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I also run some accounts on BlueSky and Twitter that focus on 1-bit art: https://bsky.app/profile/1bitdreams.bsky.social https://x.com/1BitDreams I see maybe 10 or 15 new pieces of…

I remember playing this, but also a puzzle game called “dstar”, which I ported to the web: https://www.moria.us/games/dstar/play

This is great stuff… basically, an easy way to get much higher quality audio out of a GBA emulator. I’ll add some context here—why don’t more games run their audio at 32768 Hz, if …

Recently fixed bugs in an audio encoder / decoder (VADPCM) I reverse engineered from the Nintendo 64, and some people are apparently using it to dub Conker’s Bad Fur Day into Spani…

If we only had trucks on the road, we’d need less road, right? The street where I live could be about a third of the width if it were not for personal cars.

The civic barely does anything to a road, except require its existence and maintenance, and it turns out that roads are expensive to build and maintain (even if only damaged by wea…

> Why are you using the locale-specific [:space:] on source code? Because it’s the one I remembered first, it worked, and I didn’t think that it needed any improvement. In fact, I …

Somebody wanted to set breakpoints in their C code by marking them with a comment (note “d” for “debugger”): //d You can get a list of them with a single Awk line. awk -F'//d[[:spa…

Awk is still one of my favorite tools because its power is underestimated by nearly everyone I see using it. ls -l | awk '{print $3}' That’s typical usage of Awk, where you use it …

I have the Heritage HA-609A. I considered going 500-series. Maybe some day in the future. For now, I have two preamps and the HA-609A in a 4U rack, and most of my other gear is in …

It would be like this either way. The N side has negative charge carriers. It has a positive charge in the depletion region because the charge carriers are missing. Likewise, the P…

Conspicuously absent are some of the analog circuit applications. Here are three of my favorites: 1. Frequency mixer, used for heterodyning, important in radio, so I hear. https://…

Fantastic—I’ve written a QuickDraw PICT converter, but I focused narrowly on just extracting pixel data. The format is basically a way to encode QuickDraw drawing commands, and get…

Yes, other Mac AV models did the same thing. I remember doing this on the 6100/60AV that we had.

I listen to a fair amount of choral music, from plainchant and organum up through modern and contemporary works. I think the short answer is missing, which is that most choral musi…

Company I worked at back then used XMPP. There was something that you could paste into the chat that would make all of the Mac clients crash, and to fix it, someone with a differen…

Taking this moment to promote 1-bit art! I run a couple accounts which promote 1-bit art and I’m trying to figure out how to expand what artwork is included. These are just persona…

The one complaint about sound design is how the background music works. I think it starts playing when you’re not active, but on any given playthrough, it never gets a chance to tr…

Interesting, I have a Roland S-330 from the late 1980s and my main concern getting it was the floppy drive viability. It didn’t occur to me that the mouse would be difficult.

Sounds like you are assuming that I have a server always running for this stuff? That assumption is wrong. I don’t want to run CI servers. If I had servers always running, I would …

What I want is something like “please run this command on a server somewhere when event X happens”. Seems like the options are along the lines of: 1. SaaS CI/CD products, like GitH…

I just started using GitHub Actions for a personal project, and as you do, I trawled HN for opinions on how to use it. At first I built a workflow out of steps published on GitHub.…

Paul Gold, owner of Salt Mastering in Brooklyn, NY, describes the custom A/B path console he designed and built to master audio from open reel tape to lacquer master in order to cr…

I don’t think you could fairly say Windows 95 is an exokernel to DOS. Windows 95 is a whole OS, which happened to go through DOS during the boot process, and keep bits of DOS aroun…