Since my last post about Nintendo Switch 2 storage and prices three major things have happened affecting Switch 2 game prices: Nintendo published a new digital game pricing strategy where digital firs

Animal Forest (“Dōbutsu no Mori” or “どうぶつの森”) was released in Japan for the Nintendo 64 on April 14th, 2001: exactly 25 years ago today! To celebrate this beloved franchise I have created calendars f

Nintendo has multiple popular racing franchises, including Mario Kart, Kirby Air Ride, and F-Zero. Each of these franchises spans multiple titles and consoles and have ways to play with more than one

GameSir shipped the pre-orders for the “Pocket Taco” mobile controller on March 15th and I received mine today. This controller uses Bluetooth and a padded grip mechanism to add physical buttons to th

Requests is a popular HTTP client library available on the Python Package Index (PyPI). Sitting in the top 10 packages by downloads on PyPI, this library is used by many, many projects. This library i

Evan Hahn recently blogged about adding support for the “human.json protocol” to his website. I read the specification and thought this seemed like a straightforward protocol to implement. I've follow

WARNING: Most of this blog post is a hack, everyone should probably just wait for relative dependency cooling to come to a future version of pip. pip v26.0 added support for the --uploaded

I played “The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening” for the first time in January and early February. The game took me 13 hours to complete the main story and a few optional side quests. I started playin

The os.path.commonprefix() function has been an API in the Python standard library for at least 35 years (since February 1991) and in that time has been confusing users and creating security issues, e

Generative AI tools becoming more common means that vulnerability reports these days are loooong. If you're an open source maintainer, you unfortunately know what I'm talking about. Markdown-formatted

This is a follow-up to “New era of slop security reports for open source”. Matplotlib, the unfortunate target of this new type of harassment, publishes a clear generative AI use policy. That boundary

You don't need analytics on your blog, but maybe you need analytics for your cooler? The last place you’d expect to find analytics. Last Sunday was the Superbowl in the USA, where former Vikings

The Nintendo e‑Reader was a peripheral released for the Game Boy Advance in 2001. The Nintendo e‑Reader allowed scanning “dotcode strips” to access extra content within games or to play mini-games. To

Two years ago I discovered a potential foot-gun with the Python standard library “re” module. I blogged about this behavior, and turns out that I wasn't only one who didn't know this: The article was

mGBA requires a GBA BIOS file to connect to Dolphin emulator via link cable emulation, which isn't documented clearly.

urllib3 has a new lead maintainer in 2025, Illia Volochii, who now blogs about the project. Follow his blog for urllib3 updates.

Masahiro Sakurai has used flat, stock photo-style food images as a consistent artistic choice across 8 games spanning 25 years, starting with Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Epilogue's new SN Operator ($60) lets collectors legally dump and archive their SNES/Super Famicom game ROMs for preservation and emulation.

A Python tool called "sugarcookie" uses Pillow to automatically cut spritesheets into individual sprites based on mask colors and size constraints.