Sean Heber

Ex-galactic president. I'm just this guy, you know?

Identity: https://www.bigzaphod.com
Work: https://iconfactory.com
GitHub: https://github.com/bigzaphod
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bigzaphod

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2026-05-12 15:22:07 GMT

Excite! Excite! Excite!
This week's movie night is sorted.
(If we can wait that long...)
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/562/282/057/728/926/original/6ee67ef2382e3b37.png

2026-05-06 21:03:54 GMT

Yesterday was a tough day losing our cat, but today is my 20th wedding anniversary and my wife and I are excited to go out for our traditional Thai food without any kids tonight. 🙂
Some people throw big parties at 20, but we just do what we've always done almost every year instead because it's simpler and cheaper and doesn't involve any other people. 😂

2026-04-20 21:15:46 GMT

John Mastodon.
John Apple.
Coincidence? I don't think so.

2026-04-04 16:20:44 GMT

Me everyday now that I have solar panels:
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/347/344/002/882/838/original/c99416924f52a355.png

2026-03-24 20:35:31 GMT

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it's possible this array is massively oversized... I'm not really sure. Although we have electric heat now (and of course electric A/C in summer). Also electric clothes dryer. At some point I'd like to get electric water heater and kitchen stove, too, which would complete the set and I can get rid of the gas tank we have finally.

2026-03-24 18:03:25 GMT

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Up to 3kWh! ⚡

2026-03-24 17:57:49 GMT

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I took a closer look at the meter and I realized it toggled between a couple of different states. So I went back out and one of the states that was showing all zeros before is showing a 1 now. I think it's already generated 1kWh.
(I should also note it's kind of dark and cloudy right now.)

2026-03-24 17:46:36 GMT

Rooftop solar update: IT'S FINALLY ON!
Downside is, because everything is messed up about this install with things being done in the wrong order, they don't yet have the device hooked up/configured that lets us actually SEE the production. So here we are... after all this time... producing power. Maybe. I can't even tell. lol
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/285/388/501/627/072/original/ef85f2d9b080ca78.mp4

2025-12-22 15:08:18 GMT

I managed to spill coffee on my brand new Commodore 64 User's Guide so now it already looks like it's 40 years old.
This is just another expression of my commitment to authenticity.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/763/842/178/648/566/original/be8aa8cfa6cd090c.jpeg

2025-12-21 19:04:39 GMT

My Commodore 64 Ultimate review: https://bigzaphod.com/blog/commodore-64-ultimate/

2025-11-30 05:10:03 GMT

Snow update:
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/636/918/579/321/358/original/92fab2e8bb444335.png

2025-11-28 16:29:51 GMT

Walmart has something like $650 BILLION in revenue/year. There are around 5,500 stores (ballpark guess) so the average store brings in $320k-ish of revenue per day which is hard to fathom by itself.
I imagine some stores bring in way more than others - over a decade ago I had heard our local store could hit $1mil per day but maybe they were just talking about Black Friday?
Anyway, the amount of money flowing today JUST THROUGH WALMART is mind-blowing.
I'm staying home.

2025-11-05 22:09:11 GMT

If you're not an old like me, you might not know this, but computers used to feel snappy - you clicked on a thing and it was immediately on the screen or moved or the button appeared pressed in on the next screen update. There weren't animations on every single hover, click, open, close, drag, etc.
Everything felt basically instant and when it didn't and there was a hang or lag, you knew the computer was doing something hard. It was working on it. It was trying its best.

2025-11-04 01:01:45 GMT

There are two wolves inside of you.
You're pregnant with twins.
You're a wolf.
This is pretty normal, actually.

2025-10-23 13:45:37 GMT

Woke up with my ring finger and hand tingling a bit and in a weird panic state. I've had that happen before where my brain latches on to the source of the tingling as my wedding band pinching my finger or something so I'll slip it off a bit until the brain settles down.
Except today I couldn't get the ring off. And hooo boy did my brain start freaking out.
Normally I can slip my ring off and sometimes I do that while thinking or even watching TV - just moving it past the knuckle and back.

