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
- I agreed to teach some FPGA first principles to a small group. This is my recommended board for beginner FPGA development. Has everything a growing boy needs :)
- Finally figured out how to beat @8BitShowAndTell 's Hypothetical "Game 31" from his Iwata video without watching the spoiler. My life is now complete.
- Compressed and decidedly not better
- Doing a little breadth first searching on the KIM-1 using a Commodore 64 as a terminal.
- Oh cool, iOS release. I’ll bet it has groundbreaking new functionality. Or… a wallpaper.
- If you're not learning Fortran today, what are you even doing with your life? Happy Monday!
- THIS
- Outside today because it’s 65F and Sunny, but yesterday I finally got my Neo6502 fixed. Was a bad solder joint from manufacturing.
- I still use Practicalc almost every day. It’s quirky but it works. Happy Friday!
- Company retreat at a Casino, which means I don’t know what to do with myself. Also, breakfast places don’t open till 7. I guess I’ll go for a hike. Sigh.
- Trying to decide if I want to go down this rabbit hole
- Fishing with Dad is always better than work
- More reflecting on the 60th anniversary of BASIC
- I have a number of books without decent scans available online. I kept the bookmark that came with this once since a punchcard seemed appropriate. Scanning this one (carefully) this week.
- My hat is off to the person who designed this DIP/CPLD Board for the ULA81.
- Stole this from X...
- Sure you’ve used Super Snapshot, but did you know it before it was Super? Made in Canada…
- Impromptu trip with my youngest to Charleston for the weekend where he continues the family tradition of people taking pictures of me looking at water without me knowing they are.
- I love that a small community will form so quickly around stuff like this
- I just picked up a handful of processors from Mouser. I always find the date codes on brand-new hardware interesting. They must have a ton of these on the shelf.