187. The Second-Best Whale Playground In Emeryville

Lords:

• Cort
• Stephan
  • https://lonelystarsoftware.itch.io/playdapon

Topics:

• USB-C cables that only work in one orientation
  • http://blog.zarfhome.com/2023/04/usb-c-and-plague-of-grackles.html
• Playgrounds seem to have gotten really good again in the last ten years
• Bedtime guitar update
• Where the Wild Things Are
  • https://genius.com/Maurice-sendak-where-the-wild-things-are-annotated
• Classic hardware has become a kind of fantasy console
  • https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/04/wi-fi-in-an-nes-cartridge-super-tilt-bro-takes-the-1985-console-online/
  • https://www.thenew8bitheroes.com/
  • https://www.gbstudio.dev/
• Constructing a computing environment as a nested series of cages for a child to escape

Microtopics:

• Extra plugs.
• Mr. Saitou
• How to sideload software onto the Playdate.
• Trying to make Sifteo happen.
• Where to find all the fancy MacIntosh dithering algorithms.
• Ableton for the Sega Megadrive.
• Who Zarf is.
• EU legislation saying that phones must charge via USB-C, which is unsustainable, when the text of the law ought to have been "Apple, knock that shit off."
• Getting rid of your bucket of cables.
• Never throwing away wood because you might need one that shape some day
• Never throwing away oddly shaped pieces of wood because you might become a carpenter some day.
• Playgrounds getting bad and then good again.
• Getting breakfast at the Emeryville Public Market.
• Whether swings or seesaws still exist.
• Giant wooden castles with bridges going between them.
• How to make the spinny playground things safe.
• A regionally variable playground.
• What countries have and don't have playgrounds.
• The San Lorenzo Community Park.
• A big stone bear you can climb on.
• Whether any of those playground speaking tubes have ever worked.
• Wanting the world to have magic in it so you lie to your kid about science.
• The Dennis the Menace playground in Monterey.
• Periodically removing the poison oak.
• Growing up and being on the other side of the memory.
• The Dead Dad playground turning into a fenced-off deathtrap.
• Procedural memory for nice melodies.
• Mountain dulcimers vs. hammered dulcimers.
• Walking around with a bandolier of mountain dulcimers, one for every key.
• What happens when you're living in the Appalachians and you want to make a violin but you can't.
• What to do with your ability to play an instrument when you have no free time.
• Maintaining a consistent strumming pattern while singing.
• Strumming and finding finger positions intuitively.
• Here's all the notes. Play the right ones at the right times.
• The Virtual Console of musical instruments.
• Jim's favorite note in the mixolydian mode.
• Where the Wild Things Are for Xbox 360.
• A poem with hardly any punctuation.
• Going on a journey of many weeks in just a few pages.
• Max in a wolf suit fighting bees with a stick.
• Maurice Sendak Kart Racer.
• Dinosaur Time.
• Clapping for names you know.
• A building with dinosaur bones in it.
• Rumpusing things.
• Games where you whack shadow spiders with a stick.
• GB Studio.
• Putting a wifi adapter in an NES cartridge.
• The Mario modding tool set.
• An IDE for making NES games.
• Pi-Boy D.
• Doing homebrew development on a system that is still in active use.
• Castlevania: Passacaglia of Disrepair.
• GBA of Theseus.
• Making a Lynx game that supports 8-player multiplayer, when there aren't 8 people who own the system.
• Porting a game about matching colors to a monochrome display.
• Giving your kids a computer running Linux to teach them sysadmin skills, but they just play games on their phone instead.
• Branded Scratch Wrappers.
• Composing new music for the extended What the Golf? cinematic universe.
• How to unlock your school laptop to play the Chrome Dinosaur Game.