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
- On today's episode of "learn something every day," I did an LFSR on an IceStick FPGA. Pretty straightforward. Tomorrow I'll do an LCG and put them together to get a terrible Pseudo Random Number Generator. You know, for science.
- Yes, if you know my password, please forget it. On a "security" company website. Sheesh.
- Gotta prep for a webinar. Sanity is important.
- Young person I'm mentoring in math and computers wants to learn how mazes work. Printing values on a simple program on a slow computer is by far the best way to explain this. He got it immediately, plus it's a cool visual. Happy Monday! #commodore
- That last bolt
- It’s difficult to understate how much better the left one is over the right one. The VIC-20 guide launched me on a career path and a lifelong love of learning. Crazy how the right book at the right time can steer someone. I was 6 in 1981. #commodore
- Still have an eBay search going for season 2.
- I have a number of C64s but only one is PAL. Happens to be a 64C. Gonna keep this one on my desk for the next week or so. For science. #commodore
- How do I get into programming?
- I’ve been wearing an Oura ring for 3 or 4 years now. This is the highest sleep score I’ve ever gotten.
- We moved in 1981, so I can pretty confidently put this in 1980 based on the furniture and room. My Dad got it as a gift, but it had a much bigger impact on me than him.
- Okay 80s fans, anyone else as obsessed with Robo Force as I was in 1984? I really should not be allowed on eBay…
- Always had these memories of a space plane I had as a kid, but I could not remember what it was called. Today I found a picture of the Christmas unopened it and a clear shot of the box. I’m not going to look on eBay. Nope, not this guy.
- Solving problems for fun with 3583 bytes of memory has made me dramatically better at my day job. Embrace constraints.
- Solving problems for fun with 3583 bytes of memory has made me dramatically better at my day job. Embrace constraints.
- Really loving Pocketbase for my personal database. The Python library is a little behind, so I forked it and updated it to bring it current with the new API syntax. Now to import the last 15 years of finsihed books from a CSV file :)
- I’m about to let some air out of this sealed package from the 90s. Should I play Nirvana or something while I do it?
- Took me an hour this morning to troubleshoot my Corsham board. Turns out the ribbon cable was bad. All better now.
- Move over iPhone. My new (in the box) planner even has a dedicated secret button. It’s where I’ll keep all of my passwords from now on and it’ll still be more secure than LastPass :)
- Our neighbor’s ducks are laying eggs faster than she can eat them. This is a good thing for us :)