Joel Baxter
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Joel Baxter
@joel.neogeographica.com
Pickaxing my way thru the virtualization/orchestration mines since the turn of the century. Playing, mapping, and hosting old FPS games since before then. Lapsed trombonist and vocalist, but still performing (vocal only) on request of certain 5-year-old.
❤️ the hexagon! All-timer astronomical phenomenon, up there with the quizzical galaxy:
September 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
play.date/games/pocos-... is the winner so far and it's been fun to see her work through the basics of navigating an avatar to a goal. She's definitely picked up some game-isms through osmosis; first time she saw a room with tiny icons of a key and a lock, she was instantly on-mission. 3/3
July 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Looks good I think! I'm super pleased with their communication and craftsmanship.
May 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Small story to give props to @stickerninja.bsky.social :

A decade or so ago, I stickered up these laptops with a "computer club" sticker that I got somewhere (a little nostalgia for my old Apple II days).

I'm getting a @tuxedocomputers.bsky.social laptop & had the urge to sticker it the same...
May 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Nice, thanks! Where'd you get these?

In the meantime I was nerdsniped into emulating an Indy+IRIX on MAME; got the bz executable from a mirror of the old SGI FTP site. Some obvious graphical glitchiness going on here but yeah that's good old bz.
March 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Hah, when I was waffling over how to set up my bsky profile, I finally just put up a shot of a Kalambaka-to-Athens train as the banner pic ... granted, not a freight train :-) but still good for the eyeballs.
March 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Merry Christmas to me! ( www.etsy.com/listing/1690... )
January 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This season can get chaotic and messy, but still nothing quite like it.
December 23, 2024 at 6:02 AM
Big holiday cheer for @evilhat.bsky.social ... I told them their shipment to me had been designated by the USPS as lost to "destruction, fire, or theft", and they immediately launched another copy my way.
December 21, 2024 at 10:40 PM
December 4, 2024 at 4:01 PM
OK everyone says animated GIFs work now. (But get converted to video?) Let's try this one again:
November 30, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Playing Myth:TFL and Myth II on the Steam Deck: neogeographica.com/site/pages/a...
November 25, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Apple II emulation on the Steam Deck: neogeographica.com/site/pages/a...
November 25, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Notes on resuscitating a mechanical keyboard project: neogeographica.com/site/pages/a...
November 25, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Quality puppies! Reminds me of our housepup Spike (snippet here from 2010-ish).
November 18, 2024 at 6:36 AM