Anyway, I'm glad to see this is a hobby that has something to offer to people outside the age range of people who grew up with it or grew up immediately following it. Easy to worry it's the kind of hobby that dies with its cohort, but that's not what's happening here. And younger people have interesting new perspectives that previous generations of retrocomputing fans won't always bring to it.
I also remember being excited about things at a younger age and expressing that via explaining them, and also being in mixed-age group where I almost certainly was explaining them to people who absolutely didn’t need it. So I completely understand how this comes about, haha.
Fascinating social dynamic I’ve been seeing lately: a bunch of younger people have been getting into retro computing, which is very cool! But then they end up in social spaces involving a variety of age ranges and confidently explain how things were back in the day to people who were there - incorrectly.
I totally get how it happens; a younger person is used to being surrounded by people their age who don’t know this stuff and feel the need to explain it. Just gets weird in mixed-age groups.
RE: https://indieweb.social/@classicweb/117612085436570960
I loooove this style of women’s website from this time period. Really really interesting visual aesthetics.
We were warned. But did we listen? https://achewood.com/2006/10/13/title.html
I’ve already started work on merging in the first Mastodon 5.0 beta. My hope is that we can get a Hometown release out more quickly after the Mastodon release than we have with the last few cycles.
Hometown admins! We’ve just released a new version that brings us up to date with Mastodon 4.7.5. This includes all changes from the Mastodon 4.7 series, and gets us ready for the upcoming Mastodon 5.0. https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.7.5%2Bhometown-1.4.0
If you haven’t already upgraded to the 4.6 series, we recommend doing that first before upgrading to this release. It will ensure you can do a no-downtime upgrade.
I know a lot of digital ink has been spilled over physical games, but - I just borrowed an obscure Switch game I’d wondered about from my local library. It’s nice! I couldn’t have done that if physical cartridges didn’t exist in some form.
So did MS get email back by turning GitHub off?
CALLOUT POST for the neighbour's cat who sometimes sneaks into my house
We have a mouse that snuck into the house and you ignored it to beg for food. Come on. Why are you not being a cat about this.
Finally, the one day this *isn't* true
Seeing Fox Stamps release earlier on itch because of the Steam review backlog is making me wonder... are there any other small indies that are just not going to wait for Steam and push their builds to other storefronts as they're ready? https://cyansorcery.itch.io/fox-stamps/devlog/1770893/fox-stamps-early-access-begins-now
These vulnerabilities are getting out of hand https://terminal2shell.com/
Saw someone asking if there’s ever been a social media site that let you pick your avatar per post and realized oh no… it’s been long enough we’ve all forgotten Livejournal, or never used it to begin with…
US digital archives job: Nintendo of America have a posting for a 12-month digital archivist position. https://careers.nintendo.com/jobs/4458631009/
Signs of a struggle over on UK Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes
Not sure how much I’m buying this month, but little Bandcamp Friday thread:
Fox Capture Plan - RESONANCE https://foxcaptureplan.bandcamp.com/album/resonance
Longtime faves of mine, FCP do an energetic piano-forward fusion jazz. This album sees them branching out a little with some pop-inflected vocal tracks.
Remember when Apple knew how to design things...? Haha
OK the new goth Music icon in macOS 27.2 is real bad looking. I don’t care if they get away from their specific accent colour but if they’re dropping it they need to do *some*thing with the design. Also a real argument against the new “everything is trapped in the squircle” design from 26 - a simplistic shape in a squircle just looks *weird*. The music note alone would be fine if it had a transparent background, but it looks clearly wrong encased in blank space.
IGF 2027 judging is over for the year, so took some time to write about 10 of the games in this year's competition I'm most passionate about! Not my prediction of who's going to win, just my suggestion of 10 games *you* should try. https://cdrom.ca/games/2026/11/04/igf2027.html