We've today uncovered 7 #NES prototype builds of The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt (1993 Ocean)- including an early version with cut content and different room layouts. A fascinating glimpse at the game in development.

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/05/the-addams-family-pugsleys-scavenger-hunt-nes-prototypes/

With a huge thank you to Mark Greenshields for allowing us to preserve.

Sad to hear about Mikeal Rogers passing.

A long time ago I was reading a book about an old famous OSS project he was involved in then suddenly shortly after I got to work with him.

He started @pouchdb and then guided me to maintain it, teaching me about OSS and community along the way. He recommended me for my current job and one of the few people I kept in touch during my hiatus from the tech community.

Honestly looking back the impact he had on where I am now is huge, will be missed.

Days since GitHub’s aggressive hiding of diffs in PRs* caused an incident: 0

*you had one job

CouchDB 3.5.0 is now available for download. It includes a number of impressive performance improvements, chief among them: truly parallel read and write access to database shards leading to up to 40% more throughput on high-volume request loads.

https://blog.couchdb.org/2025/05/06/3-5-0/