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I got lucky and picked up a second hand HP-7475A for $50 about five years ago. It's the GPIB version, not native RS-232, so I also had to find a way to connect it to a modern PC. E…

Quantising the oscillator pitch into discrete steps like this is pretty common when it comes to synthesisers. Generally there is also a fine-tuning control that allows the user to …

https://fglock.github.io/Perlito/perlito/perlito5.html

About a year ago I stayed in a hotel and the door lock started misbehaving one morning while I was at breakfast. Went to the front desk, got a new card, went back to the room and d…

I use `ts` quite often in adhoc logging/monitoring contexts. Because it uses strftime() under the hood, it has automatic support for '%F' and '%T', which are much easier to type th…

This is a very impressive integration of fzf's speedy fuzzy-match CLI, with zsh's completion menus for command line parameters: https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab https://asciinema.…

I like this one, it has more options and also features a JS-based offline version: http://donjon.bin.sh/5e/dungeon/index.cgi

Not quite... the first 30% of your salary is tax-free: https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontenten/...

I started running some games of Paranoia last winter, and found this tool to be quite useful for generating layouts: http://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/dungeon/ There is also a pure-JS v…

It's also now illegal to sell kebabs past midnight: http://stoneyroads.com/2016/01/there-is-now-a-lockout-law-fo... Native Sydney-sider, lived there for 25 years, not sure I'd enjo…

Slight errata: This part of the pipeline: `bind -l | sed 's/.*/bind -q \0/' | /bin/bash 2>&1 | grep -v warning:` ...can be replaced with `bind -P`. Also, \e represents ESC; tab is …

"Perl (and I mean Perl5) is antiquated, and no modern shop I'm aware of uses it." 30 seconds of Googling puts this fallacy entirely to bed: http://perl.la/ http://www.perl.com/pub/…

Yes, another of his inventions (or something he was at least involved in implementing) is Gearman ( http://gearman.org/ ), a queue/worker system which I used in my last job at a do…

The other thing that nobody seems to have brought up is the forks, descendants and similar pieces of software it inspired in one way or another: e.g. memcachedb, Tokyo Cabinet, Red…