Oops, I fell down the embedded NAND/NOR storage rabbit hole!  
Trying to find a data structure that maximizes flash longevity and minimizes RAM and code footprint.

edit: forgot to mention: it should also be simple enough to implement in #Forth or some other minimal language. The aim is #collapseOS -style self-hosting, for maximum #permacomputing coolness.

#theWorkshop #theFoundry

Made some very small progress on the #CollapseOS #PocketViewer port by figuring out more of the int86 routine.
https://git.sr.ht/~raingloom/collapseos-cpv/blob/fb11e8485cf795272e8e62d285e99d92be174908/int86.asm
cc #theWorkshop #theFoundry

ps.: my #assembly skills are pretty newbish and rusty, so consider all comments uneducated guesses 

might have need of a fast, precise, visual comparator circuit.
maybe something like a matrix of (at least hundreds) of analog optical isolators.

anyone know of any integrated chips like that?

#theFoundry

Swapped an SSD into my sister's laptop with only minimal damage to one of the finicky little flat cable connectors.  
Currently using the ultimate secret hacker technique of using a little USB to IDE/SATA adapter and an ATX power supply torn from its motherboard and animated by unholy magic* to copy everything over.   

*: a piece of wire connecting two pins on the mobo connector
cc: #theFoundry kinda

context explosion, not collapse.
instructions as orthographic plates.
as fields of vectors
as color.
as

analog impulses, rhythms,
melodies, music
as
emotion
as life
as code.

journal entries
simplified to text and also
with texture and flow and color, with tooth and grain and pigment and binder,
on paper.

what is our computer? what is our journal?
what is our tool, our instrument?
and what is our purpose?

can our tools meet our needs?
can they be complex enough to handle much,
and simple enough to modify and understand -
as a shovel with a wooden handle
can mean and be many different things.

this is not a |

#theFoundry

small side project from two weeks ago: a microSD "flash memory necklace".

This was the first time I tried the assembly service of the ubiquitous chinese budget PCB company - designed in an hour on a friday afternoon after a conversation with a colleague, ordered the same day and just a week later I had 50pcs in my hand. It's insane.

#theCotoure × #theFoundry

I will not protect you from the pain I know well.
I will not warn you of the brokenness.
I will smile and be joyful,
I will stop and sit and
be wracked with sobs.
I will be honest, if you ask.
And if you pay attention.
And I will offer my hand, my shade,
and my knowing shoulder.
But I will walk with you when I am able,
when you find yourself where I have stood
on the valley floor
and on the way up that mountain pass
as you search for home.

#poetry #theFoundry