Hitting the retrocomputing room at #fosdem. Hacking the Z80 CPU of the Cidco Mail station (1999) was the most hilarious talk I've seen today at so far. Love it!
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Hal fixing a lightbulb (Malcolm in the Middle S03E06)
The Ghent University Library recently finished migrating to Ex Libris' Alma and Alma Digital.
Part of this was converting 430.000 images in JPEG2000 format to JPEG, and storing them in an S3 store before importing them in Alma Digital.
I've written a blog post about our approach, what we learned, and the results:
https://www.colada.be/converting-430000-images-from-jpg2000-to-jpeg.html
Neil BrownThe film "Hackers" was released 30 years ago today.
It doesn't have the best plot in some respects, but I love the music, the aesthetic, and the characters' sheer enjoyment of their computers and the net.
One of my favourite films :)
Me returning after 4 weeks of vacation, taking a look at the regexes in the bash scripts past me has written.
Iconic - The Fifth Element - Aziz light
Charm$HOME is in the terminal. Now your new coding bestie is available in whatever terminal emulator you use with whatever LLMs you want. Crush is a high performance, agentic coding tool built with all of the classic Charm libraries and the quirky, playful aesthetic that you know and love. Try it for yourself at https://charm.land/crush.
There is so much more planned for this tool and this is just the beginning.
RIP the great Tom Lehrer. I'll always remember the great Lobachevsky. Thank you!
Charlie StrossTom Lehrer, RIP: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/arts/music/tom-lehrer-dead.html
Vacation! I'm picking up a fun side project: a small terminal based browser for Gopher! I'm building it in Go using Charmbracelet's Bubbletea TUI framework.
I've got the basics covered: navigation and rendering. And Bubbletea's ELM architecture really helps order my code. I still have some road to cover, though.
Yard Act - The trench coat museum #FridayNightListening
