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i dont think the world was better or worse before the internet so much as the internet gave us all a brief glimpse of a world without the conventional logics of capital before capital was able to catch up

Still at it with the Lego cars, lmao. Here's all the ones I've done since the last post I made about it.

Announcing: justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

i think the sg-1000/sms is like the platonic ideal of a "video game"

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i have a mega drive project in the works but i think i set myself up for failure with that one. i really want to develop for the sms so i might try to do that first

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toying again with the idea in my head of a sms/sg-1000/coleco portable with a z80 and pico vdp. batting it around like a cat with yarn

i got 2 bonus chances on puzzle swap and immediately completed 2 entire panels since struggling to get new pieces last i played it in like 2014

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hah my last streetpass was 9 years ago until i installed netpass on my 3ds

couple of weeks ago we started a new minecraft modpack and server and i decided we should build a big mall. so i wrote about malls a bit to elaborate on why i want to build one forums.transbian.love/?page=th

the discord loading screen factoid "in the ancient days discord was a browser-only app" is hilarious to me because in 2025 it didn't stop being a browser-only app they just started shipping the browser

Since the original DOS "Microsoft Editor" is in the news because of the brand new "Microsoft Edit" here's your reminder that the original MS-DOS 5 editor wasn't even a stand-alone program, but rather just QBasic in disguise.
All EDIT.COM did was launch QBASIC.EXE with the /EDCOM parameter (undocumented parameter, although the official /EDITOR does the exact same thing.) That's why EDIT.COM itself is only 413 bytes.

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