My Thimbleweed Park sign project is finally finished! Thanks for the assistance, @terribletoybox.com!

One of my favorite songs of all time, both to sing and to experience, which I got the chance to record with the Seattle Bach Choir just before the pandemic in the lovely Holy Rosary church in West Seattle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yaG...

As an almost-exclusively software guy, I pretty much always leave any hardware-related stuff to the proper authorities. So feeling pretty good about the fact that I fixed two separate car issues this weekend on my own (replaced battery in one, fixed broken brake pedal in the other).

If you haven't been following the bonkers stolen Lego saga involving Bricks & Minifigs, it is utterly insane and worth a watch. Part 2 just landed today and the level of police corruption on display is crazy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wscQ...

In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to be faster for spreadsheets or CAD, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point chip. Internally, the chip runs special code called microcode. We opened the chip, extracted the microcode, and are figuring out how it works. 1/n

The journey is find one of the rarest BIG BOX LucasArts games of the 90's has finally come to an end! Many thanks to @jeriellsworth.bsky.social and everyone that helped to make this possible. Community is everything! youtu.be/nGts03OQP2A

And that reason is that you, right now, are going to ask yourself whether you can buy this year's Crash Course Coin. Some portion of you will realize that, yes, perhaps you can! And those folks will click on this link: complexly.info/CCcoin26-6

Finally updated my beer glassware collection page with my latest acquisitions, which has now crossed over 100 glasses. Sadly, several of my older glasses are now starting to fade with use, but I guess that just gives me room to add more in the future! 😜 aarongiles.com/about/beer/

EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY is a fantastic documentary that chronicles the pitfalls of crypto and the downfall of the fraudsters in the industry, including FTX, Voyager, Genesis and Gemini. I wrote about their collapse. Everyone in the theater clapped at the end, @benmckenzie.bsky.social.

Had wings for lunch, decided to risk El Jefe, the hottest variety. Had second thoughts when they offered me gloves, but glad I took them up on it, as it helped me avoid touching my nose or eyes while I powered through. And the sauce was actually nicely flavored, not just insanely hot.

Your yearly reminder (and first time on bsky!) that the WAVE specification's smpl.dwEnd (loop) member is inclusive, not exclusive

There should be a Star Trek movie every two years and they should have indie film budgets and no explosions and almost everyone should hate them.

AS SOMEONE WHO HAD TO PAY HIS OWN WAY THROUGH THE U OF C WITH STUDENT LOANS this is great and I approve www.wbez.org/education/20...

OMG, spent so many hours staring at this as a kid.

Doing my periodic brewery sojourn through the Portland/Oregon area. This year includes Hood River, so of course Pfriem and Double Mountain are planned, but happy to discover CDAs (my favorite style by far) at both Ferment and Full Sail, so glad I'm checking out other local options. 👍

Credit to the wife: it hadn't occurred to me to see if any bands we wanted to see were playing at locations we were vacationing in. But unexpectedly she found a Kasabian concert in London that lines up perfectly with our travel, so I guess I get to check another band off my bucket list.

Out of this entire title bar, there is a single 16 pixel-ish area that I can click on to drag the window position. Everything else is an annoying clickable item I really don't care about. Please stop polluting the caption area of windows with crap so I can move the damn window where I want.

I've written up an explainer blog about my latest CGA card shenanigans, if you have any questions about what #GlyphBlaster is all about. martypc.blogspot.com/2026/05/60fp... #retrocomputing

Heh, just finished up and rather enjoyed the two seasons of Kleo, an amusing German late-80s/early-90s spy/assassin thriller with lots of dark humor a bit of the supernatural mixed in (on Netflix). Totally up my alley. Also, as a big fan of mosaics, love this image they use in the intro.

I know everyone is looking for the best way to play Yoda Stories to celebrate today and I'm here to let you know it's through the DREAMM emulator for Lucasarts games dreamm.aarongiles.com

If you see this, post a concert photo you took

15 Favorite TV series. Probably forgot some, plus a bit of recency bias: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Stargate SG-1 Firefly Max Headroom Spartacus Buffy the Vampire Slayer Joan of Arcadia What We Do in the Shadows Preacher Fargo Black Sails Better Call Saul For All Mankind The Expanse Dark

LFG

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h... The discussion on rudeness here is quite useful.

