To the #PostNL employee who turned up with a package, poked my door instead of ringing the bell and walked off 10 seconds later: Did you notice that I have a video doorbell?

Cheers #odido

I could just watch this all day...

God. Fucking. DAMN Albert Heijn is shit. I'm back on the 'check every single time because a random check picked something unscanned in his shopping' list. The kid scanned a single item twice.

Is it just me, or did #odido omit certain things from this leak disclosure email? Left: the email detailing what was or wasn't leaked (in Dutch) Right: haveibeenpwned entry taking information from their official disclosure, which contradicts it.

I'm not sure what the failure rate on #Hyundai Ioniq ICCUs is, but it looks like mine just joined the party. Dammit!

Ahh for Smegs sake...

I can't see this being a household name in the UK to be honest. 'I've got just the thing for that! I'll just get my Knobbout...'

Happy 35th #Lemmings anniversary! Who'd have thought, 35 years later we'd still be talking about these little guys. #Amiga #MSDOS #AtariST #Commodore #Atari #DMADesign #Psygnosis #RETROGAMING #Lemmings35th Read about it's making here lemmings.info/lemmings-gam...

Wait. When the actual living HELL did my taste in music get named 'Divorced dad rock'?!?! Really?

Ahh... the joy of personal projects where nobody is judging your naming conventions or git checkin comments...

The new Telltale adventure game is a bit of a disappointment...

I guess the plumbers have a union too, then...

Protip for Dutch residents: If you spend the rest of your new years holiday playing Doom or Quake it's like new years eve, but with less explosions and burning...

I know the industry is full of people who want to directly contribute to the next awesome game and make their mark, but right now I'm writing some tool stuff and it's weirdly zen and satisfying... Is that just me? Am I wierd?

So as I understand this #Trump thinks that a supporter of his murdered a critic of his... and he's 100% okay with it? What the hell is wrong with him? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If this is what sinterklaas sent to me this year then I'd love to know what I did to piss him off...

I just did a stupid. Someone reported a specific game not working on a MiSTer core, so I *Grabbed the game *Installed it in an emulator *Saved out the memory *Disassembled it *trawled the memory for the suspect code... *...fired up the core to see what was happening. want to guess how that went?

Dear charity collectors, I don't give at the door because I know that I need to donate for months just to cover your cut. I skip straight to direct donations. I just don't feel like funding your weekend beers in place of whatever situation you're exploiting. So bugger off.

Does anybody know a way around the bol.com chatbot to get to an actual human being? It's bloody useless and everything pushes you to it.

It had to happen eventually...

Here's a random computing question: *Apricot were around first. *Apple wanted to be in the phone book before Apricot *Acorn wanted to slip in before Apple *The Dutch.... went with Tulip. Why? Aardbei (strawberry) was right there and basically unbeatable. Why throw away a victory like that?

Well that's my vote in. Spoiler alert: It wasn't Wilders. #TweedekamerVerkiezing

'Now just add multiplayer'

Buienradar keeps referring to 'Depression Storm Amy', which sounds like a great title for an emo song...

Well.. I made enquiries about getting my BBC Micros back from the UK (Master 512 and a Master compact), and it looks like they were dumped at a recycling centre. Fuck...

Hey postNL, When you marked my package as delivered to neighbours because I wasn't home you do realise that I have a video doorbell, right? I also have video of your driver just walking by and not even trying the door.

I just got ICE'd by a car parked diagonally over 2 bays, one of which was a charging point. First time ever, and it had to happen eventually...

Dutch TV gets it.

Happy birthday to the MOS 6502! It was 50 years ago today that people were able to buy their first samples of the chip from a jar in a hotel room at WESCON. Here's my oldest 6502 from the 52nd week of 1975. Still works perfectly!

Fellow geeks who horde cables for every device produced since 1977 in their loft... Can we just agree to maybe skip over EV charging cables?

Albert Heijn and Unilad seem to have mastered the art of contextual advertising on facebook...

Nobody bends the laws of space and time quite like PostNL

New car day, and I'm not sure what I like the most about it. Probably the fact that it doesn't make me look like a dickhead when I try to take the ticket from the machine at a carpark entrance...

'Do you want to go see Disturbed at the ziggo dome?' 'Abso-fucking-lutely not' 'Why?'

Ok but does it run DOOM www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

A 13 hour overnight flight from East to west across 6 timezones seemed a better idea on paper to be honest. The jetlag is killing me right now...

Strange things are afoot...

I keep seeing the 'respect local taxi drivers, don't use online platforms' signs in Bali. You guys want to compete with online platforms? Stop being aggressive, rude, lying and ripping people off. You know - a bit of respect. I'd take the local guy every time if it worked like that.

I was just sat on a wall in Bali eating ice cream, when a semi-drunk couple came up to me with a coconut and held it up to me like it was a religious offering and said 'the coconuuuuut'. It was like something from the Life of Brian...

After plowing through the Yogyakarta traffic on the front of a tuk-tuk I don't think I'm ever going to complain about the chaos of Amsterdam cycle lanes ever again. That was fun...

Helldivers 2 finally arrives on the Xbox!

So I got the antechamber open in blue prince on the xbox, did the stuff to open the final door. Super lucky run, loads of gems and steps and everything was falling into place. But it was late so I suspended the game to come back to it, as I often do. Did it quick resume? No. For fucksake...

Well I now have Death Stranding 2, which I'll get around to when I've gotten through Blue Prince. It'll probably be a trilogy by that point. 24 days to get the Antechamber open...

This ought to be good...

So... I first got into #gamedev by typing in games from the back of magazines in the 80s, fixing my mistakes and pulling them apart to see how they work, and the person who wrote most of them just turned up on Facebook in a retro group. Nice to actually be able to say thanks.

Still amazes me that there's a current generation of teenagers who think it's weird that their parents listen to Linkin Park. Does anybody ever look at release dates?

Neighbours kids want to wash my car and now I'm stuck between feeling bad saying no, and feeling bad saying yes because it's a shitshow on wheels after parking under a tree. Think I'm going to have to tip generously...

I got bored enough to think 'I've tried Amiga, ST, Archimedes, Megadrive and SNES code but I've never tried writing and old school VGA DOS thing for a 486. Wonder if I can do that?' Couple of PC emulators and a watcom C++ install later and it looks like I can.

You know the whole thing about mistrained AI being discriminatory? Try driving a British right hand drive car whilst your passenger has the phone in their hand in the Netherlands. I just got pulled over and threatened with a fine for this...