electrons and confusion since 1989
GOOD COMPUTER: a modern 80's-style computer
Back in October I gave a presentation to my Fastmail’s engineering team about GOOD COMPUTER. Now you can see it too!
2021
2020
- Aug 17 GOOD COMPUTER: mk2 #GOOD COMPUTER
- Jul 27 GOOD COMPUTER: XIAO bricked #GOOD COMPUTER
- Jul 24 GOOD COMPUTER: XIAO #GOOD COMPUTER
- Jul 12 GOOD COMPUTER: Broken SD module #GOOD COMPUTER
- Jul 7 GOOD COMPUTER: Public Service Announcement #GOOD COMPUTER
- Jul 6 GOOD COMPUTER: LCD graphics #GOOD COMPUTER
- Jul 5 GOOD COMPUTER: LED counter #GOOD COMPUTER
- Jul 2 GOOD COMPUTER: LCD #GOOD COMPUTER
- Jun 22 GOOD COMPUTER: Z-machine #GOOD COMPUTER
- Jun 2 GOOD COMPUTER: BASIC #GOOD COMPUTER
- Apr 28 GOOD COMPUTER #GOOD COMPUTER
- Feb 29 End times #elementary
- Jan 11 Tile windows #elementary
2019
2018
- Aug 14 A talk about Consul #Talks
2017
2016
- Oct 19 CompCon 2016 in review
- Oct 2 A br1ef h1st0ry of P@sswords (CompCon 2016) #Talks
- Jun 22 U 2 can U2F (YAPC::NA 2016) #Talks
2015
- Jun 20 Secret level #TIS-100
- Jun 17 New release of salada, my JMAP server #JMAP
- Jun 14 I was happy with this one #TIS-100
- Jun 12 An evening of programming puzzles... #TIS-100
- May 27 Fastmail is a SSRF target
- May 24 OAuth+SASL needs a username
- May 23 OAuth for libsasl2
- May 12 First release of salada, my JMAP server #JMAP
- Apr 19 A JMAP library for Rust #JMAP
- Feb 22 Pebble cricket: updates #SixFour
- Feb 12 Everybody root #sysadmin
- Feb 11 Pebble cricket: name shortener #SixFour
- Jan 16 Adding XMPP support to nginx #XMPP
- Jan 6 Dummy renderer #Pioneer
2014
- Nov 21 Broken wire protocol
- Oct 5 NBN: test box #NBN
- Oct 5 NBN: inside the box #NBN
- Oct 3 NBN: the box #NBN
- Sep 22 Why I bought a Pebble
- Sep 12 Hexdump #Perl
- Aug 9 Anonymous objects #Perl
- Jul 28 Pebble cricket: draw #SixFour
- Jul 27 Pebble cricket: SixFour #SixFour
- Jul 27 Pebble cricket: long names #SixFour
- Jul 26 Pebble cricket: innings change #SixFour
- Jul 25 Pebble cricket: MVP #SixFour
- Jul 25 Pebble cricket #SixFour
- Jul 21 Introducing hopscotch, a tiny image proxy #Perl
- Jul 15 Dockerising a Perl application #Perl
- Jul 14 Deploying towncrier with Carton #Perl
- Jul 11 SSRF protection in Perl #Perl
- Jun 26 The new Gmail API
- Jun 18 Perl and etcd? I can help! #Perl
- Jun 5 OAuth2 protected resource errors
- May 28 A notifier app for Fastmail
- May 20 DJabberd mandatory TLS #XMPP
- Apr 15 A status dashboard #sysadmin
- Mar 23 Wrap any Lua function with a sigc++ slot #Pioneer
- Mar 17 Experimenting with easing functions #Pioneer
- Mar 2 When good glyph atlases go bad #Pioneer
- Jan 8 Replacing Graphics::Magick with Imager #Perl
- Jan 2 That will do for tonight #Particles
- Jan 1 Particle systems are fun #Particles
2013
- Dec 31 A particle system #Particles
- Nov 21 The problem with cricket commentary in IRC #SixFour
- Nov 10 Start of the new ship market #Pioneer
- Oct 27 Translation answers #Pioneer
- Oct 25 Translation question #Pioneer
- Oct 25 Google sending weird XMPP stuff #XMPP
- Oct 19 Code::Blocks for Pioneer #Pioneer
- Oct 16 Building Pioneer's UI: Part 1: History #Pioneer
- Oct 15 Upgrading the office servers #sysadmin
- Oct 12 Multi-line text layout #Pioneer
- Oct 11 Start of the new bulletin board & chat form #Pioneer
- Oct 3 GCC's 'maybe unitialized' warning #C
- Sep 29 The secret truth of cross-platform development #Pioneer
- Sep 18 Thrust #Pioneer
- Aug 30 Building Pioneer's UI: Part 0: Introduction #Pioneer
- Jul 10 Randomly choosing complementary colours #Pioneer
- May 15 I bisected a kernel problem! #sysadmin
- Apr 12 My first Rust: Hello OpenGL #Rust
- Apr 10 My first Rust: SDL bindings #Rust
- Mar 22 the google drive api doesn't know about paths, and that's bad
- Feb 28 Its looking pretty nice! #Pioneer
- Feb 21 A Lua puzzle
