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Extent of the Jam
@extentofthejam.bsky.social
Ornery middle-aged coder and musician (funk, chiptunes). Author of Digits VST and Slam VST. ADHD and Jewish. Battling nerve damage from transverse myelitis. Sick of your shit. Married. East Bay. #demoscene #retrogaming #shmups 🏳️‍🌈
I have had this t-shirt in my mind forever that has a boomer from BC and says OK BOOMER on it
January 15, 2026 at 9:56 PM
If you cheat hard enough!
January 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Cuz it turns out that what resonates with Americans is “kill all the immigrants” and “shitting yourself onstage while pretending to go down on the microphone” and “grab her by the pussy” instead of “raising the minimum wage”…
January 15, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Yeah please do
January 15, 2026 at 3:53 AM
I’d be interested in this actually. Got any cool links?
January 14, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Yeah, more realistic lighting/dust/etc via raytracing. The ai arms race can’t last forever. We’ve got something way better than a Cray in our pocket these days; a decade or two and this stuff will shrink down too.
January 14, 2026 at 6:23 PM
VR good and cheap enough to be widely adopted would be a great next step in gaming imo. But it’s still in that Wii category where it’s awesome for games conceived and built for it, but doesn’t always play what everyone wants. You solve on-foot movement though and…
January 14, 2026 at 6:09 PM
I got Cyberlip and Slug 2. I’m good.
January 14, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Some people never saw Conway’s Game of Life I guess!
January 14, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Yeah, I work on an iOS drum machine that’s been expanded upon quite a bit until it had both midi and audio tracks, integrated sound editor, etc.. but it’s sample centric so now you can basically use the drum machine side of it inside of another daw.
January 13, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Yeah I have been working on both a daw and an AUv3 plugin version of said daw, and AudioUnit is pretty high level. Apple’s APIs are generally pretty good about calling you back on the appropriate thread. On the daw side, init/teardown order is always an issue — just tons of moving parts
January 13, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Oh also I was just thinking about this and I think another motivator was I only had 2400 baud, and that’s about an hour a meg. Different world.
January 13, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Compatibility issues between hosts? I haven’t done it since VST 2.x but it was pretty brutal
January 13, 2026 at 6:23 PM
You’d think it was Twitter
January 13, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Also i literally bought a Doom 1.2 patch at a computer show because the local BBSes didn’t have it yet
January 13, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I’ve got the Prime 1 release with the elevator bug. Woo!
January 13, 2026 at 5:12 PM