At this point, I have owned the domain jacobg.co for over 2 years. For the longest time, I have been trying to have a custom email address at my domain without paying a fortune for a service that isn’t widely … Read more
I wanted a clock that, annoyingly, didn’t seem to exist. Since childhood, my bedside clocks have been a series of red, seven-segment LED clock-radio specials from Walmart or Target. They are invariably cheap, simple, and long-lived—but they require manual intervention … Read more
Background checks, company phone, drug tests, exams, and a truck that wouldn’t start on day one. How it started I’ve been GTM consulting for companies selling into traditional industries, and noticed prospects have become less likely to offer their time … Read more
I recently bought a cheap Tapo indoor camera to see what my dog gets up to when I am out of the house. What actually followed? I ended up reverse-engineering onboarding flows, decompiling an APK, MITMing TLS sessions, and writing … Read more
By Allison Parrish I set out a while ago to make a Game Boy cartridge from scratch. This is not a novel goal; bootleg Game Boy cartridges have existed almost as long as the Game Boy itself has, and there … Read more
Here’s a really cool picture: A former colleague from my TV days, Michelle Chernicoff, sent me this picture of a young girl skateboarding underneath an umbrella on a rainy day. She saw it after Tony Hawk posted it to his … Read more
Thanks to some coworkers and David Wilson’s Emacs from Scratch playlist, I’ve been getting back into Emacs. The community is more vibrant than the last time I looked, and LSP brings modern completion and inline type checking. David’s Emacs looks … Read more
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SANDISFIELD — Close friends have on occasion told me what I now at long last know to be incontrovertibly true — that I am an idiot. A complete, total, copper-bottomed nitwit, a person who should among many other sanctions be … Read more
July 25th, 2022 Some time ago, I noted that the 8086 was designed so that existing 8080 code could be machine-translated instruction by instruction into 8086. The 8086 BX register stood in for the HL register pair on the 8080, … Read more