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I picked up a boxed Timex Sinclair 2068 that wouldn’t boot. An oscilloscope, a BackBit tester, and a fresh Z80 later, it was running. Then I ported Charles Bond’s 1981 maze algorithm from the C64 to Sinclair BASIC.
Ala Southiick draws what she sees, where she sees it. The Serbian illustrator and environmental artist works in plein-air: sketchbook open, pen moving, catching stre...
Over 200 people Tuesday evening attended a virtual ceremony over Zoom for the third annual Stillwater Awards. I was able to tune in with my dad, thanks to my prison’s video-visit technology. (Pops pulled up the ceremony on a second...
What do you do if you’re a wild hunter-gatherer type who abhors sedentary living, dense development, abstruse legal codes and advanced technology, hemmed in by a city that’s grown to fill all the space available to it, including the...
Design is fundamentally about understanding a problem's context and constraints, not simply creating visual output.
Finished reading: The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden 📚 I finished this years ago, but apparently didn’t blog about it. This third book takes the calm dark winter fairy tale of the first two books and turns it into an action movie...
This week, I joined Will Vincent and Carlton Gibson on the DjangoChat podcast for DjangoCon Europe Recap + Other News. You can also watch it on DjangoTV via YouTube. On this episode, we discussed DjangoCon Europe, which Carlton had...
Konami was once home to a number of storied video game franchises, but around the mid-2010s, they scaled back game production and left many of these to languish. These resulted in a number of spiritual successors, some created by their...
⭐⭐⭐ 3.5/5 Stars - The loss of daily dairy entries isn't as good, but it's still Adrian! The post True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole (#3) & Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians (#3.5) by Sue Townsend appeared first on The Wallflower...
we used to be embarrassed by cruelty now we monetize it.
Here's a thing that I drew for a thing. #KelvinDrawsThings
Caught this “follow the white rabbit” moment on my way home from work today. 🐇
Considering how often the supervillains incarcerated at Arkham Asylum mount successful escapes, we’d do better to confine them inside a Chuck E. Cheese. At least that way they’d have to contend with food poisoning and sticky benches....