Latest dispatch · issue nº 515
Announcing “Curse of the Herder”, a screensaver experience for the web. It’s about a pissed-off little herder learning how to cuss better.
No AI was used to draft this post, these are my words fully. What does it mean, when your hard-fought efforts can be replaced in a moment of inspiration and a few dollars of tokens. I find myself asking that...
A few weeks ago I wrote about getting the full ARM64 Steam client running on an unrooted Android tablet. At the time it was a proof of concept. Steam opened, authenticated, downloaded games, and launched a few of them through Proton 11 ARM64, FEX, DXVK, and Turnip. That felt like a good start to share.
I’ve been having so much fun running full steam games on my switch lite! Just this weekend I got Psychnauts running well (with no overclocks!) These can be good times even if they are complicated times. Sometimes, you just need to know something is possible before it becomes easy for everyone. That’s what I’m hoping for here. I’ve got a proof of concept that’s working well enough to share, but I’m sure it could be much better done in a bespoke manner by a developer with more time. Full graphics-accelerated steam and steam games, inside a termux linux session , running on an unrooted stock Galaxy Tab S8+ (SM-X808U, Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 / Adreno 730).
The most valuable thing you can do for the longevity of a device is install linux on it. I’m not just talking personal longevity, I’m also talking about the weird and wonderful ways you can keep a platform alive when you have an open target.
PS1 Web Player While working on a new Playstation (1) game about my beagle, I realized that web emulation of PS1 games is a solved problem, and I shouldn’t be making folks use an emulater when a modern web browser...
Introduction This has been a project well over a year in the making. I’m proud to announce version 1.0 of Johnny Castaway PS1, a port of Johnny Castaway to the Playstation 1 console, with enhanced features and options like freeplay/sandbox...
Introduction It’s no secret I’ve been working on something cool and unexpected, with a big release announcement coming very soon. However during the course of development I stumbled upon a pattern which I think could provide huge dividends for the...
Introduction Do you remember that episode of the Simpsons where he uses a little dunking bird toy to defraud his employer? Yeah. Like that but with prompts. Here’s the thing. Some of my coding agents, no matter how “dangerously” I...
I actually wrote quite a bit of code in 2025! While my professional life was centered around AI enablement for my teams and getting the big launch out this year to customers, I did a fair amount of personal projects.
