A bacteriologist studies bacteria. An archaeologist doesn't study archaea. #FalseAdvertising

Four things make an NES game sound like an NES game: Two pulse waves, a triangle wave, and a white noise generator. Watch me add all four of them to my emulator. youtu.be/sAPfvz1bmRI #FamilySizeVM #emudev #NESdev #timelapse #emulator

Anyone know how to write a CLAUDE•md file that just tells Claude to go away? #NoAI

Tiger In Wonderland

Remember these voice clips from NES games? "Another visitor" "How many words can you make before the sun goes down?" "Wheel! Of! Fortune!" "Skate... or... DIE!" "Blades of Steel" "Eat my shorts" "Make your selection now" youtu.be/GilPqf9uCq8 #FamilySizeVM #emudev #NESdev #timelapse #emulator

"Claude Code! Claude this! Claude that!" Shut the fuck up about Claude. In this house we only recognize one Claude and that is Jean-Claude. 😤🫡

When developing an emulator, it's easier to tell what's going on in a game's code if you include a disassembly in the trace log. youtu.be/G4p6gtnSwmw #FamilySizeVM #emudev #NESdev #timelapse #emulator

Am I the only one who thinks the Bagel Bites jingle sounds like "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from Disney's CINDERELLA (1950)? www.youtube.com/watch?v=So50...

On some days, I work on one feature of my NES emulator. On other days, I make smaller fixes all over the codebase, as in this episode. youtu.be/ah_TM7U5RL0 #FamilySizeVM #emudev #NESdev #timelapse #emulator

How come Alvin is cool but I get made fun of if I wear an ankle-length shirt?

If someone had a Nintendo Wii connected to their laptop on a flight I am not sure I'd be able to resist asking to change seats to sit next to them. This is an amazing blog post! 🤩 bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/p...

Many later NES games use MMC3. This mapper not only switches program and graphics banks but tracks how much the PPU has drawn. This helps a game split the screen for parallax or a status bar. Watch me emulate it youtu.be/gsJtk8ognog #FamilySizeVM #emudev #NESdev #timelapse #emulator

Inspiring

Spent a chunk of yesterday making an emulator test ROM for exactly how the Super Game Boy's "a packet from the Game Boy is available" register should work, because I thought Ares was doing it very wrong but I didn't want to file a bug report without proof: github.com/ares-emulato...

A mapper lets an NES cartridge use far more memory than the 40 KiB that the system was originally designed for. Watch me emulate a few mappers. youtu.be/6r1TsBS6yxg #FamilySizeVM #emudev #NESdev #timelapse #emulator

Mermaid style inclusive seal

Sumit Khanna reports that the cost per gigabyte of memory for desktop computers has had no net improvement since 2009. The present RAM shortage has erased a decade and a half of gains. battlepenguin.com/tech/the-hig... #dram #RAMShortage

Hoppy Easter 🐰💐 #art #bunnies #easter

Introduing the Easter Fluffle Party! Hosted by Marshmallow Bunny Cookie along with her rabbit bunny buddies wishing you all a Happy Easter!! #fanart #cookierunkingdom #crk #balanwonderworld #sonic #creamtherabbit #smilingcritters #pokemon #theamazingdigitalcircus #tadc #jax #animalcrossing #easter

Once I added a rudimentary SDL2 front end to my NES emulator, I could interact with it and play a game. youtu.be/lQPIiWHBZgw #FamilySizeVM #emudev #NESdev #timelapse #emulator

I took the Super Game Boy code I made for Petal Crash GBC and made a code example that shows off booting custom SNES code and then having the Game Boy side send files to the SNES as needed. Code and ROM (under "releases"): code.novasquirrel.com/Maffi/SuperG... #snesdev #gbdev #gamedev

This woman is facing a copyright claim for her own music by an AI company that took her youtube page and copied her.

