Steve Fulton

Note: menthol can be both a pain reliever and a pain deliverer. It all depends on the context of your current ailment which tube you reach for at that given moment.

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1.5 inch thick Smoked Ribeye. Avocado oil + Penzy’s Chicago seasoning Smoker at 240 degrees for 75 minutes + 2 mins each side on grill, 5 minutes rest, slice .5 inches thick against the grain

Interested : “ I made a retro game…” Not interested : “ … and it only took Claude 4 hours to do it”

Elon Musk *is* what they conflated George Soros to be, but was not

We "Crack The Seal" on the Atari 8-bit Atari Lab starter set, and then do some science! youtu.be/7Ywsv_OtI_M

This one was a long time coming as I had to find a reasonably priced, unopened copy of Rescue On Fractalus. I did not care about ruining any value, I wanted to play the real game in a real machine for the first time . youtu.be/vSZWZgHXR-I?...

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We channel the spirit of Dr. C Wacko to build a game in FastBasic on the Atari 8-bit youtu.be/ITSyftPYd4E?...

It’s been 3 days so the inevitable “You Can See Everything” hand-wringing backlash should start right about ….now

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You never forget your first .

The next 12 months in the world of software development are going to be wild. I’m not anyone can predict who will be left standing after all software ever created is decompiled and recompiled on every existing and past platform and available for free.

I find myself hand-programming in Fast Basic on an Atari 800 (emulated) with no possibility of letting AI writing anything because I type every character. Its’ value is only to me and keeping my brain from getting smooth.

Help me not spiral into the abyss. It feels like, even if I decide I will not use AI to automatically build games for vintage computers (as in “dear AI, make game”) so many others will do it that my stance on it will not really matter at all and I should just quit now before it gets so much worse.

youtu.be/OgpCUbbYdRo?... Re-Ramping-Up our bi-weekly nerd fest. This week the ST show, next time the 8-bit code show. Gotta get get all this stuff done while there is still time.

Still one of my favorite songs of the last 10 years: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mybg...

I never imagined I’d ever get to see the original Urinals/100 Flowers play, but here we are in 2026 with all norms and timelines broken beyond recognition, so why not?

Too many friends dying too young.

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Gen AI for non-creative people: “ this is amazing. It does all things I can’t do. It might only be correct 80% of the time, but I can make that up in sheer volume!” Gen AI for creative people : “I’ve lost the will to live”

No, I DO NOT want to play your AI generated retro game.

It don’t hear a peep about JavaScript frameworks any more

Don’t hesitate to get the new Covid vaccine, but also, it may hit a bit harder this time

Every YouTube video I watch that is not a human talking live and off the cuff sounds like it was written by AI now.

I’m still not sure why these for profit death camps are not a bigger deal

Our urban suburbia.

All car bumpers should be made of resilient black rubber at a fixed height designed to absorb force and bounce back but maintain perfect shape and an u damaged state at speeds up to 35 mph.

I’d like say something I think is funny but then lands with a thud as usual but instead today it’s just all existential dread

He literally told people to cheat. I mean he said “cheat” . WTF?

Lucas Museum had an odd lack of restrooms and odd signage for the ones that did exist. Not as weird as the Brutalist restrooms at the new LACMA but I’m starting to sense a museum trend prejudiced against people with small bladders.

It’s not the same with movies or books or games, but much of the time sharing your favorite music with people gets a reaction like you asked them to share a toothbrush

I’ve been looking for this at $1 Bookoff for the last several years and it finally appeared last weekend. The first HTML book I ever bought. It’s a slightly later edition but still tracks. It’s hard for me imagine where my life would have gone if I’d not found this exactly when I did.

In June, among the 100s of photos of The Last my sister took I found a few shots of an unknown (to me at the time) band and they turned out to be The Furys. At that very moment they were making a video for their new single and they dedicated it to my sister. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SZq...

Everything is too quiet today. It makes me think of everyone who is gone now.

Mail call. My brother raved about this book and I’m excited to have the first indie 7” of weirdness from Dix and John Denney from The Weirdos circa 1978

I guess this is one of the first magazine articles about video games? Anything earlier?

The GOAT

This book from 1982 is fascinating. It’s more right than wrong when speculating about the future use of computers. Very entertaining!

From 1983. This book shows some promise in the first chapter, but then turns into devils dictionary style diatribe within an alphabetical set of seemingly random topics.

Sure Atari is making new ones, but I still like my tiny but well loved classic Activision collection

An equally impressive painting of Olive trees sits right next to Starry Night yet only 1 person was looking at it.,

My absolute worst days debugging my own crappy code , following bug traces, and finally finding a problem are far better than any day with AI coding.

The best companies are private.

Walking outside with AirPods in transparency mode is like living the same life but a foley added