yet another source of inspiration…
Last summer I let Google’s CP-SAT solver crack Sudokus in fractions of a second. Deeply satisfying. Educational? Not really. The solver learned nothing, and neither did I. It just knew. That is also my problem with every Sudoku app I have tried. You get stuck, you tap “hint”, and the app says: “Row 4, column… Read more Teach Me, Don’t Tell Me: A Single-Page Sudoku Trainer
I was 13 when my first computer showed up: a Commodore 64. Beige, heavy, slightly warm after ten minutes, and — the part that really got me — it could make music. Not beeps. Music. The chip responsible is called the SID, and it has owned a corner of my heart ever since. Years later,… Read more One Page, Three Voices, Zero Regrets: My Browser SID Player
My C64 had already done the damage. By the time I entered the ‘Kanti’, I was firmly convinced that computers were the most interesting thing in the universe. The one thing the Brotkasten could not do was come to school with me. A Sharp PC-1403 could. Twenty-four characters of LCD, a real BASIC interpreter, a… Read more My Companion Through the Gymi Years
If you ever typed LOAD “*”,8,1 without looking it up, this one’s for you.This is a small experiment in vibe coding: using HTML, JavaScript, and a bit of Antigravity to build a deliberately stripped-down C64 “emulator” that doesn’t aim for accuracy — just for maximum nostalgia. No full emulation, no perfection, just the feeling of… Read more Vibe Coding the C64: Maximum Nostalgia Under Minimal Constraints