Misty @misty@digipres.club

Well, there’s one PS1 mystery solved. There’s a game by Culture Brain I’ve seen pop up on a lot of unreleased game lists, but some people insisted it really exists. A copy sold on Mercari for $150 recently, and they have photos. It exists! https://www.mercari.com/jp/items/m81969921152/

Loving this story about the forgotten “Microsoft Coffee” April fools prank. https://microsoft-coffee.medium.com/microsoft-coffee-25545836a7e3

Current work tune - 24 Hours in a Disco (Kiki Gyan) https://soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com/track/24-hours-in-a-disco

Considering proposing a new #rustlang unsafe syntax

Library friends: do you have opinions on the different library programs in Canada? A friend is looking at going into children’s librarianship and could use feedback from people who have experience at different schools.

Sen (Rafał Wójcik/L.K. Avalon, Amiga, 1995) https://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/sen

Getting the relevant spam today

OpenSSL fix is out. Patch if your server is running 1.1.1h or later. https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2021-March/000198.html

Every now and then I remember that there’s a real, honest-to-goodness OS named eComStation

Writing a new programming language where instead of all strings being UTF-8, they’re MARC-8

There’s power-over-ethernet, and there’s ethernet-over-power. But can you do power-over-ethernet-over-power?

My favourite record store is reopening!! Their location burned down last year, destroying a lot of their stock. I’m so happy they’re bouncing back. If you’re a music lover in Vancouver please check out their site and grab a record. https://dandelionrecords.ca

Gofundme collected a set of verified fundraisers to help those affected baby the Atlanta shootings: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate

@themadprogramer Welcome!

I… had no idea that glibc once had features that existed specifically and exclusively for Emacs. https://lwn.net/Articles/707615/

@michelamarie Thanks!

I’m on vacation between jobs so I’m mostly giving myself a break from programming or anything work-related, except I got into tweaking some obscure arcade code, so I guess I’m not 100% taking a mental break.