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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. [...]
February 9, 2025In April 2005, I registered a domain name. I had a plan, and it was an ambitious one. I had read an O’Reilly book on XML (cover-to-cover) a couple of years beforehand, and it did something to my brain and I thought I could see through time. Weblogs were ascending fast, the web was exciting, … [Read more …] [...]

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I was too concerned with whether I could, that I never stopped to ask if I should.

Here's the Game of Thrones theme played on a C64 SID via a MIDI interface.

You're welcome.

So, while I had the C64 out I plugged in the MIDI cartridge that's been on the shelf for a while and ...

This is awkward as hell so apologies for murdering the tune but I don't know what I'm doing at any level here, I was filming at the same time, only had one hand free, and was watching the phone screen instead of reality. 🙃