Announcing Curse of the Herder
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Announcing “Curse of the Herder”, a screensaver experience for the web. It’s about a pissed-off little herder learning how to cuss better.
19 years, by year
Latest dispatch · issue nº 516
Adding Modern Features to Pool of Radiance Mac Classic (1989)
We are living in a tempest of a time, and my mind seeks the familiar. I picked up an 8” android eink tablet, and was pretty surprised at the lack of really good game experiences built for it’s black and white display. So I did what anyone who grew up in the 80s would do, I installed mini-VMac emulator and fired up “Pool of Radiance”
It happens so fast now, Johnny Castaway RetroArch released
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No AI was used to draft this post, these are my words fully. What does it mean, when your hard-fought efforts can be replaced in a moment of inspiration and a few dollars of tokens. I find myself asking that...
Steam on Android is Workable, Performant, and Brittle.
~11 min read 
A few weeks ago I wrote about getting the full ARM64 Steam client running on an unrooted Android tablet. At the time it was a proof of concept. Steam opened, authenticated, downloaded games, and launched a few of them through Proton 11 ARM64, FEX, DXVK, and Turnip. That felt like a good start to share.
Full GPU Accelerated ARM64 Steam on Unrooted Termux, Because Why Not?
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I’ve been having so much fun running full steam games on my switch lite! Just this weekend I got Psychnauts running well (with no overclocks!) These can be good times even if they are complicated times. Sometimes, you just need to know something is possible before it becomes easy for everyone. That’s what I’m hoping for here. I’ve got a proof of concept that’s working well enough to share, but I’m sure it could be much better done in a bespoke manner by a developer with more time. Full graphics-accelerated steam and steam games, inside a termux linux session , running on an unrooted stock Galaxy Tab S8+ (SM-X808U, Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 / Adreno 730).
Blur, Brutal Legend, C&C Red Alert 3: Linux Does What Nintendon't
~3 min read 
The most valuable thing you can do for the longevity of a device is install linux on it. I’m not just talking personal longevity, I’m also talking about the weird and wonderful ways you can keep a platform alive when you have an open target.
Updates and new apps for 2026
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PS1 Web Player While working on a new Playstation (1) game about my beagle, I realized that web emulation of PS1 games is a solved problem, and I shouldn’t be making folks use an emulater when a modern web browser...
Announcing Johnny Castaway PS1
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Introduction This has been a project well over a year in the making. I’m proud to announce version 1.0 of Johnny Castaway PS1, a port of Johnny Castaway to the Playstation 1 console, with enhanced features and options like freeplay/sandbox...
The Promise of Distributed Optimization in Software Development
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Introduction It’s no secret I’ve been working on something cool and unexpected, with a big release announcement coming very soon. However during the course of development I stumbled upon a pattern which I think could provide huge dividends for the...
Dumber and More Dangerous than Ralph Wiggum: The Dunking Bird Method
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Introduction Do you remember that episode of the Simpsons where he uses a little dunking bird toy to defraud his employer? Yeah. Like that but with prompts. Here’s the thing. Some of my coding agents, no matter how “dangerously” I...
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