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Cocona World

English translation patch for Cocona World

How To Deal With Horrible Smartphone Ergonomics

Phones these days are kinda painful. Here's some tips and tricks on how to get around that.

Web3 is not decentralization

It's just not. Here's a deep dive into why, exactly, I think that.

My Bitcoin Adventure (April Fool's 2021)

Bitcoin is absolutely positively the greatest thing humanity has ever created. Here's my adventure in the crypto sphere at the time I was most active in it.

The Bizarre World of Non-Fungible Tokens

NFTs and crypto-art are the big talk of the town right now. Let's look at what applications for NFTs exist, and the sorts of issues they cause.

A Look Back at Y2K Trans Websites

The transgender community thrived in the online wild west. Let's take a look back and ponder why that was.

The Perils of File Typing

Determining the type of a computer file is pretty tricky. Let's compare and contrast different ways of doing that.

FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Microsoft FrontPage has its thorns, but don't discount the fact that those thorns are attached to a rose.

Burnout and Despair

A recollection of my poor mental health during my college years during COVID

Chain Patterns

Part 1 of Viz's Petal Crash lessons. Learn fundamantal chain patterns, and how to apply them.

All Our Selves In One Basket

They say you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket. Are we doing that with our communities?

The State of Macintosh Emulation

Let's discuss where the shortcomings in classic Macintosh emulators are, so we can do better moving forwards.

mini vMac compilation notes

Finding warmth in a cold world

There's a pandemic. Everything's kinda scary. Let's talk about how we got here, and where we can go.

Vizstuck

Congratulations dingus. You just had to go off and die. gg. 10/10.

Gifts and Commissions

A collection of gift art and commissions other people have made for me!

Why I Procrastinate

A look into me, my awful procrastination habit, and how I fixed it. (spoiler alert: it was ADHD)

Misc. Ideas

A big list of things I wanted to do but never got the chance to...

To: GameHut; Re: AntStream

Game streaming is a silly idea, so maybe selling out your channel was too...

Gouraud Shading

Sonic R has some really fancy lighting effects that until recently most people didn't even know about.

Making a GB Game, Part 5: Adventures in Macro Land

Assembly is hard. Let's see if we can make it easier.

A Restrospective on Sonic Redux

Thoughts about the Sonic R hack I made in 2017 and how much I let it consume my life for no good reason...

Making a GB Game, Part 4: Parallax Backgrounds

Doing some fancy hardware tricks to make the background look 3D

Making a GB Game, Part 3: Sprite Maps

Drawing the art is one thing, but how about displaying it?

Making a GB Game, Part 2: Drawing Sprites

Every good game needs art. Here's how I made some for Aqua and Ashes

Making a GB Game, Part 1: Getting Started

I'm making a Game Boy game! What goes into that?

Storytime Youtubers

Bughunting: Mysterious Balloons

Lifting King Bob-omb

Loading Jam Series Closure

Nintendo Switch: What Do I Think?

No Man's Sky vs. Link: The Faces of Evil

Faces of Evil Opening Analysis

Loading Jam Day 2

Loading Jam Day 1

Loading Jam Day 0

Bughunting: Slopes

Beautiful Decay of AOL

The Ruins of AOL

Window Management

Windows 95 and Files

Input Oddities