Noticed a colleague changed their name from traditionally-gender-A to tradtiionally-gender-B, and so went to clean up my comments of the form "thanks, [name]" to just "thank you".

Doesn't really hide anything, but at the very least they won't be deadnamed if looking at old PRs?

— Jordan Rose (@UINT_MIN) April 13, 2019

Git is terrible for this sort of identity-severing change thanks to burning the committer's name into the validity of the branch, and we-the-industry should probably do something.

— Jordan Rose (@UINT_MIN) April 13, 2019

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When designing ROSE-8, I realized that the last 8-bit CPU architecture I had learned about was the Nintendo Game Boy, via Eevee’s Cheezball Rising series. That gave me a goal for ROSE-8: implement a system that could display graphics and receive real-time button presses, and thus play games. As I hinted last time, I did indeed manage to achieve this! Introducing the Game ’by Color (pronounced like “Game B Color”).

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