Sega CD engineering deep-dives, a share-menu upgrade, and a daily word game

A fantasy console for voxel-built games from the PICO-8 and Picotron creators, arena shooter and adventure cartridges plus tools to make your own.

Fabien Sanglard’s usual excruciating level of technical detail, this time on the Sega CD.

A forensic breakdown of every computer, screen and interface that appears in the film.

An 8086 CPU, chipset, 640 KB RAM, floppy, keyboard and VGA screen, all in one .css file.

A dependency-free Hammerspoon script for macOS that centres the active window at full height and dims everything else with one hotkey.

A satirical cyberpunk novella to read while your AI agent works through the backlog.

A rundown of cyberpunk comics and graphic novels worth digging into.

This is great. I can’t believe macOS doesn’t have a “Copy to clipboard” option in the Share menu by default. Shareful adds that (and more).

This is a vibe. A voxel Tokyo Yamanote-line ride synced to Japan’s real clock and weather, with N5 sentences drifting by as subtitles.

Maybe a new daily for me to add to my morning coffee routine. Each round adds a letter and rearranges it into a new answer.

A hack to the text output of Claude Code that made me laugh out loud.

They’re hosting a summit to talk about weather icons. Rain symbols put people off a whole day out, a compression problem I wrote about in Your forecast is accurate and still wrong.

A look at how LEGO instruction booklets have evolved over the decades.

A browser-based Windows 98 emulator, complete with a fake 29-day trial nag.

A concrete example of why leaning on native HTML beats bolting ARIA onto everything afterwards.

A look back at What.CD, Oink, and how streaming flattened the whole ritual of finding music.

An argument for sizing web layouts proportionally rather than with fixed breakpoints.