Bobby's Blog
Bobby's Blog
Bobby Hiltz
I'm Bobby Hiltz and this is my personal blog. I'm an English teacher that occasionally writes about different subjects that interest me (technology, education, games, guides).
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Another internet challenge! Joel is doing this (see Summer Game Challenge 2026) and tried to rope me into it too. As a rather casual gamer, I too have a handful of games that need completing. I didn’t bother looking at the official...
Scratch, scratch, scratch… Dig, dig, dig… Breathe in…and blow the lid off… Sometimes, it is right under your nose. You can practically smell it. The top note is soft and sweet, maybe refreshing. It draws you in, lingers for a moment, and...
Let’s talk about Rolling Thunder. No, not the movie. Not the Bob Dylan tour thing either. And not the roller coaster or the Vietnam bombing campaign. Rolling Thunder the 1986 video game by NAMCO! (The first one, not the sequels.) I went...
The teaching aspect of the academic year has come to an end for me. Now all that remains is meetings, interviews, planning, and preparation for next year. This was my 19th year teaching. (In a previous post I said it was already my 20th,...
Credit Feed is the name I chose for my posts on video games. It is a term used by players of arcade games, particularly shmups, in reference to the act of using continues to finish a game. Most players have encountered shmups (shoot’em...
Just over three years ago, I wrote a post about blogging. In hindsight, that was a pretty “OK” post. Blogging, and blogging about blogging, has continued to thrive since then. Blogging has strengthened its legitimacy as both a hobby and...
NOTE: Some of the articles mentioned in this post were selected at random from my RSS feeds between the 23rd and 24th of April 2026. I didn’t take time to cherry-pick anything. Other articles came from my long list of bookmarked articles...
I’ve written about privacy a few times on my little blog. Two of the most shared and visited posts I’ve written are The Privacy-Security Rabbit Hole and the very outdated and long-winded Low Friction Introduction to Digital Privacy. My...
Attention! This is satire. Once again we have been attacked and slandered by state-sponsored shills. This continued harassment was unprovoked and is another clear example of the global plot to misrepresent SCHOLSBAG. On a recent pigcast...
Today is CSS Naked Day! That means this site is extra basic instead of its regular about of basic. (I was very late updating my site for this, sorry.) Enjoy!
I teach. I’ve mentioned that before. I’m not an expert; I haven’t published papers or articles about teaching or digital tools for classrooms. Occasionally, I get the urge to move away from teaching and into instructional design, but...
Here I go again, knocking on things I haven’t tried and probably won’t. Don’t take it the wrong way, though. My goal here is to be informative, not pejorative. Mistral is Europe’s answer to all the other generative AI companies. While it...
On October 8, 2025, I sent an email some Members of European Parliament1. This was the first time I’d ever done something like this. The message was addressed to the European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. They...
I’ve got a problem. It a modern problem. I have too much time on my hands, and I’m wasting it using my hands to scroll. My eyes are in a perpetual state of strain and fatigue. My wrist aches and I have a sore neck and shoulder. I’m...
Background Reviews TL;DR Tiger-Heli (1985) Flying Shark (1987) Twin Cobra (1987) Fire Shark (1989) Out Zone (1990) FixEight (1992) Dogyuun (1992) Batsugun (1993) Conclusion Links/References Background In January (2026) I answered some...