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39digits.bsky.social
@39digits.bsky.social
Webmaster.
Functioning Doom addict (E1M1).
Enjoyer of Nintendo, Laravel, Twin Peaks, light editor themes, and Microsoft.
I am convinced that Donkey Kong Bananza is really just @nomansbsky.bsky.social Terrain Manipulator: The Game 🍌
June 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I kinda want John Carpenter and his son Cody Carpenter to do an electronic album for Halloween with Sabrina Carpenter and to call the collaboration The Carpenters.
June 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
"I can go and Google with Bing" 🤣

I love #MSBuild, but especially the talks with @scott.hanselman.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Spending the afternoon catching up on the last few months of Edge magazines.

This is nice 🙂
May 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
@joe.inkle.co I just read the Feb 2025 issue of Edge and I love your suggestion in the Saving The Games Industry article.

I would love to see GDC take inspiration from academia and take place in a new location every year.
May 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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“Yippee ki-yay…”

We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.
May 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I have to return some videotapes.
May 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
So there are food powerups in the new Mario Kart World.

What if you eat a hamburger while racing as Cow?

😐
April 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The joy of still having a sizeable local music collection.

Spotify is down so I just flipped over to my local Nirvana, Metallica, etc albums as if nothing happened.

🤘🎸🥁🎶
April 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Maybe it's because I grew up in the 80s/90s but I have zero issue with Nintendo's pricing.

I was paying £30-40 for gigs back in the early 2000's but £35-50 for a game.

Now gigs are £180-300 while games are only now reaching that £60-75 bracket.

I'm surprised we've had it so good for so long tbh.
April 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Ovechkin! 895!

😲🎉
April 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Vibe coding makes you as much a programmer as that time I installed a no-solder drop-in LCD replacement into a Game Boy Advance turned me into an electrical engineer.

I got the job done (on the shoulders of experts) but I have zero clue how it actually works. Thankfully nothing went wrong.
March 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
A month ago Google search kept showing a ton of ads (often more ads than results).

It led me down a hole.

Switched to @kagi.com and will never look back.

Switched to Microsoft Launcher on my Pixel to use Kagi as quick search widget.

Edge as main browser.

Google pushed me past a tipping point 😲
March 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Epic Pinball (PC / James Schmalz / 1993)
March 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Noot Vir Noot needs to reboot as a Pingu quiz show.

🇿🇦
March 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I sure am going to miss Sam Rosen after the end of this year's New York Rangers season.

I just hope MSG honours him with a "retired number" next to the greats with the total number of games covered across his career.

Absolute legend.
March 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
trumpery.
noun

1. something without use or value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff.

2. nonsense; twaddle:

Usage: His usual conversation is pure trumpery.

www.dictionary.com/browse/trump...
March 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
TIL: Edge doesn't let you set an address for new tabs.

So I can't set it to open my home server dashboard by default 😞

Is this how Linux users are created? 🐧

Maybe it's time to look at Vivaldi 👀
March 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
PSA: If you start watching the #TwinPeaks Pilot at 10:54am tomorrow it will sync up exactly with Dale Cooper entering the town of Twin Peaks at 11:30am on February 24th

🦉☕🍒🥧🪵🚦🕵️ ⛰️⛰️

😬🐟☕
Twin Peaks GIF
Alt: Twin Peaks GIF of Dale Cooper entering the town of Twin Peaks on 24 February at 11:30am.
media.tenor.com
February 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Google search in Edge is suddenly showing a lot of useless Shopping links in the results.

It has immediately gone from a good search engine into pretty useless.

Meanwhile, Bing looks amazing by comparison.

I'm actually switching right now 😐
February 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Tickets for Laravel Live UK 2025 have been secured 🎉
February 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Is there some UK by-law that requires builders to play the worst music on repeat at crazy volumes?

There are only so many times I can be forced to listen to Sweet Caroline on repeat before I break 😭😭😭
February 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The PSN outage should be a great reminder to all that any form of DRM is a serious problem.

On PC, I often wait to see if a Steam game will be released on GOG. I'll often happily wait months (thanks, backlog).

So in a way, if publishers/platforms embraced no DRM they might make more profit.
February 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
My current day desktop is so silent compared to the 386 and up I used to rock in the 90s.

Eerily so.

It (almost) makes me wish for some coil whine to add a little bit of character 😅
February 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Now that I'm back in the Laravel ecosystem I sure am feeling like I'm missing out seeing all the posts of people heading to #LaraconEU 😅

Hope everybody going has a great time though
February 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM