What’s Mike Doing?

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May 17, 2026A long, long time ago I had an idea for a silly joke. Exactly when it hard to pin down, but the seeds were planted in the mid 1990s, in a file called bands.txt. This was a collaborative list of random phrases uttered by people we knew, that had been taken out of context on … [Read more …] [...]
February 15, 2025For those who’re just joining us, I’ve dusted off a two-decade-old project idea and have actually started working on it. There’s a working prototype which I’m not going to link in this post, because this text will likely be around long after it’s been and gone, either shelved for another 20 years or thrown online in some kind of working form. [...]

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Me: Why am I so tired at barely 10:30pm? I have things I want to do.

Also Me: You woke up at 5am today, remember?

Me: This is a perplexing puzzle.

Also Me: You were up around the same time yesterday too, and you were up late then as well.

Me: Someone call Mr Holmes, there is an unsolvable mystery afoot.

Also Me: I'm going to bed, you're on your own.

I finally have the last "missing" piece, the thing I used to have for my Commodore 64 as a kid but hadn't replaced until now.

The music keyboard overlay! All this does is hit keys on the normal keyboard but the aesthetics alone are worth the trip. So happy to see this one still had the original note name helper stickers on it too!

A Commodore 64 with a piano key overlay on top of it. It also has pink function keys and a MIDI cartridge cheekily poking out the back

I've had my eye on this ridiculous thing for a while, and decided the best way to evaluate it is to make it my office keyboard for a bit.

It has an extremely nice weight to it. Very good so far.

Can someone please convince Apple to get on the retro bandwagon and make me a beige laptop though?

A Keychron R6 keyboard on a desk, it's retro styled similar to an old IBM keyboard like the Model M in beige and grey.