasure to say the Panther has landed. O7

Three different chicken, smoked salmon, bread, babaganoosh.

Someone stole my seat! This cutie is enjoying the night air with us. It's been a hella week. So proud of our little space game, and the rewarding efforts of a dedicated team pulling together. A comfortable seat, a pleasant tipple, and living my best life. Looking forward to brunch and bbq tomorrow!

We adopted lil Xena and her orange brother Gizmo at the end of last year after a litter of seven was found in a shed near here. They still use the original carrier as a bed, although they used to both fit in there with room to spare! I just need to explain that breakfast isn't served until eight...

Reflecting back on the past year of #EliteDangerous, enjoying coffee and croissant in a cafe with some great people. A little moment of calm, proud of the road we have taken and optimistic about the journey we have yet to take.

They say to study history or find yourself repeating it. Amy has knocked it out of the park and into orbit with this incredible documentary about the history of spaceflight. Look to the future by understanding the past. Enjoy!

Coffees and Croissants Ahoy! chilling out at programming brunch while my brain ties itself in knots with dynamic multicast delegate bindings. I have never advocated lambdas over a garbage collected command pattern so hard. Maybe I should have gone for mimosas instead of coffee after all!

Lil Xena just had her first nom of #sushi and this #cat is now hooked!

I'd forgot just how much I really love this. It hits me spot on. youtube.com/watch?v=NYD3...

After much experimentation, and in the name of science, I've managed to exactly replicate office coffee using a home setup. And can use my data to recalibrate the office machine to produce a passable drink. Grind size was the linchpin, but mass and ratio also have to be exactly wrong.

The triangle count on this minimal Lakon Forklift is budget breaking and there is so much detail missing. At least the blue-white supergiant looks passable. #Elite #Retrocomputing #EliteDangerous This 2Mhz 6502 is backed by an enhanced maths co-processor to calculate filled geometry.

Back in black! #6502 #retrocomputing #elitedangerous Yea. I can do binary systems. Eight colours allows pretty much all main sequence stars. My circles are bad because the Mode2 pixel aspect and my maths is lazy. And I don't have sunspots and ejections yet. But this is a good proof of concept.

Angry rant time. This week the Windows 24h2 update broke my laptop activation. Microsoft technical support is insufficient, so best option is to manually reinstall. Microsoft broke it, couldn't fix it. I'd get a better user experience from a pirated copy with an activation hack. Oh the conundrum.

Caught the calm of the early morning and warmth of the sunrise on this spectacular spring Sunday. Enjoy the little things.

Why are printers such garbage now. Its a single-serving technology with one job. I want to push a button and have the thing on the screen be a thing on some paper. And yet. This is how the robot uprising starts. And they will know that it was me that started it.

I don't mean to cat shame, but lil gizmo ate all the food. I'm mostly worried and a tiny bit proud.

Yeap. This happened. Beeb Master 6502-Emulator, stock instruction set. 2Mhz. Raspberry Pi Tube-Coprocessor. Full screen Mode-2, no vsync interrupt. Filled and shaded, around 16fps. This is the tumbling Cobra title screen, no flight model. You can achieve the impossible if you code hard enough.

Full disclaimer; I work for Frontier. But hot damn I am enjoying #EliteDangerous right now. I've done more than my share of space trucking over the past forty years and the happy chemicals my brain makes are hitting hard as I contribute to a system architect's vision for the galaxy. o7 commanders.

I have a Sunday morning coffee and a "Lofi beats to write space games to" playlist as I jam out some code and juggle kittens in the crisp spring sun. Take a moment for yourself, find the peace, enjoy the little things. Remember who you are. What have y'll got going on?

I have a lot going on, but only one thing to say. Слава Україні! Slava Ukraini.

It is a big day for #EliteDangerous today, and a new day dawns across the cosmos. Surviving invasion by a hostile alien force, humanity has the chance to solidify its position. And once again the fate of the Galaxy is determined by the community of commanders, blazing a trail across the stars. O7.