- Feb 16 Steam Linux #sysadmin
- Jan 30 On jousting #Pioneer
- Jan 25 Pioneer is looking real nice these days #Pioneer
- Jan 15 Regression #sysadmin
- Jan 9 hacking shenanigans, episode 17 #Pioneer
- Jan 3 Sunrise over New Hope #Pioneer
2012
- Dec 28 Cameras can be tricky little suckers... #Pioneer
- Dec 25 Space doesn't care that its Christmas #Pioneer
- Dec 20 APT policy facts #sysadmin
- Dec 16 It begins. Again. #Pioneer
- Dec 14 Computer has been getting slower and slower... #sysadmin
- Dec 10 A little toy for a tired evening... Â #Pioneer
- Nov 16 Pretty sliders #Pioneer
- Nov 16 I just noticed that our new ship is engaged in fruit transport #Pioneer
- Nov 12 Bounce #Pioneer
- Nov 9 Cricket bot #SixFour
- Nov 6 Pioneer, Elite: Dangerous, and the questions nobody asked #Pioneer
- Nov 5 You, c.3200 #Pioneer
- Oct 27 We've got some pretty crazy collaboration going on... #Pioneer
- Oct 22 ZFS on Linux pretty much just works #sysadmin
- Oct 22 People are getting excited about new UI toys #Pioneer
- Oct 15 New info view is coming along nicely #Pioneer
- Oct 13 Starting to integrate the new UI #Pioneer
- Oct 9 New UI in pull request #Pioneer
- Oct 9 main menu, alpha 9, 18 months ago #Pioneer
- Sep 17 I don't always get things completely wrong... #Pioneer
- Aug 18 So you think you have nothing to offer #Pioneer
- Aug 15 Perl and OpenGL? #Perl
- Aug 12 More refactoring today #Pioneer
- Jul 30 A little experiment I did tonight #Pioneer
- Jul 29 just got new gas giant rings and they look amazing #Pioneer
- Jun 4 don't you die on me! #sysadmin
- May 21 Finally got back into some UI work today #Pioneer
- May 20 A code generation bug #Pioneer
- May 18 To determine if its doing a cross-compile... #Pioneer
- Apr 30 Responding to a sigc++ signal by firing another signal #Pioneer
- Apr 29 The simplest things... #Pioneer
- Feb 6 gui brainstorm #Pioneer
2011
- May 18 using stb_truetype with sdl #Pioneer
- Feb 20 ooh aah oolua #Pioneer
- Feb 5 what jelly dreams are made of #Pioneer
2010
- Nov 13 make something
- Nov 6 Net::OpenID for Perl: its alive! #Perl
- Aug 6 low tide #Google Wave
- Jun 12 delicious ripple cake! #Google Wave
- May 14 this one time, at band camp... #sysadmin
- Apr 28 its like a swipe card for aliens
- Mar 4 every good thing #electronics
- Feb 9 location location location #sysadmin
- Feb 4 board games #electronics
- Jan 29 catch a ride #electronics
- Jan 28 confessions of a shopaholic #electronics
- Jan 17 new year's high resolution #electronics
2009
- Dec 10 i like repetetive music #Perl
- Dec 10 how 'bout some horn? #Perl
- Jul 27 putting things in context #AROS
- Jun 29 from the ground up #AROS
- May 9 blast from the past #electronics
- May 4 i've got a package #electronics
- May 3 rectangle rodeo #AROS
- Apr 28 delicious cake #AROS
- Apr 1 all the pretty colours #electronics
- Jan 28 cluttering my life #Perl
2008
- Jul 17 some assembly required
- Jun 19 lately #Perl
- Jun 4 tied at both ends #Perl
- Mar 9 the centre for kids who can't write good #AROS
- Mar 2 while stocks last #AROS
- Feb 25 lay it out for me #AROS
- Feb 18 cow launched! #AROS
- Feb 17 needs more pirate #AROS
- Feb 11 back from egypt #AROS
- Feb 1 i don't want your money, i just want your love #AROS
- Jan 29 i can write forever #AROS
- Jan 22 with a bullet #AROS
- Jan 18 note to self #AROS
- Jan 16 a rock opera in three parts #AROS
- Jan 14 year in review #AROS
- Jan 9 i'm going to egypt; i'll bring you back something nice #AROS
- Jan 7 a global problem #AROS
- Jan 1 year of something #AROS
2007
- Dec 19 zooooooon! #AROS
- Dec 18 virtual insanity #AROS
- Dec 13 rivendell is kinda crap actually #AROS
- Dec 12 visiting the elves #AROS
- Dec 10 this is not the symbol you're looking for #AROS
- Dec 9 snag #AROS
- Dec 8 not implemented #AROS
- Dec 1 bitchin' threads #AROS
