christianmlong

vga256, 20 days ago (edited 19 days ago) to retrogaming

this illustration was commissioned for a type-in program called Islands for the commodore 64, in the august 1988 issue of RUN magazine.

i am in love with the line-art/woodcut style, painstakingly inked and coloured. it was a different age in which a work of art could be commissioned for a BASIC game that a handful of people in the world would bother to hand-code and play.

this is better art than 90% of the physical big box games i own

update: as it turns out, there is not merely emulating etching/woodcut with inked lines, it IS an etching by artist doug smith who was famous for this style.

more of his work here: https://richardsolomon.com/artists/douglas-smith/

#retrogaming #art

b0rk, 27 days ago (edited 27 days ago) to random

in git, what ways are there to "lose" a commit in a way that you CAN'T recover using the reflog (so that you need to iterate over every single commit in the repository if you want to find it?

The only ways I know (using git's normal tools) are:

• using git stash drop or git stash pop to drop a stashed commit
• waiting 90+ days to try to recover the commit (so that it expires from the reflog)
• explicitly deleting the reflog in some way (rm -rf .git, git reflog expire, etc)

glyph, 3 months ago to random

I just want to write some code, maybe make some music, maybe draw some pictures.

I don't want to be mad about blockchains, I don't want to be mad about GenAI, I don't want to be mad about terrible backfiring "think of the children" legislation, I don't want to be terrified about the rising tide of bigoted, racist fascism ending democracy in my lifetime.

I don't want you to have to be mad about all that either.

I wish the world would leave us all alone for a little bit.

christianmlong, 4 months ago to random

I'm free

gruber, 4 months ago to random

Had another, more wide-ranging, demo with Apple Vision Pro today. Ask me anything.

Me, sitting on a couch, wearing an Apple Vision Pro, making a pinch gesture with my right hand.

dabeaz, 7 months ago to random

Waiting for the movers. Enjoying a final hour.

caseynewton, 7 months ago to random

One year after Elon Musk let that sink in, an elegy for the platform that was — and some notes on the one that is poised to succeed it. With @zoeschiffer https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-is-dead-and-threads-is-thriving

nedbat, 8 months ago to random

Mastodon is good. I'm also trying Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/nedbat.com

If anyone wants invites, hit me up.

Johannab, 8 months ago to tumblr

What is honestly going on with “#tumblr live” now? I don’t use the app a lot, but every time I open it there is a scrolling bar of veeeery barely passing the rules cam-girl looking thumbnails. They literally look like all the same person, under every possible hashtag category like “music”, “entertainment”, “home and garden” etc.
If you’re gonna promo the porn sellers, just do it honestly and let me filter it out.

Can I turn that promo off entirely, somehow?

glyph, 8 months ago to random

One day I’ll craft a toot that simultaneously references:

• “a miserable pile of secrets”
• ozymandias
• short skirt, long jacket
• icebox plums
• jay smooth
• year zero
• the cthulu mythos, but like, not in a racist way
• silent hill
• it’s always sunny
• MF DOOM
• weird al
• BDG
• at least one obscure python implementation detail useful in exactly one metaprogramming scenario

then, my self-actualization achieved, I will become a perfect being of pure energy and ascend to the heavens

anildash, 9 months ago to random

I’ve always been interested in woodworking (used to do a lot when I was a kid), so I thought I’d go down that YouTube rabbit hole a bit, and it’s all some moderately serviceable advice being given by a white guy in a t-shirt that says some version of “I love when cops kill Black people”. jfc

textfiles, 10 months ago to random

Happy sunday, work of my heart

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timbray, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Dropped by Bluesky for the first time in a while. I'm a Fediperson but still have sympathy with what they're trying to do, and the tone seems to have stabilized for the moment.

Anyhow, I have 30 invites that I haven't thought about in a while, so, giving them away. Reply to this post if you want one. In case that's more than 30 people I will invent totally arbitrary and questionably fair criteria for handing them out.

Maybe stop if there are already a huge number of replies.