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Column! Pico-8 is the best retro-gaming console you’ve never heard of
// 16,000 free games. Bite-sized retro challenges. Demakes. Weirdness. Experiments. FUN! Well, what are you waiting for? https://www.stuff.tv/features/pico-8-is-the-best-retro-gaming-console-youve-never-heard-of/

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Pico-8 is the best retro-gaming console you’ve never heard of

16,000 free games. Bite-sized retro challenges. Demakes. Weirdness. Experiments. FUN! Well, what are you waiting for?

Stuff

Macario May 21

Simon Carter May 21

Sigh.

“Anthropic’s new model can automatically find flaws in software that typically runs with restricted permissions behind a firewall. We’re doomed!”

“VSCode extensions are neither moderated nor sandboxed, and execute arbitrary code locally on 50 million installs. Pfft, sounds fine.”

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-confirms-breach-of-3-800-repos-via-malicious-vscode-extension/

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

GitHub has confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension.

BleepingComputer

Macario May 20

zep.p8 May 20

More batched sspr drawing for #picotron 0.3.0d. Bits 0xf0000 in the sprite index can be used to anchor each sprite centered or right justified (used here to scale each sprite centered).

Macario May 14

I had the rare privilege today of playing Introversion's Defcon projected across a 5m-tall videowall, and the echoes of 1983’s WarGames were undeniable. It made me reflect on just how culturally significant that movie was. It didn't just capture the tension of the Cold War; it perfectly documented the wild, incipient days of personal computing and the phreaking underground. Commanding a glowing war room of that size is an unforgettable experience, let"'s hope it forever remains just a game.

Macario Mar 18

Steven Tattersall Mar 18

Actual game post: In amongst all the (industry) job losses, we at SIE ATG will actually be recruiting for a couple of programming roles in the near future. I'll post the job descs when I have them (one is ML network development, one is ML inference related)

Macario Mar 3

jwz Mar 3

That one XKCD thing, now interactive.

This is so much fun... Craig S. Kaplan: In my online undergraduate P5.js course, students are about to begin the module on motion and physics, including a bit of physics simulation using Matter.js. It suddenly...
https://jwz.org/b/yk4B

Macario Jan 28

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zep.p8 Jan 15

// #picotron 0.2.2b is up with a few small fixes: https://www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/picotron_changelog.txt

Macario Dec 10, 2025

matt godbolt Nov 13, 2025

This December, I'll be posting an article & video each day until Christmas in the Advent of Compiler Optimisations! #AoCO2025

Each day we'll explore a fun optimisation in C or C++; some low-level, x86 or ARM-specific, some high-level. Hope you'll join me!

YT: https://youtube.com/mattgodbolt
Blog: https://xania.org

Matt Godbolt

Matt is a programmer and occasional verb. He loves writing efficient code and sharing his passion about how computers work under the hood. A low-latency engineer in finance, he has previously worked at a crypto exchange, a low-latency trading firm, on mobile apps at Google, run a C++ tools company and spent more than a decade making console games. When not tinkering on Compiler Explorer, Matt enjoys working on emulators for old 8-bit computer hardware.

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Macario Dec 5, 2025

Ms Mad Lemon Dec 5, 2025

My latest album 'Primavera' is finally released! https://youtu.be/ojJerNHezgk

#music #commodore #Amiga #synth

Macario Nov 4, 2025

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zep.p8 Nov 3, 2025

#picotron 0.2.1d is up with bug fixes for :take(), split() and sprite drawing stencil bits: https://www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/picotron_changelog.txt