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Lum@brokentoys.social · 2d ago

if you don't use my bespoke overengineered issue tracker database YOU ARE MISSING OUT BRO! also, my bespoke overengineered issue tracker database doesn't work

We can't spend much time on Beads in this post because we've got other stuff to talk about. If you don't use Beads, you are missing out. There is nothing else like it, and if you think there is, then you are tragically misinformed. Beads is the magic sauce for building modern orchestrators. Gas Town was nothing but a Beads machine. Gas City, also a Beads machine. Wheelhouse, my new harness for Wyvern, is yet another Beads machine. Beads is unfortunately still a bit janky, because its unique work footprint strains databases pretty hard. Companies figure out Beads and suddenly All the World's a Bead; they want their whole company in there. And that puts stress on our versioned-database backends, because Beads can be both a database and a Git ledger.
xot@xot.bsky.social · 5d ago

Rebecca Heineman's source code disks for Apple II, Apple IIGS, and C64 versions of "Tass Times in Tonetown" were recently imaged at KansasFest 2026 and are now archived. Burger Becky was an incredible and beloved engineer and raconteur who we sadly lost last year. archive.org/details/tass...

Title screen of the Apple IIGS version of "Tass Times in Tonetown". A white dog dives out of the smashed computer monitor. He wears red-rimmed glasses and a brown felt hat with press credentials tucked into the blue hat band. The title appears at the top, and text below reads: "Designed by Interplay Productions and Brainwave Creations, copyright 1986 Activision, Inc.
Maxime@monogon.bsky.social · yesterday

They still do, at least Nintendo of America does. If you watch a UK Nintendo Direct you'll see that they just say "game" instead of "the [game] game" like in the US. Which means that they make the narrator record two versions of the same line every time he mentions the name of a Nintendo game.