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Johnny Blanchard

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Screenwriter, playwright, author, engineer, engineering manager and general nerd. Follow me for nonsense about RetroComputing, RetroGaming and film

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Getting married in less than 2 weeks & now can genuinely start to get excited. Yes! Can’t wait to marry @johnnyblanchard.bsky.social .
πŸ‘°πŸ½β€β™€οΈπŸ€΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈAlso I’m looking forward to our cake. CAKE !!πŸŽ‚πŸ°πŸ§πŸ°πŸŽ‚PS anyone want take over my to do list though? ;)

23.04.2023 19:22 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mille by Tonsomo Entertainment A digital card game based on making a car journey to 700 and 1000 miles

I’ve released my new game, Mille, on itch.io it’s a card game loosely based on the old French game, Mille Bornes https://tonsomo.itch.io/mille

14.04.2023 16:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My tiny game is on Steam. It’s not especially impressive and seems to have an issue on some Linux builds at the moment, but it’s the first game I’ve ever released on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2368940/Jurl/

11.04.2023 19:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My lovely tree, one of the reasons I bought my house

10.04.2023 20:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I think the mould may have slipped on this one

08.04.2023 15:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Before you continue to YouTube

If anyone is interested in #RetroGaming / #RetroComputing then check out my YouTube channel, https://www.YouTube.com/reenthused I’ve got over 400 videos covering some of the rarer and obscurer systems

01.04.2023 10:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The engineers don’t go rushing back, let them stew in their own juices for a while. /rant

29.03.2023 17:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A desperate attempt to maintain fake profit margins by cutting jobs and we have a perfect storm ending with thousands of trained, hard working engineers looking for jobs at the same time. All I hope is that when these companies realise the mistake …

29.03.2023 17:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€˜Magic’ around, so they’ll use any excuse to fire engineers. And so the engineers are lazy rhetoric starts being spread, by various over-hyped rich people and then by people trying to get attention by lying about their own experiences. Add to that …

29.03.2023 17:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nonsense. Users couldn’t or didn’t want to make and maintain their own software. AI can’t make software to the point that it will replace trained engineers, nor will it be anywhere close for a number of years. But non-technical managers hate having …

29.03.2023 17:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What we’re seeing in the developer space now is much like what I remember when 4GL languages first became a thing. Managers started talking about reducing engineer headcount because β€˜the users can make and repair their own software’. Obviously it was …

29.03.2023 17:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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My newest game, Jurl has passed the Steam tests so should soon be out on there in a couple of weeks - it’s already available on itch.io (MacOS, Windows, Linux), Android and iOS

29.03.2023 01:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

First post here, now I just need to get the app to ask my phone to use photos so I can tell it that it can

19.03.2023 02:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0