#retrocomputing

RustChain: The Blockchain Where Your Granddad's PowerBook Earns More Than a Data...

A look back at where my computing life started — Apple II clones, Lode Runner and Ultima, and loading games off a Samsung cassette tape drive.

In 1983 my first game was a type-in BASIC listing in C&VG. In 2026 I finally rewrote it in 6502 assembly, the way I always meant to.

Building without libraries doesn't teach you to avoid them — it teaches you to understand them A...

I find it interesting how Windows 3.1 eclipsed 3.0. While 3.1 in 1992 was a major upgrade with a...

how to host website 8-bit microcontroller 2026 — How to Host a Website on an 8-bit Microcontroller in 2026: The CoreTech Secret You Need to Know

impermanent AI 2026 — Impermanent AI 2026: The TI-83 Plus Connection You Never Expected

Used QEMU to set up an Arch Linux VM today for only one thing… To pay homage to twm, “Tom’s Window...

Build and install a native UIKit app directly on a jailbroken iPhone 6 running iOS 12, using Theos, clang, and Cydia-compatible .deb packaging.

A 2005 Power Mac G5 running Claude Code natively on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard — full agentic coding loop, direct TLS 1.2 to the Anthropic API, no proxy.

A late-gameplay SDL runtime checkpoint: frame 3400 now uses measured scanline state, cutting the support-surface mismatch nearly in half.

Menu and gameplay scheduler rails now load from versioned contracts, and the post-push wiki refresh no longer depends on a clean worktree.