For various reasons (FOSS, new client), I've been writing more C this year than I have in a long time. Didn't have that on my bingo card, but I actually quite enjoy it.

[Analysis] Serial Experiments Lain Serial Experiments Lain (SEL) is a Japanese animated series, consisting of thirteen episodes, broadcast for the first time in Japan in July 1998 on TV Tokyo, in the late night. The success achieved…

Serial Experiments Lain is one of my favorite shows, and not only when it comes to #anime . So if you have time for a long read, this one is good:

hanagasaitayo.wordpress.com/2021/12/31/analysis-seri...

It's a crime that the artist behind this amazing surf guitar album has only 29 monthly listeners on Spotify:

https://album.link/s/30lgexb7Uc5khAwD22n3HQ

This has been on rotation for me since it was released in 2021.

#music

"Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-o...

How Gran Turismo's Creator Snuck a Sim Into a Mario Kart Rival to Persuade Sony Execs Believe it or not, Sony rejected the original pitch for Gran Turismo. So the creator hatched a sneaky plan to make it happen anyway.

How Gran Turismo's Creator Snuck a Sim Into a Mario Kart Rival to Persuade Sony Execs

www.thedrive.com/features/how-gran-turism...

Odd Taxi Eccentric and blunt, the walrus Hiroshi Odokawa lives a relatively normal life. He drives a taxi for a living, and there he meets several unique individuals: the jobless Taichi Kabasawa who is dead-set on going viral, the mysterious nurse Miho Shirakawa, the struggling comedic duo "Homo Sapiens," and Dobu, a well-known delinquent. But Odokawa's simple way of life is about to be turned upside down. The case of a missing girl the police have been tracking leads back to him, and now both the yakuza and a duo of corrupt cops are on his tail. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Finished Odd Taxi. Great show, really enjoyed it. Good that it wrapped up after one season with 13 episodes, sometimes a story is just finished.

https://myanimelist.net/anime/46102/Odd_Taxi

#anime

How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU

https://pizzalegacy.nl/blog/traffic-system.html

#RetroGaming

Not sure how easy this will be to watch outside #thailand but if you get a chance, give it a watch.

I’m a sucker for dog movies anyway, but this one was pretty good. It’s about the life of a Thai street dog, but also the stories of his various caregivers: an aging Japanese car engineer, an illegal Burmese worker, and a young Thai couple.

Just watched this movie in the cinema:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt36958999/

Thomas Gazagnaire :: A CSS Engine in OCaml A typed CSS parser covering Level 3 through 5, a structural diff tool, and an optimiser. With a live browser demo via js_of_ocaml.

A CSS Engine in OCaml

https://gazagnaire.org/blog/2026-04-02-cascade.html

#ocaml

I wrote a #ruby thing for the first time in quite a while:

https://citizen428.net/blog/exploring-async-ruby/

Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detection CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.

CW: Sexual abuse

And that's enough Internet for today:

edition.cnn.com/interactive/2026/03/worl...

The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces A eulogy for the console soul.

The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces

https://vale.rocks/posts/game-console-interfaces

#gaming #ux

Missile Defense is NP-Complete | An Optimization Odyssey

smu160.github.io/posts/missile-defense-is...

blog.rice.is To a guy like me, Crazy Frog is just a frog.

Can it Resolve DOOM? Game Engine in 2,000 DNS Records

blog.rice.is https://blog.rice.is/post/doom-over-dns/

Movies: Paprika, Perfect Blue, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Blame!, not so much the Ghibli stuff, though some of it is ok.

In short: seinen rather than shonen, dark, sci-fi/dystopian/mindfuck, or fun.

OK #anime fedi, please give me your recommendations. Here are some shows/movies I enjoyed:

Shows: Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, The Tatami Galaxy, One Punch Man, Serial Experiments Lain, The Way of the Househusband, Chainsaw Man, Hellsing Ultimate, Steins;Gate, Attack on Titan.

Everything's Casino On the evening of February 28, 2026, American B-2 bombers lifted off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. By the time they reached Iranian airspace, Tomahawk missiles were already in flight from submarines in the Persian Gulf. Operation Epic Fury hit over a thousand targets in its opening hours.

“[…] Demetri Kofinas coined a term for this: financial nihilism. It describes young people who, convinced they'll never afford a home or achieve traditional stability, turn to meme stocks and crypto as a rational last resort.”
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/everythings-casino/

I read several articles in this vein in recent months, but this was probably the best.

To be clear. I don't hate SFA. It may not have been for me, but it had 2 decent episodes, which is more than some seasons of Discovery or Picard season 2.

‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ to End With Season 2 (EXCLUSIVE) "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" will end with its upcoming second season, Variety has learned exclusively.

'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' to End With Season 2

variety.com/2026/tv/news/star-trek-s...

This seems like a fitting end to the Kurtzman era.

#StarTrek

Spent about two hours today to revise some distributed systems stuff (consensus protocols, some of the underlying math, etc.) for a new client. Tiring but very fun, I missed technically challenging work.

Persona 3 Reload is so good. The art and music are really well done, typical Atlus. It's probably gonna take me forever to finish, though.

#LinuxGaming #Persona3

"Chromium (the open source portion of google chrome) currently has 49 millions lines of code"

Source: https://maurycyz.com/projects/tinyweb/

Mind-blowing number, but then modern browsers basically are operating systems themselves.

Screenshot of Kagi's translation tool translating "I got a new job" into "LinkedIn speak," producing an overly enthusiastic corporate-style announcement with superlatives, gratitude, and a rocket emoji.

Not sure how we went from plain, straightforward words to LinkedIn speak but now you can use Kagi Translate to fit right into that crowd:

translate.kagi.com?from=en&to=L...

As an aside: how sad is it that I'm actually positively surprised by software working as advertised?

I don't think this really needs to be said anymore, but Tailscale really is amazing. Pretty much everything I want to do always JustWorks™, it's almost boring. 😅

If you're looking for a relaxing but not mindless #videogame , I can highly recommend Dave the Diver.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_the_Diver

For bonus points it also works very well on the #SteamDeck , where I'm mostly playing it.

"Fatal Core Dump"

https://www.robopenguins.com/fatal_core_dump/

Not sure what to call this. A gdb debugging whodunit?