April 2025

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Over the years, I’ve identified nine different ways to 3D print fabrics. In this article, I’m thrilled to share one with you: the lace method. If you’ve ever wanted to create intricate, detailed textiles that would take forever by hand, this technique is for you. Best of all, you just need a bit of 2D graphics know-how and access to vector software. I typically use Adobe Illustrator, but for this article, I’ll walk you through the steps using Affinity Designer’s free trial to keep things as accessible as possible.

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This is what AI's "killer app" will look like for many of us: teaching a computer how to do things that we don't like doing so that we can spend our time on things we do.

LG is about to unveil the future of webOS — but there’s a past we never saw

John, my co-founder at Set Side B, has released a dump of NEARLY the complete Commodore 64 magazine-on-disk items from the legendary LOADSTAR zine:

There's a small house ( ⌂ ) in the middle of IBM's infamous character set Code Page 437. "Small house"—that's the official IBM name given to the glyph at code position 0x7F, where a control character for "Delete" (DEL) should logically exist. It's cute, but a little strange. I wonder, how did it get there? Why did IBM represent DEL as a house, of all things?

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could link to specific bits of text on a Web page rather than forcing people following your links to scan the page for whatever piece of information you’re trying to convey? With full support from major browser manufacturers appearing late last year, the Web has finally caught up with hypertext theory from the previous century.

What is a social object? Learn about social objects from the Corporate Culture Consultants at Gapingvoid, a top Change Management Company!

Diane, it’s Thursday and I’ve been figuring out how transcription fits into my everyday work. I had to make up a character to make it make sense, as I’ll say.

In a world of growing social isolation where just over one in six Australians experienced loneliness in 2022, repair cafes are proving popular as a meeting spot and the network is growing.

This setup takes a bit of initial work, but the payoff is enormous. Once it’s all set up, this workflow fades into the background - I just write, commit, and publish. No friction, no fees, and everything stays in my hands. If you’re looking for a lightweight, sustainable way to blog, this might be worth trying.

The internet is littered with digital ghost towns—premium domains once associated with thriving businesses, now sitting dormant or parked, waiting for their next life. Some of the biggest companies in the world have made strategic acquisitions, only to shut down the businesses they bought, leaving behind valuable domain names that are either redirected, held indefinitely, or simply left in limbo. Let’s take a look at some high-profile cases where major corporations scooped up valuable domains, shut down the original companies, and left the URLs in the digital graveyard.

Some Lisps, like Common Lisp, have a powerful feature that tends to go underappreciated amidst all the talk about macros: the ability to recompile your program while it's running, without restarting it. For the purposes of this post, and because it sounds cool, let's call this ability livecoding

It turns out that LLMs can make CAD models for simple 3D mechanical parts. And, I think they’ll be extremely good at it soon.

Perhaps what we need is a new understanding of where happiness can exist in this AI-augmented world. Maybe the joy doesn’t have to disappear completely — it just shifts. Instead of finding delight in writing the perfect algorithm, perhaps we’ll discover satisfaction in the higher-level thinking about system design, in the creative process of describing exactly what we want to build, or in the human aspects of software development that AI can’t touch.

A highly configurable viewport/2D camera designed to work with pixi.js

A field guide to responsible AI-assisted development

New data reveals the hidden network of African workers powering AI, as they push for transparency from the global companies that employ them indirectly.

So we’ve managed to pick up an arbitrary educational computer off the side of the road, figure out its ROM pinout, make a composite mod for it, and draw pixels to the screen. Why am I still feeling dissatisfied? It’s because I don’t have printf working still.

The TUI client for Usenet enthusiasts

If you are reading this message, the experiment below is still ongoing. This page was served to you by a real Nintendo Wii.

Got soldering kits that take side-insert CR2032 holders? Want to get rid of that coin cell holder and convert it to USB? The Coin Cell Be Gone does exactly this! Solder it directly to either a through-hole or surface mount side-insert footprint at the 3 castellations

A super handy switching power supply (buck/drop-down) for solderless breadboards, with jumper-configurable output voltage.

Add a Big Red Button to any project with this handy kit! Includes 60mm arcade button with LED, box, cable, and stickers.

