This week
- Jul 11, 2026 A dock that finally wakes up reliably For a long time, my top hardware frustration was to deal with a docked laptop that wouldn't wake up. It was sporadic but the scenario would be as follows. Arrive at my desk where the laptop is docked and asleep. Press keys on...
Two weeks ago
- June 28th, 2025 My favorite keyboards When I started using computers, we had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum at home and a nano-reseau of Thomson MO5s at elementary school. I distinctly remember how unpleasant it was to type with them. These must have been the worst keyboards I ever...
About a month ago
- If you’ve spent any time optimizing a home solar and battery setup, you quickly realize that the hardware is only half the battle. The real challenge is managing it intelligently. To make smart decisions about when to charge your batteries from the grid on cheap night rates,...
about 1 month ago
- June 7, 2026 Ken Shirriff powers up an antique pluggable vacuum tube, advertised here: Pluggable thyraton tube! Ken writes: One of the innovations of the [IBM] 604 was the pluggable module, which combined a tube and its associated circuitry [ … ] The insulated handle...
about 2 months ago
- Train Wreck The last time I watched a high school band nearly fall apart mid-performance was when the relatively new, certainly nervous band director started the piece off much faster than what the students could play. I felt bad for the students, the director, and the audience....
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. May 16, 2026 Here’s Marcin Wichary with a huge guide to the fun of keyboard customization, featuring a pic of his own setup … Marcin's...
3 months ago
- Modern hardware is remarkably fast, but software often fails to leverage it. Caer Sanders has found it valuable to guide their work with mechanical sympathy - the practice of creating software that is sympathetic to its underlying hardware. They distill this practice into...
5 months ago
- If I can make it smaller, I should. If I can make it dumber, I should. Smaller, dumber things have more applications, go more places, and require less maintenance....
6 months ago
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. January 17, 2026 Fairies and squirrels in a forest, ca. 1824–1883, Richard Doyle Sprites is an interesting new platform offering little...
- Building a Quake PC: GLQuake To play GLQuake, I wanted to get the card labeled by John Caramak as "The benchmark against which everything else is measured."[1]. I found a "tested" Orchid Righteous 3Dfx Voodoo on eBay for what might as well be its weight in diamonds. These are...
- Building a Quake PC: VQuake The Rendition Verite 1000 is Quake legend. It was the first hardware-accelerated card supported by an id title with a dedicated binary, vquake.exe. It was also the one used during the final round of 16 in the notorious Red Annihilation tournament...
- Building a Quake PC: Benchmarking Quake Getting into the benchmark of the software rendered versions of Quake, there were so many questions I wanted to answer. Is quake.exe as fast under Windows 95 as under DOS? What about winquake.exe under Windows? What is the impact of the...
- Jan 8, 2026 Building a Quake PC After I finished restoring the IBM 2168 486 DX2-66MHz (my childhood dream DOOM PC), there was another box that I wanted to check. Released in June 1996, Quake received many updates to ride the triple technological shock-wave of the late 90s....
- I almost ordered parts for a circuit that would have destroyed itself the instant I powered it on. Instead, an LLM caught the critical flaw in my design, saving me time and money. While I regularly see value in using LLMs in my coding projects, this is the first time I have seen...
- Just heard the news from the WULFF Den Podcast that Epilogue has released pre-orders for the next ROM backup tool in their “Operator” series for the Super NES (SNES) and Super Famicom called the “SN Operator”. The SN Operator pre-order costs $60 USD plus shipping. This is great...
- Last year my roommate and I found an old original iMac G3 outside our apartment building. It has some interesting early 2000s/late 90s style websites and files on it that I want to preserve (and hope to share here soon!). But I realized getting files off of it wouldn't be easy....
7 months ago
- I’m going to call this from the start. The Go60 is the best travel-friendly split keyboard, perhaps even the best all-around split keyboard, you can buy right now. I’m no MoErgo fanboy – in my review of their Glove80 I was pretty clear that there were areas I felt the Glove80...
- If you want to take some first steps into the mad rabbit hole of ergonomic keyboards, I can recommend the Kinesis mWave. Let me give you a rundown of the features, and then I’ll get to my thoughts on it. Features The mWave is a ergonomic mechanical keyboard that will set you...
- Every airline’s cabin baggage regulations are subtly different. 10kg plus a personal item. 10kg INCLUDING a personal item. 8kg plus a personal item. 8kg, plus a personal item of up to 2kg. 8kg plus a laptop, umbrella, walking cane OR a personal item up to 2kg. 23kg as long as...
8 months ago
- A journey of a thousand doofy hardware projects starts with a single Adafruit blink...
- The same people behind Project Kamp also run a project called Precious Plastic which is an open source plastic recycling platform. As most are well aware, plastic is a major problem polluting our land, our beaches, our rivers, our oceans, and our balls. While Ocean Cleanup is...
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