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Edit or Delete Your Machine Comments
June 1, 2024Live to blog, blog to live. That’s what we sometimes say, especially when we remember to blog a blog.
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Individual Machine RSS
April 1, 2024It’s always risky to publish a blog post on April 1. Especially a serious one. And I can assure you, with the utmost sincerity, that this is a serious post. You can’t joke about RSS.
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The Podcast is Back
March 26, 2024After four years of silence, we have something to say. The mics have been feather dusted. Audacity has been updated. Episode 8 of our podcast, Mappin’ Around w/ Scott & Ryan, is in the bank. Additional episodes are in the planning stages.
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Reflecting on 2023
December 28, 2023In order to reflect back on 2023, we must gaze upon it in a mirror. What is reflected back? Mostly ourselves, since ourselves is what usually shows up in mirrors. Which maybe means that we - and you, too - are 2023.
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Pinball Map App Now Available On Tidbyt
November 4, 2023I love a gadget. I think I get this from my father, a locally famous gadgetman who filled my K-12 bedroom with his hand-me-down computer equipment and old televisions. I find it very satisfying to take something that is (or looks) slightly away from its time, and shoehorning something new into its vocabulary. A new (but kind of old looking) thing that I have recently been very into is the TidByt. For those that aren’t familiar with it, the TidByt is a little box that you put on your desk that displays micro-messages and images in a style that my children would describe as “block old timey art like your basement Nintendo”. It looks very cool! And, you can write your own programs for it. I made an app that shows me when the next bus was going to show up in front of my house. Could I just look out the window and see? Maybe! I’m not going to risk eye contact with a passerby though. With my transit problems solved, I decided to make something that would show me the three most recent pinball machines added near by house. How did I do it, you may have wondered? Maybe you didn’t wonder before, but are starting to wonder if maybe you do wonder? I don’t know. And frankly, I don’t have control over that side of the conversation.
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