User Interfaces of the Demo Scene
Exploring the tools of the trade.
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Old Fogey Computing: rants, hacks and miscellanea.
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Phones and Phonies
Commodore Shenanigans Through The Ages.
AmigaOS 2: The Greatest Upgrade
A system software release for the ages.
Remembering Dotcom, Pondering LLMs
Comparing hypes and bubbles.
Pixels I Have Known And Loved
Memorable pixel art from the Amiga demo scene.
The Curious Case of Retro Demo Scene Graphics
On copying, tracing, converting and prompting.
Circumstantial Complexity, LLMs and Large Scale Architecture
On software architecture and the paradox of machine-assisted programming.
Commodore, IBM, OS/2, ARexx: Deal or No Deal?
Short summary: This didn't happen.
Amiga Desktops Worth Seeing
Screenshots from another era.
Jonesing For The Next Disruptor
On sustained western growth and Artificial Intelligence.
Can Fat Mike Skate?
Large Language Mixups.
The Peach meme
On CRTs, pixels and signal quality (again)
Working with the Amiga's RAM and RAD disks
Creative use of a system staple.
The Demo Scene is Dying, But That's Alright
Thoughts on a generational subculture.
More retrocomputing, less nostalgia
Creating something new isn't living in the past.
The Amiga 3000 UNIX and Sun Microsystems
Deal or no deal?
The Hamburger Menu Is No Longer a Hamburger Menu
This is why we can't have nice things.
On Buying the Commodore Brand
What's in a logo?
The Meaning of Icons
Thoughts on cryptic ideograms and stylized squares.
Picking the right (archaic) Window Manager
Living in the past has never been easier.
Desktop Icons Of Yore
Fun, ugly, crazy and beautiful.
Honest and Elitist Thoughts on Why Computers Were More Fun Before
Computers were more fun when they weren't for everyone.
BRA and KET: String Interpolation in AmigaDOS
Exploring the unnecessary, part 3735928559
Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design
Revolutionizing the desktop since 1975.
Copyright and the Demo Scene
Scandal, scandal!
The Coolest Amiga Setup
The pride of Skövde, Sweden.
On Working With Your Passion
Are you loving every second of your job?
Misc: Quines
An honest man scores a single point on a silly test.
The Annotated Hacker Test
For those of us who didn't receive a case of beer with our computer.
Cosy Computing
On the soulful qualities of home computers.
The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art
On Cathode Ray Tubes, nostalgia and anachronisms.
On Complex Simplicity and Simple Complexity
We all want the system we can't have.
Stupid Slow
On the perceived speed of computers.
Is Winter Coming?
Thoughts on articifial intelligence and lofty expectations.
Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination
Old codger yells at software, part the latest.
Swedish Puns
In a strange turn of events, regular datagubbe programming will resume after this short break of Swedish nonsense.
How Doom didn't kill the Amiga
A detailed account of the rise and fall of an Amiga zealot.
Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS
Documented, undocumented, unfinished and useful.
An Ode to Deluxe Paint
The Kaleidoscopic Magical Motion Machine.
The Datagubbe Survey Response Survey
We value your valuable input, valuable input valuer!
The Decline of Usability: Revisited
In which we once more delve into the world of user interface design.
The Wachowskis and the Hacker as a progressive archetype
Hacker culture and politics in postmodern fact and fiction.
Scene Archetypes
The ones making Amiga 500 fun.
Nature for Nerds
Hungry hedgerow hacks for city slickers.
The Future of the Software Industry
On geopolitics, economics, class, looming austerity... and Twitter.
Why we don't trade with ants
...and why hypothetical AI:s won't, either.
A Life Less Ads
Angry man yells at late stage capitalism.
Everyday Carry
Always prepared!
The Colorful Charm of Amiga Utility Disks
Exploring the customized toolboxes of yore.
A Quarter Century of Web Coding
Tracing the Fractal of Complexity.