Collin Allen

A shameless plug for the #Nintendo64 homebrew resource list I maintain: n64.dev It’s a complex console, but the open-source tools and hardware that ease development have been making significant strides in the last couple years with open USB/flash cartridges, open SDKs, even an open boot loader.

Turns out, Backblaze is half busted on macOS 27 and there's no fix yet. Have to launch /Library/Backblaze.bzpkg/bzbmenu.app manually for now, it seems.

Building good looking, flexible, accessible web UIs with modern CSS tools is so satisfying. We have it so good now compared to the IE6 days.

Swift Testing was updated to support Embedded Swift on `main` so of course you know what that means

Throwback to this cool custom rackmount G4 that arrived on a pallet of unrelated electronics at a previous job

The #N64 development scene has been making huge strides recently. I blogged about where things stand right now: Also, that chunky header image took a *while* to make 🥹

Intent to ship: JPEG XL! This will be on-by-default in Firefox 157, which should become the main release version at the end of September. This includes key JPEG XL features like progressive rendering. groups.google.com/a/mozilla.or...

This is the coolest article I've ever written. Genuinely. All of you should read it.

2001: Playing Halo CE with my teenage friends 2026: Playing Halo CE with my teenage kids

Nuxt 4.5 is out, and it's a big one. 🚀 - ⚡️ Vite 8 - 🦀 Rspack 2, now powered by Rsbuild - 🌊 experimental SSR streaming for faster TTFB - 🩺 a new stable error code system - 🎨 useLayout, named views, and more ... plus a lot of groundwork for Nuxt 5! 💚💚💚

New Video - History of AOL Instant Messenger - out NOW on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxKe...

Hoping someday SVG rendering in Chrome won’t look terrible 🙏🏻 It’s been 84 years… issues.chromium.org/issues/40827...

Received mail from from the Phantom Phreak himself 💾 😃

The way you install and trust self-signed/in-house root certificates in iOS Simulator, now Device Hub, has changed significantly: command-tab.com/2026/06/12/i...

It's years late for a review, but I wrote about how fantastic Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is: I wish I could forget it and play it all again from the beginning with fresh eyes. I love it so much.

Unreal barely ran on my PowerBook in 1998, but it was still such a formative experience. Once my friends and I got our machines networked together, we spent so many hours hunting each other in DMDeck16. One of them would be the best man at my wedding a decade later.

Introducing Indigo A beautiful new app for Bluesky and Mastodon and the best way to experience both social networks together. It's tough keeping up with everyone when they're split across networks but Indigo brings them together for a seamless social experience. apps.apple.com/us/app/indigo-...

Dimming the screen for the screen saver on #PicoIDE was boring so I added flying toasters as an option. Sprites borrowed from the PicoPOST project

Hello if you are in the bay area over the weekend and are interested in technology and how it affects actual people, may I recommend popping up to Petaluma for @NorthBayPython? It's this weekend! Talks and tickets: https://northbaypython.org/ (We'll waive ticket costs on request too, if you […]

Feeling optimistic about the future of Xbox with Asha Sharma at the helm. She’s saying the right things. Now to actually execute.

I blogged. It's been a while. command-tab.com/2026/04/15/g...

How long until we get this far more expressive text-to-speech in Siri? Between LLMs, Apple devices' available context, and advances like this in speech, Siri ought to be light years better than it is now. Maybe WWDC and the upcoming OS releases will bring the goods? blog.google/innovation-a...

Announcing Oxfmt Beta * 100% Prettier Compatibility * Additional File Formats * Tailwind CSS Integration * Import Sorting * package.json Sorting * Embedded Language Formatting * Node.js API * `--migrate prettier` * config overrides * Full IDE support oxc.rs/blog/2026-02...

This year is a 2-Pixar-film year! Hoppers is just around the corner, and Toy Story 5 is shortly after that: youtube.com/watch?v=c51ND9Hdbw0 So stoked about both of these 🤩

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

@aeronautapp.com A feature request, if I may: Please add image size options. Images consume a lot of vertical real estate while scrolling, and I'd like to be able to choose a smaller size image thumbnail, and click to open it in a new media viewer window. The web page embeds look great, though!

Excited to announce that Aeronaut is now live in the Mac App Store! 🎉 After two years of tinkering, polishing, and obsessing over the little things, it’s finally here! If you’re looking for a Bluesky app designed and built for macOS, take a look… apps.apple.com/us/app/aeronau…

The PicoIDE Crowd Supply campaign is now live! Back the project to be among the first to get yours! PicoIDE is an open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for retro systems. www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Ubiquiti has such a good native iOS app, and they do a really solid job organizing a significant volume of information about network hardware, clients, settings, etc. Worth looking into if you’ve been on the fence.

I would enjoy watching videos of someone competently building stuff with #Rust and talking about why they’re making the decisions they’re making as they go. Recommendations?

heard the RAM shortage is getting bad so I've been trying to stock up🤞

It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.

Hey, movie directors - don't you want to be on this list, too? An Ongoing List of Directors Positively Acknowledging Visual Effects fxrant.blogspot.com/2023/02/a...

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”

The Apple@Pixar team just released an open-source tool, `xolo`, that helps administer JAMF MDM package deployment and patch management at scale: github.com/PixarAnimati...

I sat down to work on a project that uses a Raspberry Pi, powered it up, went to plug in a USB cable, and accidentally dropped the cable's metal USB connector onto the Pi's power management circuitry and shorted something — killing this brand new Pi. Real smooth. 🤦‍♂️

Do you have a dead retro device motherboard you want to donate to science? I am taking requests and board donations for my board scan wiki. wiki.nataliethenerd.com

Dialup AOL is being discontinued next month. The end of an era. I met my high school sweetheart and future wife on AOL, and we maintained a long distance relationship over IMs for years. We celebrated our 17th anniversary a few days ago. You never know what technology will change your life.

I published a new video showing some lesser-known techniques for styling SF Symbols in SwiftUI, including scaling symbols relative to text, coloring them with gradients and multiple colors, and applying variants like fill or circle programmatically: youtu.be/ytUWzccgD_w #SwiftUI #iOSDev #SwiftLang

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones

This week I’m taking my oldest to EAA AirVenture for the first time. The number of planes landing on Flightradar24 is staggering! Having never been before, I have no idea what to expect, but he’s very into aviation, so this seems like going to airplane Disneyland.

N64brew user Buu342 has released a multiplayer networking stack for the Nintendo 64, allowing you to play homebrew online using a flashcart's USB port. They also made a video that shows how to use the tools, and explains all the technical details. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9aV...

Planning a few-day-long summer trip to San Diego. Any recommendations for family fun with 10 & 13 year old kids?

Amid the other horror from all this, it's a damn shame about the Perfect Dark reboot being cancelled. It looked like it had promise and I was looking forward to it. :( P. S. There's a work-in-progress decompiled pc port of the N64 original that breathes fresh life into it and is very playable.

The annual tradition is approaching!