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  • Yeah. I’ve seen that, too. It’s a shame.

    I suspect that “expensive” here means “not as wildly profitable as we’re used to”, and that they’ll get around to it when they run out of other ideas.

    There’s a few companies out there now successfully selling hard to emulate stuff. I dream that Sega can make a deal with one of them to make a DreamCast and a Saturn Mini console happen.

    Or feven a nice Steam bundle would be okay with me. I’m not going to plop down $7 per game when I don’t know anything about their catalog, but I’m down for a big $40-$60 curated collection.


  • I agree. Saturn is it’s own thing, and much more than just the story of its failure.

    But I cannot help tell that story, because, like many, I never experienced it. It was simply too expensive. I spent my allowance on my Sega 32X and then my Sega CD and then Sony PlayStation.

    There wasn’t money or available units in my childhood to buy a Saturn.

    As an adult, I don’t feel like I know enough about the Saturn to shop for a used console and games, and I suppose don’t have the nostalgia to want to spend a lot.

    I found it hard to emulate, though maybe I’m not willing to work as hard at it because I’m not really aware what I’m missing.

    Anyway, from what I know of the Saturn catalog, Sega would change the narrative decisively, by releasing a Sega Saturn Mini console. Here’s hoping!


  • RobotFramework is pretty nice.

    The core challenges still exist, particularly with web automation. But RobotFramework at least has much better helper methods, syntax and quality of life tools than a few years back.

    I still don’t typically see teams maintaining anything deeper than a few smoke tests, for most projects.

    Edit: I also see a decent number of folks using PlayWright pretty happily.

    Source: I consult with various dev teams on this kind of thing.


  • Great question. Here’s where I’ve landed:

    • For a surprising number of things, my previous desktop, running Linux, confined to my local network, is perfectly fine.
    • For a number of other things, a Raspberry Pi, with a dedicated disk image (ISO), confined to my local network, is fine.
    • Surprisingly often, a not-at-all-dynamic dynamic DNS solution gets the job done. I follow the first half of the DynDNS guide, and then hard code my preferred IP, and skip the rest. It’s inconvenient when my IP changes, but that happens a lot less often than most folks imagine. Most DNS providers have provided this to me for free after I bought my domain name from through them.
    • For my public personal portfolio, GitHub pages works fine.
    • For additional silly static sites, AWS S3 and AWS CDN get the job done for about $3 per month.
    • When I need to do public facing database stuff, I get a virtual private server, not from Amazon or Microsoft, who both way overcharge for small apps.