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The MacBook Air M1

Introduction I’ve had a 10-core iMac Pro for over 3 years now. It’s a superb machine with a beautiful 27” 5K display. Its thermal design is excellent and even when the fans run, they tend to be pr...

The 1960 Royal FP "special order"

Introduction I bought this machine right after the start of the Bay Area “shelter-in-place” order related to the COVID-19 pandemic back in April 2020. Since we were all actually sheltering at the ...

Turning off lazy image loading

When switching to my new blog setup, which is based on Jekyll and the Chirpy theme, I wondered why things jittered around when paging down a long post with images. Similarly, using the “End” key to...

Chick Corea has passed away

From Chick Corea’s web site: It is with great sadness that we announce that on February 9th, Chick Corea passed away at the age of 79, from a rare form of cancer which was only discovered very ...

The IBM Memory Typewriter

Background I recently picked up an IBM Memory Typewriter that otherwise would have been scrapped. 1 Many thanks go to the kind soul who tipped the Golfballtypewritershop group and allowed me to pi...

The Remington 12 (1924)

One Underwood and two Royals: in April 2017, I was clearly missing another big typewriter brand! So when I saw a Craigslist ad for a Remington 12 which looked in beautiful condition, I jumped on it...

The Royal 5 (1913)

After two typewriters in good condition obtained in April 2017, I was ready for something else for machine number 3. I found on eBay a 1913 Royal 5 1 and I decided to get it. Shipping was about the...

The Royal KHM (1938)

After the Underwood 6 from 1936, there was an good chance I would look into getting another typewriter. So this one came up on eBay, and I noticed that it didn’t sell and that the seller, while not...

The Underwood 6 (1936)

In April 2017 I bought my first typewriter: a classic Underwood 6 from 1936. It was actually advertised as an Underwood 5, which would have been even more classic, but I liked the machine and went ...

Scala on Tessel 2

Tessel 2 and its relay module What is Tessel 2? Tessel 2 is a Wi-Fi-enabled development board programmable in JavaScript with Node.js. The first units shipped this month. There is a lot th...