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Posts by Blake Patterson

trump's narcissistic ramblings about Tim Cook leaving Apple

trump's narcissistic ramblings about Tim Cook leaving Apple

Yea, as I've said many times, Tim Cook needed to go -- glad to see Turnus taking over.

Good riddance, Tim.

#Apple #TimCook #TimApple #JohnTurnus #AppleCEO #macOS #iOS #iPhone #Mac #iPad #tech #technews #technology #industry #narcissism #screenshot #siliconvalley #macrumors #SteveJobs #news

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A HAM6 image, 1659 x 2000 Pixels in HAM 6 (4096 colors) generated on a Amiga 1000 with Art Department Professional from a 13 Megapixel original image.

A HAM6 image, 1659 x 2000 Pixels in HAM 6 (4096 colors) generated on a Amiga 1000 with Art Department Professional from a 13 Megapixel original image.

This is the HAM6 356x472 image of the same flower.

This is the HAM6 356x472 image of the same flower.

More HAM6 fun from 'ole 10MARC! This time we have a 1659 x 2000 pixel image of a flower in China, converted to full HAM6 (4096 colors) on my 1985 #Amiga 1000.
Extra RAM all I needed for Art Department Pro to crop and convert the original 13 Megapixel image. the right is the 356x472 version.

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Man, Skaven was the best.

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📙 #085 - The Sentinel, adventures in animation Mark Moxon, as of four days ago has finished his incredibly deep dive into the 1986 BBC Micro game The Sentinel - and to call it an “incredibly deep dive” is to undersell it an almost unforgivable amo...

This is pretty amazing. Draw accurate landscapes from The Sentinel on a pen plotter? And animate them? I'm definitely in!

newsletter.revdancatt.com/p/085-the-se...

I do my projects for a lot of reasons, but seeing what people do with them? Yeah, that's a big one. 😀

#bbcmicro #c64 #retrocomputing

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The closest thing I ever saw to an N-Gage were some games sold for it in a GameStop at the mall. It's derided in game publication look-backs, but lately I've been hearing old N-Gage owners talk about how they loved the platform.

Did you love yours?

#NGage #retrogaming #handheldgaming #Nokia

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Indie Retro News: Classic Kong - An Iconic arcade game now reimagined for the Atari Jaguar www.indieretronews.com/2026/04/clas... #retrogaming #atari

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if this 100% FPGA demo is passing for a shader, that’s probably my cue to release it. this is an early demo of my own work to replicate the 3dfx sst-1 pipeline in systemverilog. there is a non-canon geometry engine driving it from within the FPGA for kicks.

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No Man's Sky BAFTA award screen

No Man's Sky BAFTA award screen

No Man's Sky win's Best Evolving Game award @ BAFTA 2026

#NoMansSky

#NMS #SciFi #procgen #spacegames #games #gaming #gamers #PCgaming #Steam #macGaming #Switch #PS4 #PS5 #XBox #HelloGames #explorationgames #BAFTA #award #gameaward

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Scene from the movie Signs

Scene from the movie Signs

#movienight

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My NeXTStation in Luciano Dadda's "Inside NeXT" book What an exquisite production this book is. I'm honored to have my system featured within.

This photo (in waterlogged) appears in Luciano Dadda's coffetable book, "Inside NeXT."

www.flickr.com/photos/blake...

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Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups

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Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups

#ACTUALLYMakingAmericaGreatAgain

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

#THANKYOU #Virginia #VA #tax #Spanberger #Confederates #history #AmericanHistory #news #history

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Watercolor filter on a NeXTstation Turbo Color workstation

Watercolor filter on a NeXTstation Turbo Color workstation

What's NeXT?

#NeXTstation

#NeXT #vintagecomputing #reteocomputing #workstation #UNIX #BSD #Mach #SteveJobs #CRT #watercolor #Waterlogue #computers #photo

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ESP32 Weather Display Runs Macintosh System 3 Hackaday Article

ESP32 Weather Display Runs Macintosh System 3

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Image from No Man's Sky: Featured Switch Screenshot by Cinder

Image from No Man's Sky: Featured Switch Screenshot by Cinder

Featured Switch Screenshot by Cinder

#NoMansSky #NMSCordGallery #VirtualPhotography #NintendoSwitch

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#shoesforscale

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I don't believe Vance knows what the word "negotiate" means.

