Half-Life on Mac OS 9, a GammaOS handheld release, and shipping VR without Unity

Recreates the sound of cassette tape playback using ffmpeg, wobble, hiss and all. 📼 Neat little find.

A tongue-in-cheek “release” of HTMX 4.0, exclusively for the Game Boy.

A daily game where you guess where and when historical artefacts were made, then see how you rank against everyone else.

A post-mortem on shipping a commercial VR game in Godot and porting it to PSVR2, at a cost of roughly £80k in what she calls “early adopter tax”. Great to hear a shipping success story that isn’t just another Unity title.

Half-Life running natively on Mac OS 9, with guides for getting it going on real early Macs.

A look back at the interface conventions demoscene productions settled into over the years.

The 1.4 release of GammaOS Nano, custom firmware for the Anbernic RG DS retro handheld.

A searchable archive of typography spotted in the wild, indexed by typeface, format and topic.

A simplified black hole visualisation running in the browser, with a nod to the more serious Synchray.jl renderer for the real science-grade version.

A meandering post on software quality, on how it tends to erode through many small cuts rather than one big failure.

An offline, zero-permission Android app for viewing PDFs, Office docs, photos, video, audio, Markdown and code without installing an app for each format.

CodePen shipped version 2.0, a big rebuild of the platform. 🎉

A running list of reasons to have your own website in 2026.

How lift call buttons and dispatch systems actually work.