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February 20, 2022
book

Eye of the Needle

Ken Follett · ★★★★★
January 12, 2022
book

Never

Ken Follett · ★★★★
September 28, 2021
book · The Dark Star Trilogy #1

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Marlon James · ★★★
July 15, 2021
log · Ben Eater 6502 Kit

Building Ben Eater's 6502 Kit

I recently discovered Ben Eater's excellent video series on building a 6502-based computer on a breadboard. The 6502 is a pretty famous microprocessor and variants of it were used in the Nintendo, some Ataris, the Apple II, and the Commodore…

electronics · retro
June 18, 2021
log · Sun Ultra 5 Restoration

Restoring a Sun Microsystems Ultra 5

My first "computer job" was working as the assistant sysadmin for the Math Department at the University of South Carolina. I can still remember how proud I was to have my own office and a cutting-edge Sun Microsystems Ultra 5…

retro
March 11, 2021
essay

TIL about the cpuid instruction

So I've been trying to learn Rust more deeply lately, and one thing I found that I really enjoyed was Philipp Oppermann's blog series, "Writing an OS in Rust". I enjoyed it so much that I sponsored his work on…

assembly · osdev
August 14, 2020
book

The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead · ★★★★