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Speaking of the Akira anime, the soundtrack to it is pretty amazing.

This is some rough animation footage from the Akira anime movie.

This video is fascinating and incredibly well made.

I hadn’t listened to this live DJ set that DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist did in ~1999 in a long time, but it’s still real good.

This song rules.

I’ve been listening to this album a lot lately and I really like it.

I wrote before how I like to listen to video game music.

Hella.

I looked at a list of Grammy Award 2024 winners and saw that Burning Spear was nominated for ‘Best Reggae Album’ which blew my mind.

You’ve likely heard this song, it’s been sampled by a lot of hip-hop tracks.

Org-Roam is ‘a plain-text personal knowledge management system’ that I’ve been using since 2020.

This is so great and fun.

In the 3rd grade, our teacher had us write a journal.

What would you even call this?

As someone who loves Psychocandy, this is fantastic.

Holiday Photo 2023 was a decent year.

I played a lot of Sierra ‘Quest’ games when I was a kid.

Discovering stuff you wrote as a kid is fun.

I’ve been an org-mode user off and on since around 2007.

The Skin I Live In - What a movie.

Our cat Champion passed away on July 20th 2023.

A paper that I wrote with some colleagues won a Best Paper Award at the USENIX ATC ‘23 conference!

The other day at work my Cloud Desktop got terminated for some reason.

Alien 3 (or Alien^3) had a long development process where many scripts were written and rejected and eventually what got made was being rewritten while shooting was happening.

Lots of helpful information!

Calculus!

Biking Bartosz Ciechanowski - Bicycles - This is an amazing website.

Calling this “Stuff!”

Music Nirvana’s Nevermind but with the Super Mario 64 soundfont - Genius for the cover art alone.

When you blow up bosses in Muchi Muchi Pork with lard shot, all their bullets turn into medals that you can vacuum up.

Music DE LA SOUL Paying Homage To David ‘Trugoy’ Jolicoeur & Speaks on Their Catalogue Finally Streaming - Classic De La Soul albums are finally on streaming platforms.

I previously wrote a post about the MAME Debugger which showed how to find where certain values are stored in a game’s memory.

Music MC Hammer Was Uncomfortably Bricked Up In “Pumps and a Bump” | The Danny Brown Show Highlight - One of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while.

I missed week 7 since I was visiting family.

Better late than never.

Music Hank Shocklee talk - Hank Shocklee is a genius, he’s part of The Bomb Squad who did a lot of production for Public Enemy, the first Ice Cube solo album, etc.

I like Rust, the programming language.

Every week (I mean… maybe every week) I’m going to share links that I like.

MAME, the arcade machine emulator, has a debugger that allows you to poke around memory and manipulate values.

The end of 2022 was rough.

It’s the end of 2022, so let’s make some lists.

I work at AWS on the Lambda team, so it’s only natural that I would use Lambda to build this blog.

My uncle Dennis passed away unexpectedly in July.

I added this website to the 512kb.club, a site that celebrates websites that aren’t a bloated mess.

In movies, shooting a computer always has the desired fail open/fail closed behavior.

I’ve been really enjoying my VanMoof S3 for commuting and running errands, but I’ve really been missing doing longer rides where I have to exert myself.

I have a weird obsession with my website: I want a page load to be a single HTTP request.

I love it: https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/ So much web content is full of this stuff.

I imported the new Densha de GO!

I continue to enjoy my MiSTer as more and more folks are building cores for it.