Just finished Henk Roger’s The Perfect Game eariler today, which inspired me to go and play another round of Tetris Forever with a little bit of Gaiden, Famicom, and the Electronika 60!

More Everything Forever currently feels like a long read so I’m backing it up with a couple of other books for this month’s #FridayReads (and also into early April).

Both titles have been on my shelves for a *long time* and are overdue for a proper read!

#Bookstodon #Books

Starting up Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time!

https://twitch.tv/LunarJade

Manton’s Inkwell

My friend Manton Reece has a new feed reader called Inkwell. The thing that's great about Manton is he tries out new ideas. This is a feed reader of experimentation. Let's see if this works, Manton asks. We'll find out. I love that creative people are using RSS in new ways. I think before long they won't laugh at the idea that RSS is at least as good as AT Proto. (That's a joke, RSS is so much better in so many ways.)

BTW, I'm not sure how Inkwell will fit into my life. I want to try the features of his product, but I am already in FeedLand, all my feed subscriptions emanate from there. I could import my feeds into Inkwell, it supports OPML import, but the subs would not stay in sync. Something for Manton to worry about in a few months or years. No doubt a lot of people are going to love Inkwell, I love it because it's new and creative and represents a substantial investment in RSS. We all got an upgrade today thanks to Manton.

If you want to get an idea of how it works, he did a video demo for his beta testers.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dmd/115657488444172514

As of today, all mentions of Liquid Glass have disappeared from developer.apple.com (the main home page). This may or may not mean anything... but I've been watching for it.

Happy International Women's Day March 8! 💕

#InternationalWomensDay #WomensDay #March8 #EmmaGoldman #Goldman

Cory, RSS has never been dormant

I love the piece Cory Doctorow just posted, but he says something that follows a pattern, the way journalists can say something's dead because they heard it as conventional wisdom.

• Development around RSS has never "lain dormant." That's a perception not reality. Let's stop handicapping what we agree is a very useful and freedom-building system like RSS. You're telling the story that makes people believe it's gone. It is not gone.
• Without the NYT the rest of the news publishing world would probably have never adopted RSS. The NYT drove the liftoff of RSS. Google's product did come to dominate, but there were excellent feed readers long before that.

Happened to the Mac too

• In the early days of the web, it was conventional wisdom that there was no new software for the Mac, all the developers were flocking to Windows. Maybe all the devs were, but the best web server and development software, writing software, was on the Mac.

A blogroll for 2026

• BTW, since you mention Kottke's blogroll, I'd love for you to have a look at mine. You can see it on my blog at scripting.com, or on the WordPress version of my blog at daveverse.org. A screen shot.
• It's a realtime blogroll, the blogs appear in the order in which they last updated. You can expand each item to see the titles of the last five pieces, with a 300-char excerpt, and a link to read the whole thing. It's the blogroll I wanted in the early 00s, a clear indication that there's nothing dormant going on here, Cory.
• You can install it on your own system, it works as a WordPress plugin, so it's especially easy to use it on a WordPress site.

My old ass

• I'm working my old ass off developing for the web and RSS every freaking day Cory.
• I won't stop until we have a social web running with all replaceable parts, no lock-in, as decentralized as the web itself and of course RSS is part of the web.

Delighted with my Amiga home studio setup, I go into detail with different elements of it such as audio and MIDI. Continuing onto an Amiga recording session of one of my Octamed tracks. Watch here and enjoy: https://youtu.be/wGT9qgoG4Dk

#retro #retrogaming #synth #musicproduction #amiga

Hey Mastodon folks?

I've seen a few posts recently about mastodon servers shutting down without notice.

If the server you're on isn't running v4.5.7 (or close to it), it may be abandoned. You might want to go make a backup of your follows, mutes, and blocks, just in case your unmaintained server vanishes without warning. It's not as good as transferring your account, but it's better than trying to start a new account entirely from scratch.

And if the version is significantly older than 4.5.7, just move your account now, before you can't.

EDIT: There's info in the comments about which older versions are still supported.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116178635828161083

This is why blocking ads and trackers is not just a suggestion. It should be a baseline of your online existence.

(That isn’t to say that having RE: Requiem S2 isn’t impressive or that MP:4 is far from a stunner. The console’s graphical capabilities and performance have already amazed me specifically with No Man’s Sky. Or rather, my game of the year for 2025.)

You could tell me that Resident Evil: Requiem manages to run well and look brilliant on the Switch 2, or that Metroid Prime 4 looks gorgeous on a 4K television while running smooth and I would just say, “Neat!”

I’m just happy that we finally got Blue Prince after waiting for almost a whole year! 😃🎉

It is the perfect game to spend a couple of post-work evenings, listening to a podcast or an audiobook while figuring out the secret of the Antechamber and the 46th room. 😌👑

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116161459299855467

Something I want to make clear:

The "age verification" bit of the CA/CO laws are not the bit I care about i.e. a law that requires an operating systems to implement some kind of parental control feature is...whatever.

The bits I care about are the obligations on developers to call APIs and then that invocation being taken as evidence of knowledge.

Specifically, I think a -legal- requirement to:

- make any kind of call is an attack on speech
- know a users age (bracket) is a privacy violation

The U.K. accelerates toward police state status, by requiring the equivalent of a license to read and speak online. Worse, it drastically undermines your personal security.

The US is moving this way, too. Wake up, people, because it's almost too late.

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/no-id-checks-web-access

There’s still quite a bit to cover for the three days I was there though—especially on the second day. It weirdly felt more overwhelming than the Boston trips, but considering what’s been ongoing here in the States alongside some personal stuff, I had a lot on my mind.

It was still a a good journey all-around!

One of the things I realized while working on last weekend’s blog post is how easy it is in Micro.Blog to upload pictures then add them in with Markdown.

I have to adjust the width and height by numerical guesswork—instead of playing around with image boxes—but I feel like the Philadelphia travel blog will be easier to outline* and write out than the Boston ones.

*I do use Scrivener to plot out the sections and pick out the photos I’ll use in the post proper before going to the web editor.

Brand new video. We went in search of a sausage, and got lost in Cold War Berlin... https://youtu.be/O2fcZpp4t1I?si=vOV7tdY2N-Wok8yE

What a gorgeous day #DogsOfMastodon

Remember the age verification in Leisure Suit Larry? We should just do that.

This week on Nostalgia Time we play Twintris and Super Twintris. What we've both always considered the best version of Tetris on the Amiga.
Watch here and enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogmiXnOmsTU

#retrogaming #gaming #amiga