We make products to celebrate and explore the history of video games with the respect it deserves.

They implement retro game console hardware in FPGA, adding support for high resolution, external displays and whatnot. I especially like their Analogue Pocket thingie that runs all pre-DS handhelds. Super cool!

gwit is a minimalist system for a Web of replicated, host-neutral, lightweight sites backed by Git.

A collection of filetypes and airports with identical names.

There is a single advice I would give to anyone writing software, and specially to great devs : Always optimize your code for your most junior developers. I agree that it is not a very popular advice, but it is the one that, in my experience, give the biggest bang for the buck.

An IRC bot that generates a feed of links that are submitted by users.

Anvil is a graphical, multi-pane tiling editor that makes bold use of the mouse and integrates closely with the shell. It supports syntax highlighting, multiple cursors and selections, remote file editing, and contains a powerful text manipulation language.

Martin came up with the idea of using something like the roots from semitic languages for naming things. I thought of the same before I read this article, but it's good to have it written down by somebody.

Turn Mastodon into your feed reader

I have been responsible for the MediaWiki installation on https://wiki.openttd.org/ from ~2005 till 2020. One thing became clear: it is very difficult to keep it up-to-date and to find quality extensions that live for more than a few years.

So, we set out to find an alternative. With the experience we have had with for example BaNaNaS we ideally would like to store all the data in git. This is mostly as data in git is easier for more people to maintain, then a database where very few people have access to. Also, the wiki of OpenTTD was not big enough (~5000 pages) to really need a database to support it. As extra bonus, we would favour any system that could easily be cached.

The software closest to this is gollum. Although gollum appears to do exactly what we want, especially as wikitext is supported via WikiCloth, reality turned out to be something else. Although it does support wikitext, or a subset thereof, it does not support templates. This is a huge issue for any real wiki, as templates make a wiki of any decent size possible. Initially we did hack in support for templates, but as it is written in Ruby, not a language any of the people involved knew sufficiently to make any decent contribution, it only added more issues than it resolved. In the end, it was decided this was not a road to go.

Another unfortunate Fediverse developer shares their woes.

🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more…

Analyze how a Git repo grows over time

See how I use it:

• https://mycorrhiza.wiki/hypha/git_of_theseus

A basic Mastodon client for Classic Mac OS

The offpunk repository

They’re finally killing the iPod.

Cool mp3 players photos.

Beautiful stuff. Check out the blog!

songs to do your silly little tasks to