Make your own power bank out of any (1000 mAh or over) lithium battery! Are you a fan of bi-directional USB-C? Hey, so are we! This awesome little board goes both ways - the USB-C connector is both an input to charge a lithium battery at 1.0-1.2A and an output that provides a boosted 5V from the battery at 1.2A!

Random morning thoughts: how many people actually visit this blog? Where do they come from? What if I could just spend a little time to build my own analytics?

Official code repo for the O'Reilly Book - "Hands-On Large Language Models"

MicroW8 is a WebAssembly based fantasy console inspired by the likes of TIC-80, WASM-4 and PICO-8. The initial motivation behind MicroW8 was to explore whether there was a way to make WebAssembly viable for size-coding. (Size coding being the art of creating tiny (often <= 256 bytes) graphical effects and games.) The available examples so far are all in this space, however, I very carefully made sure that all design decisions make sense from the point of view of bigger projects as well.

This is a live-coding tool, where you can write a 2D fragment/pixel shader while it is running in the background. It's a fork of Bonzomatic that add network communication (WebSocket Server). The goal is to send a shader as text across a network and receive it somewhere else for display. The shader is send when you ask for compilation (ctrl+r) and also at regular updates (interval can be set in config.json) Bonzomatic can be launched as "sender" or as "grabber" if you want to send your shader or visualize a distant shader.

The Sorbus Computer started with the idea on building a very simple and cheap 65C02 based computer. It was intended to show the operation of the CPU for a talk about historic computers during a talk and workshop (slides blow).

The attempt to build a very simple 65C02 based computer by utilizing a Raspberry Pi Pico clone for the rest of the functionality.

This is my journey. It is largely the path I took. I think you could speed run it if you were compelled. I don’t think you need to follow every step, but I do think every step is additive.

This post recaps some of the C64 coding tricks used in my little Commodore 64 coding competition.

OK, I have to admit this this is a strange collection. In the late 1980's and early 1990's, I worked for Kmart behind the service desk and the store played specific pre-recorded cassettes issued by corporate. This was background music, or perhaps you could call it elevator music. Anyways, I saved these tapes from the trash during this period and this video shows you my extensive, odd collection.

What weeknotes are, how weeknotes work, and how to start writing weeknotes of your own

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Explore the golden age of home computing with Compute!’s Gazette. Dive into archives of classic articles, game listings, and programming tutorials from the legendary magazine. Relive the 8-bit era and discover the roots of modern technology.

Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed natural language processing, but face significant challenges in widespread deployment due to their high runtime cost. In this paper, we introduce SeedLM, a novel post-training compression method that uses seeds of a pseudo-random generator to encode and compress model weights.

Overall, consistency, user control, and actual UX innovation are in decline. Everything is converging on TikTok—which is basically TV with infinite channels. You don’t control anything except the channel switch. It's like Carcinisation, a form of convergent evolution where unrelated crustaceans all evolve into something vaguely crab-shaped.

while doing my daily hackaday.com reading, I discovered the W65C265SXB board, a modern microcontroller with a 6502 (actually 65C816) at its core. I did a really good job resisting buying one for a while, but eventually gave in. To put this board to use I decided to put up this page with 3 small projects (added a 4th more recently) to show off some things that can be done with this newer 6502 chip

Both the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum are Z80-based, and so is the RC2014 computer. So I wondered if the RC2014 could use a ZX Printer?

The embedded computers powered by repurposed smartphone components.

Blindspots in LLMs I’ve noticed while AI coding. Sonnet family emphasis. Maybe I will eventually suggest Cursor rules for these problems.

You are not the problem. The system was never built for you. And you don’t have to shrink yourself to survive it.

Everything you need to hack an Xbox 360, ready to be copied onto a USB drive in one download!

Django Extensions is a collection of custom extensions for the Django Framework.

We think of pico.sh as a hacker lab where we can experiment with new ways to interact with the web.

Our services allow users to publish content without needing to install anything. We accomplish this with the SSH tools (rsync, sftp, sshfs) you already have installed on your system.

OSINT used to be a thinking game. Now it’s becoming a trusting game and that should terrify you.