Vol. XLIV — No. 13 New York, Wednesday, August 22, 2026 Web Edition — 24 Pages

# 🕷The Miles Bugle🕷

Est. 2004 — A Newspaper of Record for Developers All the Code That’s Fit to Print. Price: One Nice Email
Development — Special Report

## Local Developer Ships the Future From His Bedroom

Emulators, frameworks, and a demon list: one teenager’s relentless build, documented in ink.

By Miles Wolf Allen — City Room New York

NEW YORK — The most interesting machine on the internet this season may be running in a bedroom on the Upper West Side. Miles Wolf Allen, a developer and 3D artist still in school, has been quietly shipping software that refuses to stay in one lane: emulators that swallow a dozen consoles, a drop-in replacement for the web’s heaviest desktop framework, and the demon list that a whole community of Geometry Dash players now treats as law.

The throughline, he says, is simple: software should feel good to use. “I don’t start with the business model,” Allen told the Bugle. “I start with the hundred-megabyte apology — and then I try to make it unnecessary.” That instinct produced FEDL, now tracking thousands of verified runs, and Gelectron, his attempt to keep the nice parts of web apps while losing the bundled browser that makes every Electron install feel like a commitment.

Colleagues at Diskette Labs, the collective he co-founded, describe a builder who treats documentation like love letters and bugs like personal insults. Asked what’s next, Allen was characteristically unspecific and entirely serious: “Whatever keeps the blank page scary.”

Continued on Page 3 — “A Day in the Life of a Pull Request”
FIG. 1 The reporter at his desk. Any resemblance to a certain wall-crawler is entirely coincidental. — Photo by M. Allen, City Room
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Section A — Profile

## About the Reporter

Fig. 2 — Staff mug shot. No spiders were harmed.

Miles Wolf Allen writes software, renders 3D art, and keeps a list of things he wants to build that grows faster than he can cross items off it. He is still in school, which the people at Diskette Labs — the collective he co-founded — insist is less alarming than it sounds. “He ships,” one member said, “so we stopped asking questions.”

His beats run the full front page: emulator development, game tooling, web frameworks, and the particular kind of chaos that produces a demon list for Geometry Dash. The work tends to be either deeply practical (a command-line tool that finally makes cut-and-paste work in Finder) or gloriously impractical (a music player that makes listening feel like the whole point).

He is currently building Gelectron — an attempt to keep the nice parts of web apps and lose the several-hundred-megabyte apology — and believes a website should make you want to stay a little longer.

Emulators Game Dev Web Tooling 3D Art Rhythm Games Geometry Dash
Section B — Features

## The Work

Stories filed from the newsroom floor — statuses current as of press time.

Active — TypeScriptB1

### OmniEmu 2.0 Consolidates the Entire Arcade

All your emulators in one place. Install twenty-plus cores, scan your ROMs, and launch games from a single clean shell. The collection, finally organized.

Continued →
Early Days — RustB1

### Gelectron Asks: What if Electron Left?

A drop-in Electron replacement built on native web views. No bundled Chromium, no hundred-megabyte apology — just the good parts of web apps.

Continued →
Live — 3,800+ RunsB2

### FEDL: The List That Became a Community

What began as a demon list for Geometry Dash turned out to be about the people who keep showing up to make the list harder. Ranked levels, verified runs, one shared obsession.

Continued →
Unreleased — Quietly BuildingB2

### Vanilla: A Framework With No Frameworks

A clean, minimal web experiment with Diskette Labs. No dependencies, no cruft, no ceremony — the argument that the platform is finally enough.

Continued →
MacOS — SwiftB3

### CommandMove Brings True Cut-and-Paste to Finder

Cmd+X, navigate, Cmd+V — the way it always should have worked. A small tool that fixes a decades-old itch on macOS.

Continued →
Sidebar — WebB3

### A Music Player That Makes Listening the Point

A web player designed around the listening, not the library. Evidence that a tool can have a point of view.

Continued →

More filed stories: Noto · Nova · Rhythm Game · Geode Mod · Issue Tracker · Moon Gaming — see the full archive.

Section B — Back Page

## The Toolkit

The newsroom’s equipment, as filed with the city desk.

Languages Python / JavaScript / TypeScript / C++ / Swift / Rust
Web HTML / CSS / React / Node.js / Three.js
3D & Design Blender / WebGL / Figma / Photoshop-grade patience
Tools Git / Linux / VS Code / Replit / Firefox DevTools
Currently Learning: whatever the next blank page demands.
Section C — Want Ads

## Classifieds

Small print, big opportunities. Box numbers answered daily.

Ad 1

### Wanted: Interesting Problems

Emulators, frameworks, the occasional impossible thing. Rates negotiable; curiosity mandatory. All inquiries read — the good ones get a reply.

→ write to mileswa1q2@gmail.com ***
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### Read the Archive

Every edition ever filed, freely available to the public. Sources include the code itself.

→ github.com/mileswolfallen2 ***
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### More Editions

The syndicate network: a personal site, a company paper, and a place to remix software.

→ me.fedl.site → diskettelabs.com ***
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### Letters to the Editor

Spot a typo? A bad take on software? A brilliant idea for a build? The editor reads everything.

→ mileswa1q2@gmail.com Corrections printed prominently. Compliments modestly.