an essential part of maintaining a technology is maintaining the culture and society that can repair and produce it

on the cobweb

UART on the VGA port? It's more likely than you think!

UI mockup

#uxn

Remember those t-shirts that had three of four names on them, in big letters? I kind of want one that says:

Lempel
Ziv
Markov

(maybe also (Mark) Adler, who isn't the A in LZMA but lives in my head for a very compressed rent anyway)

I genuinely wish people said "recommendation system" instead of "algorithm" when they're talking about recommendation systems. there's a lot of good algorithms out there that have nothing to do with automatic recommendations

refuse to update, sometimes

Does anyone know of some interesting vacant job positions for a tired¹ software developer, in the #Aachen area? I feel most comfortable at the hardware-software interface, i.e. compilers, operating systems and bootloaders, but other stuff is good too. Preferably far, far away from LLMs.

(¹: not a typo of "retired", just a pun. i don't have the money or age to retire)

#getfedihired