- Nov 25 its fontastic! #AROS
- Nov 21 types, not as we know them #AROS
- Nov 20 build, build, as fast as you can #AROS
- Nov 18 a curly one #AROS
- Nov 16 a fine old port #AROS
- Nov 15 one for the road #AROS
- Nov 14 opinion noted #AROS
- Nov 11 tastes like chicken #AROS
- Nov 10 the big week #AROS
- Nov 3 twisty passages, all aligned #AROS
- Oct 31 odd jobs #AROS
- Oct 28 aros and the gpl #AROS
- Oct 25 a plan for a filesystem #AROS
- Oct 16 brb fighting monsterz
- Oct 11 how do i linked code? #AROS
- Oct 7 cout << 'hello' << endl #AROS
- Oct 4 flushed away #AROS
- Oct 2 almost there #AROS
- Sep 26 its alive! #AROS
- Sep 26 i'm doing it wrong #AROS
- Sep 23 i can see forever #AROS
- Sep 22 dreaming in colour #AROS
- Sep 21 can't make the scene if you ain't got the green #AROS
- Sep 19 at least its something #AROS
- Sep 17 insanity in three parts #AROS
- Sep 12 i'll be your host this evening #AROS
- Sep 10 when good libraries go bad #AROS
- Sep 7 a tale of two compilers #AROS
- Sep 1 standing on the shoulders of minnows #AROS
- Aug 30 don't you know its rude to point? #AROS
- Aug 21 blah, or something like it #electronics
- Aug 11 many unrelated things #electronics
- Jul 22 chasing parked c(h)ars #C64
- Jul 17 how slow can you go? #C64
- Jul 15 lda #$00 #C64
- Jul 6 going old school #C64
- Jul 2 writeback #AROS
- Jun 28 tunnelling for two #C64
- Jun 26 busybot #AROS
- Jun 23 early tests #AROS
- Jun 22 when i was 17... #C64
- Jun 22 pipe the what? #AROS
- Jun 18 can't get enough #AROS
- Jun 17 the mundane details #AROS
- Jun 16 too many tangents #AROS
- Jun 13 its all pipes #AROS
- Jun 12 open for business #AROS
- Jun 10 merge left #AROS
- Jun 7 the special ones #AROS
- Jun 7 i've got something to report #AROS
- Jun 4 another nail in the coffin #AROS
- Jun 1 consolation prize #AROS
- May 31 follow me into the caves! #AROS
- May 23 lock it in #AROS
- May 21 supersize me #AROS
- May 17 opinion noted #AROS
- May 9 the locksmith #AROS
- May 5 not to scale #AROS
- May 3 phew #AROS
- Apr 29 later that day #AROS
- Apr 28 now with files! #AROS
- Apr 24 in your face #AROS
- Apr 20 and like that, its gone #AROS
- Apr 19 how may i direct your call? #AROS
- Apr 17 a word tells a thousand pictures #AROS
- Apr 15 write on, commander #AROS
- Apr 4 everything old is new again #AROS
- Mar 29 slow and steady #AROS
- Mar 25 once more with feeling #AROS
- Mar 21 i was smart once #AROS
- Mar 19 my brain hurts #AROS
- Mar 13 i'm the boss, need the info #AROS
- Mar 12 it gets late early these days #AROS
- Mar 9 some mail #AROS
- Mar 7 now comes the tricky bit #AROS
- Mar 5 first drop #AROS
- Feb 28 its the browser, stupid #AROS
- Feb 28 cold fusion explosion #AROS
- Feb 27 boring stuff #AROS
- Feb 23 milestone #AROS
- Feb 20 mounting excitement #AROS
- Feb 14 start me up #AROS
- Feb 12 insert clever title here #AROS
- Feb 11 damn technicalities #AROS
- Feb 8 global pandemic #AROS
- Feb 8 exercises for the reader #AROS
- Feb 6 front end loader #AROS
- Feb 4 you are confused; but this is your normal state #AROS
- Feb 2 all packeted up (with somewhere to go) #AROS
- Jan 29 where everybody knows your name #AROS
- Jan 25 the nurses are stealing my money #AROS
- Jan 25 drowning in a sea of unfamiliar code #AROS
- Jan 24 in soviet russia, system files you #AROS
- Jan 23 quiet time #AROS
- Jan 22 my hat is awesome! #AROS
- Jan 20 optimise for fun #AROS
- Jan 20 let's all get drunk and play ping-pong #AROS
- Jan 19 spinning around #AROS
- Jan 18 i can hear you mummy! #AROS
- Jan 16 the avid reader #AROS
- Jan 13 for extra strength bitrot, use aspro clear #AROS
- Jan 12 ouroboros #AROS
2006
- Oct 20 tile me purple #web
- Sep 15 getting testy #Perl
- Sep 1 vimming for fun and profit #Perl
- Aug 27 constant classes #Perl
- Aug 20 a 'complete' success #Perl
- Aug 19 closures in c #C