2025-10-20 21:44:11 GMT

Tapestry 1.4 now in the App Store if you were waiting for the nice new in-app conversation thread support.
https://apps.apple.com/app/tapestry-by-iconfactory/id6448078074

2025-10-07 14:28:33 GMT

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So anyway, we'll be stopping by the polling place later today to spend our 2 minutes of civic duty trying to make sure the worst one gets knocked off the ballot.
I'm guessing turnout will be super low, so in these sorts of elections, your vote counts way more.

2025-10-07 14:26:57 GMT

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When we found out, we dug around and found a long interview/forum/q&a thing the local League of Women Voters put together for all the candidates and watched it.
The primary was triggered because 3 people are running in the mayor race as well as our ward so the rules are they had a primary to narrow it down to two, apparently, even though they are nonpartisan seats.

2025-10-07 14:24:21 GMT

A few days ago we found out by accident that there's a primary election happening today in my city!
We had noticed campaign signs appearing a few weeks ago, but just figured it was the whole, "people are campaigning way too early" thing.
This is the danger of being hyper-online but not really hooked into anything local!
Neither of us spend any time on Facebook, we don't have a newspaper sub, and things like Mastodon/Reddit/YouTube/etc are all global.
It's way too easy to miss local stuff.

2025-10-05 23:25:56 GMT

Tonight’s movie night movie will be, “Ballerina: From the world of John Wick (2025).” Hoping for a calm, peaceful film to wind down the day with. Maybe with some dancing and fluffy outfits.

2025-10-04 18:17:20 GMT

Sometimes I think it'd be fun to pickup a (very cheap) little PC to try using as a Linux desktop on weekends just to have something different to play with occasionally.
I only very briefly tried Linux as a desktop machine back in the early 2000s but never seriously. Once I got a Titanium PowerBook I never looked back, tbh.
Unfortunately the reality is it'd probably just sit on my desk and collect dust after the first day, though.

2025-09-25 03:51:22 GMT

Just watched a couple videos with Steve Irwin and boy does the world need another Steve Irwin.

2025-09-21 22:15:11 GMT

Tonight's movie night movie will be, "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)." I hope Ethan Hunt finally finishes the reckoning he's been after for all these years. Everyone deserves a little reckoning as a treat.

2025-09-20 22:26:50 GMT

My oldest teenager found a piece of charcoal.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/238/971/196/214/051/original/9b77900cb258d0dc.png

2025-09-16 00:36:48 GMT

I've often thought about what kind of stuff I'd buy if I could afford it and mostly I think I'd want services, tbh.
Probably, depending on wealth level, there'd be a lot of upgrades I'd want (house things, car things, tech things, etc), but if the wealth was stable I think I'd want a bunch of services.
Stuff like, physical therapy, massages, a physical trainer, house cleaner, yard worker, and cook/nutritionist that gets and makes all the food and ignores my request for Twinkies and ice cream.

2025-09-14 03:07:51 GMT

That finale of Foundation was bonkers.

2025-09-12 17:08:44 GMT

Wild solar panels have appeared!
The roof shape and location of some of the chimney/vent things apparently made it difficult to have a nice symmetrical layout, but hey... free energy! (Eventually... when they get wired up and approved... whenever that happens.)
(I don't have a drone and it's hard to get high enough to get a good pic without busting out a ladder. 😛)
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/192/408/741/576/108/original/67a25ba22aa2ac03.jpeg

2025-09-12 02:14:16 GMT

This season of Foundation is awesome.

2025-09-08 02:42:28 GMT

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man Thunderbolts* was great too. Feels like both of the big studios are kind of figuring out what we need at the same time and that could be a very fun thing for the next few years, I hope.

2025-09-08 02:24:41 GMT

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I feel like... way back when the MCU started with Iron Man, it ushered in the kind of superhero movies we needed at the time but times have changed, and this new Superman is the kind of superhero movie we need now.

2025-09-08 02:22:38 GMT

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Superman was Terrific. I loved that it didn't take itself too seriously and everyone clearly had a lot of fun making it. Kyrpto was a huge hit - the kids loved him! I've not seen many of the last few Superman movies, but this one felt Super fun and fresh to me with some interesting twists on the usual story beats and characters. Everyone finished the movie with a smile.

2025-09-07 23:12:35 GMT

Tonight’s movie night move will be, “Superman (2025).” After being surrounded by comics and action figures all day it seemed somehow fitting.

