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Graphical adventure game creation system! Created with SBCL Common Lisp and McCLIM. You can follow code development at my gitlab. I often talk about it on fediverse, and the Lispy Gopher Climate Sh…
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on Jan 1
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How to Work from Home - Mark writes
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I've been working from home for years, and I've got a whole process: It's fine to wear bathrobe (or pajamas) for a while. Naked people get very little done. Breakfast and coffee time can be extende…
on Sat, 12PM
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Library of E-Babble - Mark writes
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There's centuries of research in organizing a physical library, and some reasonable if contentious schemes. Organizing your ebooks, whether epub, pdf, text, reaction gifs, whatever, can be much mor…
on Dec 15
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Corporate Horror Movies - Mark writes
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The scariest monsters in our world are corporations. So I've picked out a series of horror movies about evil corporations, and rebellion or survival against them. No TV shows. No sequels (even if t…
on Oct 8
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Adult Engineer Over-Optimization as the Motie Problem - Mark writes
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Looking at my Scheme code and the way I customize it, I'm starting to see the real reason evil megacorps (and wannabe evil startups) won't hire even middle-aged programmers or use your favorite wei…
on Sep 4
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Monsters! Monsters! - Mark writes
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Let me explain. No, there is too much, let me sum up. Back in 1975, Tunnels & Trolls was the second RPG ever written. Space Gamer #2 has this: T&T has a bunch of virtues, it's VERY simple, …
on Sep 1
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Return of the Objective-C Jedi - Mark writes
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[[[ These ]]] are your father's square brackets, the weapons of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as C++. Elegant weapons for a more civilized age. Apple's Objective-C books used to be top-not…
on Sep 1
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Saturday Morning Cartoons - Mark writes
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Grab a bowl full of sugary cereal, and sit down to veg your brain out to heroic cartoons of the '60s to early '90s! Atom Ant (1965) Herculoids (1967) Mighty Mightor (1967) Shazzan (1967) Young Sams…
on Aug 10
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Science Fiction on the Archive.org - Mark writes
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In light of asshole publishers attacking archive.org: Hachette Book Group, Inc., Harpercollins Publishers LLC, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and Penguin Random House LLC. Libraries are important, an…
on Aug 5
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Book Report: Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons, Part II - Mark writes
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Part I Part II: 1973 Draft of Dungeons & Dragons In which letters show Dave Arneson running Blackmoor for the Lake Geneva mob, and they set up their campign, with more areas taken from the Grea…
on Jun 26
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Book Report: Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons - Mark writes
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This is an expensive, enormous, gigantic, medieval scribe sized tome, absurdly heavy and dense, thick, glossy paper, color print. Almost 5cm thick, does about d6+2 damage in mêlée, with 4 colored r…
on Jun 26
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What I'm Watching: Godzilla Minus One - Mark writes
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Finally out on Netflix (along with most Godzilla films). G-1 follows the style of GMK and Shin Godzilla by only admitting to the events of Gojira (1954), in this case by being set in 1945-1947. Fai…
on Jun 3
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Coding Soundtracks - Mark writes
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In the mood to work today. Coding Soundtracks playlist: Social Network, by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (American movie is dogshit…
on May 20
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Dartmouth's BASIC at Fifty site from 2014: May 1st, 1964 In particular this video Why Johnny Can't Code, by David Brin: Terribly overwrought, almost completely ignored available solutions (even in …
on May 1
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Manga Recommendations - Mark writes
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Serious: Akira: Biker punks vs psychics in post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo. Fantastic cyberpunk art. Black Magic, Dominion, Appleseed, Ghost in the Shell, Orion: Shirow Masamune's meditations on AI cont…
on Apr 8
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What I'm Watching: "the little things" - Mark writes
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Let it always be known that I dislike everyone imitating e e cummings. Write in all caps. And I don't like leading articles in titles; "Little Things" is a better title. The entire credits are in l…
on Apr 3
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Retrowave Saturday Music - Mark writes
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Something trancey to let me coast thru the weekend. NETRUN vol 1 NETRUN vol 2 NETRUN vol 3 DJ Mute City Halcyon Highways 12
