Chris Garrett
@chrisg.com
🇨🇦🇬🇧Nerd
* Content Marketing / WordPress
* Retro gaming and programming
* Raspberry Pi / Arduino Etc
* Warhammer / D&D
* 3Dprinting / making / CNC / lasercutting
* Content Marketing / WordPress
* Retro gaming and programming
* Raspberry Pi / Arduino Etc
* Warhammer / D&D
* 3Dprinting / making / CNC / lasercutting
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Do you watch faceless videos or must you see the creator on camera to enjoy them?
Staying off camera is MUCH easier but I wonder if there is a reason why most successful channels show the person's face more than simple social connection.
Staying off camera is MUCH easier but I wonder if there is a reason why most successful channels show the person's face more than simple social connection.
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Do you watch faceless videos or must you see the creator on camera to enjoy them?
Staying off camera is MUCH easier but I wonder if there is a reason why most successful channels show the person's face more than simple social connection.
Staying off camera is MUCH easier but I wonder if there is a reason why most successful channels show the person's face more than simple social connection.
Welp this is 23 years old so I started working on what came before it 25 years ago 😬
Surprisingly means very little now, at the time I had friends who thought it was a big break.
Nobody expected clients to prefer chatting with bots instead of hiring me to write books or to code.
Surprisingly means very little now, at the time I had friends who thought it was a big break.
Nobody expected clients to prefer chatting with bots instead of hiring me to write books or to code.
November 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Welp this is 23 years old so I started working on what came before it 25 years ago 😬
Surprisingly means very little now, at the time I had friends who thought it was a big break.
Nobody expected clients to prefer chatting with bots instead of hiring me to write books or to code.
Surprisingly means very little now, at the time I had friends who thought it was a big break.
Nobody expected clients to prefer chatting with bots instead of hiring me to write books or to code.
Finally managed to make space for this guy.
Doing a test print then I’ll try a mini 2u rack
AMS already jammed naturally as is tradition
Doing a test print then I’ll try a mini 2u rack
AMS already jammed naturally as is tradition
November 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Finally managed to make space for this guy.
Doing a test print then I’ll try a mini 2u rack
AMS already jammed naturally as is tradition
Doing a test print then I’ll try a mini 2u rack
AMS already jammed naturally as is tradition
Bit of electrical tape and my screen is back in action. Too fragile to be portable now so perhaps time to finally make a case for my PET?
November 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Bit of electrical tape and my screen is back in action. Too fragile to be portable now so perhaps time to finally make a case for my PET?
Right on cue, Ollie my couch buddy who enjoys binging YouTubes with me came for a visit because it was time for sofa
October 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Right on cue, Ollie my couch buddy who enjoys binging YouTubes with me came for a visit because it was time for sofa
We have 4 cats but my main work colleague is Kara Kitteh the ginger micro-tiger who gets seriously pissed off when I am not at my desk on time <3
#nationalcatday is every day right?
#nationalcatday is every day right?
October 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
We have 4 cats but my main work colleague is Kara Kitteh the ginger micro-tiger who gets seriously pissed off when I am not at my desk on time <3
#nationalcatday is every day right?
#nationalcatday is every day right?
Wondered where that had gone. Minstrel 2 kit
October 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Wondered where that had gone. Minstrel 2 kit
I've started working on my own retro pixel art editor because I needed to generate some BASIC DATA statements and nothing I found worked exactly how I needed 🤓
October 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I've started working on my own retro pixel art editor because I needed to generate some BASIC DATA statements and nothing I found worked exactly how I needed 🤓
U64 back on the network, unfortunately using a cable running across the room now my desk is the other side to the network port. Gonna need a bigger cable.
October 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
U64 back on the network, unfortunately using a cable running across the room now my desk is the other side to the network port. Gonna need a bigger cable.
I started working on a map editor for text adventures and dungeons because trying to keep it all organised with scraps of notes and in the code just was not going to work 🤯
October 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I started working on a map editor for text adventures and dungeons because trying to keep it all organised with scraps of notes and in the code just was not going to work 🤯
As well as a massive collection of “vintage” cables I’ve also amassed a large collection of removable storage.
Some of which works! 💾
Some of which works! 💾
October 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
As well as a massive collection of “vintage” cables I’ve also amassed a large collection of removable storage.
Some of which works! 💾
Some of which works! 💾
The internet may have been a mistake
October 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The internet may have been a mistake
CHIP8 project so far
It doesn't look like a lot but this is actual CHIP8 assembled code executing. *Just enough* interpreter to do this, but it is a satisfying result all the same :)
(Image shows my Chip8 interpreter running a .ch8 program that draws a little man on screen)
It doesn't look like a lot but this is actual CHIP8 assembled code executing. *Just enough* interpreter to do this, but it is a satisfying result all the same :)
(Image shows my Chip8 interpreter running a .ch8 program that draws a little man on screen)
October 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
CHIP8 project so far
It doesn't look like a lot but this is actual CHIP8 assembled code executing. *Just enough* interpreter to do this, but it is a satisfying result all the same :)
(Image shows my Chip8 interpreter running a .ch8 program that draws a little man on screen)
It doesn't look like a lot but this is actual CHIP8 assembled code executing. *Just enough* interpreter to do this, but it is a satisfying result all the same :)
(Image shows my Chip8 interpreter running a .ch8 program that draws a little man on screen)
Who knew I’d ever need this again?
October 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Who knew I’d ever need this again?
This will turn my BBC Master up to 11
October 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This will turn my BBC Master up to 11
Lots of people not in the target audience for a subjective piece of art have awful opinions about the art as if their critique is objectively correct.
October 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Lots of people not in the target audience for a subjective piece of art have awful opinions about the art as if their critique is objectively correct.
I got Fabrice Bellard's *amazing* JS Linux working on my web server with a full Linux distro. Yes, Linux in your web browser (even has TCP/IP).
My plan was to run Linux-based development tools such as TRSE, but now I am wondering if I can get Docker or QEMU working on there for VM inception ;)
My plan was to run Linux-based development tools such as TRSE, but now I am wondering if I can get Docker or QEMU working on there for VM inception ;)
October 6, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I got Fabrice Bellard's *amazing* JS Linux working on my web server with a full Linux distro. Yes, Linux in your web browser (even has TCP/IP).
My plan was to run Linux-based development tools such as TRSE, but now I am wondering if I can get Docker or QEMU working on there for VM inception ;)
My plan was to run Linux-based development tools such as TRSE, but now I am wondering if I can get Docker or QEMU working on there for VM inception ;)
Gee thanks for the punch in the gut 😭
October 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Gee thanks for the punch in the gut 😭
My online retro IDE now has Turbo Pascal, NASM and QBasic, in addition to Turbo C.
October 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
My online retro IDE now has Turbo Pascal, NASM and QBasic, in addition to Turbo C.
Installed a micro panther on my workbench
October 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Installed a micro panther on my workbench
Blue box to make my RC2014 into a kind of miniature Altair or IMSAI
October 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Blue box to make my RC2014 into a kind of miniature Altair or IMSAI