3.5' USB floppy drives: they don't make 'em like they used to. (I took one layer off the left in troubleshooting, and dug the look.)

I say “bring back translucent electronics!”

Mrwhosetheboss (18.3 million subscribers) describes Cory Doctorow's “Ensh*ttification.” Bless. youtube.com/watch?v=wVYG1m…

Underground parking garage: “You'll never guess what I found.” 😉 Great day for a drive. #DeLorean #BTTF

aa-spritesheet.webp: now 25 KB. 🗜️I've got a build of armor-alley.net (sans-audio) that fits on a 360K 5.25' floppy, with room to spare.

GMK MTNU 800 keycaps, inspired by the Atari 800. Nice match for the 1981 Philips mini-cassette recorder, too.

Troubleshooting an elegant mini-cassette recorder, from 1983. A similar model was briefly featured in a James Bond film, 'For Your Eyes Only.' Clip here, full 3-minute thing on YouTube. youtu.be/ZvlJv1b9-MY

“Now that generative AI has dropped the cost of producing bullshit to near zero, we see clearly the future of the internet: a garbage dump.”

Hang on, we're in for some chop.
theintrinsicperspective.com/p/here-lies-th…

See if you can spot where the JavaScript error kicks in. 🌋😆 (Warning: LOUD. 🔊)

Five years ago today: Returning home after 14 years in California. I have great memories, and friends from my time there.

Setting up a new (temporary) water feature on the roof... ⛲️ Drained several hundred gallons via sump pump, before hiring a lifeguard became necessary. 😅🏊🌊

I couldn't resist: Optimizing my browser-based DOS game remake to run from a 5.25' floppy. 💾

The server hosts the game, on disk. A boot loader of sorts fetches gzip-encoded HTML + JS + CSS files from disk, decoded via DecompressionStream(). A fun throwback experiment.

Rest assured, I am up to no good. 💾💻

A bit of #DeLorean trivia: It has Irish roots! 🇮🇪🍻
The cars were assembled near Belfast between 1980 and 1982.

ANSI escape codes; I had almost forgotten about \x1b[32m and friends. “Fixed.” 🎨

They don't make 'em like they used to.
(This fit into a wallet sort of thing, and a separate dock for recharging.)

“Young whippersnappers, no respect.”

Back in my day, we had to pack our spritesheets by hand, in the snow, uphill both ways, and we liked it that way! Now get off my lawn! 😆 #gamedevelopment #RETROGAMING