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 (I won’t watch this video because I’m embarrassed. That said, I was 40% less nervous than my last talk ten years ago, which feels like progress, and I did enjoy making the slides! Also hilariously I gave a talk at *GDC* without mentioning that we… publish video games?!) BUT ANYWAY!!!!!! Here is a talk I gave. From: @playdate I never in a million years imagined that one day you’d be able to write Playdate games in Swift (!!!). Hard for me to express how cool this is, and my deepest thanks to the Swift team for the energy boost! https://www.swift.org/blog/byte-sized-swift-tiny-games-playdate/
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✨ It’s true. I’ve been working on this blog post for ten years. You see, I’ve been slowly buying up nearly 70 super rare issues of a 80s/90s gadget catalog that meant the world to me growing up. And in the process, I’ve uncovered the secret history of this lost copywriting art. PLUS, as a bonus, I’ve scanned every single issue — so you can read them all. I hope you enjoy: https://cabel.com/2023/11/06/dak-and-the-golden-age-of-gadget-catalogs/ Addendum: • If you know someone that likes this kind of business, please share the link! • You can own one of these rare catalogs, if you act fast! I’ve put my extras on eBay, starting at just $5. https://www.ebay.com/usr/cabelsa I found a "Video Professor" VHS tape digitized on YouTube. I edited it down, but this is EXACTLY how it was uploaded. The original description said "I apologize the audio is choppy", and I… I think they sorely undersold that one Happy Halloween 
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 The folks that worked on this LEGO age check text field (!!) are automatically the best web developers on the planet right (Sound on for perfection)
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Some product redesigns spotted live in the wild. (New on right.) The last one is especially shocking to me — after all this time, they finally bit the bullet and renamed to what everyone (non-Canadian) calls it already!! Huge news! Think of the lawyer time involved
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@cabel the Jello looks great, except for the drop shadow on the flavor text. It’s just a little too much. @cabel Today I learned that the 2017 Fanta redesign wasn't global https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/20-26-march-2017/fanta-rolls-rebrand-new-bottle-design-uk/. Originally done by Koto (excellent) https://koto.studio/work/fanta/ then sanitised for global by JKR https://www.dezeen.com/2023/04/04/fanta-rebrand-global-identity-coca-cola-jones-knowles-ritchie/ 
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A short story. We once submitted Untitled Goose Game to the Mac App Store. It was rejected by the reviewer because they thought you couldn’t skip the credits. (?!?) We explained that you could skip the credits by holding space. It was then rejected for something else and at that point we just gave up and never bothered to resubmit. Fin
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@cabel What was the "else" it was rejected for? > It was then rejected for something else Imagine what the world would be like if you could just skip the iOS app store the same way. |
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@cabel it was a wonderful talk! I admire the team's humility and perseverance for having a goal and growing so many new muscles to bring the Playdate to life, thank you for sharing. Also cracked up at how you sampled the FDS color 🟨
@cabel @playdate What a great talk! And yes, the email exchange was *amazing*.
@cabel @playdate that talk was fantastic (dare I say, a slice of joy?) and you may have just gotten yourself another customer!