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Paul-Jan
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Owner of Epona Labs. Demoscene as The Watcher^TUHB. The best experiments go *boom*.
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I absolutely LOVED [untitled]. I would recommend [untitled] to anyone! 😄
Book page: if you enjoyed UNTITLED look out for The Black Coast by Mike Brooks
July 18, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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To get away from the computer a bit I am doing some late night math hobbying with a friend so naturally the first thing one does is to make silly visualizations on the computer. 😅
Heat map (green) of the numbers 0-19999, unknown algorithm
June 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Welcome to modern authentication scenarios, where this error could mean

(a) 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁 screwed this up again and you should wait a day or two for them to fix it in the cloud

or

(b) 𝗬𝗼𝘂 screwed up. Auth config is Fiddly (to say the least), so entirely possible. Hope you weren't waiting for MS. 😅
{"error":"invalid_request","error_description":"AADSTS65002: Consent between first party application '93d53678-613d-4013-afc1-62e9e444a0a5' and first party resource '00000003-0000-0ff1-ce00-000000000000' must be configured via preauthorization - applications owned and operated by Microsoft must get approval from the API owner before requesting tokens for that API. Trace ID: 901c16db-7d7c-4c5f-a9ba-b375e8fe1e00 Correlation ID: 97ab4a6a-cc14-4bc3-90e4-6de8696dea20 Timestamp: 2025-06-20 09:59:17Z","error_codes":[65002],"timestamp":"2025-06-20 09:59:17Z","trace_id":"901c16db-7d7c-4c5f-a9ba-b375e8fe1e00","correlation_id":"97ab4a6a-cc14-4bc3-90e4-6de8696dea20","error_uri":"https://login.microsoftonline.com/error?code=65002"}
June 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Fine entry, it has a message, it has motion, well within size range... I see no problems here, go record and submit! 😁
Online C64 Basic -> PRG conversion tool showing that the resulting P{RG size is a neat 44 bytes.
June 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Totally not committing unspeakable #tic80 sins in the name of #sizecoding 😅
TIC-80 running with a weird "packed" string of unreadable characters. On top of that is a hex editor, where the characters are input as hex values.
June 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Do you have like a beer-fridge but it's all film?

Do you say things like "about to pop open a cold one" and it's actually one of these?
Film canister
May 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Aliens are stealing my cubes again. #tic80 #demoscene
May 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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I am not sure customer service realizes how insulting it is to send a complaint and then get a "we hear you on X and Y!" response that is absolutely, 100% fake.
100% written by ai
May 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Sable does this! It's a magnificent look if the visuals are stylish like yours.
May 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Once you have finished a proof of concept of a dialog, you can then carefully evalute it, iterating towards the perfect version to ship.

Or you can just skip all that and release that shit!
dialog of git CredentialHelperSelector (one word, because of course), unset icon in the corner, helpfully offering <no helper>, wincred, wincred (again), manager.
May 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Testing some techniques for an upcoming #tic80 demo, having a blast with the famous TRSI logo as a testing asset. It is rendered with a different palette for each scanline to get the proper colorful look. 🤩
May 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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How I create demo videos for clients...
Graph showing two lines: - stubborn resolve, declining with each take - Self-loating, increasing with each take Where they meet, the video gets shipped.
May 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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I am a creator!

(Original here: mastodon.social/@MrLovenstei...)
Cartoon with a snake and a tortoise. "I'm a creator" "oh cooh! What do you create?" "Bugs. So many bugs"
April 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Ah yes, thanks Evernote url autolinking... the notorious TLD "FileNotFoundException".
Evernote screenshot showing the text "In the log: a System.IO.FileNotFoundException occured wile opening ". System.IO.FileNotFoundException is underlined because the tooling thinks it's a URL.
March 31, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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I don't think I agree that any graphing component should *ever* handle the axes like this when feeding it data at irregular points, let alone have it be the default behaviour. 🙃
X-axis showing the numbers 0,4,5,7,8,9,10,15,20,25 and 27, equally spaced.
March 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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"I'll just quickly write this little tool to import images and ... [one hour of fiddling with tiling and bits later] ... so maybe it's time to bring back glitch art!" 😅

#demoscene #tic80
A TIC-80 sprite rendering of the word "presents". The encoding is clearly wrong, probably switched nibbles.
March 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Clicking unsubscribe in the NordVPN spam mail leads to the webpage below. That is how you take security *seriously*, folks! 😘👌
Chrome showing a 403 Forbidden page
March 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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When you are trying to write code but your IDE is trying to write melancholic poetry instead.
Code fragment of a C# dictionary being initialized to { 1, "1. Blink" }, with the code completion expanding this to { 1, "1. Blink"}, { 2, "2. Blink and Nod"}, { 3, "3. Blink and Nod and Smile"}, { 4, "4. Blink and Nod and Smile and Look Left"}, { 5, "5. Blink and Nod and Smile and Look Right"}, { 6, "6. Blink and Nod and Smile and Look Up"}, { 7, "7. Blink and Nod and Smile and Look Down"}, { 8, "8. Blink and Nod and Smile and Look Left and Right"}, { 9, "9. Blink and Nod and Smile and Look Up and Down"}, { 10, "10. Blink and Nod and Smile and Look Left and Right and Up and Down"},
March 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Well thanks ANWB (Dutch traveler's association), looking very much forward to ˣˣˣˣˣˣˣˣ indeed!
Email from the Dutch traveler's association with the subject xxxxxxxx
March 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Once again, the team is up to some highly sophisticated client project shenanigans \o/

#professional #noreally
Screenshot from an IDE, displaying some silly robot text emoji and the text Playground for all things robotic! Console.WriteLine("Hello humans!");
February 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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I am pretty sure it would be easy to automate detecting this kind of "helpful" hint-writing. Preferably as a pre-commit hook to prevent it.
Option "Enable native AOT publish". The hint text helpfully explains "Whether to enable the project for publishing as native AOT".
December 31, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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Our Chrismas mugs come in 100ml and 500ml varieties... so after downing only two cups of coffee I am now ready to steamroll straight through to the end of 2024!

#demoscene #hohoho
Huge cup of coffee. In the background is a monitor playing an xmas sweater demo by Desire. For the record, this is the secondary monitor, the other monitor is where the hard work is being done.
December 30, 2024 at 9:57 AM
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I can't shake the feeling that AI spambots are gradually learning what drives me...
Obvious spam email for "electric go-karts for your business"
December 7, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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Why is my code not compiling, seems the compiler has trouble writing output files?!? Hmmm...

Oh wait this might be it.
Screenshot of a "0 bytes free" windows device.
December 7, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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Run out of coffee filters so I could either (a) run to the shops or (b) spend 20 minutes doing a silly experiment with paper towel and posting about it .

Guess which one I chose.
Run down coffee maker with the corner of a paper towel sticking out.
December 1, 2024 at 1:23 PM