This week’s earworm’s an interesting one. It’s Intro, on the album Recomposed, by Carl Craig & Moritz Von Oswald. Finding a legitimate copy is tricky: I’ve only found this version of questionable provenance on YouTube Music. It’s also on Music for Programming, which is where I discovered it. 🎵

📺 Brian Will: Object-oriented Programming is Bad

Enjoyed this video about what makes OOP crummy. No spoilers but it’s not what you think (or it wasn’t what I thought). Didn’t agree with every argument but still quite though provoking.

This week’s earworm: QE2, by Mike Oldfield. 🎵

Might be a bit early in the week but I’m calling it now: this week’s earworm is very likely to be songs from Eurovision Song Contest 2025, in Basel. 🎵

And I make no apologies for this. Well, maybe some apologies to Kev Quirk. 😁

📺 Andor: Season 2 (2025)

There’s also this series of videos by the same creator that goes in depth on how the Super Mario Bros. levels are encoded in ROM. This is even more fascinating, as they had very little memory to work with, and had to make some significant trade-offs, like allowing Mario to go left. 📺

If anyone’s interested in how levels in Super Mario Bros. 2 are encoded in the ROM, I can recommend this video by Retro Game Mechanics. It goes for about 100 minutes so it’s quite in depth. 📺

This week’s earworm: Chronology, by Jean-Michel Jarre. 🎵

📺 Reacher: Season 3 (2025)

This week’s earworm: Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair (Original Game Soundtrack). Might be all the Godot stuff I’m doing at the moment. 🎵