Sanqui 🦉

Randomly saw this, felt like doing today: favorite water theme. Sog-Gee's Realm from Snake Pass, composed by David Wise, is a stand-out piece from a little known game. It's hauntingly beautiful and just playing this cover by in my head has brought me to tears once. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeCx...

My next video shows off a project that I actually finished late last year already! A DIY heat-recuperation system for our chicken coop to keep our lovely chickens safe and warm <3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2nI...

🏓 We’ve published an article about a rare Czechoslovak TV tennis prototype by TESLA-VÚST! Unveiled at this year’s ByteFest, the prototype’s history and inner workings are explored by Jiří Bernášek. 🗞️ Article: buff.ly/LL98KaV #pong #retro

yp waddpü I am reaöly bad at tyüing ad yoi can srr Hpoe yoi font mond thoighTeehee~ ✨🐔💅 #art #furryart #animation #oc-floop #furry #bird #painting #meme

Would you like to read an account of ZX Spectrum indie game development in late 1980s Czechoslovakia? Colleagues at @hernihistorie.cz conducted this interview with Petr Tuček while I did the web conversion! Read the questionnaire and download the games: herniarchiv.cz/en/interview...

Small laptop for small owl

It was true before AI, it is still true today: validate the SOURCE. There is no other way. If a video is posted by a zoo, licensed rehab, wildlife photographer, etc: Enjoy it! If it's posted by "randomdude284" or "cuteanimalvibes": It's probably AI/staged/stolen. Follow creators, block reposters!

Vespersaurus paranaensis, a small Noasaurinae dinosaur which may have walked on only one toe #pixelart #ドット絵 #SciArt #1bit #paleoart

Un-unlisted some of my old YouTube videos from 2008-2009. Nothing notable, just personal history, but YouTube decided to set the published date on some (but not all) of them as today, even though they have old comments. Windows Movie Maker jumpscare awaits my subscribers.

Back home from the 25th camping get-together of the Czech Pokémon community! Alongside the usual hikes and games, we had a nearly 2 hour presentation about the history of the community and all the creative pursuits and meets. Was fun to reminisce, and it's crazy to watch aftermovie videos from 2005!

Ok, European friends, the ECB is going to redesign the Euro banknotes and are doing a survey to see what design europeans like the most. YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR THE BIRD ONES!! LET US HAVE LITTLE BIRDS IN OUR MONEY. There are many designs to choose from as well: surveys.ecb.europa.eu/lng/en/pageT...

For the seventh year I helped organize @furryest.org, the Estonian outdoor furry convention. We are able to create a magical experience for 180 attendees only thanks to staff becoming year by year more professional and successful at onboarding helpers. This success makes me a little proud!

A selection of my Game Boy Camera photos from Elistvere Animal Park! (Bottom two are are taxidermy) #gbcam

We built our chickens what the manufacturer calls an "activity center". Usually they get to roam the whole garden, but when we go on vacation, they're stuck in the run. So it should bring them some variety!

Showing off the prototype of Pesík 🐕️, my overly ambitious Game Boy Color RPG, last worked on in 2016. Demo coming in December! 🙃

A successor website to redump.org from the same staff team just launched, featuring better registration and metadata submission processes and HTTPS in 2026 among other things #redump redump.info

Every phpBB forum that hasn't been updated to 3.3.17 (released last Saturday) is vulnerable to a trivial admin session hijack. Tell your local phpBB admin to upgrade. pentest-tools.com/research/php... www.phpbb.com/community/vi...

And now for the conclusion! Watch as I install the electric motor I made in my previous video onto a road bike, and then test it out in the field! Did I succeed in making a useful motor? Is it even possible to make a useful motor at home? Only one way to find out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDi8...

Recorded this on my Game Boy Camera when we went go-karting with colleagues last week. What an experience! All that practice in Mario Kart came in handy, believe it or not.

The, perhaps, long-awaited e-bike motor video is *finally* here! This is the first part in a series of two videos. In this first one, I go over the design- and build process of this from-scratch DIY 500W+ electric motor befit an e-bike. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pnC...

I find myself struggling to keep up with all my commitments (as it happens), but at least I managed to plant all the herbs my mom gave me *before* they withered 😊

There's a general sentiment that GitHub is a sinking ship, so I went ahead and set up Forgejo (forgejo.org) at work so we could get a feel for it. Deployed it on a Debian VPS as Podman "Quadlets" using Ansible and it's like a devops dream. Clean and declarative!

