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When I play games I tend to get distracted by side quests a lot.

In September I looked back at my '25 resolutions and turns out I'd gotten something done for once.

Before I get ahead of myself, a quick recap of my 2026 half-assed resolutions: 2026 Best Intentions Write more.

Excuse my language, but I feel it's necessary to explain the levels of my confusion right now.

Turns out I've not written a thing this year, though I haven't been entirely slack.

I wrote a post last year detailing some goals for the year, in the hope that some structure might help me actually finish something for once.

Let's cut to the chase.

For some time I've run a Minecraft Bedrock server for my kids on an old 2013 Macbook Pro, which was running Ubuntu 18.04.

If you're using an SD-Card with an Atari machine, you'll need a driver to make it work.

Today I discovered a blog post that I wrote years ago and had completely forgotten about, a list of 4 coding resolutions for 2013 (I was being a smart arse and wrote 100 in the title for a binary representation of 4).

So yesterday I finished up hitting an assertion in brownout, one of the tools that comes with the brown versions of the GCC compiler, and I seem to recall it does some format conversion of, well, something. brownout: brownout.cpp:418: std::map >::iterator…

AGT (Atari Game Tools) is a set of tools and libraries built by DML, aka Douglas Little, and to be frank the guy's knowledge of Atari ST/STE/Falcon development is humbling.

As per my last post, I've been busy futzing around with an old PC, and in doing so I wanted to hear it's audio output.

The Backstory Some years ago I picked up on old PC from eBay for $20 with a few to check whether it worked (it was listed as not working), see if I could fix it, and hopefully shift it on.

Somehow almost all of 2022 passed me by without a post, bit with the recent release of the Haiku R1/beta4 I figured it was about time that I finally worked out how to get it dual booting with Windows 11, rather than just settling for booting via USB whene…

I recently finished reading Robert M.

I rarely use Office, it's something I have to deal with time-to-time as a part of working with clients, and out of the suite Excel is the tool that gets used the most.

Recently I undertook a bit of a road trip, the kind that involves the better part of thousand kilometers.

Dark themes are all the rage, and have been for a few years now.

It's pretty common during interviews for software development roles for the interviewee to be asked about any side projects or hobby code, and rightfully so this is often seen as unfair.

On a niche podcast I host with a friend of mine, I mentioned how Chip's Challenge was released on Steam for free, and that somehow the size of this game was somewhere around 100MB.

I tend to go through phases of reading books related to development, often reading a few back to back and then taking a break for a few years at a time.

This is a blog related to programming, and such articles will be forthcoming, but I feel it's important to set the tone before going any further, and I genuinely struggle to work without music.

For many years now I've blogged on and off at laceysnr.com, primarily around the Salesforce development ecosystem, but ocassionally on other more general programming topics too.