Written on 11th April 2026 I got a message from a friend today which read along the lines of “I know we were going to meet in Edinburgh today, but do you fancy meeting in Portobello instead and trying to … Read more
In 2023, I was in need of a new laptop that should hopefully last me for a while. While looking at my options, I was seduced by Framework’s promise of a repairable and upgradable laptop that supports Linux out-of-the-box without … Read more
The editor in chief of this blog was born in 2004. She uses the 1997 window manager, Enlightenment E16, daily. In this article, I describe the process of fixing a show-stopping, rare bug that dates back to 2006 in the … Read more
A lot of what we find interesting about cities is the retail within them. We lean on retail – shops, cafes, restaurants and so on – to make cities what they are. Urban economist Ed Glaeser called this the rise … Read more
I’ve been playing chess a long time now, and I’ve always been a good deal better (maybe a couple hundred ELO points) at blitz (3+0 or 5+0) than bullet (1+0). Well, I may have just fixed that. I changed how … Read more
[ text{A long-standing issue regarding algorithms that manipulate} \ text{context-free grammars (CFGs) in a “top-down” left-to-right fashion} \ text{is that left recursion can lead to nontermination.} ^{text{[1]}} ] A grammar is left recursive if it comes in the following form … Read more
Fixing E.T. for the Atari 2600 If you’re reading this page, chances are that you’re already well aware that E.T. for the Atari 2600 is one of the most reviled games ever made. I never understood why. As a child, … Read more
Fixing a uname bug (Apache NuttX RTOS) 📝 19 Jan 2025 Earlier This Week: uname became unusually quieter on Apache NuttX RTOS… ## Hmmm something is missing NuttShell (NSH) NuttX-12.8.0 nsh> uname -a NuttX 12.8.0 risc-v rv-virt See the subtle … Read more
This post has a little bit of everything. Hardware diagnostics, some suspiciously similar datasheets from two separate Taiwan chip manufacturers, and firmware reverse engineering. Read on if that sounds like fun! Lately, I’ve been enjoying watching random electronics repair channels … Read more
I recently finished up the process of fixing a bug in the Chromium/Google Chrome web browser. It was my first time contributing to the Chromium project or any other open source project of that scale, and it was a very … Read more