We did a call for volunteers at the Game Archive (@hernihistorie.cz) and the amount of responses surpassed our imaginations. Now that we have split our responsibilities for them, I'm excited to start mentoring two new programmers!

💾 We created a cleaning mechanism for 3.5" floppy disks! Following our 8" version, this one is also 3D printable and helps preserve old media. Download: buff.ly/8slb7ar Questions? Ask on Printables! #floppydisk #retrotech

For @aftermath.site, I spoke with @seven.eurosky.social about the sudden, viral love for Moon Child and the rocky history that led to it. aftermath.site/moon-child-t...

💾 We created a cleaning mechanism for 8" floppy disks! You can 3D print it yourself and help preserve old media. Download it here: buff.ly/JPYiCtb Questions? Ask in English on Printables. #floppydisk #archive #retrotech

The "art of programming" might feel like it's crumbling, yet I'm still trying to keep up with software engineering developments. I'm now almost a year into learning event sourcing. It's satisfying to be able to write clean code even for legacy codebases. Sample con raffle feature—real world Python!

Draw on the Game Boy and share direct to your phone with a #QRCode! No extra hardware and without the internet. QR-Paint is a small paint program for the #GameBoy with a fun way to export drawings. bbbbbr.itch.io/game-boy-qr-... #GBDK #RetroGaming #PixelArt #GameBoyColor

With age verification, we talk more about privacy and surveillance concerns, and some of us don't remember what it's like to be a minor, but that quote summarizes the other side of the coin. Personally I'm concerned about how sheltering children will make bad childhoods even worse.

I'm working on an English translation patch for the Pokémon GS Spaceworld 1997 demo! youtu.be/_GkJu5_I4L4

Today, I have conducted a full two-and-a-half hour interview inside a text-based virtual world from the 90s... and only at the cost of waking up at 6 am!

I contacted somebody last night with an inquiry about an email they had sent in 1997. I found their writing poignant and before its time, so I wanted to ask for permission to quote it. They replied positively. I bet it was unexpected! Part of my learning to be a responsible archivist and historian.

I implemented dark mode for the Czechoslovak Game Archive website. It also has English text on more pages than ever! herniarchiv.cz/en/

While researching early internet culture, I get the feeling that communities these days just don't chronicle their history. No rich FAQs, no wikis. I see there was pride in mailing lists and websites; maybe running a Discord server just isn't the same? Telegram groups may as well be fast fashion...

Ten years after I last worked on it, people are still writing me emails asking for my unfinished Sega Game Gear port of Pokémon Red. So I published it in its glitchy state: www.smspower.org/forums/20703...

A little expirement-slash-art-project, this image displays the individual tile graphics used in Pokémon Gold for the Game Boy Color. They are arranged in chronological order as they appear during regular gameplay. You could read it left to right, top to bottom, page by page, like a book.

I'm imagining traveling somewhere remote, spending my whole days outside doing bird fieldwork, and then in the evening in the cozy log cabin... just connecting online with this setup and chatting on IRC.

Prague, park Grébovka. The sodium lamp atmosphere is one of my favorites.

Travel log

Here is your regular reminder: Don't feed bread to pigeons. Or any birds really. I know it's a fun meme but it's not healthy for them. It fills their stomach but doesn't give them the nutrition they need. It might even make them sick. Feed birds peanuts, seed, peas, or other vegetables instead!

Fellow translation patch developers, I'm proud to announce the v1.0 release of TextSleuth, my brute-force search utility to identify non-standard text encoding formats. It supports multi-threading and a host of useful options, like wildcards! DOWNLOAD: github.com/DerekPascare...

And to balance out my feed... I'm still working on my side project! Here's a spoiler: it'll be a tool that should prove useful to small museums, archives, and individual collectors. I'm applying lessons from my past decade of work at my @hernihistorie.cz nonprofit & aim for a 1st-class experience.

I enjoyed this year's NordicFuzzCon! I don't have a suit, so I'm super grateful to @ferix.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to goat around as Ophan the capricorn! I had a lot of fun and interacting with this glitchy LCD panel is totally my vibe!

Anybody else has a 5.25 inch floppy disk drive practically built into their furniture? No...? All dumps are now automatically uploaded to the Czechoslovak Game Archive NAS (@hernihistorie.cz). Pauline FPGA dumper by @jfdelnero.bsky.social, chassis by @birdbrain.engineer.