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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. [...]

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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 …] [...]

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@mike

Chinwag admin, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities, male comedienne.

Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.

I talk about #retrocomputing a lot. I also do a lot of #gardening and occasionally make #bread and #beer. I have been a Unix #sysadmin for about 30 years but I think I'll be OK.

I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine

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Great, another AI bullshit video from Adrian Black. The whole point of watching his shit for me was that he knew what he was talking about. Oh well.

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] · 3 hours ago

3 hours ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

I don't give a shit about phone plugs, give me a fucking global standard for vacuum cleaner attachments.

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] · 4 hours ago

4 hours ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

I never got around to making a proper post about my new Amiga power supply build, but I want to do another revision of the case so maybe in a month or so I'll take some good pics.

Anyway, here's just a quick shot of it next to my old one in a generic project box, which I liked the aesthetics of, but it got a bit warmer than I really liked due to lack of ventilation.

Internally it's just a Mean Well RT-50B which matches the requirements nicely. The "final" one I'd like to have would incorporate an external LED or maybe an illuminated switch, and if I can squeeze a charge-only USB port on there, that'd be nice.

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