on Mar 31
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J-Rock Saturday Music - Mark writes
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Midnight Flower video, by Fence of Defense Sara, City Hunter 2 OST, by Fence of Defense Digitaglammy Show, by Fence of Defense featuring Daisuke Asakura Primitive New Essence, by Fence of Defense U…
on Mar 17
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Leap Thursday Music - Mark writes
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NEW MINISTRY! So here’s a bunch of other angry/sexy noises to go with it! I’m headbanging “Just Stop Oil”! HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES, by Ministry LET GO, by KMFDM DEATH CULT 8323 E…
on Mar 2
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What I’m Watching: The Fall of the House of Usher - Mark writes
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A fairly nice homage to Poe’s work, 8 episodes which for once seems somewhat justified. None of the episodes are strongly based on a specific story or poem, but they do work most of them in. …
on Mar 1
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ZX Spectrum Next - Mark writes
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Backed this in Sep 2020. After 3.5 years of of antici… … … … … … pation, I finally have my SpecNext release 2! SpecNext.com SpecNext.dev I don’t have it set up in its final location in the li…
on Feb 3
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Indecent Proposal: Linux - Mark writes
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Craig suggested a snarky Modest Proposal, start targeting Linux instead of Mac, if you recoil at Apple taking 30%. It’s really 15% for most people in Small Business Program. In the Olden Time…
on Jan 24
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What I’m Watching: The Head - Mark writes
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An English-language (mostly), Spanish-made mini-series on hobomax. Remarkably good actors, cinematography, for the most part… though indoors scenes are heavily tinted cyan/orange. The disease of mo…
on Jan 22, 2024
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New Machines Friday Morning Music - Mark writes
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Cycle of Life, by Aiboforcen This is My Battle Cry, by Ayria: About half of these are dumb synthpop, but title & several other tracks are real electronica. music video: You know I’m a jun…
on Jan 5, 2024
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What I’m Watching: Rings of Power part 2 - Mark writes
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(I had this series of toots in my notes, apparently didn’t publish. Whoops.) Previously on Rings of Power SPOILERS Galadriel continuing to be a badass, but shitty diplomat, is one of the best…
on Jan 4, 2024
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Public Domain Monster: Mouseling - Mark writes
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Mouseling (Swords & Wizardry stats) HD: 2, AC: 6[13], Attacks: Nip (d4) or Weapon (d6), Save: 16, Morale: 8, Move: 12, Align: Chaos, CL/XP: 2/30. Demi-humanoids with mouse-like features, no mor…
on Jan 1, 2024
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Nanorogue ATR disk: Nanorogue, Matriculated Rain, New Year’s programs, with launcher. blog posts on Atari 8-bit Coding Sheets
on Dec 22, 2023
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Mac Icons for PDFs - Mark writes
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I have a great many folders of PDFs, mostly grabbed from archive.org magazine_rack, ataribooks, etc. The trouble is when I open a folder of these, Finder makes preview icons for a few of them, then…
on Dec 22, 2023
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What I’m Reading: Inhibitor Phase by Alastair Reynolds - Mark writes
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A couple years ago, when this came out, I read like a paragraph, and then realized I needed to reread the entire Revelation Space sequence (2000-2003), including the Prefect (2007) & Elysium Fi…
on Dec 9, 2023
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Re the lispygopher chat, just a few thoughts longer than a toot. I played the hell out of MOO back in the ’90s, as well as ran my CircleMUD (D&D-like combat-oriented) for a while, and my …
on Nov 22, 2023
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What I’m Watching: Monarch Legacy of Monsters - Mark writes
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Eagerly awaited, because we have a long tradition of great Godzilla TV shows It alternates between a 1950s origin story, and 2010s post-G-Day. Somewhere in between is Kong Skull Island. SPOILERS In…
on Nov 20, 2023
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Cyber Future Saturday Music - Mark writes
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Deltron 3030, by Del tha Funky Homosapien, etc. Cybrid, by Deathline International Software, by The Cassandra Complex Hardware, by The Cassandra Complex – Wetware, it’s Rudy Rucker̵…
on Nov 19, 2023
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What I’m Watching: Renfield - Mark writes
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I’m not doing the 31 days of horror thing this year (look at news, I’m no longer in the mood). But a few will be seen, and today’s is Robert Kirkman’s Renfield (2023). So Ro…
on Oct 21, 2023
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A Schemer in Common Lisp Land - Mark writes
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(updated 2023-10-06) Basic functionality of Common Lisp (SBCL) seen from a Schemer’s view. I list commands in lowercase, fields are UPPERCASE, {} are optional, … are repeat. Everything …
on Oct 6, 2023