NRoach44

@nroach44
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Unix Systems admin, Likes funny old computers, electronics, gaming etc.
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g-force is really just pounds per pound
TIL `grep -d skip <something> *` will skip directories in the current working directory, so my terminal won't get spammed with `somedir: Is a directory" notices.

…something akin to "udevadm monitor", but without the firehose.

With v259 there's now also OPTIONS="dump-json", which is pretty much the same as OPTIONS="dump", but generates the event dump in programmatically digestable JSON, so that external analysis tooling can be easily attached.

how can we cut our CI times by 50–90% and reduce our dependency on #github actions, securely and cheaply enough for a large public #rustlang codebase?

we did exactly that for @servo by building a self-hosted runner system that does virtual machine orchestration under the hood, all for barely 400 EUR/month!

talk video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W1mSXdlRqA

blog post:
https://www.azabani.com/2025/12/18/shoestring-web-engine-ci.html
@lexinova Our routers and switches are made in the EU (Latvia / Lithuania mostly) and all our servers are self hosted here in Latvia in our own data center.

Implemented the bird enemy in #OpenCrystalCaves

This is no simple enemy - it drops eggs on you, which normally break open and leave a hazard on the ground, but 10% of the time it hatches into a little bird! So the effort was 4x normal (bird+egg+spill+birdlet).

That 10% chance is a doozy - most players won’t expect it because the first few times they come across the bird it will never happen. This game loves surprises!

#GameDev #OpenSource #CrystalCaves #RetroGames #DOS #ScreenshotSaturday

OH: What is a "soulslike deckbuilder"

Did anyone ever make a ATAPI to SCSI adaptor? I know there's the Addonics ADAEC7722 which lets you use ATAPI devices on a SCSI bus, but what about using a SCSI device through ATAPI on IDE?

#retrocomputing

If you're the person who spunked £500 down and properly outbid me on the CSI / CSA Transputer Education Kit on Ebay UK a few weeks ago, I have just one question...

... can I please have a copy of the software disks, and some photos of the ISA card?
edit: or scans of the C manual?

If you can't do mastodon, my email address is on https://www.philpem.me.uk/contact .

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#digipres #transputer #inmos #electronics #retrocomputing

Contact me

Contact me You can get in touch with me by: * Mastodon/Fediverse -- <https://digipres.club/@philpem> * Github -- <https://github.com/philpem> * Email -- * philpem at philpem.me.uk * philpem at gmail.com The following are still active, but not checked regularly: * Twitter -- @philpem

philpem.me.uk - Phil Pemberton's website
Are you ready for #PicoIDE? It seems to be telling me it's ready. Coming soon: ATAPI optical disc emulation and IDE hard drive emulation. https://picoide.com