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The official Go docs say the term rune was introduced for conciseness, but there’s more to it. We dig into the thirty year intertwined history of UTF-8 and “rune,” and hear directl…

Neat idea! I’d love to use my current RSS feed reader (NetNewsWire) to follow links that come across my Mastodon feed. I can already follow individual accounts or tags with the .rs…

It's over-engineered, but I wanted to try running k8s in my homelab to continue learning about networking; deploying a blog seemed like a perfect test case. The cluster uses Traefi…

Thanks! I’ll update this shortly

I run it out of my closet. The blog is a small Go program deployed to a k8s cluster across a few ESXi VMs on an HP DL380 G7, behind a pfSense router also running as a VM and using …

Thanks for the advice. I found a copy of NCSA Mosaic 1.0.3 and it works on the Macintosh SE running System 7! The next version, Mosaic 2.0.1, needs 5MB of free memory. Mosaic does …

Using an Apple MIDI Interface to record an Ensoniq ESQ-1 on a Macintosh SE using Cubase 1.0

This post took a while to write, and has been continuously updated since early this month. It covers my experience connecting a Macintosh SE from 1987 to the Internet, printing fro…

This post took a while to write, and has been continuously updated since early this month. It covers connecting a Macintosh SE from 1987 to the Internet, printing from a modern iPh…

If the printer supports IPP advertised via Bonjour (mDNS), with PDLs including PDF, then I think all that's missing is the Apple Raster (image/urf) PDL on the mDNS entry and the UR…

This is cool! Blurring the line between what is and isn't part of the printer itself

Yes, no drinkware was harmed in the creation of this blog post

I don’t think such a method exists. Modern printers do usually support driverless printing out of the box, but for older printers that still work well, there was no IPP Everywhere …

I started a new blog and though writing about using twenty-year-old printers from your iPhone would be a good early post

What’s the transfer speed, are there practical file size limits? Do you have to wait for it to loop or can the reader pick up in the middle of the stream?

The reference implementation of CommonMark, cmark ( https://github.com/commonmark/cmark ) > cmark can render a Markdown version of War and Peace in the blink of an eye (127 millise…

I also don't think his quams about performance apply to commonmark. It benchmarks quite fast

I think this is total BS. All the example pages seemed plenty navigable to me. I personally don't like the ugly monochrome bar across the top. (Although I do like it when one appea…

> #define mycalloc(N) calloc(1, N) I am not a fan of the use of macros here. You should never use macros. Instead maybe: static inline void *mycalloc(size_t sz) { return calloc(1, …