Oldschool portable gaming. “Rogue” is still really fun - I can see why it spawned a whole genre that is still thriving today, despite the terrible interface (key bindings keep changing depending on how many objects are in the inventory) and basic graphics. #gaming #retro #retrogaming

“Rogue” is a surprisingly fun game in 2026 - it’s the originator of a huge number of video game mechanics which are everywhere today. #gaming #retro #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

I’m glad I’m learning Common Lisp instead of something more minimal, or exclusively trying to build my own language. When I find myself needing something again and again, I find that some smarter people than me already built it into Common Lisp, better than I would have done it. #lisp #programming #sofware

Somehow I ended up obsessed with 80s pocket computers. Unfortunately, their weird protocols can make some of them almost impossible to develop for. This project uses the #RaspiPico and no doubt some fantastic use of its PIO, to make a universal interface for a whole lot of them. I need to get a hold of one of these! https://n1ugk.com/2025/12/pocket-computer-universal-interface/ #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

Headsup for anyone who wants to use Lisp but hasn’t spent their whole life learning emacs. There’s a new editor called Mine which works like a modern IDE and has the expected key bindings, but has as tight an integration with the REPL as you’d expect from something more arcane. It even has tutorials. 5/5. #lisp #programming #softwaredevelopment

Cool, Crash Bandicoot was scripted in a compiled Lisp variant: https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/tag/gool/ #lisp #gamedev

If you want to do LLM assisted coding and don’t want to give your money and private data to tech behemoths, this 100% locally hosted open source combo works shockingly well: ollama, qwen code model, zoo code agent. Tested on: 64GB Silicon Mac, Python and Lisp. It runs slower, but the only limiting factors are power (100% renewable) and wear and tear on the chipset. IMO the technical strengths of this make it a contender, before even considering the ethics and security. #ai #foss #llm #coding

My Lisp interpreter, on the oldest computer I have that can run Python. Now with macros. This means that the language can be easily tweaked without modifying the interpreters: I added “if” and looping on top of the language. Lisp macros are ridiculously powerful; I hear Rust has something approaching it, which would really sell that language for me. #lisp #rust #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #python #programming