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Why are hobbyist 21st century 8-bit computers so constrained?
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liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org
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1 year ago
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eng
I learned about a new DIY machine to me, the Cody Computer . It looks kind of fun, but once again, it does make me wonder why it’s so constrained. Extremely low-res graphics, for instance. TBH I would have sneered at this for being low-end when I was about 13 years old. (Shortly before I got my first computer, a 48K ZX Spectrum.) Why isn’t anyone trying to make an easy home-build high-end eight-bit? Something that really pushes t....
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I’m determined to make a tradition of this, which is why I find myself in an empty office on New Years Eve trying to remember what’s gone by these last twelve months. I ended “Looking back at 2023” saying “brace for impact” which I had thought meant I was prepared for this year, but in retrospect I wasn’t even close. It’s a common story in start-ups to say “thank god that’s over, next year will be easier!” and be repeatedly wrong, but 2....
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jq is an incredibly versatile tool for parsing JSON from the command line. This snippet describes how to use it filter based on the presence (or absence) of a substring within a JSON object's attribute. It also describes how to use a regular expression to extract that substring with an example of printing to a CSV. Read more…
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I read 100 books this year as a challenge to myself. The hardest part about reading 100 books in a year is fomatting them cleanly afterward on your website. The second hardest part is tracking them all. The actual activity is a cinch. Reading 100 books this year was directly inspired from stories of Theodore Roosevelt, who read one book a day, often multiple. The thing I’ve learned about reading serious literature in quantity is that most..
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I read 100 books this year as a challenge to myself. The hardest part about reading 100 books in a year is fomatting them cleanly afterward on your website. The second hardest part is tracking them all. The actual activity is a cinch. Reading 100 books this year was directly inspired from stories of Theodore Roosevelt, who read one book a day, often multiple. The thing I’ve learned about reading serious literature in quantity is that most..
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While most podcasts are available on multiple platforms and either offer an RSS feed or have one that can be discovered , some are only available in the form of a YouTube channel. Thankfully, it's possible to both monitor them for new episodes (i.e. new videos), and time-shift the audio for later offline listening. Subscribing to a channel via RSS is possible thanks to the built-in, but not easily discoverable, RSS feeds. See these ....
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This month, a lot of people got worked up about the possibility of mystery drones over New Jersey. We made Orson Welles comparisons . The New York Times reported on drone fever . A U.S. Representative said that the drones were Iran’s doing. New Jersey's best political reporter mewled that this " theory sounds possible ". He wrote that there was "an absence of other plausible theories”. ( Matt Friedman admitted his error four days lat....
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UK digital ID companies raised $1B since 2015 | Biometric Update
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lemmy.kikuri.moe
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1 year ago
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eng
submitted by Yuzuki to tech 1 points | 0 comments https://www.biometricupdate.com/202412/uk-digital-id-companies-raised-1b-since-2015 The UK digital identity market has generated £2.05 billion (US$2.5 billion) annual revenue during the 2023-2024 fiscal year while the sector could reach £4 billion ($5 billion) in revenue by 2030, according to an interim analysis published by the government earlier this month. The study is conduct....
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UK pubs to accept digital ID for age assurance by Christmas 2025 | Biometric Update
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lemmy.kikuri.moe
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1 year ago
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eng
submitted by Yuzuki to tech 1 points | 0 comments https://www.biometricupdate.com/202412/uk-pubs-to-accept-digital-id-for-age-assurance-by-christmas-2025 By the end of 2025, UK pubgoers will never again have to fumble around in their wallets for a scratched ID card, with the announcement that mobile digital ID will soon be accepted for age assurance in drinking establishments and retail outlets. A release from the Department of ....
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I started the NYC Systems Coffee Club in December of 2023. It's gone pretty well! I regularly get around 20 people each month. You bring a drink if you feel like it and you hang out with people for an hour or two. There is no agenda, there is no speaker, there is no structure. The only "structure" is that when the circle of people talking to each other seems gets too big, I break the circle up into two smaller circles so we can get more....
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2024 has been an amazing year for my homelab journey. From upgrading hardware to implementing Infrastructure as Code, and exploring new services, here is a recap of my self-hosting adventures this year.
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2024 has been an amazing year for my homelab journey. From upgrading hardware to implementing Infrastructure as Code, and exploring new services, here is a recap of my self-hosting adventures this year.
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I recently bought an ST NUCLEO-L432KC , a small dev board with an STM32L432KC , a Cortex-M4 micro-controller designed for ultra-low-power applications. 1 These STM32 MCUs come with a proprietary tool for code generation called STM32CubeMX, unfortunately my experience with it was very poor so to speak: I couldn’t even generate a functioning base project for this board. 2 Since ST doesn’t provide ready to use template projects I had....
