Jørgen
@strangecasts.bsky.social
enterprise esolang evangelist (he/him)
may contain music, programming, videogames, 3D, random arguments in Norwegian
may contain music, programming, videogames, 3D, random arguments in Norwegian
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As always the problems begin when *other people* use python, a group that includes your past self from two weeks ago
December 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
As always the problems begin when *other people* use python, a group that includes your past self from two weeks ago
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December 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Myst Online is genuinely free and comes with the Ages Beyond Myst single-player portion, it still holds up as a good (co-op!) puzzle adventure and will run on nearly everything
Myst Online never really had the numbers to succeed as a big Live Service game, but as a community passion project? It is exactly the right size and has grown so much over the years.
The Winter 2025 update for Myst Online: Uru Live (again) is now live, featuring updates to Chiso Preniv, Eder Naybree, Explorers' Emporium, Kalamee and Sameehn! For more info, visit mystonline.com. #Myst #Uru #ANewEraInDni @cyan.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Myst Online is genuinely free and comes with the Ages Beyond Myst single-player portion, it still holds up as a good (co-op!) puzzle adventure and will run on nearly everything
First thought when reading about the Anna's Archive Spotify dump: "how high would you have to set the playback speed to stand a chance of listening through 300 TB of music, anyhow?"
December 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
First thought when reading about the Anna's Archive Spotify dump: "how high would you have to set the playback speed to stand a chance of listening through 300 TB of music, anyhow?"
Incidentally, if you suddenly feel like making your own Original Atmospheric 3D Space Landscape (do not steal), the browser emulator Infinite Mac - infinitemac.org/1993/System%... - also has a copy of Bryce 1 under "Infinite HD - Graphics - KPT Bryce"
December 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Incidentally, if you suddenly feel like making your own Original Atmospheric 3D Space Landscape (do not steal), the browser emulator Infinite Mac - infinitemac.org/1993/System%... - also has a copy of Bryce 1 under "Infinite HD - Graphics - KPT Bryce"
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Consider making 2026 the Year of the Personal Website. Even a little thing on Neocities works. It’s just nice to have a home base on the internet that you don’t have to deal with bsky mods are random popping into every post and if something goes wrong with your host, you just move it elsewhere
Neocities
Create and surf awesome websites for free.
neocities.org
December 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Consider making 2026 the Year of the Personal Website. Even a little thing on Neocities works. It’s just nice to have a home base on the internet that you don’t have to deal with bsky mods are random popping into every post and if something goes wrong with your host, you just move it elsewhere
This is neat if you're mixing/mastering sound, it's not a gamechanger but it is a handy plugin for just getting a combined spectrogram/loudness analysis up quickly
Native Instruments & iZotope are offering Insight 2 as a free download until December 31st.
🔗 www.izotope.com/en/products/...
🔗 www.izotope.com/en/products/...
December 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This is neat if you're mixing/mastering sound, it's not a gamechanger but it is a handy plugin for just getting a combined spectrogram/loudness analysis up quickly
Finished Bits & Bops, very fun game in the vein of Rhythm Heaven - thankfully a bit more forgiving than RH, but it also loves a good visual fakeout to make sure you're paying attention to the beat
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Finished Bits & Bops, very fun game in the vein of Rhythm Heaven - thankfully a bit more forgiving than RH, but it also loves a good visual fakeout to make sure you're paying attention to the beat
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Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
Intertapes — Main
Obscure tape finds and their stories
intertapes.net
December 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
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A very irregularly updated thread of cool web toys with a creative bent (1/n)
June 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A very irregularly updated thread of cool web toys with a creative bent (1/n)
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Well it’s not 50 but there’s 39 brand new indie DOS games for anyone to play and talk about
I just think it's fun that in 2025 you can still play brand new games for DOS
itch.io/jam/dosember...
itch.io/jam/dosember...
Submissions to DOSember Game Jam
itch.io
December 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Well it’s not 50 but there’s 39 brand new indie DOS games for anyone to play and talk about
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new definition of retro: a console that Skyrim has not been released for
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
new definition of retro: a console that Skyrim has not been released for
I apologize but (1/3)
Signs of the Sojourner, Critters for Sale, Hypnospace Outlaw, Silicon Zeroes, Gunpoint, Ape Out, The Roottrees are Dead, The Eternal Castle Remastered, Pizza Tower, PRODUCER (2021), Old Skies, Noita, Kentucky Route Zero, Machinarium, Rhythm Doctor, Caves of Qud, Frozen Synapse
Signs of the Sojourner, Critters for Sale, Hypnospace Outlaw, Silicon Zeroes, Gunpoint, Ape Out, The Roottrees are Dead, The Eternal Castle Remastered, Pizza Tower, PRODUCER (2021), Old Skies, Noita, Kentucky Route Zero, Machinarium, Rhythm Doctor, Caves of Qud, Frozen Synapse
New rule this year: If you post "Play more indie games" during the game awards, you are required to make a thread recommending 50 of them.
