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James Cheese

@tr00st.co.uk

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Developer, re-enactor, probably other things too.

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James Cheese @tr00st.co.uk · 23/08/2026

Nothing quite like brushing up on my operating systems knowledge with good coffee. A bit of light Sunday reading?

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James Cheese @tr00st.co.uk · 26/07/2026

Photographs from a recent walk in Lancaster. Quality... variable. flickr.com/photos/tr00s...

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Lancaster City Walk - 2026-07-19

Explore this photo album by James Cheese on Flickr!

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Agustin Capeletto @lowpoly.gg · 16/06/2026

I'm porting Quake to 3D CSS, so it runs in the browser without WebGL. It's open source 👹 Play it! cssquake.com Repo: github.com/LayoutitStud...

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James Cheese @tr00st.co.uk · 25/05/2026

Current pastime - finding pleasant places to perch down with a laptop and a coffee to code for a couple of hours. Today - understanding page tables in x86. I'm thinking 4MB pages are going to simplify this in the short term...

Photograph of a laptop, with C source code visible onscreen. A paper cup of coffee is next to it, with a coffee machine visible in the background.

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LGR @lgr-yt.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

New LGR Oddware! youtu.be/19_OMV2P33I Looking at the Digisette Duo MP3 from 2000, a standalone MP3 player built into a compact cassette shell letting you play digital audio through a tape player. And it syncs to a Windows PC using the parallel port! Nifty stuff, and it only gets better from there.

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Digisette Duo - Odd Cassette Tape MP3 Player from 2000

YouTube video by LGR

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James Cheese @tr00st.co.uk · 05/04/2026

That's this year's attempt at gardening done. Couple of planters - one with seed potatoes scavenged from an old potato bag that had been abandoned for years, and one with carrot seeds that were found in the bottom of a cupboard. Minimum effort, minimum expectations.

Two planters with dark soil, one of which has some shoots growing out of it.

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James Cheese @tr00st.co.uk · 29/03/2026

It's a rainy afternoon. As such, I'm sat in a cozy café, drinking good coffee and enjoying the ambiance. Also, putting together Docker containers for cross-compiler toolchains. Because the best way to work on a hobby OS project is to rebuild the build toolchain over and over.

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James Cheese @tr00st.co.uk · 15/08/2025

I'm beginning to lose count of the number of times I put a warning in place telling people to never to do something... ...and increasingly finding that I absolutely need to do exactly what I've told other people not to. I don't regret putting the warning up though. Still made me question myself.

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James Cheese @tr00st.co.uk · 11/03/2025

Given the recent coffee supply crisis, I've probably picked the wrong time to double down on coffee... But I'm on the lookout for "reasonable" decaf beans - got a current favourite roaster, but not sure I can justify £0.80 per cup for *every* cup of the day...

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James Cheese @tr00st.co.uk · 14/02/2025

First posted this 8 years ago. Valentine's/Singles Awareness Day sucks for some people. Today we'll all see lots of adages being thrown around: "better lonely than let down", "better to have loved and lost"... Screw that. I'd like to propose instead: "Whatever sucks now: Things change." ...

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James Cheese @tr00st.co.uk · 14/01/2025

TIL paid web browsers still exist. www.aol.com/products/bro... And AOL still exists as a way to access the web? Kind of makes me want to revisit some old web browsers. IE4, pre-chrome Opera, Netscape Navigator, pre-Firefox Mozilla... There's some gold out there.

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James Cheese @tr00st.co.uk · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas! Hope your year has been a wonderful one!

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James Cheese @tr00st.co.uk · 23/12/2024

Dropped into Arcade Club in Blackpool. It's always a lot of fun, but I swear the games are getting harder... ... definitely not my skill levels not being up to scratch.

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James Cheese @tr00st.co.uk · 22/12/2024