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2026 13

  1. If you love a website, back it up
  2. Performing digital surgery to fix MIDIs for my hardware (and then discovering the entire premise of my post was wrong)
  3. Performing digital surgery to fix MIDIs for my hardware (and then discovering the entire premise of my post was wrong)
  4. What's up with that song from the duck game on Amiga CD32 anyway?
  5. What's up with that song from the duck game on Amiga CD32 anyway?
  6. Decoding Magic School Lunar's save game format
  7. Searching for the broken-down chiptune player of my dreams
  8. Decoding Magic School Lunar's save game format
  9. Searching for the broken-down chiptune player of my dreams
  10. Forget spreadsheets, I wrote my own visual game script editor
  11. Forget spreadsheets, I wrote my own visual game script editor
  12. Forget spreadsheets, I wrote my own visual game script editor
  13. previous post

2025 10

  1. It's Not Called Watchy; or, Solving a Minor Video Game Mystery
  2. It's Not Called Watchy; or, Solving a Minor Video Game Mystery
  3. It's Not Called Watchy; or, Solving a Minor Video Game Mystery
  4. dist 0.28.1 is out
  5. dist 0.28.1 is out
  6. The database row that did and didn't exist
  7. The database row that did and didn't exist
  8. What you might miss when backing up CDs
  9. What you might miss when backing up CDs
  10. What you might miss when backing up CDs

2024 14

  1. Announcing cue2ccd: A Tool to Convert BIN/CUE Disc Images to CloneCD
  2. Announcing cue2ccd: A Tool to Convert BIN/CUE Disc Images to CloneCD
  3. What happened to the Japanese PC platforms?
  4. What happened to the Japanese PC platforms?
  5. The Working Archivist's Guide to Enthusiast CD-ROM Archiving Tools
  6. The Working Archivist's Guide to Enthusiast CD-ROM Archiving Tools
  7. previous post
  8. "GitHub" is Starting To Feel Like Legacy Software
  9. "GitHub" is Starting To Feel Like Legacy Software
  10. Unlocking Puyo Puyo Fever for Mac's English Mode
  11. Unlocking Puyo Puyo Fever for Mac's English Mode
  12. Unlocking Puyo Puyo Fever for Mac's English Mode
  13. That time I accidentally deleted a game from MAME
  14. That time I accidentally deleted a game from MAME

2023 7

  1. Fixing Classical Cats; or, how I got tricked by 28-year-old defensive programming
  2. Fixing Classical Cats; or, how I got tricked by 28-year-old defensive programming
  3. Fixing Classical Cats; or, how I got tricked by 28-year-old defensive programming
  4. cargo-dist: System dependencies are hard (so we made them easier)
  5. cargo-dist: System dependencies are hard (so we made them easier)
  6. Untangling Another Lingo Parser Edge Case
  7. Untangling Another Lingo Parser Edge Case

2022 5

  1. How I dumped an arcade game for MAME
  2. How I dumped an arcade game for MAME
  3. How I dumped an arcade game for MAME
  4. Do you speak the Lingo?
  5. Do you speak the Lingo?

2021 1

  1. Exploring JVS

2020 1

  1. Bundle install with Homebrew magic using brew bundle exec

2019 1

  1. The Hunt for the Lost Phoenix Games

2018 1

  1. Recover from FileVault Doom

2017 1

  1. Review: Undertale vinyl soundtrack

2016 1

  1. Elegance

2015 5

  1. Flat whites in Vancouver
  2. Release: Asuka 120% Limit Over English translation
  3. Attack the vector
  4. Reevaluate
  5. Widescreen gaming in the 90s

2014 3

  1. Homebrew GCC changes coming
  2. Thank You, Ada
  3. Mind the dust

2013 5

  1. -no-cpp-precomp: the compiler flag that time forgot
  2. Software archaeology: Apple’s cctools
  3. Tiger’s `which` is terrible; or, Necessity is the mother of invention
  4. Adventures with Ruby 1.8.2
  5. Introducing Tigerbrew

2012 2

  1. PSA: homebrew-digipres repository now available!
  2. File ID hackathon debrief: FITS handles video now!

2011 1

  1. Revisiting archival description – LOD-LAM session idea