I'm back! I'm not yet back on social media — I'm not yet reading my feeds — but I am at least back home after two months in hospital, on and off. It's so good to be home! (I'm happy to answer questions from curious friends in DMs, but probably don't want to spam detailed medical stuff to my feed.)

Adding anaglyph 3D to #BBCMicro #Elite is proving quite the challenge; the code is so optimised that each stage needs a new approach. But I now have 3D suns to add to the 3D ships, planets and stardust. They flicker a bit in-game, but the iconic Acornsoft box screenshot looks great! #retrocomputing

The replies to this show just what you'd expect: The kind of people who feel entitled to shove their posts into your life are very shouty, self-righteous and don't seem to have an effective model of how people behave. Sadly, spam in a good cause is still spam.

I find it fascinating that so many Americans believe in unfettered free speech as a magic bullet. Most people who believe in free markets concede that monopolies/oligopolies are bad. Yet billionaires with clearly partisan political views owning major chunks of the media landscape is no biggie… 1/

The gulf between US driving and UK urban driving is rarely clearer. When there's congestion one way, & it's clear the other, you let people out. And when you're driving near congested traffic you look out for anyone making progress through/near it. Is this a sucky junction design thing?

Horace and the Spiders.

If you ever feared that Bluesky might not have people assuming the worst possible interpretation of a post and piling on, look at the replies and be reassured.

4x4 core memory board with LCD display. The cores are available today in digikey, Laird 25T0135-60P, and are not deadstock ones. I made the number of turns for a core two for column and row lines because coercive force Hc of the core material is high.

Right! I think the last few people I want to follow from Twitter are either on Bsky or Fedi, and I've finally got the Bsky app installed (which apparently can't manage word wrap?!), so let's see if I can actually make a proper break this time...

Gotta say, Bluesky is more bare-bones than I thought it'd be, mostly UI polish. Still, it's got the things a social network needs, and moreover what it has... seems to mostly make sense (not that I've pushed into corners, yet). cf Mastodon having weird stuff that doesn't. Use-case-driven dev FTW.

Hello, Bluesky. If you're wondering what I'm like, the first thing I did was try to get my profile banner to clip correctly. It's not even a good banner, it just looks really bad if clipped. It took far too much work. 1/n