James Brown

I'm getting better at remembering to video things as I do them.
This one turned out not to be useful, but it is pretty.

Always leave in the first round of layoffs.

That was the initial concept, but I ended up using closed loop stepper motors.

I did that with my ZX Spectrum. I could get the initial loading bars, but never any data.

I’ve also been fidgeting in my seat over this. It is a cool thing, but the title made it sound like a different, cooler, thing.

Barchart showing 2025 orbital launches, per million people -- the black bar for New Zealand is much larger than all others.

I've blogged -- maybe this is one time a "per capita" / "punching above our weight" story really does make sense...

excursionset.com/blog/2025/07...

A screenshot of two comments in a row on one of my youtube videos, both from the same user, both saying the same thing: "Well, someone has too much time on their hands, don't they!"

YouTube comments.

A hard plastic doll's head on a cluttered desk. The mouth is clearly a separate element, and the eyebrows look a bit fishy, but the overall impression is of a clean and keen perky little fellow.

It looks cuter with its face on. And honestly, who among us can't say that?

Selectramatronics is a portmanteau of portmanteaux. That's why it rolls off the tongue so smoothly.

I made a new mouth mechanism. I'm calling it Selectramatronics.

Are there any movies where a nerd is struggling to fix a complex piece of equipment and someone simply gives it a thump, where that ends up breaking it even worse?

At least, that’s the assumption I’m operating under.

The trick is to keep buying crimping tools.

Good to see this article about the financial costs of standing up for important principles against institutions with very deep pockets who in my experience will exploit that to their advantage

Get two more and convert them to 'laugh' and 'love'.

Somebody else has actually built one!

Run Doom on a Dreamcast VMU DynaMight built a Dreamcast VMU that can run “real” games — including Doom, of course.

DynaMight built a Dreamcast VMU that can run “real” games — including Doom, of course.

I unfollowed a whole bunch of smart insightful folks at the end of last year, because I knew they were just going to bring anxiety to the feed.

Spruce Booster

How much energy is used when you say "thank you" to an AI?
(Not intending to stop saying thank you, just want to calibrate my guilt level.)

I wrote a program to lipsync the shipping forecast in a terminal window, and I have no regrets.

Muppets’ “Mahna Mahna”, originally by Piero Umiliani

Also developers of games where you get about by car, who think I'm interested in or adept at driving quickly round and round a loop without bumping into anything.

YouTube video by 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar

I am speechless...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...

They've fixed it online, but honestly, it was right the first time.

Artificial intelligence when I was a kid

If you see this post your getaway vehicle

It's always a joy finding a chaotic online store that's clearly been set up to handle the overflow from somebody's hobbies. Lovely one today that caters to all your model trains, greenhouses, CO2 lasers and goldfish needs.

Filming my resin printer I've discovered that there's what my camera sees as a line of bright blue light and my eyes see as nothing at all leaking out through a gap in the case.