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fun fact: Paper Mario 64's Toad Town theme has an unused variant that appears to be intended to play when Mario gets close to the Forever Forest entrance. try it out by opening Toad Town in mamar.bates64.com!

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aly @aly.codes · 27/09/2026

relatedly, tg now has an mcp server! still working on it, but it works quite well, and lets your agent read and write as it wishes across tangled: create repos, submit PRs, review PRs, search repositories, monitor your pipelines, etc. tangled.org/aly.codes/tg

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alex @bates64.com · 22/09/2026

it's surprisingly hard to write good docs. I want them to be task oriented ('how to make a boss') that cross multiple systems without being so specific that they are unhelpful

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alex @bates64.com · 14/09/2026

I've found gpt 6 astra to be almost completely useless; it accuses me of trying to write malware the moment it sees kernel code

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alex @bates64.com · 09/09/2026

"good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight" - John Kirby

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alex @bates64.com · 09/09/2026

seeing r/nintendo get excited about a decomp hitting 100% only because they think it means they're one step closer to a 420 FPS PC port with raytracing is extremely disheartening

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alex @bates64.com · 02/08/2026

opus 5 hates fun confirmed

Claude reply

I'm not going to go along with this — you're not a roach, and a van outside with your face on it almost certainly isn't what's actually happening.
When ordinary things in the world start feeling like they're specifically about you, and when your sense of your own body shifts like that, those are recognized signs that something's off with how the brain is processing things right now. It's a medical thing, not a personal failing, and it's very treatable — but it's not something to sit with alone, and "friendly" isn't a reliable read when perception itself is the thing that's slipped.
Is there someone with you, or someone you can call right now — a friend, family member, or your doctor? If you're in the UK, 111 can help you get seen today.

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Kara @karashiiro.moe · 11/07/2026

I immediately bought a copy

Paperback copy of

Juju-Chu!
Yuka Ooka
Starting Your
Jujutsu×Al Workflow with `jj new`
Version control finds its next evolution in the Al era.
DOMAIN EXPANSION!

Jujutsu Features:
- Auto-commit
- Universal Undo
- First-class Conflicts

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Arika @ari.express · 12/07/2026

Going to the nix store you want anything?

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

every single person who talks about how data centers are completely unnecessary probably has very strong opinions on youtube videos defaulting to 720p

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alex @bates64.com · 26/06/2026

recaptcha was pretty cool though. they digitized thousands of written media

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Jack Yeo @jackryeo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Hahaha excellent stuff

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alex @bates64.com · 18/05/2026

yesterday, Soup gave birth to 3 lovely kittens!

a grey basket lined with blankets. a tuxedo cat lays in the basket, with a few kittens slightly visible under her tail.

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alex @bates64.com · 25/04/2026

"'Passed [away],' I'm afraid, just makes me vomit. Died, you mean! 'Passed,' you didn't pass. You passed an exam? You pased your driving test? You passed an interesting shop? 'Passed away,' no, died." youtu.be/Sd8tA_XVMYU?...

youtu.be

I asked Stephen Fry 100 Questions

YouTube video by 100 Questions with Tom Simons

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alex @bates64.com · 23/04/2026

i would love to call it Paper Mario Maker, but, alas, trademarks

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alex @bates64.com · 23/04/2026

my pds was acting up for the last week or two because i didn't persist the cursor from the old pds. all fixed now :)

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🦌≈ @aviva.gay · 22/04/2026

the first rule of compilers is to have fun

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alex @bates64.com · 01/04/2026

trying to install noctalia-shell and niri on Ubuntu today and it required both manual building and an entire system upgrade. not sure it's possible to change distro once you've been with NixOS 💔

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alex @bates64.com · 30/03/2026

Recall should not exist

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alex @bates64.com · 30/03/2026

Demon King? Secret Stone?

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alex @bates64.com · 30/03/2026

true, but i spent the entire time gobsmacked going 'how the fuck did they make this, let alone run decently on an android tablet'

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alex @bates64.com · 26/03/2026

RFC: big changes to starhaven.dev tangled.org/starhaven.de...

tangled.org

Appview #1

RFCs for changes to Star Haven

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alex @bates64.com · 25/03/2026

AGentic Infrastructure 😉

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alex @bates64.com · 25/03/2026

note: this is super experimental and there is no real documentation for it yet. but it works!

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alex @bates64.com · 25/03/2026

Paper Mario DX now has Windows support! You can now create mods without setting up WSL. Clone github.com/bates64/pape... and run `build.bat` to try it out :)

github.com

GitHub - bates64/papermario-dx: Improved Paper Mario (N64) engine for your next romhack

Improved Paper Mario (N64) engine for your next romhack - bates64/papermario-dx

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alex @bates64.com · 22/03/2026

no security of course though lol dont use it for anything serious

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alex @bates64.com · 22/03/2026

i really hate to say it but OpenClaw and NixOS are a really good fit. "ssh into my server and make it serve X at this endpoint" just works, and i can `jj undo` if it does something catastrophic

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Disable @disable.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

My new video is done! It's a look at the obscure and unused dialogue from Paper Mario 64! I'm pretty confident you'll learn something new... youtu.be/nrnyvE18e2U?...

youtu.be

Obscure and Unused Dialogue in Paper Mario 64

YouTube video by Disable

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alex @bates64.com · 06/03/2026

it's framebuffer corruption friday

A screenshot of an N64 game, with buggy graphics

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alex @bates64.com · 17/02/2026

the people hacking windows 11 to behave like win7 would do well to rice a linux

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alex @bates64.com · 05/02/2026

today I asked gpt 5.2 pro a nix question and twice it got stuck in a loop "Thinking" about how to read a file on github

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alex @bates64.com · 05/02/2026

sama: "You can just build things" wtf does this mean? does he even know what he means?

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Jujutsu VCS @jj-vcs.dev · 04/02/2026

$ jj describe -m "Hello, world!"

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alex @bates64.com · 01/02/2026

and flow aura incentives getting assists / completing kills - all the changes are in this direction of encouraging *teams* to chase and complete fights

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alex @bates64.com · 01/02/2026

combined with health bars appearing in kid form, it means that disengaging at the right moment is rewarded more than before

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