Micro Mages (NES / PC) by Morphcat Games
morphcatgames.itch.io
Micro Mages is a platform game developed for the original 8-bit NES console.
Entire game in 40KB. Includes a detail video showing some of the tiling and sprite tricks used to save space.
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Memento complexitatis: remember complexity
johndcook.com
A lot of work went into the production of the posters themselves, but the amount of hard-won knowledge the posters represent is mind-boggling. One little arrow on one poster might represent a career’s work.
Everything I Know by Buckminster Fuller
bfi.org
During the last two weeks of January 1975 Buckminster Fuller gave an extraordinary series of lectures concerning his entire life’s work.
My product is my garden
herman.bearblog.dev
That’s what I want from my products. I want to putter about, feel connected to the process, and have fun doing so. I want to make things that don’t scale. To see people tuck into them and enjoy them as people, not as stats.
40 Years Ago, Disney's Weirdest Failure Changed Sci-Fi Movies Forever
fatherly.com
This psychological dissonance is kind of a hat-trick in the context of 1982, but when you watch it now, it’s more poignant. In 1982, there was no internet in a mainstream sense and the idea that a person could have a second identity in a digital realm, wasn’t just science fiction, it bordered on outright fantasy.
Writing and Running a BBS on a Macintosh Plus
jcs.org
Last year after writing a lot of C on my Macintosh Plus, I had the itch to write a new BBS server so I could move my BBS to run on another Mac Plus. As with all software development projects, it took quite a bit longer than expected, but last month I finally got far enough with the development to deploy the new BBS on a Mac Plus.
'Bizarro World'
archive.boston.com
“Honey,” I said. “You’re not going to believe this, but I just got off the phone with a guy who’s in charge of video game world records, and he said the world record for Game Boy Tetris is 327 lines, and he wants us to go to New Hampshire this spring so you can try to break the world record live in front of the judges at the world’s largest classic video game tournament.”
How ‘The Bear’ Captures the Panic of Modern Work
nytimes.com
Of all American cities, Chicago is the one whose mythos is most closely associated with a particular kind of work: honest, meaty, broad-shouldered labor that forges you into something bigger, nobler. Like the city it’s set in, the restaurant in “The Bear” is an unpretentious place, humbly catering to “the working man.” But “the working man,” we soon learn — as a young, Black, female sous-chef mocks an older, white, male manager’s use of the label — is a contested term, especially in an environment where nobody does anything but work, and pretty much nobody has anything to show for it.
Just an incredible show. I couldn’t stop watching.
land-boards/RasPiPico
github.com
Raspberry Pi Pico Projects
C64 Theremin
linusakesson.net
I used a C64, two 555s, four resistors, a spoon, and a clamp to build a working Theremin.
This guy just keeps blowing my mind.