Collin Allen
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Sr. Software Engineer at Pixar building web and native apps · Mac nerd since the PowerPC 603 · Interested in hardware and infosec · N64 and original Xbox homebrew enthusiast
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Collin Allen
@command-tab.com
· Nov 3
Awesome N64 Development
A curated list of Nintendo 64 development resources including toolchains, documentation, emulators, example code, and more
n64.dev
A shameless plug for the #Nintendo64 homebrew resource list I maintain: n64.dev It’s a complex console, but the open-source tools and hardware that ease development have been making significant strides in the last couple years with open USB/flash cartridges, open SDKs, even an open boot loader.
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”
October 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”
The Apple@Pixar team just released an open-source tool, `xolo`, that helps administer JAMF MDM package deployment and patch management at scale: github.com/PixarAnimati...
GitHub - PixarAnimationStudios/xolo: The successor to d3/depot3, a package deployment and patch management system for OS X that enhances Jamf Pro, an enterprise-level management system for Apple devic...
The successor to d3/depot3, a package deployment and patch management system for OS X that enhances Jamf Pro, an enterprise-level management system for Apple devices - PixarAnimationStudios/xolo
github.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The Apple@Pixar team just released an open-source tool, `xolo`, that helps administer JAMF MDM package deployment and patch management at scale: github.com/PixarAnimati...
I sat down to work on a project that uses a Raspberry Pi, powered it up, went to plug in a USB cable, and accidentally dropped the cable's metal USB connector onto the Pi's power management circuitry and shorted something — killing this brand new Pi. Real smooth. 🤦♂️
September 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I sat down to work on a project that uses a Raspberry Pi, powered it up, went to plug in a USB cable, and accidentally dropped the cable's metal USB connector onto the Pi's power management circuitry and shorted something — killing this brand new Pi. Real smooth. 🤦♂️
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Do you have a dead retro device motherboard you want to donate to science?
I am taking requests and board donations for my board scan wiki.
wiki.nataliethenerd.com
I am taking requests and board donations for my board scan wiki.
wiki.nataliethenerd.com
Natalie The Nerd Wiki | Natalie the Nerd Wiki
Game Boy board scans, references and more
wiki.nataliethenerd.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Do you have a dead retro device motherboard you want to donate to science?
I am taking requests and board donations for my board scan wiki.
wiki.nataliethenerd.com
I am taking requests and board donations for my board scan wiki.
wiki.nataliethenerd.com
Dialup AOL is being discontinued next month. The end of an era. I met my high school sweetheart and future wife on AOL, and we maintained a long distance relationship over IMs for years. We celebrated our 17th anniversary a few days ago. You never know what technology will change your life.
August 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Dialup AOL is being discontinued next month. The end of an era. I met my high school sweetheart and future wife on AOL, and we maintained a long distance relationship over IMs for years. We celebrated our 17th anniversary a few days ago. You never know what technology will change your life.
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I published a new video showing some lesser-known techniques for styling SF Symbols in SwiftUI, including scaling symbols relative to text, coloring them with gradients and multiple colors, and applying variants like fill or circle programmatically: youtu.be/ytUWzccgD_w
#SwiftUI #iOSDev #SwiftLang
#SwiftUI #iOSDev #SwiftLang
SF Symbols in SwiftUI: Styling tricks you might have missed
YouTube video by Nil Coalescing
youtu.be
August 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I published a new video showing some lesser-known techniques for styling SF Symbols in SwiftUI, including scaling symbols relative to text, coloring them with gradients and multiple colors, and applying variants like fill or circle programmatically: youtu.be/ytUWzccgD_w
#SwiftUI #iOSDev #SwiftLang
#SwiftUI #iOSDev #SwiftLang
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"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones
July 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones
This week I’m taking my oldest to EAA AirVenture for the first time. The number of planes landing on Flightradar24 is staggering! Having never been before, I have no idea what to expect, but he’s very into aviation, so this seems like going to airplane Disneyland.
July 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This week I’m taking my oldest to EAA AirVenture for the first time. The number of planes landing on Flightradar24 is staggering! Having never been before, I have no idea what to expect, but he’s very into aviation, so this seems like going to airplane Disneyland.
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N64brew user Buu342 has released a multiplayer networking stack for the Nintendo 64, allowing you to play homebrew online using a flashcart's USB port. They also made a video that shows how to use the tools, and explains all the technical details.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9aV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9aV...
Playing Online Nintendo 64 Games with a Flashcart
YouTube video by Buu342
www.youtube.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
N64brew user Buu342 has released a multiplayer networking stack for the Nintendo 64, allowing you to play homebrew online using a flashcart's USB port. They also made a video that shows how to use the tools, and explains all the technical details.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9aV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9aV...
Planning a few-day-long summer trip to San Diego. Any recommendations for family fun with 10 & 13 year old kids?
July 4, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Planning a few-day-long summer trip to San Diego. Any recommendations for family fun with 10 & 13 year old kids?
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Amid the other horror from all this, it's a damn shame about the Perfect Dark reboot being cancelled. It looked like it had promise and I was looking forward to it. :(
P. S. There's a work-in-progress decompiled pc port of the N64 original that breathes fresh life into it and is very playable.
P. S. There's a work-in-progress decompiled pc port of the N64 original that breathes fresh life into it and is very playable.
July 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Amid the other horror from all this, it's a damn shame about the Perfect Dark reboot being cancelled. It looked like it had promise and I was looking forward to it. :(
P. S. There's a work-in-progress decompiled pc port of the N64 original that breathes fresh life into it and is very playable.
