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Ted Reed
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Sort of a multiclass programmer/sysadmin/network engineer. Also @[email protected] (he/they)
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internethippo.bsky.social
You're mad because you expect a "software update" to make things work better. You will only be free when you understand this to be an illusion and accept the fact that software is suffering
December 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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cyningstan.bsky.social
Recently I released #Barbarians for #msdos. This release was for the #DOSember Game Jam, a 3-month game jam for MS-DOS preceding the month-long DOSember streaming event for 2025. cyningstan.itch.io/barbarians-dos #gamedev
A screenshot from the recently released Barbarians for MS-DOS. It uses a similar layout to the versions ZX Spectrum and some Psion pocket computers. A central main map is surrounded by various information panels: on the left, information about the empire as a whole, on the right, information about the last referenced map square, and underneath, the game's name and a one-line prompt and menu display.
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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adamchalmers.com
on type safety
Frog and Toad illustration edited to say: Frog put the value in an option. "There", he said, "now we will not deref any more null pointers". "But we can unwrap the option," said Toad. "That is true", said Frog.
June 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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ecmyers.com
If you have an Apple thing, get Jane Austen's 8-Bit Adventure for free while you still can. It's such a very, very good game.
mattjustice.com Matthew Justice @mattjustice.com · Oct 22
The iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV versions of my NES game, Jane Austen's 8-bit Adventure, are FREE for a limited time through the Apple App Store! The game will be delisted from the Apple App Store on November 2, so grab it for free while you can.

apps.apple.com/us/app/jane-...
‎Jane Austen's 8-bit Adventure
‎Classic literature meets classic gaming in Jane Austen's 8-bit Adventure! This 2D platformer stars Jane Austen, English novelist, who finds herself in an 8-bit video game. This game was developed to ...
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October 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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swamplizard.bsky.social
future grandchild: like shit, from an ass?

me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House
October 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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eileen4ever.bsky.social
My friend’s neighbor’s house fell off its foundation (old steel structure collapsed), and they just did the funniest thing.
Giant skeleton looking like it’s tipping over a house.
October 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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rob-sheridan.com
In our fictional dystopia for NIN’s “Year Zero,” Hollywood had been destroyed and rebuilt in Florida where it was strictly regulated by the state & overseen by Evangelical groups, so news was state propaganda and entertainment was sanitized pro-Christian content approved by the US Bureau of Morality
“CENSORED FOR YOUR PROTECTION” graphic from Nine Inch Nails’ “Year Zero” ARG/album, 2007. The US BUREAU OF MORALITY seal is in the center, with “ONE NATION UNDER GOD”
September 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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lookitup.baby
Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths
September 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
treed.dev
September 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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lavenstar-games.bsky.social
Used the tools from my NES game to work on a little side project this weekend. Had a lot of fun, and yes, it’s running on real hardware!🥳
FCゲーム用に作った自作エンジンを使って、週末にちょっとしたサイドプロジェクトを作ってみました。実機でもちゃんと動いています！🩷
#ファミコン #nes #nesdev #pixelart #hollowknight #silksong #hornet #TeamCherry #ドット絵 #ホロウナイト #シルクソング
September 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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katewillaert.bsky.social
What was the first English-language review of Metroid, I hear you ask? Steve Harris and the USNVGT (who would later go on to create EGM magazine) wrote about the Playchoice-10 version (which arrived just a bit before the NES version) for trade mag Play Meter (May 1987):
archive.org/details/play...
Metroid ake a character that resembles an odd-shaped humanoid and dress him up in some colorful duds. Now, give him the ability to run and jump, so that he can avoid numerous obstacles like alien creatures and canyons filled with molten lead. Next, provide our friend with a gun, enabling him to dispatch the nasties that are in constant pursuit while collecting the energy they occasionally leave behind to sustain himself. Also, hide various objects around the environment that will increase his firepower, let him roll up into a ball to sneak under impasses, and accomplish other amazing feats. Been done before, you say? Maybe, but never with as much flair or with the attention to detail that’s evident in Metroid, the latest card release for Nintendo’s something-for-everyone gaming system, the Play Choice-10. Metroid consists of a number of search and destroy missions, taking players across an ever-changing landscape that is riddled with tunnels, canyons, crawlways, etc. Throughout the course of each round players encounter a wide variety of obstacles ranging from alien creatures to walls that require specific weapons to destroy. Each enemy has a_ unique personality that make him an easy (or tricky) target. The real attraction of Metroid, however, is derived from the sheer size of the environment in which the player interacts, as well as the almost limitless number of paths that can be taken to achieve a common goal. The screen scrolls both vertically and horizontaliy to accommodate the action, taking Metroid through countless encounters and across all types of terrain. Game play is based on_ energy consumption, with power losses occurring whenever the player comes in contact with an alien or when Metrojdfalls into lava. Energy can be regained occasionally when an alien is eliminated. Sometimes the alien will leave a glowing pellet in its wake, which can then be collected. The animation of most of the characters and the backgrounds are adequate, but the graphics of the Metroid character are detailed and humorous. Metroid moves with a lumbering style and somersaults head over heels in mid-air whenever the player jumps or when Metroid rolls up into a ball to get under low ceilings. Metroid is a great game that is perfectly suited for the Play Choice-10 system. The size of the playfields allow for some exciting journeys, and the ever-changing surroundings guarantee a new challenge with every step. Definitely a superior game that will have players forming lines and giving the Play Choice-10 system a first class workout!
August 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
treed.dev
I know some folks who'd probably be amused by this, haha
mickstorm.bsky.social Mick Storm @mickstorm.bsky.social · Jul 10
Was wondering what Law & Order would be like with the Twin Peaks soundtrack
July 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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scaredydave.bsky.social
Hey Bluesky! Im Dave Bruno! An Animator, Artist, and Author who wrote the Horror novel "Oh F*ck! Dinosaurs!" I like video games, horror and stupid stuff. Just a friendly wholesome dude!

