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And writing software feels like being Marge in that go-kart race. Work slow and steady for a year writing something neat that had never been brought to a platform before, but someone can hear about it and use Claude to whiz by you in a week and make something with 10 times the functionality.

I have lost all enthusiasm for reading about new software projects, especially dealing with vintage computing. What would have sounded amazing a year or two ago and made me want to engage with the author, I now just assume was something AI spit out and feels hollow and boring so I skim past it.

we all directly and indirectly live in the shade, but not the shadow, of colossus

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Another Pomera DM250 special release: the DM250XYZ in a translucent purple color

Interesting that the keys aren't translucent like on the DM250X and DM250XY

https://kingjim.com/products/dm250xyz

What good is a laptop that can't go to sleep

well that's gonna cost some money

has AI figured out how to put toothpaste back in the tube yet

really happy to have discovered something hiding in plain sight for several years: robyn & rand miller's original Myst pitch document from 1991.

it's a succinct work of art in itself. i'm surprised at how much of the world design was already on paper.

as all of the copies found elsewhere online are heavily compressed webp/jpeg, i've uploaded the robyn's original PNGs to IA here:

https://archive.org/details/myst_proposal

originally from robyn's site:

http://www.robynmiller.net/video-games-films

#digiPres #softwarePreservation #archival #gamedev #myst #cyan

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✅ privilegemaxxing

they're good barrels brent

CRT friends: how would you describe what is happening with the image on this?

wow, has apple used their old rainbow logo on anything else since they switched to the flat one?

https://www.motorsport.com/imsa/news/porsche-penske-motorsport-running-throwback-apple-computer-livery-at-laguna-seca/10816610/

does anyone remember this

me: hey bank can you move some of this money to my savings account over at that bank? you've done it hundreds of times

bank: sure, it'll get there in 2 days

me: oh, can i pretend i'm sending a zelle payment to myself?

bank: sure, it'll be there in 2 seconds

why is ach still so slow

hello, cyberpals

what are you working on lately?

hello past me

where does the time go

Once a device can boot multiuser, compile its kernel, and has display and keyboard drivers, all further development for it must be done on the device itself

Sorry, it's the law

Eternal November

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/15/eternal-november-generative-ai-llm/

(November 2025 was when Claude Opus 4.5 was released)