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February 15, 2025For those who’re just joining us, I’ve dusted off a two-decade-old project idea and have actually started working on it. There’s a working prototype which I’m not going to link in this post, because this text will likely be around long after it’s been and gone, either shelved for another 20 years or thrown online in some kind of working form. [...]
February 9, 2025In April 2005, I registered a domain name. I had a plan, and it was an ambitious one. I had read an O’Reilly book on XML (cover-to-cover) a couple of years beforehand, and it did something to my brain and I thought I could see through time. Weblogs were ascending fast, the web was exciting, … [Read more …] [...]

Chinwag Posts

I really need to replace my damned TV, the glitching is really annoying the crap out of me. On the other hand, I just do not want to go through all the decision making process and actually pay for a new TV. Grr.

I feel like it's even possible to repair or replace some internal board to resolve it, but if I fuck that up or can't do it, I have no lounge TV for a bit.

This is just venting, I'll figure something out, but urgh I just don't need another thing to deal with right now that I can't actually ignore because it bugs me every time I sit on the couch to relax a bit.

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Having an i7 CPU with 8 cores in a 2013 laptop feels pretty crazy, but in a good way.

I still don't actually know what I'm upgrading this thing for, I am waiting for a use case to materialise as part of the process.

Woohoo confirmed I can reflash the firmware with l33t hax instead of hardware, so I can put all the screws back in now and deal with all that later.

I want to attach a clip to this small chip to reflash the firmware, and I am absolutely considering cutting into this frame instead of doing a near-total disassembly to access it.

A small chip on a board poking out cheekily from under a big section of metal support framework