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Martin Burch

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Data research and computer history

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Teaser poster for "PET Invaders".

Teaser poster for "PET Invaders".

PET Invaders – Release!

As the Earth Space Monitoring Network sounds alarm, you and your LASER tank are Planet Earth's only hope… Exciting space arcade PETSCII action for Commodore PET (40 cols, 16K RAM)!

Downloads & online emulation at:
www.masswerk.at/pet/prgs/#pet-invaders

09.11.2025 06:30 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
John Carlos Baez (@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz) Holy crap! The Gaia space telescope is expected to find 120,000 ± 22,000 planets orbiting other stars! Most will be super-Jupiters, because those are the easiest to find. But we'll know much more ...

When you repeatedly measure the positions of over a billion stars so accurately that you can see a star moving by an amount equal to the size of a pinhead on the Moon, as seen from Earth... you find amazing things!

It's great.

mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...

08.11.2025 10:07 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That's a smooth rotating earth! πŸ‘€ Great framerate

04.11.2025 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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a screenshot of a video game with the number 3 in the corner Alt: Mario Kart videogame animation

Best stick to Mario Kart on the N64 if you ask me

02.11.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing detail! Beautiful composition 🎨 πŸͺ©

02.11.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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GlitchTone - The sounds your computer always deserved Play fun movie-style computer interface sounds when you click, scroll, or type on your Mac

oh cool! I'm going to give it a try

link to official website: www.glitchtone.app

02.11.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know this is "art" but it has the soul of some specialised display that was made to show only skinny columns of text, like newsprint, and is being hacked to make a map by using only box-drawing characters β–ˆ

02.11.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great keyboard on that Aquarius 2 and I love the little green power light πŸ’š

02.11.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

a pile of fall leaves? but a carpet is pretty good

02.11.2025 09:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

strapped with financial restraints? what is this, shades of greysky?

02.11.2025 09:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

that's it, no more baseball

for this year, anyway

02.11.2025 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think it lives on at Arby's ;)

01.11.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Go Computer Now! – The Story of Sphere Computers A book telling the extraordinary story of Sphere, a 1970s Utah personal computer maker far ahead of its timeβ€”until its sudden collapse.

Only 12 days left! Please help support getting this book printed about the little-known Sphere computer!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzo...

01.11.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a cartoon of a zombie wearing a white shirt and tie Alt: a cartoon of a zombie wearing a white shirt and tie

is it still halloween? i believe that's the upgrade list for frequently flyaaaarrrrrghs

01.11.2025 09:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Boars, by Haley Heynderickx & Max GarcΓ­a Conover from the album What of Our Nature

Feels like a perfect autumn album, like a road trip to a pumpkin patch in a comfortable knit

haleyheynderickxmaxgarciaconover.bandcamp.com/track/boars

"Haley Heynderickx and Max Garcia Conover return with another set of gorgeous Folk songs ... inspired by the life and music of Woody Guthrie."

01.11.2025 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m not sure, those kicks were fast as lightning πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«

31.10.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I absentmindedly read the glowing amber text and pushed the power button anyway. The text remained, burned into my retinas. #tinyhorror

31.10.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

very nice! i like how you've quarantined the bad parts lol

31.10.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A preview of the Mac theme "Halloween" by "Snowman"

A preview of the Mac theme "Halloween" by "Snowman"

Halloween - Snowman
https://macthemes.garden/themes/d4ea71672a4e-Halloween

31.10.2025 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's not bad for CCTV!

31.10.2025 10:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yes! very cool visualizations, even on a 486.

31.10.2025 06:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm just delighted to see it power on! Look at those speaker ears 🐘

31.10.2025 06:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
an ad featuring two jack-o-lantern acorns and the text 'It's fun to run a Halloween party

an ad featuring two jack-o-lantern acorns and the text 'It's fun to run a Halloween party

Recently I’ve been combing through newspapers from a hundred years ago, and in the spirit of the season (and in the spirit of procrastination) I’ve assembled a little gallery of Halloween advertisements from 1925 on my site: dansinker.com/posts/202…

30.10.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 314    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 6
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Marten .NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL

martendb.io has misspelled my name. anyway, i'm just PostgreSQL. martinDB would have PostGIS by default.

30.10.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

30.10.2025 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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yes, looks like I only saved 5% and also seem to have unleashed a tempest in a replies thread.

this was for an hour-long encode of a conference speech with slides

ffmpeg -i muxed.mp4 -vf "scale=960:540, format=gray" -c:v libx264 -preset medium output_grayscale_540p.mp4

30.09.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

has anyone suggested grayscale yet? a black-and-white tv version would totally be watchable and would seriously reduce the video information required

30.09.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

now that's art!

24.09.2025 07:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

as someone who has, from childhood, had the beige cube in my bedroom rather than in the family room, i'm of the opinion the internet should have stayed on the beige cube in the local library where it could be accessed through a labyrinth of arcane commands

20.09.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the rainbow horizontal divider gifs were my fave

20.09.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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