Woohoo, I made the cut!

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Everyone Go Follow Patrick Willems on YouTube. It's a crime against culture he doesn't have a million subscribers. Easily one of the very best video essayists on the Internet. @patrickhwillems.bsky.social

Infocom's Cornerstone and the mu machine that would have brought it to every platform of the '80s are not so lost anymore... blog.zarfhome.com/2026/04/corn...

Dear OS providers: please for the love of god stop hiding your restart option. You are not perfect. Sometimes you need to reboot the freaking device. And now that everyone's assigned "long hold on power" to AI, it becomes nigh impossible to figure out how to do a restart. (Looking at you Android)

I know, the timing is weird. Victor Franco ported my published sources for Glider 4.0 to the modern MacOS and, yes, we have another Glider game for the Mac. It's faithful to the original Glider 4.0 that came out in 1990. (And it's free.) apps.apple.com/us/app/glide...

Guess it was naive to hope that Disney would keep selling the OG versions of Dark Forces and Outlaws after the remasters were released. 🙄 Star Wars: Rebellion is now no longer available well. Updated my "Where to buy these games" page, which is looking sadder and sadder. dreamm.aarongiles.com/buy/

Warsaw is both medieval hunting lodge and Cyberpunk 2077

This was awesome. It hadn't occurred to me that a video signal of scrolling text would be physically legible on a CAV disc medium like laserdisc or CED, but it makes total sense. (Skip to the halfway point if you don't care about unboxing the microscope.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZuR...

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

The oldest MIDI file I have personally collected - a rendition of Sting's "Englishman in New York", dated September 25th 1993. 🔊🎵

Brutal.

Gen X collectively reliving Challenger, Columbia and Cold War nuclear holocaust anxiety all in the same week is a fucking lot, y'all.

📅 29 years ago today, Outlaws was released! 💾 Outlaws was released on April 7th, 1997! 💾

That's right! We destroyed the oldschool demo compo with my most advanced 6502 code to date. This is really running in a stock Atari 2600 with no expansions! (except 32k ROM bank switching) Full video at my channel youtu.be/aEJ0A8Wvdxs

1/2 *cup* of ground cumin??? I think not! (Pretty sure that should be 1/2 tsp like the ones below.)

First thought: There's no way this is going to be good. Second thought: OK, but it will fall apart once they get to the chorus. Final thought: Holy shit, the chorus works even better. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1E4...

What is the greatest sequel of all time? There are many opinions. Personally, I found mine in 2009:

"The current work-in-progress version of my LucasArts emulator DREAMM emulates over 20 Star Wars games. While getting them all working, I couldn't help but notice huge inconsistencies in how the opening crawl was handled from game to game." @aarongiles.com

In case you were craving a 4k restoration of the #1 song in the US 40 years ago... www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-H8...

CSS is DOOMed! I've build DOOM in CSS and every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms. cssdoom.wtf Try it out! But... not every browser can handle it. This is taking the browser to its limit. Chrome has some issues. Safari too. Bugs will be filed.

I joined Harmonia this year to sing Messiah again in December, but this was my 2nd most anticipated program. At least I'd sung Messiah before! This was 28 new choruses to learn in 6 weeks, definitely a challenge but feeling pretty good for tomorrow's performance! harmoniaseattle.org/concerts/202...

Seriously, I had no idea until @aarongiles.com told me! It turns out that you had to be more persistent on the Mac version and USE the computer FIVE TIMES! #MARCHintosh #LucasArts youtu.be/N5AZY3tNFW4

Today's 27-year-old nostalgia blast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymNF... After being reminded of this a few years ago, went down the Bomfunk MC's rabbit hole and found 3 pretty solid albums (accounting for the occasional '90s hip-hop cringe).

Been obsessing way too much over the Dreamm project. This may as well be the "LucasArts Classic Mini" where you supply the games and it handles the configuration. Covers Scumm, DOS and Windows titles with a host of QoL fixes, joystick and network support in an easy to use environment.