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Ten Years of Frinkiac: A Few Months of Modernization with AI

langui.sh

Frinkiac – the premiere Simpsons gif generator – got some impressive UI updates for its 10th anniversary

“The reading experience on your site is much better – that’s why nobody should use RSS readers”

Shadow Acne

digitalrune.github.io

learned a new word today

SUPER ZSNES - SNES Emulator

zsnes.com

Didn't expect this to be written in Unity

The feature set looks pretty cool, wide screen mode especially

映画『８番出口』

exit8-movie.toho.co.jp

Captures the game well but not creepy enough for my taste

★★★☆☆

Mockdown — ASCII Wireframe Editor

mockdown.design

love the brush tool

Code search results · GitHub

github.com

Some interesting documents from the NBA Jam repo.

Odd to think Star Trek: 25th Anniversary was a standout title at CES to them along with Mario Paint

The disappearing and unappreciated art of audible alerts

youtube.com

cute watch face

We Found a Ticking Time Bomb in macOS TCP Networking - It Detonates After Exactly 49 Days - Photon Blog

photon.codes

Windows had one, Gnome had one – it's just par for the course

feat: add accessibility­Display­Should­Differentiate­Without­Color on macOS by robb · Pull Request #49912 · electron/electron · GitHub

github.com

I'm an electron contributor now ;)

Seems really useful for SDFs

Gewgawly I - Endless Eve

gewgawlyi.bandcamp.com

Happy Birthday, Norco!

https://aresluna.org/fn/

aresluna.org

Another banger by Marcin Wichary

To prepare for Mina the Hollower, I finally played Oracle of Seasons.

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (2001)

mobygames.com

Seasons was good but I remember liking Oracle of Ages better (which I'm replaying next).

★★★★☆

(graded on a Zelda curve)

I'm currently replaying some GameBoy titles and came across this rom hack that turns Mega Man V into a GameBoy Color game.

Mega Man World 5 DX teaser trailer (Game Boy Color hack)

youtube.com

It's one of my favorites in the series and his hack matches the style of the DX remasters perfectly.

★★★★★

The Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening German Strategy Guide : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

archive.org

I loved this guide as a kid, didn't realize that some of this art was only ever published in the German walkthrough.

This ended up being just the right amount of pulpy fan service.

★★★★☆

Phone Connection ‘Mobile Golf’ Game Boy Color

videogameartarchive.com

Oh, to be a Japanese salaryman in 2001, commuting to work and playing Mobile Golf online via a flip phone.

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

theshamblog.com

I find this entire episode extremely depressing

Not sure I would bother with Open Source work again…

Anti-Birth Items: What Made It To Afterbirth?

shunchild.com

An AI generated spam blog for moms summarizes the latest Binding of Isaac DLC.

The comet can't come soon enough.

New repository settings for configuring pull request access

github.blog

GitHub allowing users to turn off Pull Requests says a lot about the current state of Open Source development.

Tiger Inspirat

keiransell.com

I missed these when they came out, so nice!

Mac Themes Garden | Midnight Butterfly

macthemes.garden

Sure, this is one of the more unhinged themes but someone somewhere out there appreciated it unironically.

Sad how deeply unpersonal computing has become.

The Dark Rites of Arkham by Postmodern Adventures

postmodernadventures.itch.io

There's no official macOS version but I downloaded the Windows installer from itch.io and the ags file plays in ScummVM just fine.

GitHub - c-ehrlich/micropolis

github.com

The original SimCity ported from C to TypeScript using automated verification and GPT-5.3-Codex

At least I made sure the fade-in animation on my site does not replay on reload

😬

Death to Scroll Fade! – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)

dbushell.com

too real

Short and sweet. The story picks up the current LLM discourse and adds a dash of Lovecraftian forbidden knowledge.

Lore:Cheesemancy - UESP Wiki - The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages

en.uesp.net

Why mong when you can mance?

How to shoot a screen using a board of keys

unsung.aresluna.org

40 years of ⌘⇧3

This news has moved me from "maybe computer use should be regulated" to "Butlerian Jihad Now" on the radicalisation scale.

The Steam Machine Has Been Delayed Because Stupid Little Babies Can't Stop Using AI To Write Their Emails

aftermath.site

At least affordable RAM is still an option at *checks notes* … Apple

Operator Plays A Little Pingpong

terrytaylor.bandcamp.com

One of my favorite soundtracks of any video game, so many weird lil tunes

Bloop, aka, writing for chat

anhvn.com

Anh's website was a major inspiration for the aesthetic of this site.

Apropos apropos: love the design of the Amalgam enemy in QBJ3 – the intersection of brutalism and body horror is definitely relevant to my interests.

Radiator Blog: new Quake map: "One Need Not Be A House" for Quake Brutalist Jam 3

blog.radiator.debacle.us

Apropos of the previous post: Some notes by Robert Yang on his contribution to Quake Brutalism Jam 3, “One Need Not Be A House”, inspired by the architecture of Louis Kahn.

QUAKE BRUTALIST JAM III - Release Trailer

youtube.com

Of course real monsters prefer neoclassical architecture.

Neon Deutschland (@neondeutschland.bsky.social)

bsky.app

Finder's cool uncle

Lars: "Always really liked the instrument icons in Logic…"

mastodon.design

Never realized the 909 is the real deal, Roland logo and all – wonder what the story is there.

The Heavenly States - Berlin Wall

youtube.com

from the robb.is archives

Bonsplit - Native macOS Tab Bar with Split Panes for SwiftUI

bonsplit.alasdairmonk.com

Very cute site – the library looks great, too.

Daniel Kennett - A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing

ikennd.ac

Killing Apterture was 100% Apple's Google Reader moment

Dishonored 2 Devs Explain the Clockwork Mansion

youtube.com

Level with me for a second

Dogpile

dogpilegame.com

Love the poodle sprite so much

BasicAppleGuy: "Apple Creator Studio Icon History"

mastodon.social

🫠

Think diff – Introducing Linear Reviews

linear.app

Exciting stuff.

This last rule is awesome. Over the years, I have had a lot of fun with traditional folkloric clothing from different countries, students in pajamas, a banana and this year’s champion, my Studentausorus Rex!

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots

ploum.net

Probably the most optimistic piece on education that I've read in a while.