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Damian Yerrick @PinoBatch@peoplemaking.games · Jul 19, 2026

Replying to @celesteh@hachyderm.io

@celesteh@hachyderm.io In Soviet Kenya, ChatGPT writes like YOU! Or at least Marcus Olang claimed as much in this article. https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt

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Damian Yerrick @PinoBatch@peoplemaking.games · Jun 28, 2026

Replying to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social "Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping" certainly would fit the Game Boy architecture.

Eight Megs: Same size as Densha de Go 2, the biggest licensed Game Boy game.
Constantly Swapping: MBC5 bank switching. The Game Boy looks at ROM through a 16 KiB window at address range $4000-$7FFF.

#emacs #BankSwitching #GameBoy

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Damian Yerrick @PinoBatch@peoplemaking.games · Jun 28, 2026

Replying to @mogul@hachyderm.io

@mogul@hachyderm.io @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social There's a Meta key, but I understand you won't be able to bring your legs in ⛄️ #emacs #HorizonWorlds #biid #Metaverse

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Damian Yerrick @PinoBatch@peoplemaking.games · Jun 28, 2026

Replying to @me@akk.stupidmintrabbit.gay

@me@akk.stupidmintrabbit.gay @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Are you kidding? Emacs for Game Boy had the most popular pack-in of all time: M-x tetris

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Damian Yerrick @PinoBatch@peoplemaking.games · May 21, 2026

I made a test ROM for the Oeka Kids drawing tablet for Famicom based on the description at NESdev Wiki. I had someone with a tablet try it.

It didn't work.

The tablet's slow microcontroller requires a lot of waiting in the read routine. The MCU turned out to be so slow that reading a pen position took 67 scanlines, or one-fourth of an NTSC frame. Neither Mesen nor FCEUX modeled this slowness.

It took three revisions before I had a read routine I was happy with. All for a silly little Anpanman licensed game.
https://github.com/pinobatch/little-things-nes/tree/master/oekakids

#NESdev #GraphicsTablet #OekaKids #Anpanman #Famicom #Emulation #Mesen #FCEUX

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Damian Yerrick @PinoBatch@peoplemaking.games · Apr 28, 2026

Once I let the user map keyboard and joystick presses to emulated buttons, save settings, and save SRAM, I called Family Size VM feature-complete.
https://youtu.be/v9YBDkoBBlA

#FamilySizeVM #emudev #NESdev #timelapse #emulator #joystick #MVP

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Damian Yerrick @PinoBatch@peoplemaking.games · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @thatgalsilver@zoner.work

@thatgalsilver @alice Maybe they thought XChat was discontinued in 2013 in favor of HexChat, which was itself discontinued in 2024, and that was enough to deem the name no longer in "use in commerce" for the purposes of trademark law. #xchat #hexchat

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Damian Yerrick @PinoBatch@peoplemaking.games · Apr 07, 2026

Sumit Khanna reports that the cost per gigabyte of memory for desktop computers has had no net improvement since 2009. The present RAM shortage has erased a decade and a half of gains. How do we get application developers to use more efficient frameworks?
https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-high-price-of-ram/

#dram #RAMShortage

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Damian Yerrick @PinoBatch@peoplemaking.games · Apr 04, 2026

Replying to @nikku4211@peoplemaking.games

@nikku4211@peoplemaking.games @NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz And why am I suddenly thinking of both the Pictionary opening theme and the Pokémon cartoon whenever I hear Danny's name?

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