← Feed

Posts

• View post

  Hellooooo #VCFMW!

• View post

  In other shenanigans, did I melt a PLA cup into a plastic puck on the stove? Yes. Did it become irrevocably fused to the aluminum? Also yes. (And shout out to Loaves and Witches, they’re awesome)

• View post

  I'm kinda getting into old PC mice. They're still relatively cheap (though certainly not as cheap as they used to be) and well-maintained ball mice are not nearly as bad as you remember. Unfortunately, they are one of the grossest things you can receive in exchange for money. (The grossest things in life, of course, cost you nothing but your sanity)

• View post

  So hey, I kinda lost the rest of the month, there! I actually got these some time ago and I have all the parts, I just haven’t felt like putting them together. So let’s at least get started on that.

• View post

  I’m working on an MFM emulator board (or I will be, I swear, once I finish a project I’m doing for someone else…). I designed it to work with the JVC 26-pin interface used by some laptops. But I don’t have anything that uses that. So I uh… bought a laptop.

• View post

  I have acquired something very cool. A friend was buying some stuff on craigslist and the seller offered a discount on further items and forwarded some computer items to me. I got an ATX power supply and a fan, but I also spied THIS. A Triplett 630-NS Volt-Ohm-Milliammeter with the original manual and box!

• View post

  @dosnostalgic Looks like you can still get some Panasonic KX-P ribbons and Epson still sells dot matrix printers, so probably any of those are good. Personally I just got a new ribbon for my ImageWriter II that works great, but I wouldn’t recommend it as I just had to replace a power module on mine (apparently they tend to cook themselves).

• View post

  Well #Aprilcot is over, but we've still got some loose ends to tie up. I've got to actually use the 8089 for sprite blits now that I fixed the MAME bug, and I've got to build one of these MFM emulators and see if it even works. But all that might have to wait. I had wanted to participate again in the Tiny Tapeout demoscene competition, but I realized too late the deadline is very soon. I'd still like to try, though. I'm not gonna make a winner in 10 days,...

• View post

  “It’s demoralizing to spend all day around people—ostensibly peers—and hearing them proclaim that they fundamentally don’t respect the thing you have devoted your professional life to.” This is such a good expression of how I feel about LLM coding agents and “AI” in general. I had started writing almost this exact article, but this is so much better than I would have written it. https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/you-dont-have-to/

• View post

  I got a screwdriver and a good shop to recommend. This is a small local hardware store, one guy there. I ask for a narrow flat blade screwdriver and he shows me what they have on the rack. I find a 3/16” that looks it would work, but it has the usual trapezoidal head. I measure it and it’s almost exactly 1/4”, so I’m not sure it’ll fit. “You could just grind that off,” he offers. “Yeah, but I don’t have a grinder.” “Oh, you can use ours.” “Really!?” “Yeah, sure.” “Then I’ll take it!” He r...