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
- Four business plans
- Working on a fun Enigma codebook generator for the Commodore
- Here's my first crack at a personal year-view calendar using my Apple Calendar data.
- I asked my wife for a Mainframe for my birthday so I can use this tape I picked up from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
- Fun little side project
- Timeline cleanse
- For you
- Visual Sorting
- Christmas is better when there are 5 1/4" floppies around.
- A Python Guide to Advent of Code 2026
- AOC 2025
- In today's episode of stupid races between old computery things
- First principles AI. I'm not joking.
- X just sent me an ad for $100 sweatpants. People are NUTS.
- I love doing puzzles and brain teasers in the Christmas season. Like Advent of Code and books like this.
- New website
- Advent of Code Day 3 - Vintage edition. I used my Commodore 64 to get today's puzzle. 8 hours, not bad.
- Day 3 of Advent of Code 2025
- Continuing to compute 100k digits of Pi as quickly as possible (without using an LLM, just my brain)
- Advent of Code 2025 Day 1 was easy, so I challenged myself and did it in FORTRAN.