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2026 5

  1. Improving My Hardware Workflow With CI and Nix
  2. My DIY DEF CON Choker Has a Screen On It
  3. I Built My Own Hair Electrolysis Machine
  4. My Nix Config Is Intimate
  5. Building a 24-bit Arcade CRT Display Adapter, From Scratch

2025 13

  1. dd is my fdisk
  2. I Program on the Subway
  3. My Review of the PATH
  4. Non-Euclidean Monitor Layout With Cursor Wormholes
  5. Migrating My Servers (and me!) to NYC
  6. My Second M68k SBC
  7. Toasting QR Codes onto Tortillas
  8. My Time at The Recurse Center
  9. EXTREME SERVER SIDE RENDERING
  10. An LLM, a Formal Grammar, and 40 Sacred Words
  11. The Taylorator - All Your Frequencies Are Belong to Us
  12. Sierpinski Triangles on a Pen Plotter
  13. Rubic - a BASIC-inspired Ruby REPL

2024 7

  1. Building an Over-engineered Basement Monitor
  2. Automatic Transcription and Accident Detection from Radio Chatter
  3. HP 1651B Boot Disk Creation
  4. MIT Flea Market Survival Guide
  5. My Total Solar Eclipse Balloon Launch
  6. Radiosonde Hunting - Success!
  7. Radiosonde Hunting - A Post-Mortem

2023 9

  1. Real Time Video From a High Altitude Balloon
  2. Driving Poles Into the Ground
  3. Radio Mischief in the Montreal Metro
  4. 500 Kbps From a High Altitude Balloon
  5. A basic 70cm antenna
  6. A tiny QRP low-pass filter
  7. Debugging a Strange Linux Issue
  8. A Theoretical New Packet Radio Paradigm
  9. Daily-driving a Blackberry in 2023

2022 1

  1. 1999 Corolla Ham Radio Install

2020 9

  1. More work on the 68000
  2. xBASIC - A programming language written in Rust
  3. 68000 Tablet - First Program
  4. 68000 Tablet - First test
  5. 68000 Tablet - PCB Has Arrived!
  6. 68000 Tablet Update
  7. New Project: A 68000-based tablet
  8. Proxmox Backups can be Dangerous
  9. Interactive Universe Map

2019 3

  1. Victr - A Real Estate Site
  2. A New Website
  3. Dissecting a Kaypro II ROM from 1983

2018 4

  1. Gravitational Physics Engine
  2. IBM PS/2 - Steady Progress
  3. IBM PS/2 - The Beginning
  4. Thoughts on Javascript

2016 1

  1. Inside a $45 000 Tape Library