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2026 10

  1. Amiga Screens: A Primer
  2. User Interfaces of the Demo Scene
  3. Phones and Phonies
  4. AmigaOS 2: The Greatest Upgrade
  5. Remembering Dotcom, Pondering LLMs
  6. Pixels I Have Known And Loved
  7. The Curious Case of Retro Demo Scene Graphics
  8. Circumstantial Complexity, LLMs and Large Scale Architecture
  9. Commodore, IBM, OS/2, ARexx: Deal or No Deal?
  10. Amiga Desktops Worth Seeing

2025 17

  1. Jonesing For The Next Disruptor
  2. Can Fat Mike Skate?
  3. The Peach meme
  4. Working with the Amiga's RAM and RAD disks
  5. The Demo Scene is Dying, But That's Alright
  6. More retrocomputing, less nostalgia
  7. The Amiga 3000 UNIX and Sun Microsystems
  8. The Hamburger Menu Is No Longer a Hamburger Menu
  9. On Buying the Commodore Brand
  10. The Meaning of Icons
  11. Picking the right (archaic) Window Manager
  12. Desktop Icons Of Yore
  13. Honest and Elitist Thoughts on Why Computers Were More Fun Before
  14. BRA and KET: String Interpolation in AmigaDOS
  15. Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design
  16. Copyright and the Demo Scene
  17. The Coolest Amiga Setup

2024 12

  1. On Working With Your Passion
  2. Misc: Quines
  3. The Annotated Hacker Test
  4. Cosy Computing
  5. The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art
  6. On Complex Simplicity and Simple Complexity
  7. Stupid Slow
  8. Is Winter Coming?
  9. Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination
  10. Swedish Puns
  11. How Doom didn't kill the Amiga
  12. Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS

2023 12

  1. An Ode to Deluxe Paint
  2. The Datagubbe Survey Response Survey
  3. The Decline of Usability: Revisited
  4. The Wachowskis and the Hacker as a progressive archetype
  5. Scene Archetypes
  6. Nature for Nerds
  7. The Future of the Software Industry
  8. Why we don't trade with ants
  9. A Life Less Ads
  10. Everyday Carry
  11. The Colorful Charm of Amiga Utility Disks
  12. A Quarter Century of Web Coding

2022 20

  1. Stranger Things and the Amiga 1000
  2. Computers are for Girls
  3. Directory Opus - King of the Dual Panes
  4. Short Thoughts on Computers and Programming
  5. King Charles III and the Swedish General Election
  6. The Stubborn Computing Manifesto
  7. The Problem With Computer Analogies
  8. Extremely Online In Real Life
  9. Proprietary Art: How Microsoft didn't splinter the Linux desktop
  10. The Home Computer Generation
  11. New pixel art: The Heist
  12. FVWM: Daily Driver Config
  13. The Amiga Buyer's Guide
  14. The IBM PC XT Desk Caddy
  15. The Future of Open Source
  16. Software: [Tiler] Durden
  17. Tables and Strings in COBOL
  18. Romancing the Thinkpad 365
  19. For Whom The Whistle Blows
  20. Decades of Fun: Computers Built to Last

2021 30

  1. Stems as mock data structures in REXX
  2. Fonts, a Fuzzy Fringefest
  3. Advent of Code 2021: Day 1 Three Ways
  4. So long and thanks for all the disks!
  5. humans.txt
  6. Sage advice for a calmer, more fulfilling digital life
  7. Fleeting Memories of Youth and the Increasing Impermanence of Culture
  8. A Lasting Legacy: Thoughts on COBOL
  9. The Joy Of Limitations: Writing an ARexx REPL in ARexx
  10. Rxenv
  11. Not as famous as they should be
  12. Using an Amiga in 2021: Making an intro
  13. Elite gatekeeping in the age of surveillance capitalism
  14. Misc: Best of .bashrc
  15. The State Of The Unions - can workers unite to improve online privacy?
  16. Voynich, Hill, Crumb: A Hitherto Vexing Codex
  17. The Amazing Workflow of Datagubbe
  18. The End of Ownership
  19. Pondering the Scene: Why are Demos European?
  20. On Attributing a Quote
  21. Controlled By a Cabal of its Enemies
  22. The Cults of Ken and Kay
  23. New Musing: Unconvincing Conveniences, Elite Overproduction and Sweden's Single Point of Failure.
  24. New musing: Peak Web Has Passed
  25. New musing: Art Will Not Disappear
  26. CGTerm on Linux
  27. Is Software Abstraction Killing Civilization?
  28. How to boot a NeXT cube into single user mode
  29. No blinking in Linux TTY:s
  30. Nothing is New

2020 21

  1. New musing: A Hope For Reliving 1994
  2. igdl version 1.0.3 released
  3. New musing: Explaining the Internet in 2020
  4. Advent of Code 2020
  5. Advent of Shell
  6. Little Things That Made Amiga Great
  7. New Musing: No Config for Old Men
  8. Sane Visual Studio Code
  9. New Musing: Website Colophon and Mission Statement for a Better Web
  10. New Musing: Subversive Computing
  11. ttx - Swedish Teletext reader
  12. Advent of Code 2016
  13. FVWM config for Raspberry Pi
  14. colshift - X11 Color Tool
  15. Running Linux on the Acer Swift 1
  16. Added a links section
  17. New version of Tube - with search function
  18. xvol - X11 Volume Indicator
  19. RSS Feed
  20. shpell - Spell Checker
  21. The Decline of Usability

Undated 11

  1. cut vs. awk
  2. Small and Efficient
  3. When computers were cool
  4. mincss - CSS Minifier
  5. ctwm configs
  6. Touchpad Toggler
  7. Amiga stuff
  8. Amiga Minix Demo 1.5
  9. Obfuscated JavaScript
  10. a small page of personal information.
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