Cool stuff to stumble upon, new and old.
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• Amiga memories - Shadow of the Beast
  Martin Piper’s “mostly Commodore related memories” contain cool reverse-engineering videos about games and demos – using visual inspection tools like C64DebugGUI to take a deep look behind the scenes: what tricks are used to achieve the impossible, etc. Now he’s on to the Amiga, with a deep dive into Shadow of the Beast – and he’s using Coppenheimer for it!
• Stories From 25 Years of Computing
  Tech blogger Susam Pal shares a retrospective of his career so far. I love these posts, and this one is also entertaining and heartwarming. The “first lessons in HTML” chapter (learning by looking at the source code) gave me nostalgia goosebumps.
• The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
  I still like plain HTML, and I’m often skeptical about the complexity modern web frameworks bring along. Of course it’s not all black and white; the software world is full of tradeoffs. While that is certainly true, I think it’s worthwhile to stop and take a good look at the details. So, let’s look at a radio button and reflect!
• Teletext Art Compo @ Flashparty 2025
  Teletext artist, podcaster, and curator Dan Farrimond uploaded the Teletext compo of last year’s Flashparty in Argentina. A nice rewatch! And I don’t only say that because King Tut XL won me a pretty certificate! :)
• Scala Multimedia on the Commodore Amiga
  Christopher Drum a. k. a. Stone Tools is at it again: yanking out a classic piece of killer app and working with it like a power-user back in the day. Or like a user of today? His report sure goes deeper than most of the contemporary reviews! Anyway, Scala was (is) awesome, just watch the summary video about this series near the end of the post.
  
  PS: You might also dig the interview with Scala’s founder Jon Bøhmer in Amiga Future.