I almost scheduled this post for 2021/01/02.
- Zolatron 64 – first PCBs. I like that while the common market for processors is unfortunately only Intel or Apple, small-scale new platforms have become possible on a relatively trivial budget. (via)
- Make ping audible. Turn up the volume and you can tell when you plug in the correct cable in another room.
- Sustainable creativity in a world without copyright. I am sympathetic but it confuses work-for-hire terms with copyright.
- Welcoming Recorded Music to the Public Domain. Speaking of copyright…
- 50 Years of Text Games: 2019: A.I. Dungeon. The penultimate chapter.
- Monitoring the vintage server room (and reverse-engineering USB sensors). I need to set up some temperature sensors too.
- Embarrassing product names created: Windows CE.
- Introduction to the Sam Text Editor. Your non-Emacs/non-vi link of the day. (via)
- Software can just never be done it seems.
- mkrl/misbrands: The world’s most hated IT stickers. The original misconception, 20 years old. I hate this, I love this. (via)
- A followup: I went back to the Ether device I linked a few weeks ago; it seems worth buying just because it’s so different. Following links to stores that sell it took me down a rabbit hole of analog interfaces on audio equipment. Note that every store “sells” with a shot of the dials, cause it’s so fun to see.
Oh, don’t get me started about all the major software projects that nowadays make a release every three months like clockwork, and if they have nothing to add then they make arbitrary changes for the sake of it. But of course they always find bugs to fix anyway, because they *also* keep adding features nobody wants. Software has become its own purpose by now. Much like capitalism, ironically.