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Writing an emulator: its all about the journey!

A Game Boy screen cover laying on top of the arrow keys on a red-lit computer keyboard.

TL;DR: I started writing a Game Boy emulator in June 2018 and since then, at least three distinct people have expressed mild but polite interest in the details. I hope to show how it’s done, in mildly-to-heavily technical terms. It’s going to take a while but I hope it turns out marginally informative.

Hello world!

It’s been a while since I wrote anything and my usual platform isn’t really suitable anymore, so of course I have set up some overkill self-hosted solution to correct that.

A little therapeutic DIY

A photo of scattered doodles describing a plank-based contraption.

Summer isn’t my kind of season. I’m seldom at my best in summer. If anything, I’ve been particularly depressed when temperatures started steadily rising above 25°C, a few weeks ago.

NaNoWriMo 2010, the first word count

A graph of my cumulative daily word count for NaNoWriMo 2010.

I like the fact the NaNoWriMo website now stores statistics. It makes me realize how much more disciplined I’ve gotten over the years. But I was bothered by the fact I didn’t have the word count statistics for the very first year I did it.