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so, a friend has been trying to learn to program for the past year and a half or so, by doing coding puzzles. I've helped her a bit! when she wanted a bigger project, she started writing QR code generator entirely from scratch, in Rust, which is incredibly tricky. and look!! 😭

https://twitter.com/cirkelnio/status/1711445213460173043

you have no idea how excited i am that a version of touchHLE can run Rayman 2. i loved that game as a kid, it feels like an incredible honour

https://twitter.com/ciciplusplus/status/1711106534925582769

I'm one of those people who is technically skilled in a non-artistic discipline, but hasn't developed enough skills in more traditionally artistic things, despite having a deep love of art. I'm sure it's a tale as old as time. It defines a lot of my life choices…

i have decided that i must learn dutch because [ɣ] is simply too much fun to pronounce

touchHLE status update, not prompted by anything in particular: I've spent most of my time the past week working on the new application compatibility database, that will replace the current manually maintained list of supported apps. I'm hoping to put it live in a few days.

points at ZIP file file system.

“hikari you can't just point at anything and call it a filesystem”

points at JSON document file system.

touchHLE and skeuomorphism fans might appreciate this: a website with lots of screenshots of old iPhone apps from 2010~2012

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/apps

web 2.0? web3? miss me with that, i'm waiting for Web 4.0 Workstation and am willing to put up with Web 95 in the meantime

holy shit. utf-7 mojibake in the wild. i just got this email:

Hej,

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Med v+AOQ-nliga h+AOQ-lsningar,

(phone number redacted)

ok so mozart may have been an extremely talented composer, but did he have a low-end 1992 roland rompler connected to a pc running open-source midi sequencer software? didn't think so.