Author here. Thanks for sharing this. I was intending to make a more formal announcement of the new blog here and on HN after it had a bit more meat on it, but I hope it is of interest to people, nonetheless.
Great! I think we would all like to read your recollections and musings about retro computing. There are a few authors that post their work here and to the orange site on a regular basis, I hope you can be amongst them.
I can relate to the obsession of going to the mall in hopes of seeing a glimpse of any new kit coming to market. I felt the desire to see the 1400xl and 1450xld but it was not to be and signalling the end of the 8.bit era.
https://stonetools.ghost.io/introducing/
I saw the author also has a bunch of interesting Pico-8 software developments in the same vein:
https://christopherdrum.itch.io/