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

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+ Est. 2004 — A Newspaper of Record for Developers + All the Code That’s Fit to Print. + Price: One Nice Email +
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Development — Special Report
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Local Developer Ships the Future From His Bedroom

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

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+ By Miles Wolf Allen — City Room + New York +
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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.

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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.

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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” +
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+ Miles Wolf Allen at his desk +
+ 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
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About the Reporter

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+ Portrait of Miles Wolf Allen +
Fig. 2 — Staff mug shot. No spiders were harmed.
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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.”

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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).

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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.

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

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

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Active — TypeScriptB1
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OmniEmu 2.0 Consolidates the Entire Arcade

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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.

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Early Days — RustB1
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Gelectron Asks: What if Electron Left?

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

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Live — 3,800+ RunsB2
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FEDL: The List That Became a Community

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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.

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Unreleased — Quietly BuildingB2
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Vanilla: A Framework With No Frameworks

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

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MacOS — SwiftB3
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CommandMove Brings True Cut-and-Paste to Finder

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

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Sidebar — WebB3
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A Music Player That Makes Listening the Point

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

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

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Section B — Back Page
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The Toolkit

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

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

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Small print, big opportunities. Box numbers answered daily.

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+ Ad 1 +

Wanted: Interesting Problems

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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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+ Ad 2 +

Read the Archive

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

+ → github.com/mileswolfallen2 + +
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+ Ad 3 +

More Editions

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

+ → me.fedl.site + → diskettelabs.com + +
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+ Ad 4 +

Letters to the Editor

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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. +
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Experimental redesigns of milesallen.site — exploring different design languages, - animation approaches, and visual directions. Seventeen experiments so far, - newest first: retro intros, web cartoons, whimsical, loud/quiet, space stations, handhelds, and terminals. + animation approaches, and visual directions. Nineteen experiments so far, + newest first: a 1976 punk zine, a Daily Bugle newspaper, retro intros, web cartoons, whimsical, loud/quiet, space stations, handhelds, and terminals.

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History — all experiments, newest first
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MILESWOLF ZINE
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+ The portfolio as a moving 1976 punk zine — photocopied, wheat-pasted, xerox-degraded. Rejects grid perfection: ransom-note typography (Permanent Marker, Bangers, Courier Prime, Graduate, Creepster), torn paper edges via clip-path, tape strips and safety pins, halftone dot screens, layered paper grain, SVG doodles (arrows, stars, NO symbols), protest-sign red/navy/neon green palette, jitter animations at variable frame rates, RGB-split glitch on hover, spray-paint custom cursor, cut-up skill chips, a manifesto panel, project collages, a TEAR-OFF flyer contact, and ransom letters that periodically reshuffle fonts. Includes a print stylesheet. +

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+ Punk zine + Ransom note + Xerox textures + Glitch animations +
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The Miles Bugle
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+ The portfolio as a front page from Tobey-era Spider-Man: newsprint cream paper with grain and halftone dots, a Pirata One blackletter masthead, double red rules, a dateline with today's real date, a two-column front-page story with drop cap and EXTRA! EXTRA! stamp, an IN BRIEF box, a numbers scoreboard, a tongue-in-cheek SPIDER-MENACE? teaser, projects as front-page stories with page numbers, a classified-style toolkit table, and a want-ads contact section. +

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+ ISSUE #1 · EVERY YEAR AT ONCE · PRICELESS +

+ MILESWOLF + + + ZINE + + +

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A photocopied broadside assembled from every decade at once. One developer. Multiple paper stocks.

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LOCAL DEVELOPER SHIPS THE FUTURE FROM HIS BEDROOM
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+ By M. W. Allen — City Desk + New York · Vol. XLIV +
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NEW YORK — The most interesting machine on the internet right now 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 Electron, and the demon list a whole community now treats as law.

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"I don't start with the business model," Allen told this broadside. "I start with the hundred-megabyte apology — and then I try to make it unnecessary." Co-founder of Diskette Labs. Pull shark ×2. Mode: full send, still debugging. Asked what's next: "Whatever keeps the blank page scary."

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+ Miles Wolf Allen +
Fig. 1 — The reporter at his desk. Any resemblance to a certain wall-crawler is purely coincidental. — Photo by M. Allen
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+ // PANEL 02 — THE SCORE + + +
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> PRINT STATS.EXE
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PUBLIC_REPOS: 60+
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STARS_EARNED: 100+
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RUNS_VERIFIED: 3,800+
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SHIPPING_SINCE: '22
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+ Polaroid +
Miles · diskette labs ·
some tuesday · 2026
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+ THE KIT. PYTHON · JS · TS · C++ · SWIFT · RUST · REACT · NODE · THREE · BLENDER +
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+ // PANEL 03 — THE BUILDS +
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+ OMNIEMU 2.0 + ACTIVE · TS +

All your emulators in one place. Install 20+ cores, scan ROMs, launch. The arcade, consolidated. read the file →

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+ + + + + + GELECTRON + EARLY · RUST +

What if Electron left? Native web views, no bundled Chromium, no hundred-megabyte apology. read the file →

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+ FEDL +
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The demon list
3,800+ runs · LIVE
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+ > VANILLA.EXE + QUIET BUILD +

> No frameworks. No cruft.
> The platform is finally enough.
> raid the site →

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+ + CommandMove — Cmd+X, navigate, Cmd+V. The way it always should have worked. macOS. Swift. → + + + Music App — A player that makes listening the point. Proof a tool can have a point of view. → + + +
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+ DECREE #2: MORE FILED IN THE UNDERGROUND ARCHIVE → +
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+ // PANEL 04 — THE ARSENAL +
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+ Python + JavaScript + TypeScript + C++ + Swift + Rust + HTML/CSS + React + Node.js + Three.js + WebGL + Blender + Figma + Git + Linux + VS Code + Replit + Firefox DevTools + Docker + SQLite +
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+ Emulators + Game Dev + Web Tooling + 3D Art + Rhythm Games + Geometry Dash + Pull Shark ×2 + Still In School +
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+ DECREE #3: NO GRID. NO GODS. NO MINIFIED BUNDLES. +
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+ // PANEL 05 — RENDEZVOUS +
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+ + TEAR OFF · PASS ALONG · REPOST +

WANTED:
INTERESTING PROBLEMS

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EMAILmileswa1q2@gmail.com
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GITHUBmileswolfallen2
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CODEPENmileswolfallen2
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WEBSITEme.fedl.site
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COLLECTIVEdiskettelabs.com
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+ EMAIL + GITHUB + CODEPEN + WEBSITE + COLLECTIVE +
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+ + THE REPORTER +

Miles writes code, renders 3D, and co-founded Diskette Labs. Still in school. Already shipping.

+ read dossier → +
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+ FULL ARCHIVE +

Every edition ever filed. Sources include the code itself.

+ break into vault → + +
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+ MORE ZINES +

> me.fedl.site
> diskettelabs.com
> visit syndicate →

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+ © EVERY YEAR AT ONCE · MILESWOLF ZINE · PHOTOCOPIED · WHEAT-PASTED · STAPLED · STITCHED · NEVER SOLD OUT + + ← BACK TO THE SYSTEM +
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