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Noughts and crosses
I just inherited a load of books on programming the 6502 processor in assembly language (and a Kim-1 computer, more on that later!). Among them was an intriguing 1980 book by Rodnay Zaks called 6502 Games. Zaks wrote what, for … Continue reading
Raspberry Pi video art installation
My daughter makes video art and needed a simple solution for showing one of her pieces continually in a loop. I used an old Raspberry Pi model B for this. I just realised that the only place I had documented … Continue reading
This link may be unsafe
Or: The Straw That Broke This Camel’s Back Elon Musk changed Twitter bio links to Mastadon to http instead of https – or blocked them. He is a free speech absolutist free marketeer who doesn’t believe in free speech he … Continue reading
A Christmas Ghost Story: The Tedious Case of Room 623
Had an idea for a story while walking the dog. I was going to abandon it, or at the very least change the narrator’s preposterous name, when I discovered that Agatha Christie wrote over a dozen stories about a man … Continue reading