Amazon: shorturl.at/7RwwJ
Itch: scaredydave.itch.io/oh-fuck-dino...
B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/oh-f-ck-di...
July 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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matthewhaybrown.bsky.social
Viktor Orban tried to ban the Budapest Pride parade. He got the biggest one yet. Steve Hendrix reports from the Hungarian capital

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June 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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steveklabnik.com
Async from scratch 1: What's in a Future, anyway?

#rustlang

natkr.com/2025-04-10-a...
Async from scratch 1: What's in a Future, anyway? | natkr's ramblings
There are a lot of guides about how to use async Rust from a "user's perspective", but I think it's also worth understanding how it works, what those async blocks actually mean. Why you get all those ...
natkr.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
treed.dev
Got a few of his shirts in the past and I’ve been needing to reup my shirt inventory and this was a great push. They’re good quality stuff and I got 8 shirts for $104! Ridiculously good deal here.
rob-sheridan.com Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · May 23
So, the new shirt really hit a nerve, it has quickly become our new best-seller, mostly from Bluesky - thanks! Another win for social networks where you can just post the direct link to your stuff. Anyway, all my casual goth & other tees are still $13 all weekend. Details: mailchi.mp/rob-sheridan...
May 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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hbgameclub.bsky.social
NEW EPISODE: We talk indie game design and publishing with academic and #GBStudio developer @totter87.bsky.social! This is a great conversation for anyone interested in creating your own games.

Check it out here: bit.ly/hbgc-chris-t...

Transcript link: bit.ly/hbgc-totten-...
Indie Game Design and Publishing with Chris Totten
Listen to the episode here, or wherever you get podcasts! The gang interviews Chris Totten, Associate Professor of Game Design at Kent State University and the creator of recent Game Club pick Kudzu. ...
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May 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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bad-example.com
pretty damn close to a 100% top-to-bottom bluesky-free bluesky

✅ indie pds (lots)
✅ indie relay (mine + others now!)
✅ indie jetstream (mine + many more (optional))
🌀 indie appview (AppViewLite has some issues, @futur.blue's should work, more in progress)
✅ indie client (@aviva.gay's deer.social !)
bad-example.com fig (aka:[phil]) @bad-example.com · May 2
alright the work is cut out

AppViewLite's own web view works really well, but i can't get very far using its XRPC endpoints. seems like deer was doing everything right though!
screenshot of custom-appview.deer-social.pages with a full-screen error "Oh no! There was an unexpected issue in the application." the network pannel is open and filtered to app.bsky, and shows many 404 responses on the search page with People tab selected and retr0.id in the search input, an error is shown in the console: "XRPCNotSupported" my profile page: shows my profile picture and display name, but warns "invalid handle" and "There was an issue fetching posts. Tap here to try again". the console shows many 502 errors for app.bsky.feed.getAuthorFeed.
May 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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reduct.rs
SRE Partner Reluctantly Accepts Role of Running The Polycule’s Infrastructure
April 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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theonion.com
NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes
NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes
SILVER SPRING, MD—As mass firings of career experts and scientists continued to roil the federal government, officials confirmed Friday that cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
theonion.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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annamerlan.bsky.social
Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
February 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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charalanahzard.bsky.social
ok can we please invent a word like ‘soulslike’ or ‘roguelike’ but for games like Outer Wilds and Obra Dinn because it is clearly the best video game genre and should be quantified accordingly
January 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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langel.bsky.social
Orange Island is a modern game I've been hired to port to the 8bit NES and here's a long overdue update! #nesdev
December 19, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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itch.io
I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain
December 9, 2024 at 7:13 AM