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The other day, @zorn mentioned ROM hacking which threw me back to the summer of 2018. One hot evening, I asked myself: what if Tetris only had the straight tetromino? So, I fired up my hex editor and hacked together this thing. 😅 🎮

A game of Tetris on a Game Boy Color. It looks a bit weird! There's only one type of tetromino, the straight one. The pieces on the screen form the two-letter word hi.

Feel these words: bulletin board systems, dial-up noises, Commodore, and Nintendo. Now, this sentence: “a comic about ’90s kids making bad decisions over the early internet”.

Yep, you should add Incredible Doom on your to-read pile. 📚

A comic book cover. A biking paperboy hurls a newspaper toward a house. The illustration is mixed up with graphic ASCII symbols resulting in a digital look.

Let’s see if we can transform these ingredients into a tasty lunch. The frozen chunks may look like sorbet, but it’s not. Homemade chicken stock and… cava. 🍾

A still life. Cauliflower, chicken, champignon, and cheese. Two bowls are containing sorbet-looking frozen chucks.

This grandfather clock means the world to me. If you open the pendulum door and peek inside, you will find a piece of paper with typewritten words. Signed by my grandpa. The clock was a gift to him from his wife in 1961.

Every tick-tock reminds me of them.

The top half of a grandfather clock against an eerie black backdrop. The case's color is bone and the white clock-face features black numbers. Westerstrand Sweden can be seen at the bottom of the clock-face, and the hands show seven minutes until five o'clock.

My view outside our kitchen window right before bedtime yesterday. Installing pipes for district heating looks like hard work! The folks down there worked through the night and were still at it when I drank my first cup of coffee in the morning.

A group of people hard at work installing pipes in the ground. It's dark, so they rely on artificial light.

Sanna read a couple of pages from The Labyrinth to me during breakfast this morning. Is it possible to start the day off in a cozier way? I don’t think so. 😊 Reading aloud to each other is underrated.

A breakfast table with eggs, coffee, and yogurt topped with blueberries. In the middle of the table is a book by Simon Stålenhag: The Labyrinth.

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