Cool stuff to stumble upon, new and old.
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• Sizecoding and ramblings
  A collection of superogue’s sizecoding write-ups, a real treasure trove if you’re into these kind of things. I totally missed this crazy 3D pixel intro for the Amiga in 128 bytes of code, WTF! The amount of platforms covered is crazy, too: DOS, ZX Spectrum, Atari XE, Atari ST, MicroW8, TIC-80, Pico-8, Apple II – double WTF! :)
• Reflections on My Tech Career Pt. 1
  This retrospective of a successful IT career is a great read, and I don’t only say that because there’s Amiga assembly code in it! No, Random ASCII is great blog overall, and I’ve been stumbling upon it often in the past. Each resource leak and subtle bug investigation is a treat! But it was only with this post that I realized Bruce Dawson is the author of CygnusEd, the text editor for the Amiga! It certainly adds up: Creating a lightning-fast, capable editor loved by coders and ASCII artist alike, and later taking that Amiga mentality of code quality, effective resource usage, and general power-user friendliness out into the world…
• A very weird kids’ show made with DeluxePaint
  Well, it’s all in the title – click the link to enter “What did I just watch?” land. I don’t know any Dutch, so I don’t really understand what’s going on, but I wonder if this would change much if I spoke the language… Thanks to okkie who dropped the link on the demoscene discord!
• Obfuscating Image Links
  I hate blob: links with a passion (no downloading resources directly from the networking tab for you, mister!), and I liked this post already for sharing that sentiment. At least you can still get something out of it, like this nice technical analysis, complete with a working PoC for building your own obfuscating custom tag. The burdens that insatiable AI scraping bots cause us…
• Needy programs
  Speaking of relief by sharing the anger: If you, too, hate mandatory user accounts, being flooded with useless notifications, and just generally want to punch someone in the face when you are greeted with “Please wait while we update your installation” instead of the very program you want to use real quick – this post is for you. Breathe in, 3, 2, 1, exhale… Well, it’s probably naïve to do so, but I for one still dream of a world where I install a program once and just use it happily ever after.