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  • The effects of walking

    Before I started working from home, I was lucky enough to commute to the office by foot. That was 35 minutes in each ...

  • Loading from tape again

    A couple of days ago we decided to repeat the experience of loading games from tape, but this time with my ZX Spectru...

  • Detecting LLMs

    I am not good at detecting when a piece of text has been produced by a large language model (LLM from now on). Very o...

  • Creepy crawlies

    That’s how Konstantin Ryabitsev titles his post creepy crawlies, where he explains the scale of the problem of the “A...

  • Loading from tape

    After some time off-line due to a disk failure, the CPCWiki Forum is back online. There is a thread to “show off your...

  • New website

    After 8 years of love/hate, I decided to leave Hugo and go Haskell.

  • Outpost progress

    I have been working lately on “Outpost”, a video adventure for the ZX Spectrum 48K. It is a bit metroidvania in some ...

  • It is the game, stupid!

    Paraphrasing the famous American catchphrase, I have noticed a pattern in my gamedev failures. Generally, people get ...

  • Cepeceros Podcast

    Cepceros Podcast is a podcast in Spanish that started in 2018 and that follows a simple but effective formula: the ho...

  • Don't overheat

    For the first time since I’ve been a full-time Linux user (25+ years), my machine is hitting some sort of bug –either...

  • 10 bands

    I have been struggling a bit lately finding things to write about in this blog, mostly because I don’t want to contri...

  • Back to streaming

    I haven’t mentioned it here very often, which is a bit surprising considering that I have uploaded over 60 videos alr...

  • Playing White Box again

    I played a lot of tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) at the end of the 90s: a little of AD&D, lots of Middle-earth ...

  • Actually overflowing

    So we are preparing the plants that we are going to have in our garden in this season (cucumbers, courgettes and toma...

  • Be human

    Recently, Hacker News updated the comments section of their guidelines: Don’t post generated comments or AI-edited co...

  • Another Tomato

    I’m still enjoying programming in OCaml, but because most of the code I have written to date is a toy compiler that m...

  • Changing theme in my terminal

    So after more than 20 years using a dark theme for coding, I realised that a light theme works better during the day....

  • git.usebox.net and bots

    I just had a chat with Alex because I couldn’t reach any of his websites, but I fired Tor browser and they were there...

  • UseboxWiki source code

    You may remember that last year I was having one of my wiki revival moments, and even at some point I ended mentionin...

  • And that was 2025

    It is likely that this is how traditions start, by repetition. This is the third year in a row! See last year’s post....