Been watching "Resurrecting Sinistar: A Cyber-Archaeology Documentary", which has been great. Played Sinistar last at Portland Retro Gaming Expo in October and was digging the heck out of it. They squeezed so much out of that 8-bit processor - I guess it had a multitasking system that could handle like over 100 game entities? In 1983?! The source code has actually surfaced, so you can see how they did it.
I was starting to do "weeknotes", this month. But, this week, I decided what I really wanted to do was just blog more. So, that got me started hacking on my blog software.
I'm just going to deploy these changes to the blog. Some things might be broken, but I'll fix them as I go. I want to start actually using the thing.
Thinking I'll start each day off with a miscellanea entry like this one and fill it full of little bullets.
Maybe I'll start spawning little entries for bookmarks and quotes?
One of the main things I'm thinking about with all this hackery and ASCII art is whether I'll be able to do something with all these files in 10 - 20 years' time. Granted, I'll be pushing 70, so maybe I won't care by then?
But, the writing is the important part to me. I could write a whole new blog publisher from scratch and still read all the file formats. I've done that a couple times now and I can still handle stuff I wrote back in 2002. I think that's pretty cool.
And here I am, attempting to blog from Obsidian on my phone? Is this the future?
Next thing I need to work out is how to upload and display images via Obsidian on my phone. I think it's very doable, just a few more bits of Rube Goldberg crud to slot into place.
I've been asked to write up how this whole mess works - that might be a thing I'll do this weekend in greater detail. It really is an accumulation of random little parts.
Dang, now that I have this easy channel from my brain into my blog, I'm feeling like a motormouth. I'll probably settle down, soon enough. I'm always giddy with a new toy.
