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Welcome to the Ghost Shell

Welcome to the Ghost Shell

#ghost maze #ghost shell #haunted terminal #indie dev #interactive fiction #javascript #tech #terminal #text adventure #web app
Posted on June 24, 2025 • Read more →
A forgotten terminal simulator built into the CTRL+Strum universe. Ghost Shell is a web-based retro OS with working commands, fake system logs, and a haunted maze game called ghost_maze. It’s not haunted… but it probably shouldn’t still be running.
Bootstrapped and Beamed In: Connecting an Apple IIc to My M2 MacBook (Part 2)

Bootstrapped and Beamed In: Connecting an Apple IIc to My M2 MacBook (Part 2)

#apple iic #bootstrapping #frankenstein computing #oregon trail #retro tech
Posted on June 19, 2025 • Read more →
    “My Apple //c now runs 21st-century code. Oregon Trail lives again… after a whole lot of cursed bootstrapping and serial sorcery. Here’s how I did it.”  
Bootstrapped and Beamed In: Connecting an Apple II //c to My M2 MacBook (Part 1)

Bootstrapped and Beamed In: Connecting an Apple II //c to My M2 MacBook (Part 1)

#tech
Posted on June 10, 2025 • Read more →
In this retro resurrection, I wrangled an Apple //c and a modern M2 MacBook into (almost) talking — with a tangle of adapters, Java hacks, and vintage wizardry. Part 1 of a 2-part deep dive into bootstrapping ProDOS from the future.🧠💾
Frustration.exe: When the Code Fights Back

Frustration.exe: When the Code Fights Back

##devlife #debugging #codefrustration #terminalrage #aestheticbreakdown #ctrlstrum #codingtherapy #indiedev #solobuilder #fm9edit #tonegpt #ampbrain #mooddump #music
Posted on May 28, 2025 • Read more →
Building cool stuff sounds fun—until your JSON breaks and your tone engine eats itself. Here's what it feels like to hit the wall... hard.
CTRL_000__What Is The Wall?

CTRL_000__What Is The Wall?

Posted on May 10, 2025 • Read more →
This is The Wall. A public feed, a digital corkboard, a sketchpad, a mixtape. A place to post something that didn’t need permission to exist. 🧠 What It's For The Wall is for the raw ideas, the weird experiments, the blurry drafts, the finished pieces no one else knew what to do with. It’s for musicians, coders, visual artists, designers, beatmakers, and t...