I write about the past, present, and future of technology across three sites. imapenguin.com explores retro computing and programming fundamentals, milkcrunch.com covers modern software development and engineering culture, and evadot.com examines commercial spaceflight and the new space movement.
Posts
- Well, hello, old friend.
- It's been a while this year since I did any Assembly programming on a C64. I almost forgot just how much I love developing on-hardware.
- Keyboard shopping
- I regret using Hugo
- VCCC 2024
- Curating music
- I am still working on this PET 2001-8N board. Both 6520s are bad. That's unfortunate.
- On today's episode of "Stupid Races Between Old Computery Things," the Radio Shack PC-4 (1983) and the TI-74 (1986) are competing
- I can't say enough good things about this bookâeasily in the top five favorite books I've read in 2024.
- 10PRINT on the TI-74
- One's compliment head scratcher
- It's supposed to snow tonight. Does someone want to let our tomato plants (and marigolds) know? They are both still flowering...
- Fighting what?
- I think most of you know that I adore Advent of Code.Tuesday timeline cleanse: Sure, you've seen "The Last Starfighter," but have you seen it on LaserDisc?
- What might have been
- Peak handheld. I used the one on the right every day for years (they both still work).
- Who or what
- I love the Maze Algorithm from Compute! in 1981. For fun, here it is using pygame on a modern computer. Happy Tuesday!
- Veteran's Day
- An Int Button