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2024
10
Dec
Building an Apple-1 Reproduction in 2024 - Part 5: Monitor, Keyboard, Power-Up
19
Nov
Building an Apple-1 Reproduction in 2024 - Part 4: Assembly
29
Oct
Building an Apple-1 Reproduction in 2024 - Part 3: The Retro Chip Tester
16
Oct
Building an Apple-1 Reproduction in 2024 - Part 2: Power Supply
02
Oct
Beware of Vail Resorts' Epic Coverage
07
Sep
Building an Apple-1 Reproduction in 2024 - Part 1: Components
24
Jul
Replacing a VIC-20 key
03
Jul
The IBM Magnetic Tape Selectric Composer - Part 2
03
Jul
The IBM Magnetic Tape Selectric Composer - Part 1
29
Jun
Restoring a Yost 20 Typewriter
28
Mar
Restoring an IBM Electronic Selectric Composer - Part 1
2023
04
Oct
Restoring a TeleVideo TS-800A Terminal
27
Jul
The TeleVideo TVI-912 terminal - Part 3
25
Jul
The TeleVideo TVI-912 terminal - Part 2
10
May
The TeleVideo TVI-912 terminal - Part 1
19
Jan
Yamaha Clavinova CLP-280 felt and rubber contacts replacement
2022
14
Nov
Fixing a Yamaha Clavinova CLP-280 pedal
27
Aug
A typewriter shipping update
19
Apr
A tale of typewriter shipping
2021
07
Nov
Fixing a Yamaha Clavinova CLP-280
03
Oct
Restoring an IBM Memory Typewriter - Part 2
03
Oct
Restoring an IBM Memory Typewriter - Part 1
07
Sep
Sam Harris interviews Balaji Srinivasan
28
Aug
The Hermes Baby (1961)
17
May
The MacBook Air M1
04
May
The 1960 Royal FP "special order"
18
Feb
Turning off lazy image loading
12
Feb
Chick Corea has passed away
04
Feb
The IBM Memory Typewriter
2018
09
Dec
The Remington 12 (1924)
13
Nov
The Royal 5 (1913)
16
Oct
The Royal KHM (1938)
12
Oct
The Underwood 6 (1936)
2016
26
Apr
Scala on Tessel 2
2015
17
Nov
Generalized type constraints in Scala (without a PhD)
2014
30
Sep
Reading plan: October checkin
15
Sep
Reading plan: September checkin
13
Sep
Rationalizing the iPhone 6 Plus
16
Jul
Reading plan: July checkin
03
Jun
Thoughts on the Swift language
02
Jun
Reading plan: June 1 checkin
30
Apr
Reading plan: May 1 checkin
11
Mar
Why I am returning my Seiki 39" 4K "monitor"
09
Mar
Reading plan: March 1 checkin
03
Feb
Reading plan: February 1 checkin
28
Jan
2013 year in review
28
Jan
Firefox vs. Chrome
22
Jan
Why I am disappointed by Google buying Nest
20
Jan
Books I plan to read in 2014
2013
05
Nov
GTD review buddies: an update
04
Nov
Reading resolution: an update
30
Sep
October reading resolution
29
Sep
What if the humanity became infertile?
23
Sep
GTD review buddies
22
Sep
My iPhone Home Screen
09
Sep
My "wonderworld" does not include business trips
02
Sep
Real mobile computing
30
Aug
About yourself
08
Aug
Meat without the hurt
08
Aug
Science, defended
27
Jun
Facebook: quality vs. quantity
25
Jun
Canada the "rogue, reckless petrostate"
28
May
"For humans, copying is learning"
26
May
Taxes buy civilization
25
May
Are we in the "Great Stagnation"?
21
May
Scala array comparison (without a PhD)
03
Feb
Map.map vs. Map.mapValues
2012
05
Oct
Implicit conversion to the Unit type in Scala
20
Aug
Getting to know CanBuildFrom (without a PhD)
30
Jul
More iterators goodness
30
Jul
Scala iterators and Iterator.iterate
30
Jun
Scala tip: getOrElseUpdate
18
Jun
Scala tip: import renames
2011
15
Oct
Scala partial functions (without a PhD)
17
Sep
Continuations in Scala (without a PhD)
2010
31
Jan
48 hours of Nexus One
2009
07
Jan
2009: Products I Can’t Live Without
2008
25
Oct
Upgrading Your 17" MacBook Pro Hard Drive
13
Jul
iPhone 3G Day: the Good Parts
22
Apr
A case of failed technology: Bluetooth headphones
17
Feb
Met HD broadcasts at movie theaters actually quite good
20
Jan
Even more stuff Steve did not announce
12
Jan
PDF support: one of the highlights of OS X Leopard
04
Jan
A paperless life with the Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner
04
Jan
How can Orbitz and the likes be so dishonest?
03
Jan
2008: Web 2.0 software I use every day
2007
28
Dec
Enough about (badly) guessing the user's language
26
Dec
Firefox 3.0 beta 2 a good step forward
25
Dec
I can't believe we still have DVD region coding
06
Dec
Mitt Romney and freedom
05
Dec
Deutsche Grammophon mostly gets it
05
Dec
Contre le DMCA Suisse
28
Nov
Leopard Spaces eats windows
24
Nov
The future of reading
19
Nov
Amazon Kindle: steps forward, steps backward
15
Nov
Leopard Finder: the new Path Bar
11
Nov
Is it me, or is Leopard screen sharing fairly lame?
10
Nov
Leopard doesn't "Play" (and a plea for FLAC)
09
Nov
The big jump to Leopard
05
Nov
Countries
04
Nov
I want Java 6 on my Mac
31
Oct
California driver license renewal
28
Oct
Disabling (and managing) keyboard shortcuts in Firefox
27
Oct
The OS X Tiger terminal doesn't support accents
24
Oct
A new blog engine for my personal blog
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Restoring an IBM Memory Typewriter - Part 1
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Building an Apple-1 Reproduction in 2024 - Part 4: Assembly
Building an Apple-1 Reproduction in 2024 - Part 5: Monitor, Keyboard, Power-Up