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bitplane.net

PythonRetro computingRustAmiga

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2026 22

  1. my
  2. Mnt
  3. Dev
  4. Log
  5. 2026-07-18 - 🆘 winhlp - Windows HLP for Python
  6. 2026-07-28 - 👾 amos-ts - AMOS Pro on the web
  7. 2026-05-23 - 📃 awkdown - a POSIX markdown parser
  8. 2026-05-12 - 🦀 rars - all the rar implementations
  9. 2026-05-05 - 👾 pillow-zx-spectrum - thumbnail your tapes
  10. 2026-04-29 - 📦 oldrar - rar 1.3-1.4 in rust
  11. 2026-04-25 - 💾 mkfs.*
  12. 2026-04-22 - 🛏️ pillow-netpbm - loading ancient images
  13. 2026-04-12 - 🦀 amiga-lzx - LZX compression in Rust
  14. 2026-07-29 - 🗜️ xfh - unpacker for Python
  15. 2026-04-11 - 🧊 freeze/melt in 2026
  16. 2026-03-19 - 👾 amos-abk - loading AMOS sprite banks
  17. 2026-03-18 - 📃 CFF MOST compressor/decompressor
  18. 2026-03-18 - 📦 Crunch-Mania
  19. 2026-03-17 - 🛏️ pillow-degas - load Atari DEGAS images
  20. 2026-03-16 - 🗒️ Mapillary Update
  21. 2026-03-15 - ℹ️ amigainfo - load Amiga icons
  22. 2026-03-09 - 📦 propack - RNC ProPack in Python

2025 39

  1. 2025-12-13 - 🌐 Site project update
  2. 2025-10-30 - 🧥 dejensen - remove pauses from video presentations
  3. 2025-10-11 - 🗺️ mapillary_downloader - before Meta delete it all
  4. 2025-10-11 - 🤖 Claude’s keyboard notification
  5. 2025-09-27 - 🐳 undockit - run containers as commands
  6. 2025-08-23 - 👽 reddit exporter
  7. 2025-08-22 - ☎️ py9 resurrected as t9
  8. 2025-08-10 - 📊 pypi-stats
  9. 2025-08-09 - 📚 pymigaguide - AI slop FTW
  10. 2026-09-21 - 🖌️ pillow-wmf - load WMF files in Pillow
  11. 2025-08-02 - 📺 tvmux - python rewrite
  12. 2025-07-31 - 🔤 psf2flf - convert bitmap to figlet fonts
  13. 2025-07-26 - 🗔 bittty - a pure python terminal emulator
  14. 2025-07-24 - 🎥 sh2mp4 - python rewrite
  15. 2025-07-19 - 📃 arrayfile - an mmapped python array
  16. 2025-07-13 - ⛅ weather - since records began
  17. 2025-07-13 - 🌍 tldarc - 200 million domain names
  18. 2025-07-09 - 📺 textual-tty - a terminal for TUIs
  19. 2025-07-06 - 🔢 texxd - terminal hex editor
  20. 2025-05-26 - 📺 asciicast-url - url encode asciicasts
  21. 2025-05-22 - 🪖 inspection - tmux setup
  22. 2025-05-20 - 🎥 sh2mp4 - convert shell scripts to videos
  23. 2025-05-20 - 📺 tvmux - recording tmux sessions
  24. 2025-05-14 - 🔌 simple9p - a minimal 9p server
  25. 2025-05-11 - 🧊 blkcache - userspace disk cache
  26. 2025-05-06 - 🚻 vwc - wc with a live preview
  27. 2025-04-28 - 💽 rip - an archive.org disk archiver
  28. 2025-04-26 - ✅ upd8 - versioning python classes
  29. 2025-04-24 - 📂 lsoph - tui for listing open files
  30. 2025-04-18 - 📖 A view from above
  31. 2025-04-16 - 🌇 mediainfo webp support
  32. 2025-03-29 - 📺 yt-mpv
  33. 2025-03-26 - 📖 pulse fiction
  34. 2025-03-23 - 🐳 docker sh -it
  35. 2025-02-21 - 🤔 Hydropsychism - A Water of Mind
  36. 2025-02-18 - 🤖 AI workflow notes
  37. 2025-01-05 - 🤖 uh-halp-data
  38. 2025-01-04 - 😄 emojing
  39. 2025-01-01 - 💣 bsod.sh