#iran #iranwar #jdvance #negotiations #strait #straitofhormuz #military #worldnews

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Cocktails and a flier on a dark, candle-lit table

Cocktails and a flier on a dark, candle-lit table

Actress performing The Fall of the House of Usher

Actress performing The Fall of the House of Usher

Spooky stage at with candle lighting

Spooky stage at with candle lighting

Clinking cocktail glasses with spooky stage beyond

Clinking cocktail glasses with spooky stage beyond

The Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy experience in DC this weekend was a whole lot of fun!

#EdgarAllanPoeSpeakeasy #DC #Gallaudet #UnionMarket #performances #arts #cocktails #macabre #DMV #WashingtonDC

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Such a nice way to start the workday is seeing the President of the United States raving on social media, threatening global conquest and nuclear armageddon like a coked-up 14-year-old edgelord.

#DestroyingAmerica #America #worldnews #news #iran #iranwar #straitofhormuz #InvokeThe25th #WashingtonDC

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OpenGraph code chunk in HTML page

OpenGraph code chunk in HTML page

@hellogamesofficial.bsky.social Hey guys, your OpenGraph tags are hosed on the Xeno Arena webpage, causing style code to show as Description preview when the link is pasted anywhere - heads up!!

#HelloGames #NoMansSky #XenoArena #webdev #bug #headsup #quickfix

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Hah, no. I'll get that figured out this week. :-)

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Boeing E-4 (it seems) spotted over Alexandria, VA on Apr 7, 2026

Boeing E-4 (it seems) spotted over Alexandria, VA on Apr 7, 2026

I saw what I believe was the Boeing E-4 Advanced Airborne Command Post, a Boeing E-4, flying overhead on my walk in Alexandria, VA. At ~12:52pm EDT.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_...

#NoVA #photo #DoomsdayPlane #AACP #DC #airtraffic #ATC #flights #airplanes #news #WashingtonDC #aircraft #airspace

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Expletive-laden Easter morning message from the U.S. President from Truth Social, threatening mass death and praising Allah

Expletive-laden Easter morning message from the U.S. President from Truth Social, threatening mass death and praising Allah

Easter morning message from the President.

Could someone in the government bring the straight jacket and help this raving madman to the asylum before he gets the world into World War III?

#America #world #geopolitics #wariniran #war #iran #excursion #screenshot #socialmedia

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I guess Apple just put an Apple TV in my Apple TV??

#Apple #AppleTV #tvos #TV #movies #tech #hardware #WTF

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What sage musings from the Flat Earther front, here as Artemis II sails from our blue globe to the moon?

#science #NASA #ArtemisII #space #flatearth #flatearther

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That's home. That's us.

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

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Stylized "Picasso"-style rendering of iPod from Apple's 50th Birthday website

Stylized "Picasso"-style rendering of iPod from Apple's 50th Birthday website

The iPod Hacks logo (former iPod news blog run by Blake Patterson) from 2002

The iPod Hacks logo (former iPod news blog run by Blake Patterson) from 2002

Apple did a "Picasso"-style rendering of the iPod on their 50 Years homepage. I think my iPodHacks logo (iPod news site I started in 2002) handily surpasses it. What do you think?

( Logo drawn by my friend Chris of @macrumors.bsky.social. )

#iPod #Apple50 #Apple50th #Apple #screenshot #tech

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Apple //c on an office desk along with a LEGO replica

Apple //c on an office desk along with a LEGO replica

Apple //c on an office desk, cubicle

Apple //c on an office desk, cubicle

Apple //c logged into an IRC session through a MacBook Air on an office desk

Apple //c logged into an IRC session through a MacBook Air on an office desk

Apple //c on a bookshelf with needed floppy drive adjustment in place

Apple //c on a bookshelf with needed floppy drive adjustment in place

It's not my first, but my favorite. The //c was my first Apple product of all, purchased in April 1984.

I still have a //c. I've kept it in my office over the years, back when I worked in offices. :-)

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