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I've wanted a more recognizable online "brand" for years. I took a stab at creating something myself a few times, but was never satisfied with what I came up with so I finally asked a friend to design a logo for me. The process was delightful and I'm very happy with the results.
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I've wanted a more recognizable online "brand" for years. I took a stab at creating something myself a few times, but was never satisfied with what I came up with so I finally asked a friend to design a logo for me. The process was delightful and I'm very happy with the results.
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Recently, an Amiga 500 in generally good condition found its way to me. It’s my first Amiga ever, because back in the day I was loyal to Commodore’s 8-bitters for a long time. So I missed the heyday of the … Continue reading → The post Amiga 500 Samsung Keyboard Repair first appeared on hackup.net .
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I was shocked to discover last week that Noah Gibbs had passed away . Memories are being collected for his family here . I thought I would share mine here as well. “ My recollection of Noah is of a kind generous man who contributed tirelessly to the things he believed in. I first encountered Noah after I gave a conference talk calling for better benchmarks in the Ruby community. At the time I was working on a doomed Ruby JIT....
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2024 felt more like a proper year than the last . Amol Rajan casually dropped the sickest sample known to man , internet rapper Viper got arrested for kidnapping, then an ITV drama brought the Post Office Horizon scandal to the front of public consciousness making us all wish there were TV dramas about everything else wrong with the country. Willy’s Chocolate Experience took the world by storm with how hilariously abysmal it was. It....
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The Power of Now was a deeply insightful read, that I got a lot out of. Flipping through it’s pages, the act of reading itself…
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The Housemaid was a thriller in every sense of the word. I haven’t really experienced many books like this, where the pages seemed…
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a read that attempts to span a lifetime. It begins with Sam, crippled at a young age…
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Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Passover festival. Luke 2:41 (NLT) My favourite podcast for a decade now has been On Being with Krista Tippett, and she opens every interview with the same question: “Can you describe the spiritual or religious background of your childhood? (In whatever way you interpret that question).” […]
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The Cerakey Nada 65 Panda is the world’s first keyboard featuring ceramic keycaps, designed to deliver the smoothest and thockiest typing possible. When I first heard about it, I knew I had to try it - the promise of ceramic keycaps was too intriguing to pass up. The keyboard arrived in beautiful packaging, and the build quality exceeded my expectations.
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From changing jobs to international conferences to discovering 3D printing and more. My 2024 in review.
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Optimizing Databases on Kubernetes: Kubernetes Backup and Recovery with CNPG and ZFS Snapshots
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www.ardanlabs.com
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1 year ago
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eng
Introduction: In the final episode of the Optimizing Databases on Kubernetes series, Jérôme Petazzoni dives into advanced backup and recovery techniques for PostgreSQL, showcasing how CNPG (Cloud Native PostgreSQL) and ZFS snapshots ensure durability and fast recovery in production environments. This episode focuses on safeguarding data with comprehensive backup strategies, point-in-time recovery, and rapid database cloning, while leveragi..
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A practical look at AdditionalAuthorizationParameters in ASP.NET Core 9. How it simplifies customizing OAuth/OIDC authorization requests and how it works with PAR.
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Reduce JavaScript Bundle Sizes in SvelteKit by using server load functions
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khromov.se
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1 year ago
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eng
The amount of JavaScript you ship to your users directly impacts your site’s performance. A smaller bundle size means faster initial loading times and an overall snappier experience for end users. In this post, I’ll show you how to analyze your SvelteKit bundle size and optimize it by moving heavy dependencies to the server. Analyzing Bundle Sizes Before we start, let’s set up a tool to visualize our bundle sizes. We’ll use rollup-plugin-vi..
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We had our fourth short story fika yesterday. This time, the theme was ‘duty’ and the stories featured were: The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty The Lottery by Shirley Jackson The Veldt by Ray Bradbury It was just three of us this time, and we had a great chat about the duties and sacrifices of war, the questioning (or lack thereof) of outdated traditions, and the costs of our increasing reliance on automation in daily life.
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How do I join? Post: * a link to your website, website containing a page linking to the rest of the webring * a 240x60 banner of your website (Optional): * Post a link to your RSS/Atom feed on your site. Communicate with other Lains by responding to articles on their feeds with responses on your feed. If you're both subscribed to each others feeds, you'll see each others responses and can long-form communicate back and forth in a d....
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Here is what I read in 2024. Did much more sampling and dropping books halfway (I still love you, Moby Dick) so it’s a shorter list than last year. Hope you find a gem or two in there for your reading lists. Happy new year! 🤓 Non-Fiction (English) Fiction (French) Non-Fiction (French)
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Tiny reviews for books from Shirley Jackson, Martha Wells, Alexandre Dumas, Stanislaw Lem, Stephen Baxter, Stephen King, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dan Jones, Carlo Rovelli and more.
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