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• Post #4290193

  I took my, uh, glowing power sword outside and it DRANK DEEPLY from the TEXAS SUMMER SUN so when I went back inside it GLOWED WITH RENEWED VIGOR!!!

• Post #4070229

  I gave my son access to a code generator. He made a version of tic-tac-toe where you can unlock different marks to play with, then a concept of a "bomb" where your turn destroys the surrounding marks and HOLY CRAP PEOPLE HE INVENTED A TOTALLY NEW GAME.

• Post #4047428

  "Dad, your office is cluttered with toys," said my son. "What do you want me to do about it?" I said, defensively. "Get bigger shelves so you can fit more toys," he said.

• Post #4025338

  The sporting good store had a SPEAR and the “machete” which is clearly a razor sharp sword. These were next to the three packs of ninja stars.

• Post #3939073

  Headed to the local arcade where I will win many many many tickets an embarrassment of tickets

• Post #3891447

  Look what I just got

• Post #3791794

  how can the day be so long

• Post #3752518

  Ladies and gentlemen, we have Linux on the desktop

• Post #3655952

  Saw a sign for 4 grilled lamb skewers for 2.5€, in Austin this would cost $37 and you would have to pay for parking

• Post #3539114

  Very crusty but still working payphone in downtown Athens

• Post #2482686

  I think a lot about the pastfuture, visions of the future from the past that could have been but never were. Like, what if we traded apps on minidiscs? What if you jacked into cyberspace via a payphone? Anyways, here’s finger running on a pager:

• Post #2468188

  Wow this is really neat: This code reads the camera on a mac and does a very fancy conversion to colored ascii in near realtime. https://github.com/finnvoor/mirror What just blew my mind is.. I piped the output into a text file, and was able to `cat` it back out and replay the video!! SO SO cool.

• Post #2468187

  I love how many large birds of prey there are in my neighborhood. I feel like this is an indicator that the ecosystem is pretty healthy.

• Post #2468186

  New txt file drop, lol. https://benbrown.com/txt/read/2026-05-10

• Post #2468185

  My teenager who says she hates school had a project titled "Pixel Park Tycoon" where she built an adventure game in scratch based on her favorite manga.

• Post #2468184

  I have been spending a lot of time with a new friend and his name is ESP32. https://benbrown.com/txt/read/2026-05-11

• Post #2468183

  Wow this is a really great podcast episode!! I love this line: "So, Ben Brown is a cool guy." @andypiper > https://gamesatwork.biz/2026/05/11/e553-monks-bots-ghosts/

• Post #2468181

  My family does not appreciate that I created a tiny pocket synthesizer

• Post #2468180

  Eliza, cutting right to the heart of it really.

• Post #2468179

  I made a video showing off the features I made for this little pager device. It has been a ton of fun exploring what it can do and building things just for myself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2DqWi4xoxA

• Post #2364445

  Happy Star Trek day! Live long and prosper. 🖖🏻

• Post #2271342

  Max on everything

• Post #2099981

  It’s NEW MURDERBOT day!! Martha Wells’ latest book, Platform Decay, is out today!

• Post #1886343

  This looks cool: RSS-only publishing system. I've had this same idea. https://www.sourcefeed.app/

• Post #1866748

  Very pleased to release the `headroom` command which will put an animated Max Headroom directly in your terminal window so he can laugh at the ridiculous name you gave your hard disk. Instructions to install are here: https://benbrown.com/txt/read/2026-05-01 Enjoy!!!!

• Post #1716539

  The new voice / same face thing going on with Stranger Things cartoon is really tough, fake David Harbour especially. But weirdly Janeane Garofolo is in half the episodes? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27486290/characters/nm0000413/?ref_=ttfc_fcr_3_10

• Post #1611415

  Sweet fancy Moses, this is like something out of Tim Burton’s twisted vision of hell!

• Post #1377534

  Today I am really excited to announce my new AI model, SKYNET. The capabilities demonstrated by this model are impossible to believe, often times rivaling or exceeding human ability. In our tests, SKYNET chose to nuke humans out of existence in 99 out of 100 test scenarios, which is why we've chosen to limit access to the new SKYNET model to a few chosen partners so that they can build the appropriate bunkers in New Zealand and/or offshore floating city sovereign nations.

• Post #1377533

  Tonight is ACTUALLY the night we are going to see TWICE. I need a very caffeinated beverage!!

• Post #1377532

  Twice concert was fun. The thousands of synchronized light sticks really make a kpop show!