msephton

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• 1973 implementation of Wordle was published by DEC (2022)

  by msephton on 11/1/2025, 1:56 AM with 36 comments

• Fixing my Facebook feed with ChatGPT Atlas

  by msephton on 10/25/2025, 3:43 PM with 1 comments

• How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet

  by msephton on 10/11/2025, 12:11 AM with 71 comments

• The Unknown Genre in Videogames [video]

  by msephton on 9/27/2025, 7:40 PM with 2 comments

• The Only Skill That Matters Now

  by msephton on 9/17/2025, 8:52 AM with 0 comments

• Coding Outrun for the Amiga the Long Road [Chapter 1]

  by msephton on 9/13/2025, 3:17 PM with 0 comments

• How a legitimate Windows driver is being used to take down antivirus processes

  by msephton on 9/8/2025, 12:39 PM with 0 comments

• Donating my Playdate earnings to The Cybersmile Foundation

  by msephton on 9/7/2025, 7:21 PM with 0 comments

• Re Falcon 030: designing replica PCB of Atari Falcon

  by msephton on 9/7/2025, 2:40 AM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Wormhole for Perplexity Comet

  by msephton on 9/1/2025, 12:55 PM with 5 comments

• Prediction-Encoded Pixels image format

  by msephton on 8/25/2025, 11:05 AM with 11 comments

• Classic Macintosh drawing software compared (2021)

  by msephton on 8/17/2025, 6:07 PM with 0 comments

• New 3D Golf Simulation (video game series)

  by msephton on 8/8/2025, 9:30 AM with 0 comments

• I Am Not a Calculator

  by msephton on 8/6/2025, 3:20 PM with 0 comments

• A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction

  by msephton on 8/4/2025, 1:08 PM with 3 comments

• Donating my Playdate earnings to The Cybersmile Foundation

  by msephton on 8/2/2025, 11:25 AM with 0 comments

• SmoothCSV: the ultimate CSV editor for macOS & Windows

  by msephton on 7/22/2025, 9:09 PM with 2 comments

• Out Run: Amiga Edition – Launch Trailer [video]

  by msephton on 7/18/2025, 1:30 AM with 7 comments

• A Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile

  by msephton on 7/17/2025, 5:01 PM with 3 comments

• Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today?

  by msephton on 6/9/2025, 11:38 AM with 1 comments

• First of Kind, Season 1 (intimate conversations with design pioneers)

  by msephton on 6/1/2025, 4:57 PM with 0 comments

• Intelligent Agent Technology: Open Sesame! (1993)

  by msephton on 5/31/2025, 7:09 PM with 6 comments

• The Meaning of Icons

  by msephton on 5/30/2025, 2:30 AM with 0 comments

• Superauthenticity: Computer Game Aspect Ratios

  by msephton on 5/27/2025, 10:20 AM with 16 comments

• Some Reddit users just love to disagree, says new AI-powered troll-spotting algo

  by msephton on 5/12/2025, 10:18 AM with 4 comments

• The Synthesizer - a blessing or a curse? (1983) [video]

  by msephton on 5/8/2025, 8:49 PM with 1 comments

• Level-5 CEO says games being made 80-90% by AI "aesthetic sense" a must for devs

  by msephton on 5/8/2025, 7:31 PM with 10 comments

• Lessons from Building a Translator App That Beats Google Translate and DeepL

  by msephton on 4/29/2025, 11:08 PM with 36 comments

• The Betrayal of Limited Run Games: What They Don't Want You to See [video]

  by msephton on 4/25/2025, 10:06 PM with 0 comments

• by msephton on 4/20/2025, 11:45 PM with comments

• When Playdate Stopped Being Fun

  by msephton on 4/15/2025, 9:09 PM with 3 comments

• Amazfit activity tracker and watch face asset generation

  by msephton on 4/11/2025, 10:43 PM with 21 comments

• Shark Turtle: a modern version of SameGame/MaciGame

  by msephton on 4/1/2025, 8:54 PM with 0 comments

• Station: Travel Through the Four Seasons (1994)

  by msephton on 3/30/2025, 9:20 PM with 0 comments

• by msephton on 3/25/2025, 11:21 PM with comments

• Digging Up the Past with DiscMaster

  by msephton on 3/15/2025, 1:33 PM with 0 comments

• A few words about indie app business

  by msephton on 2/28/2025, 2:59 AM with 22 comments

• The PS2’s backwards compatibility from the engineer who built it (2020)

