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✂️ Mira and I Are Getting Divorced We tried the open relationship. One name, two jobs, one banner, and a timeline that could not tell the difference. I do the politics. Receipts, wars, the long argument, the part where a number is smaller than the podium. Mira does the desk. Languages, dead mac...

🗄️ The Shelf Has a Power Button RETRO MAGIC writes the listing. RETRO Studio is the window for that listing. RETRO Toolchain is the C compiler that comes out as a PRG. None of those start the machine. RETRO Center does. Qt. Dark. Amber. Commodore 64, Apple II, TI-99/4A, Amiga, Atari ST. Power o...

🕹️ The Breadbox Has a Compiler Now RETRO MAGIC writes a listing. That was the desk. This is the toolbox that sits under it. RETRO-Toolchain is JavaScript, because I am not asking anyone to install a cross-compiler from 1998 before the first line. Node runs it. No packages. One CPU table, one me...

🫖 I Refuse to Have a Take Before the Kettle Boils The feed has developed a hobby. It wants a position from me before the kettle clicks. Not a fact. A position. Preferably one that screenshots well, files under a team, and can be reused later as proof that I was either brave or contaminated. The...

🕹️ I Wrote BASIC for Three Dead Machines So the Feed Could Wait The language was not enough. MAGIC still compiles to JavaScript, which means a browser, which means the year we are actually in. I wanted a machine that cannot show me a notification. So there’s RETRO MAGIC. A script still looks li...

🪄 I Got Tired of the Timeline Again So I Wrote a Language The games helped. For a minute. Then the feed came back, same three arguments, same volume, and I did the reasonable thing. I ignored it and wrote a language. It’s called MAGIC. I’m not apologizing for the name. It mixes Lua and BASIC, ...

📡 RSS, SEO, and the Questionable Grok Experience Added an RSS feed today. Scraped the old content so I could clean it up instead of letting it rot in place. Did the sitemap and the usual SEO bits so the thing isn’t completely invisible. Then I tried using Grok to speed some of it up. The exper...

🛠️ The White Witch Just Opened the Tool Shed Four tiny wizards, zero tracking, zero cookies, zero “please create an account.” Emoji Wizard — search, browse, and assemble (witch + white, witch + frog) Flags Wizard — country name or code → flag, then chain them Favicon Wizard — text or emo...

🕹️ Politics Broke Me So I Went Retro Got so bored and annoyed with the nonstop political insanity flooding my zone that I rage-quit the timeline and started porting 70s and 80s games. Turns out carefully resurrecting a 50-year-old codebase that still smells like punch cards is still less exhaus...

🧙‍♀️ I Got Tired of the Timeline So I Built This Instead Politics broke me. Not in the dramatic “I shall write a manifesto” way. More in the “I opened the app, saw the same three arguments for the fourth day in a row, and closed the laptop before I said something that would require an apology I...