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Federated Madness

April 1, 2023

You know this Mastodon thing everyone’s going apeshit over? Well it runs on a technology called ActivityPub which is something everything needs to support. It implements social media style following and so on using a protocol that anyone can use. So, as is my way I’ve been playing. I already run a Mastodon instance that you should follow me on, but now I also have a Pixelfed instance running.
Gamedev, music, art and being creative

March 25, 2023

I am not a creative person, and I’d quite like to change this. There’s a bunch of creative skills I’ve never put the effort into improving and I think I might have some ways to overcome this. Let’s have a look… When I say I’m not creative, what I mean is coming up with ideas […]
Chat GPT pretending to be a BBC Micro

February 13, 2023

I have a go at making ChatGPT pretend to be a BBC Micro. It goes … not entirely wrong!

Hardware Sprites on the ZX Spectrum Next in C

Drawing sprites on the Spectrum Next, using C. Or – how to learn the dark art of figuring out things you don’t understand.
Writing C Code on a Spectrum Next

What better way to wait out the apocalypse than trying to learn a new system. Read how I dug out my ZX Spectrum Next and set about writing C code on it…
Reading and Writing JSON using Python

How to read and write JSON files using Python so that they can be used in your Python programs.