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Proud to be Antifa, like my grandfather, who was killed fighting fascism in WWII, and was posthumously awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart.
#microcontroller #firmware #C #CPlusPlus
#FPGA #VHDL #Verilog #SDR (SW Defined Radio)
#retrocomputing
#nonpareil HP calculator simulation at #microcode level
Maker (with John Doran) of #NixieTube #RPN #calculator
CHM PDP-1 Restoration Team
cis male
atheist
Damned dirty ape
Not a tame programmer
Some assembly required
No user serviceable parts inside
pronounshe/him
ageold enough to know better
religionlittle endian, Emacs, Linux & BSD
amateur radio call signN2ES
A photo from another universe (April, 1973). From left to right: Larry Clark, Chuck Thacker, Alan Kay, Ed McCreight, and the first operational Xerox Alto ("Bilbo"). Taken on the day the machine came to life.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Loving v. Virginia struck down bans on interracial marriage and affirmed the constitutional right to marry.

The filings reveal the real-world consequences of those laws, including criminal penalties, forced separation, and loss of legal protections tied to marriage.

Those filings are now available in #SCOTUS records & briefs on the Internet Archive through a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School.

Lean more ‡️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-s-supreme-court-records-and-briefs-the-arguments-that-shaped-america-now-freely-available/

This is the #Ploopy Bean, a pointing stick, also called a "nub mouse", and it just launched!

In case you don't know, a "pointing stick" or "nub mouse" is the little dot in the middle of most laptop keyboards. The Bean takes this design to its full potential.

And of course, it's 100% open-source!

For full details, check out our blog post about the Bean: https://blog.ploopy.co/the-bean-is-here-435

Why call it "semantic drift" and not "ship of thesaurus"?
@treyhunner @a2_4am @brouhaha @AlSweigart re: the "concrete types" challenge, I do have an article about that from many years ago: https://blog.glyph.im/2020/07/new-duck.html
I Want A New Duck

typing.Protocol and the future of duck typing

@gumnos ssh certificates for the win. Just sign all your hosts ssh keys with it and you can have a single line in known_hosts to validate it. So even if you reinstall, so long as you sign the ssh server keys with that one key it all works.

You can also do the same for user ssh keys.

I've been using this system for about 2 years on my servers and it's great. I store the private key in a safe place of course.

Medical Officer's Log, Wednesday

If you’re trans & born before 2000, when asked who you are you can legit answer:

β€œDo not ask me for a single title, I have crossed millennia under different names and worn more than one form besides. Revered by some and feared by many, I have seen the fall of nations and am remembered differently in each age that survives me.”

Unexpected politician in the bagging area.