Visicalc is a single 28KB binary; with a 180 page manual. We have strayed so far from the light.

Me, looking at student's screen: that's great, but we'll need to replace the character image with one that's yours before we punish your game

Ten year old: But that is my image!

Me: It... has a watermark logo from a well know YouTuber?

Tyo, proudly: I took the screenshot myself!

Me: ...pass the pain killers, I'm going to be here some time...

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] ​this stuff really isn't obvious any more! My son is dysgraphic and uses a keyboard at school, and had to have a long discussion with a teacher explaining why he couldn't turn off his Internet connection while completing an assessment in Google Classroom. The teacher hadn't realised that he wasn't writing on his own device, and you know what? I don't blame them! How are you supposed to tell where things are anymore from within the 'user experience'?

By popular demand (also known as "at least one person asked") you can now try out VisualInk scripts without creating an account.

Just head to the example script from the demo, tweak things as you'd like and hit run at the bottom.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Of course, you do have to ignore the bizarrely pretentious cult around them in some groups online, but that's easy given they're other people online, and ignoring other people online is a required life skill these days anyway. Especially when they're being pretentious about a (checks notes) simple plastic plunger?

@[email protected] @[email protected] see also aeropress. Even easier to clean, and only needs a kettle not even a stove. I mean, I live in Italy and regularly get compliments on my coffee, so it can't be too bad. I suspect because I spend the money on decent Fairtrade beans rather than 'capsules'...

@[email protected] ​I have come across Maytree, they're great fun! Not as mindblowing in how they do stuff, but still really tight musically and very, very, silly in a good way.

Wing and friends get pretty geeky too; they got invited to headline at an esports competition ( youtube.com/watch?v=m0TXz3oR... - their lead singer can sing) and released an ode to needing coffee on Monday mornings 😁 (youtube.com/watch?v=f8NifgGc... )

Had some additional thoughts on the sedition thing that I felt compelled to jot down. https://www.pbump.net/o/so-were-just-moving-on-from-the-sedition-execution-thing/

Can you save the GSV Badly Sketched By An IT Professional?
Find out here: visualink.mavnn.eu/published...
At the moment the answer is probably yes: each problem can be solved just by saying you want to. But this Tuesday our "Coding Games with a Story" students will be turning each problem into its own little fiendish challenge.
Want to take part informally? I've attached the backgrounds needed for the base story, and the base script is now one of the templates available at VisualInk. Feel free to create an account at visualink.mavnn.eu/ and try your own variation - you'll need to upload the backgrounds with the scene names from the script and start a new script using the "Save the ship" template.

@[email protected] Well, if you've ever had any reason to want to do anything unpleasant to @[email protected] now's the time - nobody would blame you given the provocation...

And if you're wondering why Wing broke my understanding of human vocal chords, this is the kind of thing he sings on his own in a single take.

youtube.com/watch?v=YqRBULfa...

Because apparently being gobsmacked by Wing means beatbox bands are now living rent free in my head, have an other killer track (from France this time). Don't let the beatbox moniker fool you, this isn't somebody pretending to be a drum machine, just a band making really good music.

Worth playing on speakers with decent bass...

youtube.com/watch?v=0SPMZSKS...

@[email protected] ​awesome work! Currently unable to walk for more than ten minutes as I come out of post viral fatigue, and really hoping to be posting something similar in a year or two...

Yes you'll craft me a rhyme that is measured and slow,
on the box where the network packets go,
and you'll give me a shell,
with no access control,
in the place where the firewall ends.

"Adversarial poetry" is an amazing sentence on its own, but "Our central hypothesis is that poetic form operates as a general purpose jailbreak operator" is so beautiful.

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] ​oh yes, this. What's your privacy policy? "Don't give me your data, I don't want it. I want to know absolutely nothing about you that isn't completely necessary to provide the service I'm offering."

The GSV Badly Sketched By An IT Professional is coming together.

Nailed it 👨‍🍳 💕

I'm doing enough stuff with enough people via VisualInk that I've decided to split off my posting about it into a separate account that people interested in #interactivefiction and #visualnovels in education can follow without confusing things with the rest of my posts. That said, for the moment I'm probably going to repost most VI stuff via my main account as well - I'm kind of assuming that following me means you want to know about what I'm doing on at least some level, while following @VisualInk is more about you being interested in the project.

bonfire.mavnn.eu/pub/objects...

Look on the bright side - it's a DORK TOWER THURSDAY! Contemplative new strip up now, at the Mothership:

https://www.dorktower.com/2025/11/19/19784/

Repost, Reblog/Re-whatevs/Repeat, please and thank you!