such is the state of my life that's there's a bin in on the kitchen floor that contains primarily
1. small bags of potato chips (assorted flavors)
2. ISA modems [from approximately 1984-1995]

handing a db-25 cable to an autistic friend of mine, and when they ask "why?", I say "so we can engage in parallel play!"

9pm on a wednesday is definitely the time to decide you really need to port one of your programs to Windows 3.1

spoiler alert: you'll be porting it forward

I love hearing about hardware problems where it's like "well that can't have broken that way, just from doing that" and then there's follow-up and NOPE, it's really broken that way, from doing exactly that. huh. Computers are weird.

I've been saying since the 2000s that it's important that every big software stack have at least one angry new software grad to fight back against entrenched complexity in the existing codebase.

sometimes there is a good reason why we can't "just do X, Y, or Z" but someone should be still raising the question, damn it

So it's my birthday, and I'm currently the only one of three disabled trans people in my household who can work, but 16 months of being bedridden and ongoing chronic migraines have left us very broke. If you'd like to send a few dollars as a gift, that'd be very appreciated!

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

It's always slightly annoying to me when there's keyboards that can switch between bluetooth and a separate proprietary protocol, because they always run into the problem of what to name that separate option.

* RF - Ah, so their Bluetooth isn't going over radio now?
* 2.4g - hey quick question: what frequency is that Bluetooth running at?

Looking for work.

I have 12 years' experience in embedded software development in C/C++. I have also worked extensively on tasks related to toolchains (CI, CMake, Docker, etc.) and automated testing with hardware-in-the-loop and RaspberryPi. I am capable of handling most software-related work, even if it is not embedded.

I am looking in the Strasbourg area in France. Remote work preferred.

I speak French, English, German and Spanish.

#GetFediHired #FediHire #FediJobs #France

Happy International Lesbian Day, from VGAPride!
Here's one of the many lesbian pride flags (the 5-stripe variant of the "sunset" flag).

Highly motivated to find folks with Whistle InterJets -- late-90s 486 SOHO Internet appliances (IBM bought and sunsetted it, and sold off the whistle.com domain). People with long ISP memories may remember it because it was resold by ISPs in US /Europe / Asia (especially Japan).

I'm building a comprehensive info resource (and tailoring modern NetBSD to run on it). We need to find folks with hardware, software we're missing, ephemera, or memories. The software (on 30yo IDE drives) is especially endangered.

Rough site, in all its 1995-grade (but secretly HTML5) "glory":

https://www.alaska.net/~royce/interjet/

(That tilde account is also endangered -- I've also registered a domain and will be moving to it when ready)

Reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1x0kbcs/seeking_folks_with_whistle_interjets/

DM me or hit the email on the page.

Please boost, especially if you have overlap in the retrocomputing or vintage ISP space!

#RetroComputing #NetBSD

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/117395630019667600

Under 12 hours left on this

i've had this irresistible piece of 90s msdos trashware on my shelf for 10 years. softkey international was a shovelware company that you'd find at your local grocery store - i think it began its life as a shareware distributor, before it began selling big box copies of low quality games and applications

i couldn't bear to throw out this boxed copy of Key 3-D Design over the years, and never once thought it had any archival value until today

after a bunch of searches, i couldn't find any copies of SoftKey 3-D Design for DOS online. it's a verrrrrry stripped down CAD program that runs in 640x480 and 16 colours. (there are win16 versions archived online, but not the DOS version)

the rendering algorithm reminds me of Sierra AGI games, painting one face at a time slowwwllyyy 😆

am i the only person that seriously wishes low-res, shit-shaded VRML made a comeback?

i've archived the box covers and diskette here. have fun building the hacienda of your dreams:
https://archive.org/details/key-3d-design/

#digiPres #archival #softwarePreservation #msdos

Super Lesbian Mario Fox Girls 3, aka Kitsune Tails, 35% off? It's more likely than you think! https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

Or help our queer studio survive the year by getting all our games bundled for $17.99 on itch (https://itch.io/s/202703/kitsune-games-fall-sale-2026) or $18.75 on Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673/Kitsune_Games_Complete_Pack/)

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RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/117395630019667600

btw since i get this question a lot: buying on itch means we get almost 150% as much money from your purchase compared to buying on steam

I'm currently the only one of three disabled trans people in my household who can work, but 16 months of being bedridden and an ongoing chronic migraine issue has left me very broke. If you can spare a few dollars, it'd really help, thanks!

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

Kitsune Tails is 35% off! https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

But you can also get all four of our games bundled for $17.99 on itch (https://itch.io/s/202703/kitsune-games-fall-sale-2026) or $18.75 on Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673/Kitsune_Games_Complete_Pack/)

Kitsune Tails and Zero, roguelike MidBoss, and block push puzzler Ultra Hat Dimension

Think Super Mario Bros 3 needed more lesbians with fox ears? Well good news! Kitsune Tails is 35% off: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

Or help our queer studio survive the year by getting all our games bundled for $17.99 on itch (https://itch.io/s/202703/kitsune-games-fall-sale-2026) or $18.75 on Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673/Kitsune_Games_Complete_Pack/)

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a c++ dequebuilder should let you draw from both the top and bottom of your deque

Deck & Conn and Dungeons of Freeport are part of the October sale! 20% off, and they're also bundled together if you've not gotten either of them and want to. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/85388/Deck_and_Conn_x_Dungeons_of_Freeport/