# sci-fi short (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover sci-fi short. Page: Feed: --- ## [Pong Wars on the Commodore 64](https://imrannazar.com/articles/c64-pongwars) _2026-07-15 · Imran Nazar_ A couple of years ago, I saw a graphics demo in JavaScript that I just had to recreate on the C64. Having never written a real C64 program before, it s been quite a journey, and it s all documented here. ## [Drag](https://imrannazar.com/writings/drag) _2026-07-08 · Imran Nazar_ Y2K-inspired science fiction in the Terminator universe: A cult tries to wait out the coming nuclear holocaust in an orbital station, but something catches them by surprise. ## [Adventures in Songwriting: Translating 'Delgeç'](https://imrannazar.com/writings/lyrics/delgec) _2026-04-17 · Imran Nazar_ Another translation attempt, this time of one of Şebnem Ferah s deep cuts; the aim here is to convey meaning while retaining rhyme and meter, while not necessarily being a transliteration. ## [Adventures in Songwriting: Translating 'Bir Derdim Var'](https://imrannazar.com/writings/lyrics/bir-derdim-var) _2026-03-30 · Imran Nazar_ An attempt to translate Mor ve Ötesi s classic of Turkish rock while keeping to the melodic line of the song, and retaining some sense of lyrical rhyme. ## [Representing Negative Numbers](https://imrannazar.com/hacks/twos-complement) _2026-03-21 · Imran Nazar_ While working on a long post about a Commodore 64 program, I digressed into a discussion on how to represent negative numbers in binary. The digression stands alone, so I ve decided it can be released as a separate quick hack. ## [Founders don’t need Europe. Europe needs founders. Urgently.](https://klinger.io/posts/europe-needs-founders) _2026-01-12 · Blog posts of Andreas Klinger_ The 28th regime is happening. The question now is whether it ll be useful, like EU INC, or another Brussels half-measure. Here s what s actually being decided right now, which details matter, and how you can help push it over the line. ## [Degoogling TOTP Authenticator Codes](https://imrannazar.com/articles/degoogle-otp) _2025-09-01 · Imran Nazar_ I ve been slowly removing Google apps from my life, and one of the last ones left is Authenticator. In this post I look at migrating codes out of Authenticator to a command-line OTP tool, and the steps involved. ## [You can just do things – Creating a pan-European legal entity, the right way](https://klinger.io/posts/eu-inc) _2025-06-27 · Blog posts of Andreas Klinger_ First the good news: Brussels is convinced, something like EU-Inc will come. Now the bad news: Politicians will create a solution that won t be useful for founders and investors unless we stay actively involved in the details. We need your help! ## [Sci-fi Shorts: Dimming](https://imrannazar.com/scifi/dimming) _2025-05-01 · Imran Nazar_ What if the reason we darkened the skies in the Matrix was much more stupid than we were told? Flash fiction, also published on DeviantArt. ## [Why was the Commodore 64 Disk Drive So Slow?](https://imrannazar.com/articles/commodore-1541) _2025-03-09 · Imran Nazar_ A deep dive into the history of the 1541 disk drive, and a technical exploration of why it ranks as possibly the slowest commercially released floppy drive. Originally a series of 100 posts on Mastodon and Bluesky, for Threadapalooza 2024. ## [100,000 Bonus Points Await You (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/EpJnYdYsI72m) _2025-03-09 · **Sponsored**_ Earn 100,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 in the first 3 months. ## [Take Trump Seriously](https://klinger.io/posts/take-trump-seriously) _2025-03-07 · Blog posts of Andreas Klinger_ In his first presidency he was verbal shit-posting and looking what sticked and rotated people around him until something fitted. This time he comes prepared and is very intentional about what he says and does. ## [Five – A Sci-Fi Short Story – Chapter 1](https://klinger.io/posts/five-chapter1) _2025-01-13 · Blog posts of Andreas Klinger_ Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi short story i wrote ## [Uncapped notes dont work for first rounds.](https://klinger.io/posts/uncapped-rounds) _2024-12-23 · Blog posts of Andreas Klinger_ Uncapped safe notes misalign incentives in first rounds let me explain why ## [A Tale of XMODEM](https://imrannazar.com/articles/an-xmodem-tale) _2024-11-01 · Imran Nazar_ Learning of the passing of Ward Christensen who created the BBS and XMODEM, I decided was as good a time as any to relate the tale of the time I used XMODEM as a protocol of last resort to fix a Windows machine, so here is that tale. ## [ActivityPub Event Handling in PHP and MySQL](https://imrannazar.com/articles/activitypub-events) _2024-10-03 · Imran Nazar_ In the concluding part of the series on implementing ActivityPub for this blog, I look at the events that may arrive at the blog after a user follows the blog on Mastodon, and how we can keep track of them.