December 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I apologize but (1/3)
Signs of the Sojourner, Critters for Sale, Hypnospace Outlaw, Silicon Zeroes, Gunpoint, Ape Out, The Roottrees are Dead, The Eternal Castle Remastered, Pizza Tower, PRODUCER (2021), Old Skies, Noita, Kentucky Route Zero, Machinarium, Rhythm Doctor, Caves of Qud, Frozen Synapse
Signs of the Sojourner, Critters for Sale, Hypnospace Outlaw, Silicon Zeroes, Gunpoint, Ape Out, The Roottrees are Dead, The Eternal Castle Remastered, Pizza Tower, PRODUCER (2021), Old Skies, Noita, Kentucky Route Zero, Machinarium, Rhythm Doctor, Caves of Qud, Frozen Synapse
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Hopefully: Implementing custom word-wrapping logic in PostScript - fun exercise in stack-based programming, but in the end the better solution was to make PDFs (bah) directly
Hopefully: Implementing custom word-wrapping logic in PostScript - fun exercise in stack-based programming, but in the end the better solution was to make PDFs (bah) directly
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
December 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Hopefully: Implementing custom word-wrapping logic in PostScript - fun exercise in stack-based programming, but in the end the better solution was to make PDFs (bah) directly
Hopefully: Implementing custom word-wrapping logic in PostScript - fun exercise in stack-based programming, but in the end the better solution was to make PDFs (bah) directly
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Thanks to the wonders of emulation, the best Christmas game ever (and the greatest Amiga coverdisk game that never was), Ludosity's Garden Gnome Carnage, is playable now in your browser. www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/...
Garden Gnome Carnage
Don't ask why. Ask why not.
www.newgrounds.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Thanks to the wonders of emulation, the best Christmas game ever (and the greatest Amiga coverdisk game that never was), Ludosity's Garden Gnome Carnage, is playable now in your browser. www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/...
IMO the only part of the Swedish effort to make a "canon of important cultural works" Norway should emulate is the online portal the Swedish government set up to let people nominate important works
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
IMO the only part of the Swedish effort to make a "canon of important cultural works" Norway should emulate is the online portal the Swedish government set up to let people nominate important works
Challenge level for the "which video game deserves a polished rerelease?" prompt going around - what's the game you had the *worst* time with but you still want to see remade?
(Either because there's just *one* thing that needs fixing, or it's still interesting enough to merit one, free choice)
(Either because there's just *one* thing that needs fixing, or it's still interesting enough to merit one, free choice)
November 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Challenge level for the "which video game deserves a polished rerelease?" prompt going around - what's the game you had the *worst* time with but you still want to see remade?
(Either because there's just *one* thing that needs fixing, or it's still interesting enough to merit one, free choice)
(Either because there's just *one* thing that needs fixing, or it's still interesting enough to merit one, free choice)
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Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%, OR = 3.393, p < 0.001).
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%, OR = 3.393, p < 0.001).
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somebody: "but you got into Eurorack to get away from your computer after work. Remember? Cables! Knobs!"
<hunched over keyboard>
me: "oh let me just finish that Strudel script making some bubbly music"
<hunched over keyboard>
me: "oh let me just finish that Strudel script making some bubbly music"
November 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
somebody: "but you got into Eurorack to get away from your computer after work. Remember? Cables! Knobs!"
<hunched over keyboard>
me: "oh let me just finish that Strudel script making some bubbly music"
<hunched over keyboard>
me: "oh let me just finish that Strudel script making some bubbly music"
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pokemon drawn by a person that's never seen them from their bulbapedia descriptions pokemum5.wordpress.com
PokéMum
My mum knows nothing about Pokémon, but loves to draw. These are her renderings of Pokémon based on descriptions from Bulbapedia.
pokemum5.wordpress.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
pokemon drawn by a person that's never seen them from their bulbapedia descriptions pokemum5.wordpress.com
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periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute
Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!
www.brailleinstitute.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
Put enough hours into this that I still find myself looking for a "Route through InterNIC" option in my VPN app
Uplink (2001). I felt like a leet hax0r playing this game on the family HP.
November 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Put enough hours into this that I still find myself looking for a "Route through InterNIC" option in my VPN app
A little annoyed this never got a CD or official digital release - it's a really good track, I just don't need more reasons to start buying LPs www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXae...
Siriusmo - Jaja (mono)
YouTube video by mel_energy
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A little annoyed this never got a CD or official digital release - it's a really good track, I just don't need more reasons to start buying LPs www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXae...
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I just want to put this out into the universe.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.
This is a very impressive PS1 game by @eliasdaler.bsky.social running on SuperStation.
November 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I just want to put this out into the universe.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.