P. S. There's a work-in-progress decompiled pc port of the N64 original that breathes fresh life into it and is very playable.
The annual tradition is approaching!
July 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The annual tradition is approaching!
Delete Apple Account > Throw away iPhone > Sell house > Live in woods > Find bottle in nearby stream > Has note inside > F1® The Movie tickets available now!!1
June 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Delete Apple Account > Throw away iPhone > Sell house > Live in woods > Find bottle in nearby stream > Has note inside > F1® The Movie tickets available now!!1
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My kids have discovered that some online games are vulnerable to turning off Wi-Fi briefly, and now I'm sharing the story of flag stealing in Halo 2 using the cable modem "standby" button. Artificial lag — a tale as old as time.
June 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
My kids have discovered that some online games are vulnerable to turning off Wi-Fi briefly, and now I'm sharing the story of flag stealing in Halo 2 using the cable modem "standby" button. Artificial lag — a tale as old as time.
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You have your ducks in a ROW? Just one row? I have my ducks in a bunch of rows and columns. A whole excel spreadsheet of ducks. Grow up. Get it together.
June 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
You have your ducks in a ROW? Just one row? I have my ducks in a bunch of rows and columns. A whole excel spreadsheet of ducks. Grow up. Get it together.
Just fixed a bug I introduced almost exactly a decade ago. Work some place/on something long enough and you start to have to really deal with the results of your past decisions 😆
June 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Just fixed a bug I introduced almost exactly a decade ago. Work some place/on something long enough and you start to have to really deal with the results of your past decisions 😆
Apple's transcriber APIs are coming along, but if you need accurate transcription right now, I've been happily using Speechmatics' API for several years and recommend it. It returns accurate text transcripts and even detailed word-by-word timing in JSON format. It's not free, but it's very good.
June 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Apple's transcriber APIs are coming along, but if you need accurate transcription right now, I've been happily using Speechmatics' API for several years and recommend it. It returns accurate text transcripts and even detailed word-by-word timing in JSON format. It's not free, but it's very good.
My city streets are absolutely lined with protesters! I’ve never seen this many people come out for any event ever. Outstanding.
June 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
My city streets are absolutely lined with protesters! I’ve never seen this many people come out for any event ever. Outstanding.
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When landing on the Moon, the astronauts watched an instrument called the FDAI that showed the spacecraft's orientation. The ball inside the Flight Director/Attitude Indicator rotated in three axes as the Lunar Module rotated. Let's look inside and see how it works. 1/N
June 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
When landing on the Moon, the astronauts watched an instrument called the FDAI that showed the spacecraft's orientation. The ball inside the Flight Director/Attitude Indicator rotated in three axes as the Lunar Module rotated. Let's look inside and see how it works. 1/N
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It doesn‘t make any sense structurally that sidebars in Liquid Glass are in a layer above the selected content. It makes them seem more important than the content which they never are.
June 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It doesn‘t make any sense structurally that sidebars in Liquid Glass are in a layer above the selected content. It makes them seem more important than the content which they never are.
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I know lots of things are very bad right now, but it's nice to have awesome stuff still happen. And Rick Moranis returning is very awesome.
"Bill Pullman and Rick Moranis are set to reprise their respective roles as Lone Starr and Dark Helmet in the new Spaceballs movie from Amazon MGM Studios, with Keke Palmer (One of Them Days) joining the cast, sources tell Deadline."
RICK MORANIS IS BACK!! 🤯🤯
RICK MORANIS IS BACK!! 🤯🤯
Bill Pullman & Rick Moranis Returning For New ‘Spaceballs’; Keke Palmer, Lewis Pullman Also Set – The Dish
'Spaceballs 2' is bringing back Rick Moranis and Bill Pullman, enlisting Keke Palmer to star alongside the original cast members, sources say.
deadline.com
June 13, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I know lots of things are very bad right now, but it's nice to have awesome stuff still happen. And Rick Moranis returning is very awesome.
Still looking forward to an LLM-based Siri and future Apple Intelligence advances. Apple is in such a good position to provide useful features: powerful silicon, careful privacy consideration, and having ready access to email/messages/calendar/etc. It’s the perfect confluence of dependencies.
June 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Still looking forward to an LLM-based Siri and future Apple Intelligence advances. Apple is in such a good position to provide useful features: powerful silicon, careful privacy consideration, and having ready access to email/messages/calendar/etc. It’s the perfect confluence of dependencies.
Regarding Tahoe’s flipped Finder icon, I might be in the minority, but I think Apple should in fact rename Finder to Files and use the Files iOS app icon or something like it. We manage files with Finder; It should be called Files. Blasphemy, I know.
June 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Regarding Tahoe’s flipped Finder icon, I might be in the minority, but I think Apple should in fact rename Finder to Files and use the Files iOS app icon or something like it. We manage files with Finder; It should be called Files. Blasphemy, I know.
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New way to launch and manage containers on macOS, and yeap, it’s oss and entirely written in Swift!
github.com/apple/contai...
#swiftlang developer.apple.com/videos/play/...
github.com/apple/contai...
#swiftlang developer.apple.com/videos/play/...
Meet Containerization - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer
Meet Containerization, an open source project written in Swift to create and run Linux containers on your Mac. Learn how Containerization...
developer.apple.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
New way to launch and manage containers on macOS, and yeap, it’s oss and entirely written in Swift!
github.com/apple/contai...
#swiftlang developer.apple.com/videos/play/...
github.com/apple/contai...
#swiftlang developer.apple.com/videos/play/...