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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 04/10/2026

Bit more progress on the ZX Spectrum accelerated game cartridge. Testing some game mechanics with placeholder graphics here, but it's coming together! I have a LOT planned for this! #zxspectrum #retrogaming #gamedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PTM...

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 09/04/2026

Well this seems like a perfectly coherent and well written statement from the president of the United States. Truly the best of the US... #trump #epstein #idiocrasy

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 22/03/2026

01:50 on a Sunday morning, and finally finished clearing all of the DRC problems. Now the "fun" process of producing the BOM and fixing up the centroid file, and get these babies over to the PCB factory! #electronics #pcbdesign

Screenshot of a PCB, showing top, bottom tracks, and component footprints, along with 2 inner layer power and ground planes.

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 28/02/2026

Distillation of the current geo-political situation. #war #israel #TrumpRegime #ForeverWars

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 27/02/2026

... I then thought it might be cool to have a watch display that's larger than the screen, so wrote that :) Side-note, I was working on event installations at the time, and this display was an Easter Egg if you interacted with a screen in one of the London banks in the right way! #electronics

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 27/02/2026

A while back I was designing a product to use this circular display. So just for fun, to "test my driver code" I wrote some watch designs for it (it was never used in a watch :) I always thought the idea of Pacman characters drawing the time would look cool :) #gaming #pacman #electronics #arduino

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 07/02/2026

Just reverse engineering a proprietary adapter box that’s incredibly overpriced and probably has no real purpose beyond creating vendor lock in… #electronics #hacking

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 03/02/2026

Truly the Ouroboros of companies

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 29/12/2025

Dammit! My parcel made it half way around the world fine, and now it’s going to end up flung over some random garden wall instead of being delivered… #evri #crapcompanies

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 22/11/2025

This Alpine A290 GTS is my first EV - I was getting 200+ miles from a full charge up until around a month ago - now it's freezing here things have changed somewhat!

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 14/11/2025

Recently got my first EV - A290 GTS - it has achievements you can do while driving - a lot are track-focused (max G's in corners etc) but the economy ones are fun to do! I think we only have them in Europe, but really fun car!

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 20/10/2025

New Hasan merch just dropped.

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 15/10/2025

Is Hasan Piker the "Christy Noem of the left"? #AnimalAbuse #shocking

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 24/09/2025

They’re not even trying now… #fbi #kashpatel

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 20/09/2025

My face right now...

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 04/09/2025

That is a ridiculous statement. Sure, if you don’t care about performance or memory efficiency and just need to cater for the lowest common denominator developer then you keep it simple. Chances are that your team can probably easily be replaced by AI though. Tell me, is the following code “bad”?

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 29/08/2025

Gavin Newsom just keeps getting better at trolling Trump and his cronies...

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 07/08/2025

WTF?! Google just threw an error. I've never seen that before in all the time I've used it.

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 08/07/2025

It's weird how Brigitte Gabriel has managed to take down all of the photos and information about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Even Google AI is now prohibited from responding to questions about it.

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 01/07/2025

Apparently, THIS is the sort of stupidity the MAGAts are now spreading around. How do these people even remember to breathe? They have literally zero critical thinking skills. For the record, Twitter was created in 2006...

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 10/06/2025

It's going to get worse. The lieutenants of the regime are now programming their base of idiots to accept the next step:

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 25/05/2025

For no reason, length-matched all data and address tracks into and out of the buffers on the ZX Spectrum IF2 accelerator cartridge. I know, the D/A lines are not matched inside the Speccy, but why make it worse? :) SPI flash lines were already matched. It's also smaller #electronics #retrocomputing

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 12/05/2025

The more you understand a subject, the more you realise you shouldn't trust ChatGPT. I mean, this is its idea of a bandpass filter... #eletronics #ai

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 29/04/2025

Love Ebay ads: "Good condition. Has /some/ screen burn-in." - yeah, "some"... #ebay #retrocomputing #retro

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 21/04/2025

Jesus, stop posting these airbrushed pictures of Vance, just use his real photos:

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 20/04/2025

Received the first prototypes of my ZX Spectrum accelerator cartridge PCB! Allows much more dynamic action games on the old Speccy as the cart acts as a powerful co-processor - thousands of times faster than the Z80 in the old computer :) Working well! #retrocomputers #maker #electronics #sinclair

Photo of custom PCB plugged into a interface 2 cartridge adapter for a ZX Spectrum home computer.

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 09/04/2025

The future for Americans according to the Trump regime:

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 07/04/2025

What timeline are we living in where this is a headline on a serious news outlet?

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 04/04/2025

Yeah you can TOTALLY trust an AI with critical development advice:

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 30/03/2025

Working on my ZXellerator cartridge for the 16k and 48k 8-bit ZX spectrum. Starting on the game engine, here redrawing the background plus 512 sprites at 24x24 pixels with masking and animations. Oh and full bi-colour for 32x48 colour resolution all at full frame rate 😁 #retrocomputing #gamedev

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 25/03/2025

About sums up the Trump regime's approach to US security policies: #airplane #trump #hegseth #fascism

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 25/03/2025

Working on a new game - first step was making my dev kit 😁 #electrronics #retrocomputing #sinclair #zxspectrum

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 18/03/2025

When you've been doom-scrolling about how bad things are getting in the US now, then you remember you're European...

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 13/03/2025

How Trump thinks tariffs work:

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 06/03/2025

Linkedin request I just received. This person is ALL business. They're going to business the FUCK out of your business, and then business it some more...

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 03/03/2025

These arcade buttons had pathetic LED lighting as standard - in the top pic it's actually lit - only visible in a dark room. So made up some quick little LED PCBs to replace the original setup, and now they blaze like the sun 😈 (luckily I control the brightness from an MCU, otherwise I'd go blind!)

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 05/02/2025

If you want to predict how someone like Sara will respond to any event, just use this simple chart - it's her entire thought process:

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 04/02/2025

I'm wondering now, is Kanye West actually a cuck? I mean, he seems to enjoy taking his wife, Bianca Censori, around basically naked and having people photograph her while he just stands to the side. Not judging, but it doesn't really fit with the "alpha" image he constantly tries to push.

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Smashcat @smashcat.org · 01/02/2025

So what will MAGA blame the Philadelphia crash on? 1) DEI 2) Trans-people 3) Biden 4) Obama

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