Use this post as an excuse to post one of your favourite 'characters,

Don’t know where I’m supposed to sit

Board of Peace - Season 1

Raspberry Pi microscope slash overhead camera, I just need the long ribbon cable 🔬 #raspberry_pi

Thanks to @pcbway for making my new #c64 SID chips! 🥳

It works 🥳 Now I’m prepared for repair cafe in February

Nailing the Narrative When Your Storytelling Stops Working https://www.chrisg.com/nailing-the-narrative/

While you might avoid it, businesses are storytellers. Weirdly, I've noticed a trend of 'storytelling' that I am calling "A Story-less Narrative".

One board has bad ram, other bad connections to the AY sound chip maybe? #amstradcpc464

A joke for the history buffs.

Water Wet, Bears Definitely Potty in the Woods, Pope? Catholic! (Studies Find)

Get online like in the 1980s but better! retrogamecoders.com/vice-c64-mod... #c64 #c64u

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Was reminded of my scary and intimidating combat robot (“Sean Bean”) I need to dig him out of storage and see if he still works 🤖

Got example Python telnet/BBS style code and both regular C64 and C64u wifi modem clients working so now some soldering before it gets too dark I think 🤔

Internets programming for the c64u and compatibles 🤓 (Server is simple Python script that uses open weather REST API)

"Gemini remind me what car I have? Yes I realise I just stepped out of it and it is very close to me right now. No I can't read the tire size you need to put it on a screen, hallucinate if you must ..."

Hull has surrounded York and broken us in two, Manchester has pushed through past the Warrington and Warrington blockades intto the East - please send help!

Clearing up confusion, one of these is an emulator, the other is a Bluetooth keyboard for working with emulators 🤓 Unfortunately the rubber keys are crap even on the original 🤭 (The Retrogames Spectrum is really good if you just want a nostalgia hit) #zxspectrum

@pimoroni.com does the HyperPixel 2.1 Round still not work with the latest raspbian? Before I dig up an old OS I wanted to make sure I hadn't missed something ...

Bit more progress on the 3d modelling

Testing a text adventure on my Farnsworth with blackberry keyboard #raspberrypi

"Stop reacting negatively to our unwarranted violence"

There is always an XKCD

Testing how much spare processor capacity the C64u has when using C. Answer is … quite a lot … www.instagram.com/reel/DTYiUjO...

Experimenting with the #c64u WiFi modem

I forgot the bundled wallpapers seem to have been selected from a teenage boys bedroom wall 🙄

Raspberry Pi 500+ running PiMiga 5

My new Amiga (amongst other things) 🤩

Have you been wanting to get into vintage computer repairs? Here is how I have been learning to do retro refurbs: retrogamecoders.com/learning-ret... #retrocomputers

I found my hacker box (sans box) with portable scope project. Hoping have all the parts so I can try it as a handy portable instead of my full desktop unit :)

Hope the USA military doesn’t discover how expensive this stuff is per oz, don’t want electronics supply stores being sent any democracy

@pimoroni.com will you be getting the @adafruit Fruit Jam in stock at some point?

Decided it is the right thing to do, even though the binaries are available from the usual sources too.

Ooh this I did not know, I have had so many issues with this over the years. Of course I rebuilt my site in several programming languages between 1994 and 2006~ when I settled on WP

Old meet new ❤️ #c64 #c64u

After all this time it’s still a “pinch me” moment when I see my name in print 🤩 #computegazette

EFF YASSS 🥳

Launching an Online Business in 2026? Here’s What to Focus On https://www.chrisg.com/launching-online-business/

@visitthecave.bsky.social do you ever do “repair days”? If not, idea for an event? Kind of bring your slightly broken retro gear and fix it under adult supervision thing :)

So far this year my success rate of repairs has been pitiful. I blame the UK weather 🤭

I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you!

TRIMUI SMART PRO S TG5050 first play

Was kind of hoping a bad connection or trace would jump out at me but electrically this M4 board looks fine so I’m stumped and will have to eat the cost of another one #amstradcpc464

Amazing, who'd have thought the C64* would have sold 19,000 units in 2025 * ish

New year housekeeping. I do need to have a better system for recording quick videos, perhaps I should finally upgrade to a phone with USB-C

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

My headless linux dev machine was off without me realizing over christmas and is now spewing errors on boot. FFS, I know people have machines with 10 year uptime but apparently that is not an option for me

I’m not going to make “resolutions” this year because that feels too much like pass/fail, but I do want to work on some things more actively. How do I do that?