2025-09-05 13:07:33 GMT

Rooftop Solar Update: A wild pallet has appeared!
The install isn't scheduled until the 15th so I guess we get to stare at this beautiful stack of potential for another week - but now that it's here things are starting to feel more real.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/151/827/431/013/318/original/e293becb7485bd50.jpeg

2025-09-01 02:46:56 GMT

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I did not expect Thunderbolts* to be this good. Wow! Easily one of the best Marvel movies in like... maybe 10 years?! It builds on a bunch of past stuff from the last few lackluster films while growing into something deeper than a "superheroes beat up the bad guy" special effects spectacle. In fact, beating folks up almost never worked out for them in this one! It felt like a much needed tweak and improvement to the somewhat stale MCU formula and I hope they can hang onto it.

2025-09-01 00:17:15 GMT

Tonight’s movie night movie will be, “Thunderbolts* (2025).” I wonder which actor plays Captain Asterisks?

2025-08-22 22:42:30 GMT

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there's a lot of pretty great shows there, but Invasion is definitely not one of them, imo.
Stuff we've enjoyed:
Ted Lasso
Foundation
Severance
Slow Horses
Bad Sisters
Silo
The Studio
Murderbot
Mythic Quest
Watched some of For All Mankind but for whatever reason just didn't get into it - not that it was bad. I don't know why we bounced off it, though. Will probably try it again later.

2025-08-22 22:35:42 GMT

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we gave up on it.

2025-08-14 18:18:25 GMT

Just got the first electric bill that entirely covers the time period after we installed the new heat pump. According to the utility company, the average outdoor temp this billing cycle was exactly the same as the average temp for the same billing cycle last year so it should be pretty comparable to the old A/C unit.
It appears we used 36.7% less electricity this year vs. last year!
Presumably this is all because of the improved efficiency of the new heat pump. Very nice.

2025-08-12 14:10:45 GMT

My favorite sub genre of post is the one that publicly yells at other people to stop telling them what to do while completely failing to notice the irony.

2025-08-02 15:53:24 GMT

Everyone in my family except me is super into D&D. The kids spend hours talking about D&D things, designing characters, etc. They live for the campaign - which only happens for a few hours maybe once a week.
Sometimes I come up with a rough idea/outline for a campaign and my wife DMs it, so I'm not totally disengaged from it, but for whatever reason I just don't have the patience to actually participate.
While they played last weekend, I played Legend of Zelda on NES instead. 😛

2025-07-11 16:15:55 GMT

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similar here, tbh - we'd love to sit down and come up with more ideas but... there's no headroom for it. Tapestry was it, basically. It was the shot. And we didn't expect designs services to vanish basically overnight.

2025-07-11 14:27:24 GMT

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I think perhaps because @npub1wha…fj2r design is quite good people have this impression that we're sitting here on a pile of money or something and some huge powerhouse - nope. We've been barely making it since Elon/Twitter. There's only 6 of us and there's no war chest.

2025-07-11 14:23:04 GMT

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I know nothing I say is going to get anyone to stop using ChatGPT and generating a new app icon in 5 minutes for the app that you also had ChatGPT write for you in a few hours, but I'm not sure what the rest of us are supposed to do about making enough money to, ya know, live.

2025-07-11 14:18:09 GMT

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Tapestry's Kickstarter was a bit of a hail mary, but people aren't subscribing in great enough numbers to replace Twitterrific revenue and that combined with the sudden free-falling design revenue might just be the end of us.

2025-07-11 14:17:08 GMT

ChatGPT and other AI services are basically killing @npub1wha…fj2r and I'm not exaggerating or being hyperbolical.
First Twitter/Elon killed our main app revenue that kept the lights on around here, then generative AI exploded to land a final blow to design revenue.

2025-06-30 15:32:38 GMT

Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m08TxIsFTRI

2025-06-26 13:55:14 GMT

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as far as I can tell reaching down to AppKit from inside Catalyst is all undocumented/private API. Would love to know if there was a supported way but unless I'm missing it I haven't seen it.

2025-06-25 21:32:51 GMT

Spent the day fighting macCatalyst with very little success. Sigh. I don't know why Apple has such a tendency to release ~85% of what I need for a given set of APIs, but I swear this happens constantly. There'll be a great set of things and then ONE function missing.

