240. Who Was Emily Dickinson Owning?

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Topics:

• Damn it, Microsoft added something worthwhile to Office.
• Favorite DOS game soundtracks?
• The Balatro Discourse
• Faith is a Fine Invention, by Emily Dickinson
  • https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/faith-is-a-fine-invention/

Microtopics:

• Artist Alley.
• Scrolling down a web page and seeing a bunch of cool stuff.
• Seeing a list and wondering "how did this list happen"?
• Steam Farming Fest.
• Trying to figure out what you want to do when you grow up.
• Eating eggs and rice when you have tummy troubles.
• The file you all edit to make the deposit slip.
• Taking data from multiple columns and putting them all in a single list.
• Becoming the spreadsheet wizard.
• Installation wizards.
• Why nobody calls a software feature a "wizard" any more
• A window into the dialectic of wizards.
• The LLM hype tornado.
• Renting video software from Blockbuster.
• Back when any media was a "tape"
• Enumerating the kinds of MS-DOS audio hardware.
• Emitting a blast of data.
• Enjoying a video game in 4, 16 or 256 colors.
• How Doom sounded on the internal PC speaker.
• Playing multiplayer Doom on a four computer LAN where two of the computers don't have sound cards.
• The Doom source port family tree.
• Whether Linux supported the internal PC speaker.
• Playing each MIDI note with the off-the-track square wave.
• Holding on to a joke for several minutes.
• Doing sound effects via the Roland MT-32.
• FM synth guitars sounding more evil than real guitars.
• Synthesizers that are fancier than other synthesizers and are therefore better.
• The ambient music on the Doom soundtrack.
• The Lost Vikings soundtrack.
• Games with tracker soundtracks.
• The tracker music era.
• A roguelike deck builder kind of a thing.
• A huge hit within your social horizon.
• Beginners hoping to project intelligence and competence.
• The kind of mixing of data and code that Lua makes easy to do.
• How to deploy a Love2D game to consoles.
• A cool game idea that's just a bunch of cards doing stuff.
• Sean Barrett's STB libraries.
• The ability to change your mind without having to throw away a bunch of work.
• Ambient complexity vs. intrinsic complexity.
• Hot takes escaping containment.
• The Celeste character controller.
• Software security practices that do not apply to a single player indie game.
• Looking at code and seeing all the things that it used to be.
• Looking at code solving a problem in a domain you are unfamiliar with.
• An Emily Dickinson poem that reads like a response to an argument she had at dinner.
• Situations where you can directly observe what's happening.
• All the filters preventing you from bursting out into song.
• Esprit de escalier.
• Who was Emily Dickinson owning?
• A contempt for faith and a sense that microscopes are good.
• Knowing that nobody reads your blog, but taking satisfaction in the knowledge that someone hypothetically could.
• Excavating spiritual truth from apocryphal ramblings.
• The app that holds all the texts you don't send for ransom.
• Digging through people's trash but with fewer steps.

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