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you can use computers every day for thirty years and still be utterly blown away by new error messages you cannot even begin to comprehend

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Hey #Portland #RetroComputing folks: The place I store much of my stuff was burglarized, trashed, and many items were stolen. The most valuable was a NeXTstation Turbo Color.

If you see one floating around, please let me know.

I don't have the serial number or anything identifying, other than the HDD is failed :(

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Not everyone likes football. Some people prefer cats. So if you're one of those people, here's Fishy.

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My mother in law found this when moving house and now itโ€™s mine! Itโ€™s a Panasonic PenWriter, a typewriter thatโ€™s actually a pen plotter! Canโ€™t wait to try it out, but I donโ€™t have much hope for the pens still working #penplotter

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๐Ÿฆ  We program a lot of things in this office but none quite as frustrating as our new sinks. yes, sinks.

the sink settings (!) are set with an infrared remote, which you have to place in front of the faucet IR sensor โ€” virtually guaranteeing it immediately gets drenched in a spray of water. anywayyyy

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okay don't change that byte, GOT IT.
I think I failed to load the cursor, which caused it to corrupt the mouse cursor catastrophically

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Look, it's all my favourite streaming services on one platform!

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dear reader, i hereby grant you permission to:

  • acknowledge that the world is shit
  • not suffer more than absolutely objectively necessary given your circumstances

if reading stuff makes you miserable, you are allowed not to do that. if being angry makes you miserable, you are allowed not to do that. i'm not good with words, but i hope you get the point

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ok (still 0.4 no version change) should now have a polyfill that takes care of rendering issues in that caused the pre-process sliders to not affect the image

still isn't, and will not be, supported

dithered cat picture courtesy of @angela

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Years go by, but the closing credits music from the Amiga CD32 version of (Sid Meier's) Pirates! Gold remains the most delightful 90s artifact. ๐Ÿ”Š๐ŸŽถ๐Ÿ’ฟ๐Ÿดโ€โ˜ ๏ธโš”

"the landlords of thought" - the counterpart to the thought police, equally complicit in dictating what lives in your head and what does and does not pay rent for the privilege and will also evict things for no good reason.

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A Solitaire Mystery will be featured at the Experimental Gameplay Showcase at GDC 2025! schedule.gdconf.com/session/ex Polygon also interviewed me about the game last year for a video they released a couple days ago: youtube.com/watch?v=kY6DmPs4kl

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