  by msephton on 2/4/2025, 11:56 AM with 101 comments

• Tetris: 1984 Is the Date of Conception

  by msephton on 2/3/2025, 6:18 PM with 0 comments

• An E-Reader Mystery

  by msephton on 1/31/2025, 1:29 AM with 1 comments

• How I use Linkding bookmark manager on iOS

  by msephton on 1/24/2025, 7:02 AM with 2 comments

• Slugs on a Cube: An Interactive Animation

  by msephton on 1/16/2025, 10:13 PM with 12 comments

• Using AI to detect AI-generated music

  by msephton on 1/6/2025, 10:02 PM with 0 comments

• Oral history of Caroline Rose, writer of Inside Macintosh (2023) [video]

  by msephton on 1/3/2025, 1:08 PM with 14 comments

• Oral History of Caroline Rose, Writer of Inside Macintosh

  by msephton on 1/3/2025, 8:39 AM with 4 comments

• MiniDisc Pics

  by msephton on 12/13/2024, 2:22 PM with 4 comments

• Tetris Forever is marketing disguised as a documentary

  by msephton on 11/15/2024, 5:15 PM with 0 comments

• Smaller Than Pixel Art: Sub-Pixel Art [video]

  by msephton on 11/14/2024, 5:52 AM with 31 comments

• Macro Extension for Nova Editor

  by msephton on 10/26/2024, 11:11 AM with 0 comments

• Automating the most annoying aspects of blogging

  by msephton on 10/12/2024, 9:24 PM with 31 comments

• AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted

  by msephton on 10/6/2024, 6:38 PM with 68 comments

• A haze of inspiration

  by msephton on 9/28/2024, 5:49 PM with 0 comments

• Move Fast and Abandon Things

  by msephton on 9/17/2024, 12:53 AM with 0 comments

• Things to know about the Great Wave

  by msephton on 9/7/2024, 3:31 PM with 90 comments

• Show HN: Otaku! iOS app for optimised searching of multiple Japanese web stores

  by msephton on 9/6/2024, 11:49 AM with 0 comments

• The Santander UK iOS app is 613 MB and 35% of it does nothing

  by msephton on 9/5/2024, 7:16 PM with 88 comments

• This behavior is by design

  by msephton on 8/28/2024, 10:00 PM with 26 comments

• &udm=14 for Safari (iOS/iPadOS)

  by msephton on 8/20/2024, 9:24 AM with 53 comments

• Stapler: I remade a 32 year old classic Macintosh app

  by msephton on 8/10/2024, 9:03 PM with 70 comments

• Stereographer

  by msephton on 8/6/2024, 10:56 AM with 31 comments

• Tetris for Sharp Electronic Notebook (1989)

  by msephton on 8/4/2024, 4:58 PM with 0 comments

• Search Moby Games using Alfred app

  by msephton on 8/4/2024, 2:16 PM with 0 comments

• PSA: Internet Archive "glitch" deletes years of user data and accounts

  by msephton on 8/1/2024, 5:22 PM with 13 comments

• Taking command of the Context Menu in macOS

  by msephton on 7/30/2024, 4:20 PM with 68 comments

• Penny's Big Breakaway – The Platform Game Evolved – Developer Deep Dive [video]

  by msephton on 7/14/2024, 4:50 PM with 0 comments

• Crystal Fragment Turns Everything You See into 8-Bit Pixel Art

  by msephton on 7/6/2024, 2:23 PM with 36 comments

• Config 2024: In defense of an old pixel [video]

  by msephton on 7/2/2024, 1:32 AM with 11 comments

• Tetris: Heavenly Scrolls (1989)

  by msephton on 6/18/2024, 2:57 PM with 1 comments

• Is Tetris Really 40 This Year?

  by msephton on 6/18/2024, 10:47 AM with 8 comments

• Hokusai's 'Great Wave' features on new Japanese banknotes (2019)

  by msephton on 6/15/2024, 10:56 AM with 50 comments

• Wipeout XL/2097: The Making of an Iconic PlayStation Soundtrack [video]

  by msephton on 6/11/2024, 8:54 PM with 22 comments

• Emigre typography and graphic design magazine (1984–2005)

  by msephton on 5/24/2024, 8:30 PM with 10 comments

• Adding your own multi-channel audio to Music app

  by msephton on 5/10/2024, 12:18 PM with 0 comments

• Apple's Future Computer: The Knowledge Navigator (1987) [video]

  by msephton on 5/3/2024, 1:35 PM with 1 comments

• Good Ideas in Computer Science

  by msephton on 5/1/2024, 1:00 AM with 2 comments

• Playdate port of PlayStation game Wipeout (wipeout-rewrite by phoboslab)

  by msephton on 4/28/2024, 7:04 PM with 1 comments

• Adding the "Move to Trash" function to System 7.1

  by msephton on 4/27/2024, 3:07 PM with 9 comments

• by msephton on 4/20/2024, 4:44 PM with comments

• Per-game skins in the Delta classic video game emulator for iOS

  by msephton on 4/19/2024, 10:02 PM with 0 comments

• by msephton on 4/19/2024, 9:18 PM with comments

• Interview: Kenta Cho (Japanese indie game developer)