2024 19

  1. 1992-??-?? - 🔠 ultimate adventure
  2. 1993-??-?? - ⚔️ mega battler
  3. 2024-12-19 - 🖕 renamed default branches to master
  4. 2024-12-13 - 💾 …and also dosbox
  5. 2024-12-12 - 📺 embedding asciinema
  6. 2024-12-09 - 🐋 TRELLIS in Docker
  7. 2024-12-04 - 🔦 torched and without pickles
  8. 2024-12-01 - 🦜 voice-cloning-org
  9. 2024-10-31 - 🎃 content features in Jekyll
  10. 2024-10-19 - 🐍 filefrag
  11. 2024-10-09 - 📜 pierdat - docker containers that host their own data
  12. 2024-10-01 - ✍️ a common sense code of conduct
  13. 2024-09-20 - 🐍 converting between JSON and bencoding
  14. 2024-09-19 - 😂 RFC5364
  15. 2024-09-02 - ✍️ INKEY$ and his 8 legs
  16. 2024-08-17 - ✍️ found my old Microsoft badge
  17. 2024-06-03 - ⚒️ encoding arbitrary data into whitespace (C)
  18. 2024-02-21 - 🌐 bitplane.net v5.0 (Jekyll)
  19. 2024-02-03 - 😆 Reinforced Industrial Hose and Tube

2023 11

  1. 2023-10-25 - 🐍 uh-halp - AI on the command line
  2. 2023-09-25 - 🐍 ienv - combine your venvs
  3. 2023-09-15 - 🗒️ Voice-Cloning-App Docker images
  4. 1993-??-?? - 🖌️ draw n draw
  5. 2023-05-28 - 🐍 arranges - Range strings for Pydantic
  6. 1993-06-?? - ⚫ czone - Pythagoras hitbox
  7. 2023-04-06 - 🤖 Open Assistant trained
  8. 1993-12-?? - 🚀 Q.A.B.
  9. 1994-??-?? - ✈️ bomb city
  10. 1994-??-?? - 🔥 matchstick man
  11. 1995-??-?? - ❌ o’s + x’s

2022 3

  1. 2022-10-28 - 🤖 GPT call centre workers
  2. 2022-09-02 - 🤖 DeOldify
  3. 1995-??-?? - 🎶 boom! shake the workshop

2021 3

  1. 2021-10-19 - ✍️ Chester’s Lego Strip Bar
  2. 2021-10-12 - 😆 GDPR awareness
  3. 1995-??-?? - 💣 minefield

2020 1

  1. 1995-??-?? - 🪱 wormy

2019 1

  1. 1996-??-?? - 🐟 goldfish

2018 2

  1. 2018-09-17 - 📚 digitizing treeware
  2. 2018-07-30 - ♣️ Solfest Fancy Dress

2015 4

  1. 2015-11-27 - 📷 Amazon recommendedations
  2. 2015-09-25 - 📷 trollcam
  3. 2015-09-07 - 🚪 kittygate
  4. 2015-05-02 - 🦒 georgina.svg

2014 3

  1. 2014-09-20 - 🕑 blackboard clock v2
  2. 2014-06-12 - 🍼 naming is hard, dadding is harder
  3. 2014-03-01 - 🕐 blackboard clock v1

2013 4

  1. 2013-12-17 - 💸 a bitcoin treasure hunt
  2. 2005-??-?? - ✍️ infrared
  3. 2005-??-?? - ✍️ seascape
  4. 2013-01-01 - 💥 my first GitHub pull request

2012 5

  1. 2012-11-21 - 😆 how’s about that then?
  2. 2012-02-08 - 🐍 monitoring homebrew with arecord and Python
  3. 2012-01-15 - 🌡️ TEMPer1 thermometer driver for Linux
  4. 2012-01-06 - 📜 Irrlicht website in WordPress
  5. 2012-01-05 - ✍️ 2011 in review

2010 4

  1. 2010-08-27 - 🐌 Float.parseFloat is slow
  2. 2010-08-17 - 📱 Adventures in Android
  3. 2010-07-16 - 📱 Anonypic
  4. 2010-05-16 - 📜 automatic favicon to PNG script

