Introducing Android Performance Analyzer - now available in Beta! youtube.com/watch?v=peplbYt0…

I'm amused and somewhat honored that even in the year 2026, about 34 years after I wrote it at age 17, people are still hacking apart and dismantling the copy protection I wrote for an old home computer game. 👾 #samcoupe

Only about 5 people in the world will care, but here's the source for ... The Disk Copier simoncooke.com/samcoupe/info… The Boot Sector simoncooke.com/samcoupe/info… The Game DOS simoncooke.com/samcoupe/info…

In March of 2024, the WA State Senate passed a law - RCW 1.90.100 - which banned any kind of personal income tax in Washington state. app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.a… The votes on that were quite clear: app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?B… 18 Democrat Senators voted that we should NOT have an income tax in WA state. 20 Republican Senators voted that we should NOT have an income tax in WA state. That's 38 Senators voting AGAINST AN INCOME TAX. 11 Democrat Senators voted FOR an income tax in WA State. Those pushing for this are in the minority in their OWN PARTY. And all of a sudden, two years later, they want to tackled finished business yet again. Is this how Democrats are going to operate in this state? A war of attrition, pushing over and over and over and over until they get what they want - that the vast majority of us DO NOT? It's lunacy.

Interesting paper just dropped - researchers have found the master switch that regulates the differences between lung cells regenerating and lung cells defending from infection. This may have some benefits for people with COPD and other lung disorders. So... Just on a hunch, I checked to see if lutein played a role here too. Yep. It helps shut down C/EBP α, which is also involved in adipose cell generation alongside PPAR γ. Here's the fun part. If you then do a search for things high in lutein and COPD - like, say, spinach - you get papers which say that spinach is super beneficial for people with COPD. They put it down to antioxidants, but in reality it's probably helping to restore healing behavior and turn off inflammation. Parsley will likely work way better than spinach for this, but either way if you have COPD it might be worth it introducing spinach / kale / parsley smoothies into your life. (I'm not a doctor, this is not medical advice. Follow at your own risk). Links to papers in the replies.

Paper 2: Daily Vegetables Intake and Response to COPD Rehabilitation. The Role of Oxidative Stress, Inflammation and DNA Damage pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…