"Leader Vectron ( Read more... )

A few months ago, I bought a phone number off the internet because that's the sort of thing you can do these days ( Read more... )

At about quarter-to-mumble this AM, the internet connection expired, which caused the usual amount of grousing ( Read more... )

While I was far away from sense and civilisation, or indeed close to same than I am usually, depending on viewpoint, the local (jolly nice) boxshifters at Novatech sent me a circular. In this, they were pleased to announce that for what may or may not have been the bargain price of £70, I could have an mini-ITX Atom board in a box. Since I've been ( Read more... )

I think I have a thing-which-I-shall-call-a-cold. Thursday was just odd, in that I was halfway to work when I was seized by the idea that I should crawl into the back seat of the car and go to sleep right now. Luckily for eveyone else on the Bristol ring-road I had enough working brain left to realise that this was probably a bad idea ( Read more... )

https://www.emfcamp.org/talks (close to the bottom)

I am at once mildly terrified (Speaking! In public! About hackery! To other hacker-types!) and rather pleased (Been going to these things for long enough! Time to give something back! Patches welcome!).

You know, as J. Random Hacker, one gets used to the self-congratulatory wank that spurts out of Hackernews, anything brogrammer-related and the gak-fuelled 'rockstar' 'coders' who go off to work in banks.

Because I am at heart a gleefully malicious sort of bastard, this made me point and laugh. $440 million spunked away by some shit code gone over ( Read more... )

Everyone knows about foo and bar. (or my $foo, int foo...) Probably because if you've the sort of mind described in the back of 'The new hacker's dictionary', you'll already have absorbed part of that culture without really knowing why. I had a similar-but-different experience while reading a weblog the other day. Salutory stuff ( Read more... )

This is Eben Upton explaining why he/they created the Raspberry Pi.

What I'd not realised is that the number of people in the spod trades who're actually, y'know, any bloody use at all has dropped like a rock.

I guess this is quite handy in re. my continued employment because there aren't any hungry young graduates who can do it better and ( Read more... )

Grim, and yet uplifting viewing.