Kanto on a cartridge, hyperbolic Mario 64, and shipping a button

Links worth a look, week 10

A few links from social.omgmog.net, 2 March to 8 March, that deserve more than a passing share.

Lazy Devs on the trickery behind fitting the whole Kanto region onto a Game Boy cartridge.

Visualization of the universal cover of a surface of genus 2, which is a hyperbolic space.

Hacking Super Mario 64 using covering spaces (+ hyperbolic geometry) – Luca Happel’s personal website

Kai Lentit on how much work it apparently takes to ship a single button in 2026.

There I Ruined It mashes Toto's Africa with every country in Africa.

A fast, minimalist, extensible text editor written in Lua.

Textadept

A 128x128 pixel canvas with programmable brushes.

MOSS — A Painting Toy Where Every Brush Is a Tiny Program

A free, open source pixel art and animation tool, forked from Aseprite's last GPL release.

LibreSprite

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