2009 23

  1. 2009-12-12 - 🐍 interpolated list class for Python
  2. 2009-12-06 - ✍️ bash for Xmas number 1!
  3. 2009-10-29 - 📜 LoadRunner Citrix Snapshot stripper
  4. 2009-10-23 - ✍️ citrix of the trade
  5. 2009-09-30 - 🎉 Irrlicht 1.6 released
  6. 2009-09-26 - ✍️ killing copyleft for the good of the public domain
  7. 2009-09-14 - 📜 PHP file list using mod_rewrite
  8. 2009-09-11 - ✍️ why I won’t be joining the Pirate Party UK
  9. 2009-08-06 - 🎉 Irrlicht 1.5.1 released
  10. 2009-08-02 - 👍 3D object thumbnailer
  11. 2009-07-17 - 🌐 bitplane.net 4.0 (WordPress)
  12. 2009-07-14 - 📦 RPM archive loader for Irrlicht
  13. 2009-07-13 - 📦 Windows RSRC loader for Irrlicht
  14. 2009-07-06 - 📦 Irrlicht TAR reader
  15. 2009-07-05 - 🔤 FIGlet driver for Irrlicht
  16. 2009-07-04 - 🖌️ Procedural Texture Toolkit
  17. 2009-06-14 - 🎨 Lilly
  18. 2009-06-11 - 🎨 chair
  19. 2009-05-13 - 🎨 iron
  20. 2009-05-12 - 🎨 Charlie
  21. 2009-03-29 - 🥛 milk Scanner
  22. 2009-03-21 - 🗺️ Virtual Earth Grabber
  23. 2009-03-15 - 🌐 Spheremap renderer for Irrlicht

2008 4

  1. 2008-12-22 - 📳 space writer
  2. 2008-07-22 - 📚 Consciousness Explained
  3. 2008-07-09 - ☁️ cloud shader
  4. 2008-02-17 - 👾 impostors

2007 4

  1. 2007-04-09 - ⚒️ fix Wayback Machine zips
  2. 2007-04-05 - 🖕 rhserve.com deleted my site
  3. 2007-03-27 - 🌐 bitplane.net v3.0 (e107)
  4. 2007-01-01 - 🕹️ space irrvaders

2006 2

  1. 2006-04-13 - 🌐 bitplane.net v2.0 (CMSimple)
  2. 2006-03-17 - 💬 Auto Nuge Repeater

2005 4

  1. 2005-11-21 - ⚒️ deforming mesh
  2. 2005-07-24 - 🕹️ Jump or Burn - 3 hour game dev contest
  3. 2005-06-26 - ✍️ a terrible thing to waste
  4. 2005-03-18 - 📜 Remote Google Desktop Search

2004 5

  1. 2004-12-09 - 🕹️ eggit.rar
  2. 2004-10-11 - 🪟 Windows Media Player Screensaver
  3. 2004-05-17 - 🐍 XBMC Python Skin
  4. 2004-05-15 - 🪟 File 2 BMP
  5. 2004-01-19 - 🌐 bitplane.net v1.0 (IFRAMEs)

2003 4

  1. 2003-11-11 - 🤖 fserver leech
  2. 2003-10-28 - 🪟 resize.ocx
  3. 2003-06-16 - 📷 panic over
  4. 2003-01-28 - 📷 Kylie calendar

2002 1

  1. 2002-01-02 - 🪟 SFV DLL for VB

2001 1

  1. 2001-06-10 - ⚒️ filestore.mdb

2000 3

  1. 2000-06-06 - 🪟 2d to 3d
  2. 2000-05-22 - 🕹️ Thrusts ADF created
  3. 2000-04-16 - 🪟 VB6 Spiral

1999 5

  1. 1999-11-15 - 🖌️ scrawler editor for AMOS
  2. 1999-10-09 - ⚒️ curs, making fancy menus in DOS
  3. 1999-10-05 - ⚒️ sysv banner for Amiga/DOS
  4. 1999-08-17 - ⚒️ 3D Text
  5. 1999-02-25 - 🕹️ Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

1998 1

  1. 1998-02-27 - 🚀 space game

1997 1

  1. 1997-04-26 - 🛶 viking tester

1994 1

  1. 1994-11-01 - 🔫 NSLE