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Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's 2026 -- DOES YOUR HARDWARE ACCELERATED WINDOW MANAGER CAST SHADOWS ACCURATELY?? 1996 for comparison. #psion #wayland #linux #retrocomputing

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Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I discovered an innovative #HTML / #CSS technique, but Bluesky doesn't give me enough characters to explain it, so here you go: HTML self-popovers without JS using a CSS mipmap -- oldbytes.space/@Kroc/116897... #webdev

Screenshot of a webpage that looks like Microsoft Encarta 96. A small image is in the side-pane of the article

Screenshot of a webpage that looks like Microsoft Encarta 96, the figure has been expanded to fill the screen.

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Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

They told me I could become anything I wanted So I became #Encarta #worldglass #retrocomputing #webdev #html #css #noai

Screenshot of webpage made to look like Microsoft Encarta '96, but as an encyclopedia for the book Nomad: Wanderer in the Worldglass

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Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Where do you want to go today? camendesign.com/nomad #worldglass #microsoft #encarta #webdev #html #css

Screenshot of "Encyclopedia Nomadica", a website mimicking Microsoft Encarta 96 for information about the book Nomad: Wanderer in the Worldglass

Screenshot of a website made to look somewhat like Microsoft Encarta 96. It's showing the cover and synopsis of the book Nomad: Wanderer in the Worldglass

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Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Use old platforms. Write code for old platforms. Do things with old platforms so commercially unviable that the tech bros and AI slop can't come at you. #psion #programming #retrocomputing

"This is my hole" meme: A guy is climbing into a Loony-Tunes style man-shaped hole punched through a rock face, he is leaning back to the crowd and saying "This is my hole", "It was made for me". The hole is labelled "Palmtop Computer OS from 1999"

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Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

My own code, running on a #psion 5mx, a plain-text editor for the little #writerdeck that could. #retrocomputing

$Photo of me holding up a Psion 5mx "palmtop" computer, open, with the electroluminescent backlight on, display some text on the screen which reads: "Permission is expressly denied for the use of any part of this book in connection with the development of any software program, including, but not limited to, training a machine learning (ML) or artificial intelligence (AI) or Large Language Model (LLM) system. The author asserts that no AI, of any kind, \ was used in the production of this book."$

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Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Is anybody reading the book?? Any thoughts, questions? Did you put it down -- if it so, where and what put you off? Nomad: Wanderer in the #Worldglass, is a story set in a planet-sized sand-glass: camendesign.com/nomad #writing #book #fantasy #fiction

Book cover for Nomad: Wanderer in the Worldglass, by Kroc Camen.

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Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I passed 50'000 words on my book! (Does this mean I should call it a novel now??) #worldglass #books #writing #writingcommunity #fiction #fantasy

Screenshot of VSCode text-editor window showing the raw text of the book Nomad: A Wanderer in the Worldglass

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Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I started writing a #book three months ago, I've just released a free #ebook version, enjoy, I'm exhausted from putting this together! camendesign.com/nomad #worldglass #writing #writersofbluesky #writingcommunity

Cover image for Nomad: Wanderer the Worldglass -- Preview Edition --, by Kroc camen

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Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

No K8s, no Docker, no Node, no React, no #JavaScript, no AI — just 2KB of #HTML + #CSS and one image. How did we get so far from this when a webpage is 10MB and requires several gigs of dependencies to checkout locally now? #webdev #webdesign

Screenshot of a web-design prototype showing a wiki-like page for formatting for different headers, links and quotes etc.

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Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

What if wiki, but simple? Markdown? Wikitext? NOPE -- what about a markup language where output == input? You can copy+paste the HTML-formatted text and it's the same as the plaintext, even the links which have a hidden part revealed on mouse-over. No JS #webdev #html #css #wikipedia

Screenshot of webpage displaying rendered text and the plaintext source. Though the rendered text is formatted, it can be copied and the clipboard will contain the original plaintext.

Screenshot of webpage displaying rendered text and the plaintext source. The formatted text is selected to show that the selection encompasses the markup from the plaintext version, and the URLs with hidden parts can be revealed by mousing over the link.

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Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

That would be really important information to know, life-saving even perhaps, would be an awful shame to block access to such important safety knowledge…

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Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Show me one piece of modern software that has this much enthusiasm and optimism — ARE YOU F*CKING READY TO EXPLORE THE WORLD!? #retrocomputing #pc #encarta #ui

Screenshot of Encarta Virtual Globe 1998 Edition — the most 90s interface; we’ve got space, the globe, photos of CULTURE from around the WORLD. It is very “extra” as the kids would say

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Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I've created a pack of Print-It-Yourself (or use in Tabletop Simulator?) #Hololive themed #TripleTriad playing-cards! What is Triple Triad? Only an awesome trading card game from #FinalFantasy 8 (or, 14), but I wanted a physical version :P archive.org/details/holo... #games

Hololive Triple Triad card for Ninomae Ina'nis

Hololive Triple Triad card for Nanashi Mumei

Hololive Triple Triad card for Elizabeth Rose Bloodflame

Back design for Hololive Triple Triad cards

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Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

The wife is addicted already

Nintendo Switch Home Screen showing Suika Game

A very failed Suika game that my wife called “close”

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Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

It's been five years... Do you like DOOM? (of course you do) PortaDOOM is a self-contained, offline, package of the best DOOM maps ever made. Everything is included for you in a fun MS-DOS like interface for browsing the contents: github.com/Kroc/PortaDO... (this update include an all new launcher)

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