The last post about specs was aspirational. After some back-of-the-envelope calculations and further though, the specifications have been revised.

The main change is that 1024x768x8bpp is too high a resolution. At a 16.25 MHz CPU clock, one bus cycle is 4 clocks, or 0.246 us. The full screen …

Back in 2011, the HP Touchpad went on firesale, and I bought one on a whim and installed CyanogenMod on it to run Android. It's really not a very capable tablet, so it mostly just sat around unused for the last 15 years. Recently, I thought I would vibe code …

The best week of the year.

This is the first of a series of posts describing a personal computer system based on the 68HC000 processor. There are a number of reasons for selecting this processor, as I had previously described, but allow me to explain further why this particular choice within the 68k family.

The 68000 …

The problem of contouring and parametric region partitioning has finally been solved.

Well, it's finally happened: my daily work routine revolves around prompting Claude. I can't say that I'm sad about this development actually, even though I dislike the general invasion of AI into all aspects of computing. What I do want to reflect on right now is two things: the nature …

A take-down computer desk for the upcoming home computer setup.

Lindsay Graham has died, and I'm celebrating.

There are imperfections in the facade.

I had the fortune of "previewing" rural life before actually committing to it by spending almost half my time for two years up in West Point before moving there. Even so, I discovered a number of realities of living in a rural place for which I had incorrect assumptions.