It is the anniversary of Jesus's death as payment for the sins of all humankind. The rabbits have prepared gift baskets filled with eggs, candy, and tracts. #GoodFriday

4 steps to draw #sprites in an NES #emulator - copy the display list to OAM (memory in the PPU) - scan OAM for sprites that overlap each line - fetch their patterns from video memory between lines - shift the pixels out during the next line youtu.be/gSZAZ5pgVlI #FamilySizeVM #emudev #timelapse

Bobcats are kinda over rated don't you think? So from here on in I am gonna be drawing Star mainly as a Blobcat instead.

My #emulator takes a ROM filename on the #CommandLine, among other options. I use the #musl library's #getopt to parse the command in C. It makes me appreciate the libraries that come with newer languages like Python. youtu.be/PAw478XJYWI #FamilySizeVM #emudev #CLI #timelapse #emulator

Hell yeah, let chaos spread!

The PPU in my NES emulator builds a background, renders it, and interrupts the CPU at vertical blanking. youtu.be/Kq-QLCrzGps #FamilySizeVM #emudev #NESdev #timelapse #emulator

See how I made my NES emulator's CPU pass all 9,000 steps of Kevin Horton's nestest youtu.be/xi9kISkxF3o #FamilySizeVM #emudev #NESdev #timelapse #emulator

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller March 26,1945

I made an NES emulator in December and January. It took me 72 hours, and I recorded every minute of it. My time lapse starts here youtu.be/hJPl4q8k2mY #emudev #NESdev #timelapse #emulator #RetroDev #FamilySizeVM

Sometimes it's the simple things in life that keep you going animation by @potoobrigham.bsky.social color by @hootbias.bsky.social

And given that we’re kind of near tornado season, I thought it would be smart to use this time to go over what is a watch and what is a warning. The first photo is a waffle watch: Conditions are ripe for a possible waffle. The second is a waffle warning: We have a verified waffle in the area.

The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...

NEW PLAYABLE DEMO is live! ⚡️ Our NES game, Cease & Desist just got bigger! Discounted digital preorders (Steam keys) are live now on the site! Presales help build the game & come with free 23 page E-Book. Visit: www.ceaseanddesistgame.com Plus limited merch: Hand Painted Carts & More!

Whatever you do, support small creators as much as you possibly can! Feel free to repost this to get the message out.

Apple's got a lot of announcements this week, but one huge risk might get overshadowed amidst the noise — the way they're adding support for video podcasts threatens to enshittify the last truly open online media. It's not too late to push them to keep it open. www.anildash.com/2026/02/28/a...

Bodybuilder Houston Jones took 64 minutes to hop a mile (1.6 km) with his thighs and knees stuck together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m00Y...

TheChiptide tested a dozen video games and found they got ice surprisingly right 🧊️ Friction is μ times "normal force" (usually equal to gravity). Calculate μ=V/gt based on time to slow to a stop. Ice in games from Minecraft to Mario Kart had 0.05 < μ < 0.1. youtu.be/o8814LcNaaU?...

The Norwegian Consumer Council made a 4-minute PSA about companies worsening their services over time. When a government-funded organization repeats the catchphrase "make it shitty", it shows the time has come to strike "shitty" from the list of "bad" words. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

I made an NES emulator called Family Size VM in December and January. To kick off a video series about it, I made a 4-minute explainer video about how an emulator can improve the player's experience. youtu.be/qaCEY67VosU #RetroGaming #Emulation #NESdev

Respecting maintainer time should be in security policies. Even better: you don't even have to mention the elephant in the room! sethmlarson.dev/respecting-m... #opensource #oss #security

Why use a real-time clock (RTC) in a #GameBoy game? - Resource replenishment over real time deters binge play and beat-then-refund - Cosmetic changes for time of day or holidays - Spaced repetition in language learning games - For non-game applications such as a personal organizer

Pre-2000s video games didn't need long tutorials. They had printed manuals, for one. And because each player owned only a few games, the player had to spend more time exploring each game. Ease of switching games since then ruined the incentive to persist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwcK...