Good Thoughts

Got the Angel Island map from Sonic Adventure (1998) running natively in the Sonic R (1997) engine this weekend. Same minimap, same leaderboard, completely different terrain. You can race the loop.

Texture remapping was a nightmare, and there's still some clipping where the falloff fights the mesh segmentation, but it's racing. Had to rework the engine's per-track memory limits to swallow the higher-poly Sonic Adventure assets, which was its own little adventure.

A Sonic Adventure import turne...

Spent a few hours mucking about with one of my favourite games, Sonic R, with Claude Code as a co-pilot. Genuinely amazing how far you can get reverse-engineering this thing: swapping textures, tweaking the course layout, messing with character behaviour, even hacking together a fast-load straight into a stage so I could test changes without sitting through the menus every time.

Changing the lighting was the bit that surprised me most. Felt like proper dark magic.

Makes me wonder what becomes...

Full moon ceremony coming up.

Just captured this cycling to the gym and thought the city is looking nice, intimidating, welcoming, mysterious yet beckoning. Happy Sunday all.

Pretty proud moment for me.
It’s a fair and balanced review all in all.
Good is places I’m happy about and work needed in others.
Overall really excited it seems to resonate overall.
https://www.science.org/content/article/journal-giant-elsevier-unveiled-ai-tool-scans-millions-paywalled-papers-it-worth-it

For every power has its double: one that lifts and one that breaks,
And the line between them thins with every promise that he makes.

Listen here: https://suno.com/s/Cw2XE2hMNCJTavEU

Tech for good.
https://quack.sdan.io/

Absolutely loving the snowy weather for new year. Makes the long nights much more bearable and the Christmas market this year was just so delightful.
Wishing you all a great new year!