Fantasy Consoles

Written by Paul in coding on Mon 28 May 2018. Tags: coding,

A while back I discovered the concept of a fantasy console.

It’s like an imaginary computer that runs on a computer. They generally have artificial limits to encourage creative progamming.

The tic-80, for example, gives you:

  • 240x136 pixels, 16 colours display
  • 64kb for progam code
  • limited ability for sound …

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Solve The World

Written by Paul in listening on Mon 28 May 2018. Tags: listening,

One thing I really enjoyed listening to last year was Solve The World.

It is 100 episodes long and the story takes many remarkable twists along the way! She will lose a hand, meet mole people, ride a mechanical giraffe, murder someone, meet the pied piper, join a cult, become …

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Lick The Payphone

Written by Paul in listening on Thu 24 May 2018. Tags: listening,

I’m very excited that season 3 of Archive 81 has started.

Dan Powell is missing. He is lost in another world. Archive 81 is a podcast about horror, cities, and the subconscious.

iTunes

Start at episode 1 of season 1!

Update: It was turned into a Netflix series. It …

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Tab Bookmark Forgotten

Written by Paul in blog on Thu 24 May 2018. Tags: blog,

I have a habit of opening many tabs for things I mean to go back to, to read or find out more about.

A few days/weeks later, it’s still there.

Later still, I bookmark it and close it as my tab quantity has grown out of control.

Then …

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