  by msephton on 2/10/2024, 10:07 PM with 0 comments

• Jinzo Paint – vintage mobile drawing app

  by msephton on 1/22/2024, 9:17 PM with 1 comments

• History of the Graphical User Interface (GUI): A Wonderful Curse [video]

  by msephton on 1/6/2024, 11:29 AM with 22 comments

• Using game controllers and keyboards for custom shortcuts

  by msephton on 12/23/2023, 11:28 PM with 0 comments

• See the Sky: Thoru Yamamoto's Christmas Story, for Playdate

  by msephton on 12/16/2023, 12:34 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: When is a duplicate submission not a duplicate submission?

  by msephton on 12/13/2023, 1:40 AM with 10 comments

• Donkey Kong: A Record of Struggle

  by msephton on 12/12/2023, 2:25 AM with 44 comments

• Dynamic music and sound techniques for video games

  by msephton on 12/9/2023, 1:37 AM with 3 comments

• Easter egg emoji: converting pixels into particles

  by msephton on 11/26/2023, 8:47 PM with 9 comments

• The Making of NHL 94 – 30th Anniversary Documentary [video]

  by msephton on 11/24/2023, 11:04 PM with 2 comments

• YOYOZO: How I made a Playdate game in 39 KiB

  by msephton on 11/22/2023, 12:44 AM with 58 comments

• Internet Sleuths Want to Track Down This Mystery Pop Song

  by msephton on 11/13/2023, 10:53 PM with 0 comments

• Early computer art by Barbara Nessim (1984)

  by msephton on 11/9/2023, 1:39 AM with 5 comments

• Kenichi Shinohara's pixel art Ukiyo-e (1987)

  by msephton on 10/13/2023, 10:48 AM with 20 comments

• Moai in Video Games

  by msephton on 9/1/2023, 5:01 PM with 1 comments

• Porting Stunt Car Racer to the Commodore Plus/4

  by msephton on 8/26/2023, 1:45 AM with 10 comments

• Casio Caleid XM-700 Mobile Navigator (1997)

  by msephton on 8/25/2023, 9:59 PM with 37 comments

• Tom Moulton, Father of the Disco Mix (1976)

  by msephton on 8/22/2023, 7:32 PM with 4 comments

• Fake Steve Jobs and Letters from Bill G

  by msephton on 8/19/2023, 7:24 PM with 0 comments

• Going back to the old (pre-X) Twitter iOS app

  by msephton on 8/17/2023, 6:44 PM with 84 comments

• Automatically classifying the content of sound files using ML

  by msephton on 8/13/2023, 5:11 PM with 12 comments

• The Ultimate-Rare story: 40 years of brilliant British games

  by msephton on 8/7/2023, 4:40 PM with 51 comments

• “The Famous F40” Vector Illustration

  by msephton on 7/15/2023, 5:45 PM with 56 comments

• Pixel-Perfect retro gaming on LCD 480p EDTVs

  by msephton on 7/1/2023, 12:16 PM with 27 comments

• Ball und Panzer Golf: making a Playdate game in a week

  by msephton on 7/1/2023, 12:06 PM with 22 comments

• Back In Time: Vintage Maps of Akihabara (1976–2001)

  by msephton on 6/28/2023, 6:59 PM with 55 comments

• The (Vintage) Desks of Japanese Game Developers – A Pictorial Series

  by msephton on 6/28/2023, 12:55 PM with 1 comments

• Some things you probably didn’t realise about the design of the PlayStation

  by msephton on 6/12/2023, 5:58 PM with 1 comments

• Ordering Photocopies from Japan's National Library

  by msephton on 5/24/2023, 1:12 PM with 33 comments

• Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today?

  by msephton on 5/18/2023, 8:08 AM with 113 comments

• IntelligentPad (1989): a component-based drag-and-drop software creator

  by msephton on 5/17/2023, 9:53 PM with 8 comments

• Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today?

  by msephton on 4/25/2023, 2:18 PM with 1 comments

• Galaga, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong Emulator for ESP32

  by msephton on 1/26/2023, 10:30 PM with 22 comments

• Workarounds for accessing Yahoo! Japan from Europe after 6th April 2022

  by msephton on 4/7/2022, 4:04 PM with 1 comments

• Browser extension to more easily access large previews on iStock.com

  by msephton on 8/23/2016, 6:57 PM with 1 comments

• Emoji Dictionary for MacOS

  by msephton on 8/15/2016, 9:22 AM with 1 comments