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Doom nerd. Author of Chocolate Doom [and other Doom things] and SDL Sopwith.

[bridged from https://social.coop/@fraggle on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Late to the party here, but "all children around the world have suddenly started repeating the same two digit number and nobody knows why or what it means" is definitely a Doctor Who plot
February 13, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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Not to brag, but if anthropic had paid me $20,000 and given me a month I'd also have been able to write them a very shitty C compiler.
February 12, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Good qualities for an open source discord clone:
* Identical UI
* Minimal dependencies (easy to spin up on a low spec VM)
* OATH so you can log in using your existing Discord account (easy for users to migrate)
* Single server (the server is the server)
February 12, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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the real reason microsoft skipped windows 9 was that windows 7 ate it
February 12, 2026 at 8:48 PM
The Horga'hn is the Risian symbol of sexuality. To own one is to call forth its powers. To display it is to announce you are seeking jamaharon.
February 11, 2026 at 10:10 PM
rest assured, this will be the sixth time i have created a doom source port, and i have become exceedingly efficient at it
February 11, 2026 at 3:05 AM
just think, if he'd been a taxi driver instead of a politician, he could have been keir starmer the car steerer
February 9, 2026 at 4:31 PM
[Elon Musk]

So I'm like 90% certain the "data centers in space" thing is just financial engineering to use one of his companies to bail out the other, but-

There's a small chance that he genuinely believes this is a good idea (like Zuckerberg's bet on VR) and we're going to spend the next few […]
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social.coop
February 7, 2026 at 9:19 PM
The story of Doves Type and how typeface designer TJ Cobden-Sanderson threw his life's work in the Thames, only for it to be recovered a century later:

https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/blog/doves-type-thames-mystery-mudlarking/
The lost Doves Type: A Thames mystery solved
A grumpy printer dumped his masterpiece, the Doves Type, into the Thames to spite his partner. A hundred years on, mudlarks fished it back up.
www.londonmuseum.org.uk
February 7, 2026 at 3:08 PM
My unpopular opinion is that you should never see a progress bar that says 100%. If it's at 100% then by definition you're done and should not be looking at a progress bar any more
February 5, 2026 at 2:04 PM
It's been almost two years now since I uploaded a YouTube video casually featuring the original, undistorted version of John Romero's "to win the game you must kill me..." clip in the intro and still nobody has noticed or asked me where I got it from

https://youtu.be/Sznmfmtebf4
February 4, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Random lady in elevator: It's 33 degrees!
Me: ... yeah..

. o O { I should really learn fahrenheit... }
February 3, 2026 at 5:49 PM
[Epstein]

https://www.jmail.world/ is increasingly impressive as time goes on - there are now an assortment of "apps" for exploring epstein's photos, Amazon purchases, imessage and Facebook conversations among other things

Whoever the team is that has put this together really deserves some […]
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social.coop
February 3, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
ICE is afraid of children protesting
“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”
www.theverge.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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Some interesting (to me) stats from #fodem

Talks about NFTs: 0.

Presentations about the Metaverse: None.

Cryptobros inviting me to a party in order to schill their coin: Zip.

Really enthusiastic LLM users describing how AI has improved their OSS codebase: Zilch.

People complaining about […]
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mastodon.social
February 1, 2026 at 1:37 PM
sorry i'm sorry i'm trying to disable it
February 2, 2026 at 9:29 PM
and there's been real heavy rotation for this particular pringle. it's dj spamtin, with bunny sneeze, and "totally impervious to mandelson"
February 2, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Love this advice!

#design #uxui #seinfeldtest
January 31, 2026 at 2:01 PM
January 30, 2026 at 3:27 PM
January 30, 2026 at 1:47 AM
20ish years ago I published an open source project and at the time I was reading a lot of Tolkien's work so I named it after one of the characters from his legendarium

just as well that it never became popular, or nowadays people would probably assume i'm some kind of nazi or something
January 28, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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January 26, 2026 at 3:33 PM
January 26, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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i finally found this picture again. it has infected me memetically a long time ago

> **Never touch the terminals.** Please don't. Cause of failure.
>
> This may be the cause.
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> It is not possible to use multiple computers at the same time. **It is not possible.**
January 25, 2026 at 8:41 AM