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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 …] [...]

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If we're giving helpful advice, you can easily tell if a piece of cement sheeting contains asbestos, because it'll tingle on your tongue like popping candy when you lick it.

I'm not big on tooting my own horn and stuff but I keep thinking about this thing and how I have actually reached a point where I can come up with a solution for something like this without an existing schematic.

The LED part, that is - I absolutely copied the ROM switcher circuit from someone else.

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