Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026www.patreon.com/KrocCamen/po... #writing #books #worldglasspatreon.comSeptember 2026 Manuscript | Kroc CamenI want you to know that the Banality of Evil is alive and well and has forced me to travel 300 miles up North to put my autistic son in a ca 000
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026P.S. Y'all missing out on so much content from me beacuse BSky's char limit. Like, you have no idea. (oldbytes.space/@Kroc)oldbytes.spaceKroc Camen (@Kroc@oldbytes.space)2.79K Posts, 45 Following, 468 Followers · code is art. 6502. z80. classic DOOM 000
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026No engagement with the content of the book is happening anywhere. Writing the book has felt like solitary confinement most of the time. I have to think about what to do with it now that I really am on my own. 80'000 words. *sigh* 200
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I have nothing left. Without her, there's not much point continuing the book. She was the only sounding board I had; Mastodon, Discord, Patreon et al have not panned out how I had hoped. Not a single Patreon comment; nothing in Discord. 100
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Thirteen years gone; my life, my health, my sanity. Always a carer, never a father. The joy of fatherhood stolen by a disability. An unrelenting hell of chaos and stress. A suicide attempt, but every day a wish for death. Not a friend IRL, and now the only friend I had, my wife, wants her life back. 100
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We don't want "remasters" or remakes -- we want old games preserved with better UI, accessibility and support for modern hardware interfaces (e.g. controllers). Just needs a Linux version now. #retrogaming #retrocomputing 040
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026@adriansdigitalbasement.com Is there a reason you had to hide "LLM assistance was used in the creation of the gw diag code" thousands of words down the bottom of the readme and didn't mention it in the video / description? 010
Reposted by Kroc CamenJohn Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social · 28/07/2026It really sucks when someone you were following for their work in the retro scene turns out to be big on AI and using it in all their projects. That instantly kills any and all interest in anything they ever make. 2698295
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026It's 2026 -- DOES YOUR HARDWARE ACCELERATED WINDOW MANAGER CAST SHADOWS ACCURATELY?? 1996 for comparison. #psion #wayland #linux #retrocomputing 010
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I 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 040
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026They told me I could become anything I wanted So I became #Encarta #worldglass #retrocomputing #webdev #html #css #noai 110
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Where do you want to go today? camendesign.com/nomad #worldglass #microsoft #encarta #webdev #html #css 020
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026'Y2K New Year's Eve'-style glasses with the words "NO AI" across your face. 010
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I cooked! The third manuscript update is out for my #book: www.patreon.com/KrocCamen/po... Nomad: Wanderer in the #Worldglass, is a story set in a planet-sized sand-glass; download a free PDF/ebook @ camendesign.com/nomad #writing #reading #fantasy #fictionpatreon.comJune 2026 Manuscript | Kroc CamenTL;DR: Scroll to the end of the Patreon post for the new manuscript and notes on where to begin reading. If you're reading this in an e-mail 050
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Use 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 031
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026My own code, running on a #psion 5mx, a plain-text editor for the little #writerdeck that could. #retrocomputing 1123
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Is 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 080
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 31/05/2026The second manuscript update has been released: www.patreon.com/posts/may-20... Another 43 pages; 150 pages over the free preview. Plus another 10'000 word developer diary Get the free PDF/ePub! camendesign.com/nomad #worldglass #writing #books #fiction #fantasycamendesign.comNomad: Wanderer in the Worldglass 030
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I'm proud to have given him a chance when others wouldn't: www.osnews.com/story/30710/...osnews.comCreator of TempleOS, Terry Davis, has passed away – OSnews 011
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I passed 50'000 words on my book! (Does this mean I should call it a novel now??) #worldglass #books #writing #writingcommunity #fiction #fantasy 150
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026The first Patreon manuscript release is out with 160 pages! www.patreon.com/posts/april-... #worldglass #writing #fiction #fantasypatreon.comApril 2026 Manuscript | Kroc CamenApril 2026 Manuscript by Kroc Camen on Patreon. Join Kroc Camen's community for exclusive content and updates. 000
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I 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 040
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026OH LAWD HE COMIN' #worldglass #aeonglass #books #ebook #writing #writersofbsky 000
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026No 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 010
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026What 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 110
