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Rendering “modern” Winamp skins in the browser
Writing an interpreter for a custom bytecode opens the door for rendering interactive custom Winamp skins in the browser

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Dungeons & Developing the D-20 Watch
The germ, so to speak, for Timestop and the D-20 watch came out of the pandemic. I was running a makerspace, playing D&D, and doing some small electronics projects with my kids. I was spending a lot of time with people who liked games and making things. The initial idea was extremely broad: some kind of electronic

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The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
Jungle music was found in countless games from the early 90s. This article goes over what jungle is, where it comes from, and why it was the perfect match for PlayStation & Nintendo 64 games.

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A small technical background of the dithering effect used in Return of the Obra Dinn

Return of the Obra Dinn [Releasing Oct 18]
Return of the Obra Dinn [Releasing Oct 18]

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Asterogue
Online roguelike with sci fi & space themes.

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Full of Themselves: An analysis of title drops in movies
A title drop is when a character in a movie says the title of the movie they're in. Here's a large-scale analysis of 73,921 movies from the last 80 years on how often, when and maybe even why that happens.

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NeXT Computers | Paul Rand: Modernist Master 1914-1996
Official site of graphic designer Paul Rand.

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Cramming Solitaire onto a Nintendo E-Reader card
Making a new game from scratch for Nintendo's forgotten peripheral

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Make it Yourself is a digital book that showcases this incredible talent, bringing together over 1000 useful DIY projects to demonstrate just what is possible when you make things yourself.

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Decoupling Design From Engineering
Often when you work as an engineer on a small team, you don't have dedicated designers on staff. How can you deliver beautiful, intuitive software, without...

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How I use git
From aliases, to commits, to commit messages, to reviews, to workflows.

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Doom III is a Mod for the 1994 hit Doom II by id Software. Fight your way through 2 Chapters of new levels, SinglePlayer or Coop.

Doom III (Doom II Mod) news
Doom III is a Mod for Doom II. Continue the fight against Evil as Doom Guy, Doom Gal, or one of the other selectable characters. Play Solo or Coop.

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The album that exploded punk rock 30 years ago, re-exploded onto obscure, obsolete, and inconvenient formats.

Dookie Demastered
Green Day's landmark album, demastered in 15 formats. The way it was never meant to be heard.

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Running Game Boy ROMs on the STM32 ARM Cortex microcontroller

GitHub - jnz/stm32boy: Running Game Boy ROMS on the STM32 ARM Cortex microcontroller
Running Game Boy ROMS on the STM32 ARM Cortex microcontroller - jnz/stm32boy

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Google Japan ʍɥɐʇ ɐɹǝ ʎon doing

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Gboard 両面バージョン
ひとひねりある表裏一体のキーボード、Gboard 両面バージョン。

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I spent some time playing with Astro over the weekend, and have put together a small shell script to automate converting Jekyll's filename-based post dates (yyyy-mm-dd-slug.md) to being a pubDate frontmatter property within each file.

It handles skipping file with a pubDate already specified, and skipping files with no date in the filename.

Migrate Jekyll filename-based post dates to Astro pubDate frontmatter
Migrate Jekyll filename-based post dates to Astro pubDate frontmatter - migrate-jekyll-posts-to-astro.sh

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So you want to make pixel art for an Apple II...

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Raw-dogging websites
Raw-dogging websites: index.html, styles.css, script.js. No frameworks, no CMSes, no build steps, no nuthin'. Sure, you can call it a static site, but even those tend to be compiled by sophisticated tooling behind the scenes. And also, c'mon, gotta get with the parlance of the times. I started m

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Annoyed by tons of bugs? Everything takes too long to build? No time for small usability improvements? Hire. HTML. And. CSS. People.

Hire HTML and CSS people
Every problem is a front-end development problem.

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Departure Mono is a monospaced pixel font inspired by the constraints of early command-line and graphical user interfaces, the tiny pixel fonts of the late 90s/early 00s, and sci-fi concepts from film and television.

Departure Mono
A monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi, techy vibe.

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The meaning behind Shigeru Miyamoto's 'Miniature Garden' phrase

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The Pattern Library Playbook: Get set up for success

Pattern Library Playbook: A comprehensive guide for Design Systems by Futurice
Discover the Pattern Library Playbook, a comprehensive guide for creating and implementing effective Design Systems. Learn how to streamline your design process, increase collaboration, and build connected user experiences.