They call Paris the city of art but honestly the mix of styles here is just amateurish....

Maybe a bit nerdy, but the Privacy notice received from @giantbomb.bsky.social is how to write a privacy notice. Just so simple to understand 👍

Dydd Gwener Bois. Ffantastig.

Today was the first time using e-gates in Europe since that prick Farage lied and convinced a load of folks for voting against our best interests. Still...it stopped him banging on about immigration eh? Oh no wait....

NEW BLOG POST - A Full Circle Reaction, where I share my favourite purchase from #playexpo - and touch on Game Dev and the Atari ST #atarist

NEW BLOG POST - A Full Circle Reaction, where I share my favourite purchase from #playexpo - and touch on Game Dev and the Atari ST #atarist

There are two universal truths with this game:- 1. It is the best kart racing game on the SNES (yes, better than Mario Kart). 2. Some of the characters have aged about as well as an ice cube in the Sahara.

That is a beautiful website and I'm enjoying how creative folks are going now :) Wish I was going!

Spotify is slowly becoming cancelable for me. Like it's tired and out of ideas. Yesterday for example, I didn't listen to it once. Granted England were playing cricket, but I was pretty much on BBC's output all day. Go back to radio, lads.

Rasputin's grand-daughter was likely at a party hearing Boney M sing about what a shagger her granddad was.

One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

There is a moment when you are creating something where you go "by Jove, I think we can see the ending". Today I hit that on one of my projects.

Is it “don’t give anyone £500 because they say they’ll make you a model”?

So @seandunne.bsky.social is nipping out for a Cornetto, and we need to make sure he has the correct change. www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/s...

Wrestlers on #OnlyConnect Daily Mail in bits again.

I noticed a WordPress developer out there has been pushing a "Doom" WordPress block to all the major socials. I did it a year ago ;) dwinrhys.com/2024/05/08/c...

Want to put off your Monday Morning productivity a wee bit longer? My real life mate Davey has released his new game for the Spectrum. Bubble Bobble vibes, with great music (yes! Even for a Spectrum! I know!), and references to 1970's UK comedians (the non-troublesome ones). It's quite good fun :)

Want something to read on your Sunday afternoon? Come join me on a random adventure into wp-rand() timnash.co.uk/nothing-is-t... #wordpress

Ah you think de_dust is your ally? You merely adopted the de_dust. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the de_dust2 until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding.... #playexpo

We are onto Radiohead now. In case you want to know the state of the North is....

To be fair the girl singing this isn't dreadful. Bit nasally and singing 3 notes for every one, but she can somewhat hold a tune.

Oh my. I have been here for 5 songs. Not a single one has been even remotely passable. Right now Human by The Killers (another karaoke song of mine) is being crucified.

Ending up in a karaoke bar and there is a couple killing my karaoke song*. If I wasn't a) sober and b) knackered I would go up and do it better. Disgrace. * "I Want it That Way" by The Backstreet Boys, before you ask.

planckman.com played this at #playexpo It is annoyingly addictive!

My morning.....

In unrelated news today's NYT Connections is very much on the nose if you are in the north of the UK right now.

Well having to rebook a flight because it is cancelled with a week's notice is fun on three hours sleep. (Not the first time Amy has kept me up all night heyoooo*) * This is a lie.

So #playexpo news The Norbreck went cashless last year, and now has a range* of non alcoholic drinks available. What next? Avocados? Vegan food? Stuart Lee doing the cabaret? * Heineken and Gin

Dydd Gwener Bois. Ffantastig.

I don't know what I am a fan of more. Signs of niche video game references on signs at pro wrestling or signs at cricket in India in general. #CWC2025

Ah that's sad. It's weird timewarpy to think she is younger than Martin Luther King by 1 month, and older than Anne Frank by 6 months.

Get your South African Women's Cricket team name by taking your first initial, last name and add "b Smith" to the end of it 😍 #CWC2025

who wants to tell People Magazine the song is about his penis.

I don't know how to say this but somebody told me last weekend that the arcade Bubble Bobble feels off on the Evercade and now I can see it. Just little things. Completely unnoticeable if you haven't played the game regularly for the last 30 years. But they are there.

I see that AOL has ended it's dial-up service after 30 years with barely a whimper. I think the first times I explored the internet was on AOL sometimes in the early 2000s....

I really don't like tribalism in professional wrestling. And I get that not everybody who works in a company thinks the same. But yeah, when one company's head is posting pictures at the White House and the other's World Champ is posting this, then it is hard to not be tribal.

Wearing my Stonewall/EA/Trans Day of Awareness shirt for my run to piss off the Saudi Investment Fund 👍

Been trying to find this bit of an episode and a Google Search resulted is a Daily Mail article complaining that BBC has lower standards because some legend chose to answer questions on The Stonecutters episode rather than something like the history of Debussy. Shove it up your arse.

We all have a choice. The Internet is ours.

NEW POST: On being inspired at #loopconf and hitting publish on a blog post I had half written....

Human Rights aside*, this Saudi/EA deal kind of makes sense. Saudi's also own SNK and the last Fatal Fury was a soulless average attempt. Not bad, just soulless. A game for people who really like Dubai. What game company makes soulless games? EA. *I know that's a terrible way to start a sentence.

Not sure if anybody saw it but #Mastermind had a category of early Simpsons and despite not watching the episodes for 20 years I got 7. I reckon most folks around my age probably got more than 5.

NEW POST: On being inspired at #loopconf and hitting publish on a blog post I had half written....

A newsletter I subscribe to just prefaced a story with "Content Warning: America". I'm not even shocked anymore that it makes total sense.

This is a long read but it's contains some great thoughts on how Open Social could evolve and become important for the modern web.

I've got a blog post in the works from #loopconf, which I'll hit publish at some point, but Tim's post reaches a lot of similar conclusions to me (it was inspiring!).

Tired: advertising your websites on Google, Facebook and Twitter with all their pesky algorithms algorithms Wired: Spinning up a DigitalOcean Droplet and setting up an Unreal Tournament server on it. Follow me for more advertising your website tips.

Tired: advertising your websites on Google, Facebook and Twitter with all their pesky algorithms algorithms Wired: Spinning up a DigitalOcean Droplet and setting up an Unreal Tournament server on it. Follow me for more advertising your website tips.

I am probably going to write a blog post on this on my main site but I went to the @retrocollective.co.uk as part of @theretroasylum.bsky.social meetup and it is so full of incredible things. Also got a tour of the workshop with some really rare arcade machines. Go if you like Nerdy Stuff!