Demonstrating full orange cat energy, gizmo has fallen asleep in the sofa. Not ON but IN. So yeah, I've got that going for me which is nice.

@markmoxon.bsky.social My Mode2 Elite is starting to come together on my emulator. I've got more colours than I know what to do with, and have just drawn a barely legal triangle. Assuming ships don't move, its possible to flood fill triangles.

Yeah. I can draw meshes with colour lines, all eight colours are available, and enough wiggle room to add a few extra triangles to each ship. #retrocomputing #elite A few dead pixels because of a bug in my line removal. And no backface culling yet, but the game is afoot.

Its #Retrocomputing #Elite time. I've been quiet on this, trying to maximise pixel throughput but am now rendering lines on the coprocessor and rasterizing on my (emulated) 6502. Veterans may realise how sneaky this antialiasing is, and I'm hoping it'll look good on a CRT.

Today my mighty beard has protected me from cat scratches. There was still a fair bit of blood and it was uncomfortable to be sure. But man has prevailed.

This #Caturday has exhausted the little furry piranhas, they still both fit in a single kitty carrier but will soon outgrow it.

Heya #dnd #retrotoy people! I completed the set. While the composition as a whole looks fine, the plastic, joints, articulation, balance... just everything is bad once you have it in hand. Two stars for quality, but it does make a cracking display if you don't feel like you've sold out.

What a prime specimen! Any #retrotoy people out there got some good customs, repaints, or exclusives to inspire me?

#Caturday rearranges shelves so the terror twins have new cubes to explore each week. At the moment they have just one blank space, that Xena used to pounce on her brother with maximum momentum.

My #retrocomputing adventures continue with the #BBCMicro tube bus. Essentially high bandwidth serial bus, connecting to a Raspberry Pi unlocks more than the usual 64K addressable space. I'm not saying I CANT write games that fit into 32Kish, rather that having an extra few hundred kilobytes helps.

Hello #cat people! We used the holiday season to adopt two #kittens They are boldly exploring their confines but are still way too small to be free range. Any advice on cat proofing a house will be greatly appreciated!

Ok #RetroComputing people. I've got a small amount of #BBCMicro 6502 code written this week. A draw loop to prove a neat technique I've been working on, and then I guess I'll be on the demo scene. I wrote my own #Emulator for the project and am on the brink of adding debugging tools. Wish me luck!

OK #Retrotoy people. I'm one cavalier short of this #D&D gang. Let's get this party started! Or finished anyway. As a collection they have something, but each individual figure has it's flaws. 7/10 would adventure again.

#catsofbluesky. Is is normal for a kitten to poo fully standing up?... Two hind legs standing upright. Head as high as possible? I think our little Gizmo has gone wrong.

I'm enjoying the #Christmas induced confusion. Who would have thought that my BBQ bluetooth thermometers were not fully charged and ready to go in the Winter. Put food in oven, guess how hot it is, serve. I'm sure the breakfast presecco and brunch beer have not contributed to the days confusion.

Merry eve, tiny people living in my Phone! George Bailey or John MacClane?

I am down a VERY DEEP rabbit hole on my #BBCMicro #RetroComputing adventure. Limited to 160x256 pixels but using all eight colours, the project is starting to take shape.

Hello #cat people! These two illegally smol #cats have entered our lives today. Discovered in a shed, where momma cat had found a dry place for a litter, these two have landed on their feet and have been given a place to play and rest in our home and hearts.

Now work has quietened down for a moment, I've made time to play with some #Dinobots in my #Retrotoy collection. Vintage G1 Snarl looking tiny next to it's chrometastic gigasaur counterpart. The engineering and transformation of this guy and his iconic silhouette in both forms. Perfection.

Congratulations to #EliteDangerous on its first ten years. Unambiguously, a lot of hard work has paid off. If we have seen further than others it has been by standing on the shoulders of giants. It's time to double down. Listen, learn & improve what we have so we can build upon it. o7 commanders.

It has begun. Raise your glass when the fourth wall is broken. Twice if they break character. What's your #movie of choice? Can you beat a tawny port as your #crimbo tipple of choice?