Tom Gidden
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Tom Gidden
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Geek. Generalist / multi-discipline coder. Edits @dingbats.net

https://gidden.net

Cambridge, UK
Quality creator merch makes me happy.

Coffee makes me happier.

#hermitcraft
October 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I'm firmly on the bandwagon of macOS Tahoe corner-haters, but it makes even less sense in Preview.app. I'm proofing the print-ready PDF for @dingbats.net and while the real cards will have trimmed corners, I don't want them arbitrarily trimmed by Apple. Make radius configurable! >:(
September 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Suggestion for a ThePiHut product: a keycap set of black, olive-brown and red-orange, a pot of beige plastic dye, and a MicroSD card that boots straight into BeebEm.

Take my money.
September 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
@thepihut.bsky.social 3 minutes between order and dispatch on a summer Friday afternoon. You're making everyone else look bad.
July 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
the Epoch-o-clock 2000™
June 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Reminds me of my Epoch-o-clock 2000™, built with a first-gen Zero and some spare 7-segment LEDs...
June 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Inspired by @retrobytes.bsky.social's video on Palm Pilots to dig out my old Palm games and bludgeon them into an emulator:

gidden.net/ggpalm
June 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Well, thanks BBC. There goes breakfast. *boik*
May 2, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Keeping this for later.
April 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
And now I'm having PalmOS development flashbacks. Six month unpaid sabbatical to develop a mechanism for app plugins to unify the brand. Total revenue: $50. :(
April 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Oddly, I've known this story for about 25 years… for some reason I've been "Master Mind" adjacent since 1996 when I wrote a web game version, and got an intern to go to Hamleys to buy it for reference.
April 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I wore this t-shirt to a follow-up appointment once, after a physio gave me exercises I said would knacker my lower back. I'm not sure they connected the dots.
April 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Betteridge's law: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘No.’”
March 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
If you ask @thewheatgerm.bsky.social, Woman is just a normal kinda critter. A fine critter to be sure, but a critter nonetheless.
March 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
"10.30am ET" (whatever that means), or "3.30pm GMT" in old money.
March 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Ah, up nice and early on a Saturday morning. Fancy some waffles, so get out the waffle-maker and wash of 4 years of dust/grease. Waffles made.

Migraine aura. Within a minute I can't see a bloody thing. Well, GFY, Saturday. Stupid bloody mornings. Don't like 'em. Don't trust 'em.
March 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
That's a Chubbyemu episode right there.
February 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A mild form of cancellation, or now-teenaged kid is just running out of room.

I don’t want to charity shop the #Hermitcraft Hermits; they wouldn’t be properly appreciated.

So, into storage with the Christmas decorations.

Bag 1/5. *sigh*
February 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Ah, a favorite.
February 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I made a dumb joke earlier this week on Star Trek Shitposting on Facebook that went largely unnoticed, but I thought maybe someone would chuckle mildly.

Checked FB today: one solitary Like, but from the son of Spock and ex-husband of Jadzia!

I shall treasure and dine out on that Like for years.
February 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I just realised this is what Iskall's lawyer's thinking right now…
January 31, 2025 at 9:29 AM
My venerable iPad case has finally perished but attempts to transplant stickers has failed. Not wanting to litter the new case with former employer's stickers, I'm bereft of suitable flair.

Then I remembered these old things, stowed away in a safe place.

(Still need stickers for the front, though)
January 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Still on the same fractal hobby project I've been pottering with since ~2007. Just bought an nVidia RTX 4060, as it was finally discounted into my price range.

Seems fast enough. Also, my first use of PyCuda, rather than CUDA C++, OpenCL or GLSL.
January 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
From my sister, the best Christmas card I ever received.
December 25, 2024 at 11:48 PM
You might appreciate our Daily @dingbats.net puzzle from a few Christmasses ago…
December 25, 2024 at 10:48 PM