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”.
Year: 2023
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.
Do I Know How to Sp3ll?: References and Easter Eggs
There’s not a great deal to this game, but there’s still some stuff hidden inside that isn’t very obvious.
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Dall-E Mega
Last year, I used Dall-E Mini to generate some nonsensical images from the titles of my itch.io pages. I decided to repeat the process, this time using Bing’s Image Creator, which is built on Dall-E.
Celebrating Pi Day on the Commander X16
Guess what day it is, will be, or was! That’s right — the 14th of March, which can be written as 3.14 if you have trouble writing dates. In other words, π.
To celebrate this momentous occasion, I have created a pi generator (or, more accurately, adapted an existing one that I don’t fully understand).
Sydney knows who I am
A great breakthrough has occurred in the field of artificial intelligence. The machines now know all about Java Cake Games! ChatGPT doesn’t have a clue, likely due to the age of its training data, but Bing is on the ball!