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
- Some truths are self-evident.
- Doing another composite mod for someone
- I'm not an April Fools fan at all. I think I'll switch to platforms that can't even access the internet.
- Took a deer hair spinning class today. From left to right my first to the final one I did. The last one turned out great and I feel like I can make these now. An afternoon well spent. Next is to see how they fish.
- xz vulnerability on a Mac with Homebrew
- Any progress is progress.
- This is a fun game but you NEED the manual and accompanying stuff for it to be playable. What other games from pre 1993 do you like that are like this?
- This was released yesterday and I’m about halfway through it. If you have kids, this might be the most important book published in quite some time.
- The best thing about remembering the time before cell phones: When you were really mad, you could SLAM the phone down to hang up. It was glorious.
- Stuck
- My youngest got me a travel Mig Welder and new helmet for my birthday because “you never know when you need to fuse metal on the go”.
- This handwritten note fell out of this book.
- I write, even if no one reads it.
- Moving the garden this year, and it’s basically like starting over. Progress is being made.
- Working on my 10 top games of all time list. I've got it down to the top 150. 150 is close to 10, right?
- If you think it’s subliminal messaging instead of a plan and discipline that’ll be your key to success, then boy do I have a cassette for you.
- “Vintage gaming TV”
- I often have a PET demo or game playing in the background of video meetings. Today’s choice is a fun one. Happy Friday.
- I found some coins I brought back from a trip to Moscow in 1992 and used my Commodore calculator to estimate their current value.
- The McNuggets Problem · imapenguin