Festive! Get started in my new year resolutions early.

YouTube video by Colin Hoad Day 1: The Advent of Beeb Games 2025

What's that knocking at the door? Why, it's the first of the Advent of Beeb Games videos!
youtu.be/jWa0oNtmBc4

Just make sure you protect your chips.

Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy

YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.

Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people

...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"

It's £10ph FFS!

Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger

DO YOU SEE IT NOW?

Spread far & wide.

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

The Old Wellington Inn in Manchester, being jacked up on stilts to the new street level during redevelopment. It definitely looks like it's about to waddle out of the picture.

Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns

Telnet atm.bank.com Password: abc123.

Time start porting Frontier to the Beeb? 🤔🤣

Mac and Cheese (wedge) Fixathon! Mac and Cheese (wedge) Fixathon!

Are you a budding fixer-upper of vintage computers? @tnmoc.bsky.social are running a "Mac & Cheese (wedge) Fixathon" on 11th & 12th October, and we're looking for fixers! The focus will be Apple Macintoshes and Acorn cheese wedge units. Sign up link is here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mac-and-ch...

No, he didn’t say “one of my daughter’s friends”.

Thought it would pique your interest. Maybe even inspire you 🤣.

GitHub CEO: Future devs will not code, they will manage AI : Meanwhile, users complain the code shack is getting slower thanks to React

Mmm. In future nobody will know how to code but we’ll need people to look for errors in highly plausible but incorrect code… @colinhoad.com

www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/g...

I recently developed a penchant for afternoon Boosts which are in the vending machine in our building. Not sure I ever had one until now.

Although I do agree with it 😬 - great memories of Play It Again Sam…

What conceivable reason…. 🤯

Happy 40th birthday to the Commodore Amiga! @10marc.bsky.social

It took a couple of years after the A1000 in 1985 for the more affordable A500 to be realised in 1987, and the West Europe wave lagged behind the USA by a year or two. So it peaked here in the early 90s. I first saw an A500 in 1987 at school computer club but was happy learning Basic on the Beeb 😎🤓.

Forget the video, you have a dot com? W hat are you selling and is it pre- or post-bubble?

YouTube video by Colin Hoad Econet LAN Party 2025

A short video on what I got up to over the weekend! #econet
youtu.be/0qQtm-lGXM4

Roguecraft is a retro-inspired, turn-based roguelike. Explore procedurally generated dungeons laden with mysterious potions, a myriad of demented denziens, and scary chickens.

Grab the physical Amiga version ASAP!

www.thalamus.shop/product/rogu...

Packed. Will be leaving bright and early. See you tomorrow.

not crisps I hope. 🤯

I got as close as Oak Furnitureland in Swindon today but no further. Perhaps I’m not a nerd after all? 😎

Raspberry pi Amiga 500 and BBC Bs (other cool 😎 people have these too) with my unique 1084s and Cub monitors and mission-creep remastered Screen Gems box.

Repost with something that you own that most people don't.

An end of line BBC Master 128... with non-standard keycaps but legit factory fitted. 😎

Oranges & Lemonce I believe.

"PhD supervisors have two moods: [picture of heavily altered essay with red lines everywhere] [picture of guy with thumb up]

PhD student sends me this. Ouch.

I still love using it today.

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