How, Elmo, how? It’s quite simple, really. Through a chain reaction of sidetracking, I discovered there are no longer any working APK mirrors of it, and I have no interest in jumping through hoops to get it on Google Play again.
Bread: References & Easter Eggs + Apology
As you might expect from such a simple game, Bread contains nearly zero references & Easter eggs. But not quite zero! It’s one. The total is one.
Resetting HDMI resolution on DMP-BDT220
Today I tried plugging my Panasonic Blu-ray player into a monitor that didn’t support 1080p video signals. Of course, the player was set to 1080p, and none of the instructions I found online helped. I had to resort to reading the manual!
So here comes the solution to this model, released 2012, and probably also some other models of the era:
A terrifying jam
After a year’s hiatus, I finally have a new libGDX jam submission! Aaaaand it’s bad. Very bad.
Nokia CONTACT SERVICE unreliability
It is commonly said that the Nokia 3310 is indestructible. By extension, we can assume this applies to other Nokias that use the same form factor. But I can proclaim that at least its close relative the 3330 isn’t reliable at all, at least after all these years. I’ve had two of them fail with the message “CONTACT SERVICE”.
Glad I got out when I did
This is a follow-up to Goodbye, Twitter. When I used that website, I generally kept things short. You had to, with only 140 characters, later upped to 280. Even though you could chain multiple tweets together, it wasn’t ideal. Now it’s 4000 for Twitter Blue subscribers.
So let’s return to those days by keeping this post short. I just want to say: I’m glad I got out when I did.
Reviving JustWizards.com
There’s been another Game Breaker’s Toolkit Jam! And it gave me the push I needed to revive some of my earlier internet silliness and let it see the 2020s. If you can’t be bothered reading the rest, it is at justwizards.me, not .com.
Just Wizards: References & Easter Eggs
Ho ho ho ho, it’s References & Easter Eggs time again! What could possibly be hidden inside such a silly throwaway? Rather a lot indeed, it transpires!
Behind the Wizards
In Just Wizards, there is and always has been a gallery containing 11 images. I’ll be digging into each image and what they truly all mean. Screenshots of each one are of course included within, and in some cases also links to screenshots of earlier versions.
SSH port mistakes with Oracle Cloud
I have recently had the displeasure of getting locked out of my Oracle Cloud VPS due to my chosen SSH port becoming unreachable. I still don’t know why this happened, as I hadn’t changed anything. There’s no firewall on the server, and everything is allowed in the ingress rules. But don’t tell any hackers that.