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Tombstone exercises, founder mode, jargon monoxide, 8-bit baseball, the sky you should’ve seen and silent reading parties.
June 21, 2026
There’s a lot of talk right now about companies deploying AI tools and not seeing results that map to the spend. Many reasons get cited. But I suspect the simple one at the heart of it is constraints. The analogy comes from Eli...
Taking a breath
We’ve seen a few test PCBs now; games that were only sold alongside Japanese arcade cabinets to satisfy a law requiring a minimum amount of functionality. Sega gave us Dottori-kun, a remake of Head-On; Taito gave us Mini-Vaders, another...
Happy Summer Solstice and Father’s Day! The grayness of everything is slowly fading away but it’s still there. Reading, writing, coding… they all feel drab these last few weeks. I attribute this to our upcoming apartment move. I hope...
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Judge Parker,...
Caitie texted me Friday night and mentioned she was coming into Albany on Saturday, not Sunday. So I left early yesterday (0550) and drove straight through to Clifton Park without stopping. I guess it makes a difference if you skip...