Welcome to my website!

My name is Jim Marshall, a software engineer

This web page is based on a template I found here.

If you're looking for an NES tile editor I got what you need

I made that some years ago and I don't intend to ever go back to it. But I know that external pages link to it.

Amusing things I've noticed

Sometimes I notice funny things around me, a constant source of baffling information is facebook. The people who frequent facebook are taken from the ranks of the elderly and feeble minded, who aren't aware of other more modern social media sites. I use facebook out of habit, I'm pretty feeble minded myself so I feel right at home there. The people who post on facebook are for the most part seemingly unaware of the existance of AI generated images. If they are aware of it, they don't see any particular problem with it, and just find it funny. AI generated "slop" and facebook posts form a mind numbing millue which I find myself unable to escape from.

• This man has had his electric unicycle seized by a fascist government. He's decided to express his sentiments in the form of a slickly produced "PSA" infographic, comparing himself to Czech author Franz Kafka. What I find truly strange is that not a single reply to this post seemed to note anything out of the ordinary, whereas I found it so strange I had to immediately come here and share it with the world.
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• I am not saying that this is not a genuine problem - it may well be. It could be an example of where government regulation hasn't quite caught up with technological advancement, but presenting it as such a serious issue, and making an AI graphic for it is something that just baffles my mind completely.
• It probably would help if I could understand the mindset of someone that would buy one of these in the first place, let alone the person who considers it their god given right to own one, and any attempt to stop him as the actions of a kafkaesque state.
• I can predict with some certainty this is a middle aged white male with too much time on their hands. A lost soul with fuck all else to occupy their day.

If you look on facebook you'd be mistaken for thinking that everyone in britain is a rabid right winger. You see a lot of people responding to these: "this is a bot account". It makes me wonder how they think these "bots" work and what they are capable of. Often times, when "bot" allegations are levelled, in my opinion the person is pretty clearly not a "bot". I don't think these left wingers can accept the fact that there are people with really racist opinions out there.

But as I have previously said, it's a certain kind of person who uses facebook in 2026. You can't extrapolate too much from what you read there.