So you decided to build a brand new system using all the latest and coolest tech, so you buy a Ryzen 7000 series
Zen 4 CPU, like the Ryzen 7700X that I picked, with a new mother board and DDR5 memory

For years, it's generally accepted that 8 bit microcomputer CPUs does not have hardware support for protected mode. However, my recent discovery shows otherwise. In this video, I will show you how to implement memory and I/O protection on a z80 with minimal…

Imprisoned poet Christian Schubart describes the musical keys

Pine64 Ox64 is a single board computer powered by Bouffalo Lab BL808 dual-core 64-bit/32-bit RISC-V processor with up to 64MB embedded RAM, multiple

A list of some exceptions to the principle of “You Ain't Gonna Need It” – that is, times when doing a bit more up front usually pays off.

Shortcat is a Mac command palette app that lets you click, activate menus, switch windows, and more, with just your keyboard! macOS wide command palette utility app.

The comedian on innovation, sustaining popularity, and humor as a leadership tool

I’ve been doing this “reliability” stuff for a little while now (~5 years), at companies ranging from about 20 developers to over 2,000. I’ve always cared primarily about the software elements I describe as living “outside” the application – like, how does…

Someone said that to me the other day and it was heartbreaking. The number of tasks in our culture that require someone who was born with off-the-charts talent is small indeed. Just about everythin…

The mosquitoes hide, and enter a state of torpor

I write stuff about math, simulation, graphics, gamedev, and programming.

When the first mainframes were running businesses seven decades ago, software was an afterthought. The real, differentiated and thereby commercial value lay in the design and construction of the hardware – everything from the processor to the storage. Thus…

Arturo programming language: Simple, expressive & portable programming language for efficient scripting