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 15/03/2026I'm writing a story, a book maybe, but I can't post it here in pieces because the text-limit is too small so please read on the link above and you can give any thoughts here or on the hashtag #aeonglass 000
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Imagine an hourglass, except rather than measuring hours, it counts out aeons. Its circumference is 25'000 mi. The glass walls are 60 mi thick. The sand within forms a desert almost 8'000 mi wide edge to edge... oldbytes.space/@Kroc/115895... #aeonglass #writing #fictionoldbytes.spaceKroc Camen (@Kroc@oldbytes.space)Imagine an hourglass, except rather than measuring hours, it counts out aeons. Its circumference is 40'000 Km (~25'000 mi). The glass walls are 100 Km (~60 mi) thick. The sand within forms a desert al... 100
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 15/03/2026You've found one of these: scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-335 #scp #floppydisksscp-wiki.wikidot.comSCP-335 - SCP FoundationThe SCP Foundation's 'top-secret' archives, declassified for your enjoyment. 001
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025I can’t do #bluesky, it’s just another Twitter — what you think BlueSky is, is what #Mastodon actually is, for the Nazis will come to BlueSky soon enough and there will be much hand-wringing about free speech and the algorithm will dictate that the noise of hate will drown out all 000
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Explaining to my wife the difference between #furry and #anthro and she goes "Well excuse me for mis-kinking you!" XD 000
Reposted by Kroc CamenTESTAMENTERROR✙ENJOYMENTERROR @testamentenjoyment.net · 14/05/2025Make sure your RPG battle transitions, scene composition, and attack animations are at least as cool as this Taiwanese DOS RPG from 1995 359208187916
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025The MegaDrive has its top games but the SNES has the bigger, more broader, library that’ll keep you going for years 010
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025It was literally never a problem on CRTs and when there existed no other 60Hz stuff anywhere except PCs which few people had in the early 90s. Only in the modern era of PCs and YouTube comparison videos have people been turning their nose up at PAL 120
Reposted by Kroc CamenThe Retro Collective @retrocollective.co.uk · 13/05/2025New Video: youtu.be/cOK1t19j2Vc This is Trash to Treasure...with an entire building! We're building the facilities to maintain and restore everything from a Game Boy to a Gauntlet arcade cabinet, in our quest to create the greatest retro destination we can! Watch now! #retro #retrogaming #tech 3537
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Do not let this absolute masterpiece of a documentary languish at <10K views! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCuo... #arcade #retrogaming #sinistaryoutube.comResurrecting Sinistar: A Cyber-Archaeology DocumentaryYouTube video by SynaMax 000
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Why does Keir Starmer look like someone has shoved a hose labelled "fascism" up his arse and is slowly inflating him as he speaks? 010
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025This may be the last console you'll be able to afford -- good thing it can play ALL the games! #retrogaming #fpga #mister 000
Reposted by Kroc CamenThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Skype pulled most incomprehensible bag fumble of all time. A 15 year head start. Total ubiquity. Added to the Oxford English Dictionary by 2014. Only to fall nuts-first into irrelevance at the exact moment when all other communication was made illegal. Truly, the Pete Best of videoconferencing. RIP. 35789184
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025#Skype may have been shut down, but don’t worry, it’ll keep reinstalling itself after every Windows update for years to come ✨ 000
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Goes to show how cavernous the C64’s RAM was, even a full bitmap display was just 9KB, still leaving 55KB! (24KB is shadowed so harder to use, but not impossible) 020
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025No clear picture of the bottom? (did I miss it?) Do you have a QR code for the instructions anywhere? It's not clear how slices are supposed to connect -- there's no bottom facing connector? 010
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Some small recommendations: The glass case you're presenting on makes things a bit visually cluttered -- consider putting down a paper sheet to cover the glass; It's hard to see the outline of the MMS2 on the dark glass. Likewise, a light underneath would help. 100
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025I have to say, that's an incredibly clear and concise video presentation; the opposite of what we get nowadays with product launches that do anything but get to the hard facts 120
Reposted by Kroc CamenThe Cave (Neil) @visitthecave.bsky.social · 02/05/2025New video: MiSTer Multisystem 2 has Arrived! | High quality all-in-one FPGA Game Console youtu.be/6e-k9I94JLs #misterfpga #mister #fpga #retrogaming #gaming 1010224
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Let me guess, the CEO isn’t a part of this lord-of-the-flies scheme? 021
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025That would be really important information to know, life-saving even perhaps, would be an awful shame to block access to such important safety knowledge… 010
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Show 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 000
Kroc Camen @kroc.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Actual #PSX development: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwpF... #retrogaming #playstationyoutube.comImplementing Silent Hill's Fog in My (Real) PS1 GameYouTube video by Elias Daler 000
