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name
Matt Ruggio
role
Software engineer
languages
Ruby, Go, JavaScript, C#
experience
24+ years across developer tools, payroll, print, and medical software

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  • My Keyboard Broke NBA Live 2005

    ~8 min read

    Getting NBA Live 2005 running on a second Windows 11 machine broke in two places the first one never did: SafeDisc needed a single CPU core, and a modern keyboard's fifteen HID collections corrupted a 2004 input parser.

    games retro-computing debugging

  • NBA Live 2005 in 2026

    ~9 min read

    Getting a 2004 basketball game running on Windows 11: a security fix that broke copy protection, a controller that was never missing, a flicker that took five wrong guesses, and a graphics stack built for Linux.

    games retro-computing debugging

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projects

  • Three RetroLive founders rendered in NBA Live 2005 style in The Gin Mills jerseys, under a broadcast scoreboard reading Retro Live 2005

    RetroLive

    A multiplayer, retro-styled NBA manager sim. Like Oregon Trail for basketball fans.

    ruby rails simulation multiplayer

tools

  • YouTube Music export

    Export a public YouTube Music playlist as a JSON tracklist, using your own YouTube Data API key.

    javascript youtube-api

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