2025-06-25 17:20:57 GMT

We call this fella Doofus. Three years ago a young hawk was born in one of our trees and spent awhile learning to fly around our yard. He'd crash land right in front of us and just... stand there awhile and look around. He let us get pretty close to him, too. He's been hanging out here in the summers ever since then. Sometimes he flies down and looks in the window.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/745/145/530/473/844/original/2cb3832f58e1071f.jpeg

2025-06-23 16:22:35 GMT

Do any of you guys work at any companies that could use some design services for a project? Like, needing an app icon, a new logo, an advertisement, a website? Big or small is fine - @npub1wha…fj2r has some of the best designers around sitting idle and waiting for something to do! They can get started on new stuff basically right away if you email.
(Please help spread the word! Maybe someone you know needs it? We can do whatever! Get in touch. https://iconfactory.com/services)
#fedihire #getfedihired

2025-06-15 18:59:32 GMT

Tonight's movie night movie will be, "Office Space (1999)." This is the first documentary we'll have watched for movie night.

2025-06-11 16:30:04 GMT

The solar company is coming today to do their full site survey (as opposed to the salesman's rough estimates of the size/cost/etc). Once that's done they can write up the actual contract with the final cost and timeline and such.
The bank switched our refinance status to "preparing for closing" which appears to just involve waiting for a lawyer to sign off that our title is clear and then the next step is, I think, signing a bunch of things and waiting for the money to show up.
Getting closer.

2025-06-05 20:27:36 GMT

How does one go about buying popcorn futures?

2025-05-30 23:51:13 GMT

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is the only good cop show.

2025-05-26 02:21:01 GMT

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Ok, so... A Minecraft Movie was actually totally awesome. I don't know why it has such low scores - it was freakin' hilarious. I think the thing is, the movie doesn't really explain anything about Minecraft or give much of a reason for anything nor does it even bother trying to target people unfamiliar with the game - but if you're watching it with a bunch of kids who literally live and breathe Minecraft, grew up with it, know the game and its lore inside and out, well, then it's a total riot.

2025-05-25 23:18:38 GMT

Tonight's movie night movie will be, "A Minecraft Movie (2025)." I mostly just expect to see Jack Black being Jack Black and that's about it, tbh. Oh and something about a chicken jockey.

2025-05-06 04:28:16 GMT

I’m re-reading The Expanse books and there’s never been a TV series that was so perfectly cast to fit the source material, I swear. I cannot hear any other voices in my head than the actors that were on the show. Just perfect performances by all involved.

2025-04-17 17:16:38 GMT

Sometimes sucks. kinda concurrency

2025-04-14 01:57:08 GMT

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Ocean's Eight was super fun. One kid declared it just as good as the original (he means Ocean's Eleven from 2001). I don't think it rose to those lofty heights, but I do love a clever heist movie and this one didn't disappoint. I didn't see the reveal near the end coming, either, so that was a nice surprise.

2025-04-13 22:50:55 GMT

Tonight's movie night movie will be, "Ocean's Eight (2018)." I find this movie series numbering system to be very confusing.

2025-04-09 16:53:10 GMT

Got an updated eye exam today. The verdict is, "things got worse."
That's as good a description of the times as any, I guess.

2025-03-31 14:21:09 GMT

It's never good when you gotta start the week out by calling a plumber.

2025-03-23 22:13:53 GMT

Youngest kid refunds *so* many games on Steam - sometimes after mere minutes. Today he played a game for 6 whole minutes before he pulled the trigger on a refund request.
Except.. today, Steam is not happy with him.
He finally got an official warning to stop doing that or else they'll revoke his ability to refund games.
On the one hand, I totally get it and warned him this could happen.
On the other hand, he doesn't quite "get it" and thinks Steam is being unfair.
Such is life, I suppose.

2025-03-23 01:13:55 GMT

Trying to watch AppleTV’s Invasion but wow this is the slowest and most plodding show I’ve ever seen. It’s like there’s a good idea or two in here, but they didn’t know to execute it. Trying to make the characters seem deep and complex with long pointless backstory and conflict while ignoring the far more potentially interesting aliens the show was supposed to be about. It’s not very good, tbh. Except now we have the sunk cost thing going on… maybe season 2 is better? How did it get a season 2?

