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1 [1]skip to main content 2 [2] [logo] 3 4 • [3] Archives 5 • [4] Works 6 • [5] About 7 • [6] More... 8 9 Favourites of March 2026 10 11 3 May 2026 12 13 It’s May! What happened? This weekend was unusually hot! What happened? 14 Everyone knows but no-one admits or cares… Anyway, welcome to another month of 15 2026. I like May. It’s got a lot of national holidays. It signals the start of 16 lots of great local food: strawberries in abundance, a strong asparagus month 17 that you should enjoy while it lasts as in June the season is usually over, and 18 we already ate some fresh French artichokes. It’s getting warmer but not as 19 scorching as some of the coming months (although given the start of this month, 20 that remains to be seen). But most of all: the end of May usually indicates the 21 beginning of the exam period, which for me as an examiner instead of student is 22 always interesting. Let’s light a candle and pray for not too many LLM-only 23 submissions. 24 25 Previous month: [7]March 2026. 26 27 Games I’ve played 28 29 A miracle happened: I made some time to get back into gaming—and writing about 30 games. 31 32 • I finally got to the Kirby spin-offs on the Game Boy: [8]Kirby’s Pinball 33 Land, [9]Kirby’s Block Ball, and [10]Kirby’s Star Stacker. They’re all 34 really good! 35 • But then [11]Robert and a GOG discount pushed me to finally try out [12]The 36 Drifter. What a thrill. I loved every minute of it. If you like gritty 37 pixelated adventure games, you can’t miss this. 38 • After being turned off by the bad technical performance of [13]Ruffy and 39 the Riverside on the Nintendo Switch, I switched gears to other games. I 40 picked it up and finished it. It’s an OK N64-inspired collect-a-thon that 41 should be enjoyed on PC instead. 42 43 In May, we’re finally digging into UFO 50, in chronological order. If we play 44 one a week we might finish in May 2027… So far, the first entry already is a 45 home run. 46 47 Selected (blog) posts 48 49 • Speaking of Robert, his [14]/concerts slash page is very cool: it contains 50 scans of all concert tickets he ever went to. 51 • Kenneth Reitz tells us to [15]separate our identity from our work/projects, 52 otherwise bad things happen (via [16]Roy Tang). 53 • Stefano Marinelli explains [17]why he loves FreeBSD. The Power To Serve 54 conveys such as strong message, its almost convincing me to jump ship! 55 Until I read about [18]the laptop gap. This year huh. 56 • Zakhary Kaplan [19]stole the GBC logo from a ROM and made a cool web logo 57 from it. 58 • Cal Newport’s [20]In Defense of Thinking hits yet another nail on the head. 59 • Forrest’s essay [21]On Pulling The Master Sword links Link’s (ha!) N64 60 behaviour to our capitalistic world. It’s a very long essay but well worth 61 your time if you can stomach a game rant, some swearing, and philosophical 62 questions about life and society. 63 • Drakenvlieg manages to pull more [22]students into literature using 64 journaling (in Dutch). 65 • Juhis shares his [23]favourite two-player board games. Hive (pocket) is on 66 the list! 67 • Chris Smith [24]rates the movies he watched. I’m always interested in the 68 rating systems other people employ when they do something like this. 69 • I liked blinry’s [25]Do It Yourself soft drinks experiment. Translucent 70 coke looks weird! 71 • Night’s Ham Stock examines [26]the ending story of SKALD the video game I 72 [27]played in 2024. It was great but I couldn’t make sense of the ending. 73 Now I still can’t… 74 • Kain Klarden’s [28]Gex Trilogy review saved me from throwing money at 75 Limited Run Games. Again. 76 • [29]It Fits On A Floppy is a strong manifesto for small software that more 77 developers should read and take heart. 78 • Eli (Oatmeal) re-iterates something very important: “choose to truly care 79 about something.” But then he goes much further. I need to re-read this a 80 couple of times and let it sink in. 81 • It was also Eli who pointed out the existence of [30]picoSYNTH. 82 • Richard Moss, the author known for [31]The Secret History of Mac Gaming, is 83 writing [32]a book on Age of Empires! 84 • Ruben Schade’s enthusiasm for [33]the Commodore 64 knows no boundaries. The 85 newly released C64 Ultimate looks very enticing, but where to put all these 86 things? 87 • Amelia’s little blog website/host [34]got hammered by AI bots. It’s yet 88 another infuriating story but the visualisation part is very cool. 89 90 Other random links 91 92 • There’s an interesting upcoming documentary [35]on Clojure the programming 93 language that might be worth checking out. 94 • [36]https://www.codingfont.com/ is a cool way to help pick a monospaced 95 editing font. I’m using JetBrains Mono for now. 96 • Did you know Windows was released for the Game Boy: 97 98 [37][yt-ad1zZR6] 99 100 • I didn’t know [38]palm rejection was a thing on Linux/KDE. 101 • The [39]Underkeep Steam demo looks very promising; something to keep close 102 tabs on! 103 • I don’t know what this is, but [40]Listography looks like a lot of fun. I 104 happen to like lists so I should be liking this. 105 • Isowulf is a very cool [41]isometric perspective Wolfenstein 3D mod. 106 • You can build retro games using WebAssembly with [42]https://wasm4.org/ 107 • I love the [43]GoodEnough guestbook that even used to print the drawn 108 images on thermal paper! 109 • Thomas Lehmann, the designer of one of my favourite card games ever Race 110 for the Galaxy, took the deck building genre for another spin. The result 111 is [44]Dark Pact. Needless to say, it’s on my list. 112 113 [45]metapost 114 115 You Might Also Like... 116 117 • [46]Favourites of March 2026 01 Apr 2026 118 • [47]Favourites of February 2026 04 Mar 2026 119 • [48]Favourites of January 2026 04 Feb 2026 120 • [49]Favourites of December (And a Short 2025 Recap) 10 Jan 2026 121 • [50]Favourites of November 2025 03 Dec 2025 122 123 Bio and Support 124 125 [avatar2024] 126 127 I'm [51]Wouter Groeneveld, a Brain Baker, and I love the smell of freshly baked 128 thoughts (and bread) in the morning. I sometimes convince others to bake their 129 brain (and bread) too. 130 131 If you found this article amusing and/or helpful, you can support me via [52] 132 PayPal or [53]Ko-Fi. I also like to hear your feedback via [54]Mastodon or 133 email. Thanks! 134 135 JavaScript is disabled. 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