2025-03-22 14:56:27 GMT

Sometimes I like to think of The Matrix as a sequel to Hackers.

2025-03-03 03:01:54 GMT

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Sonic The Hedgehog 3 was chaotic fun. Jim Carrey easily stole the show - I swear he was born to play Doctor Robotnik. I'm pretty sure there were a lot of references or callbacks to the previous two movies and/or Sonic lore from cartoons and whatnot but since we can't remember the other movies and know basically zero lore, they all went totally over our heads. I definitely enjoyed the gag about blowing on the USB stick the same way we used to blow on video game cartridges back in the day. lol

2025-03-02 22:01:20 GMT

Tonight's movie night movie will be, "Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (2024)." I remember enjoying the first two movies, but that's all I remember about them. Oh, and Jim Carrey. That's good enough for me.

2025-02-18 23:28:21 GMT

Me thinking about some code a few days ago: "This should only take 20 minutes..."
Reality:
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/027/478/107/238/717/original/ede234655951141a.png

2025-02-04 14:30:50 GMT

Happy Iconfactory Tapestry release day! https://usetapestry.com
#TapestryApp

2024-12-26 05:06:46 GMT

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Made it to the final boss in Balatro and lost by $10k. Dammit! Closest I’ve gotten.

2024-12-25 23:53:17 GMT

No YOU just spent like 5 hours playing Balatro.
(btw it's on Apple Arcade if you have that and plays wonderfully on both iOS and macOS)

2024-12-19 19:28:19 GMT

Did you know that the episode "Subspace Rhapsody" of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has its own sound track? Well, if you didn't, now you do: https://music.apple.com/us/album/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-2-subspace-rhapsody/1698596327
(My youngest is listening to this on loop right now.)

2024-12-04 19:53:09 GMT

Is Xcode's default indentation setting tabs or spaces?
Anyone remember if it ever changed at some point?
WHICH ONE IS RIGHT?

2024-12-01 20:07:35 GMT

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Take SwiftUI, for example. It's built entirely on "advanced" Swift features like result builders and property wrappers. It straight up abuses Swift all over the place. New devs are thrown right into the deep end *immediately*.
Almost no one is starting from `print("hello, world")` anymore.

2024-12-01 20:07:31 GMT

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For example, there's the idea that programmers should start single threaded and slowly move to concurrency - but you can't actually do that in real life, IMO. Libraries/frameworks constantly impose concurrency on you - either they have async functions or they're using callbacks where stuff happens "later" and often on a different thread/actor or the function is marked nonisolated (for good reason), etc.
You can't ease into it.

2024-12-01 20:07:21 GMT

I appreciate that the Swift folks are thinking about how difficult and confusing the concurrency story has become (https://forums.swift.org/t/prospective-vision-improving-the-approachability-of-data-race-safety/76183) but I feel like even with all of this, some of the most painful points are being missed.

2024-11-26 18:44:51 GMT

Extremely in the coding weeds and not happy about it at all.
Glad that this is a short week due to the holiday since I'm tired, but I'm not feeling confident I will get out of these weeds by Thursday which means they might be hanging over my head the whole time.
Sigh.

2024-11-26 02:04:00 GMT

OMG my ISP emailed me about a scheduled outage tonight but they publicly CCed it to EVERYONE. I’m now getting reply alls about stuff like paying bills. looooooool 🤡

2024-11-19 19:30:13 GMT

Every time there's a popular new social network, advocates will say things like, "it's so fun over there!" or, "the vibes are so good!"
Unfortunately the advocates rarely acknowledge that it's fun and the vibes are good because practically everyone on the new network are only posting about how it's fun and that the vibes are good.
Enjoy the feeling while it lasts! I wish it didn't have to fade, but the novelty always seems to wear off eventually.

2024-11-12 02:42:27 GMT

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have already seen it. So damn good.

2024-11-12 02:05:33 GMT

We finished Slow Horses. Now we have to wait almost a year for the next season.?! That’s a crime. It’s criminal. There should be a continuous stream of nothing but new Slow Horses episodes from now until the end of time. I want a live stream of Slow Horses. Come on Apple! Get on it! Make it happen!

2024-11-11 20:05:24 GMT

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I decided to open a support request with Slack about this and after submitting it I went to the support page... and... WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING HERE?!
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/466/112/946/158/344/original/81d4de9628b4d07c.mp4

2024-11-11 19:49:17 GMT

Clicking external web links in Slack is now opening Safari *behind* the Slack window on my mac. This is absolutely not what I want. Restarting Slack didn't fix it. Is there some new setting for this? I noticed this a week or so ago and then I think it fixed itself.. and now it's doing it again.
Maybe I need to reboot? (sigh...)

2024-11-02 17:38:26 GMT

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thing that really bugs me is that macOS seems to be trending in a similar direction where digging beyond the surface reveals a ton of old cruft, outdated UIs, broken stuff, etc.

2024-11-02 17:33:17 GMT

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do you know if 11 is any better or is it just more of the same chaos?

2024-11-02 17:16:47 GMT

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we have one Windows 10 machine and I get so confused whenever I try to do anything on it. It's weird how both similar and utterly alien it is relative to something like Windows XP which was probably the last version of Windows I used for anything real.

2024-11-02 17:11:52 GMT

According to my kids, "Apple computers are great for work but suck for fun stuff."
This opinion is entirely because of things like the available games selections on Steam.

2024-10-15 21:54:57 GMT

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wow.. what the hell. Two witnesses?! And you have to pay to mail it back!? Wow... Pretty sure ours comes with a prepaid envelope and there's def no witness or photo copied ID requirement. (Although had to write our ID number on the initial request forms.) Still waiting for ours to arrive, though, because they pushed all the dates back here to give everyone less time to complete them.

2024-10-14 15:44:05 GMT

This is a fun little dungeon game with puzzles that you can play right in your browser. New daily: https://dailydungeon.net

2024-09-24 14:00:18 GMT

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Wallaroo does NOT cost $49.99 per year or $11.99 per month because that seems pretty steep for wallpapers. Just thought I'd mention that, too. For no reason whatsoever.

2024-09-24 13:57:41 GMT

Just mentioning, for no reason whatsoever, that if you enjoy nice wallpapers for your devices, Wallaroo is only $1.99/month or $19.99/year and we release new ones EVERY WEEK that aren't just curated and sourced from somewhere else on the web but MADE FRESH exclusively for Wallaroo by real live human artists like @npub124q…9h5m, [@piraino](https://mastodon.art/@piraino ), @npub1a5u…9xdr, and Dave. And there's some free ones, too, so even if you don't pay you get a nice wallpaper and you don't have to watch any ads.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wallaroo/id1630565980

2024-09-20 21:16:47 GMT

A couple days ago I was playing with the VICE Commodore 64 emulator and typed in a few simple BASIC programs just to see what I remembered (not very much).
Kids came over and they were immediately hooked by how this thing works. With just a few minutes of me telling them what little I remembered of BASIC commands and a few key combos to change cursor color, they were writing loops and printing things and just loving the directness of it.
We've lost something magical. We need to get it back.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/171/939/305/731/651/original/fafa1a114a3942ca.png

2024-09-14 19:09:10 GMT

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yep, for sure. The size and scope of everything got huge and complicated. User expectations skyrocketed. Little "hey this is cool" projects don't interest anyone anymore and its hard to show off a thing and be proud of a hack if no one cares.

2024-09-14 18:40:05 GMT

I used to hack on all sorts of programming projects on weekends, but it's been a long time since I've done it.
Been trying to think about why.
Part of it is that I feel like I know too much. I can imagine how I'd implement a thing almost immediately and therefore the challenge is over and the rest is just typing.
Part of it is that I like to work on stuff that is going to be used but I know from long experience that weekend side projects never get finished and are virtually never revisited.

2024-09-11 01:47:39 GMT

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The living embodiment of ChatGPT.

2024-09-11 01:43:32 GMT

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lol

2024-09-11 01:32:54 GMT

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Beast mode: activated.

2024-09-11 01:29:26 GMT

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I think he just rebooted.

2024-09-11 01:19:22 GMT

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Ow. My brain.

2024-09-11 01:17:33 GMT

Getting dumber watching this.