Viewing profile — unwiredben

I got to hang with him a little in the early 2010s when I was doing JavaScript work and found him nice and personable. I'm so sorry for his early passing.

I was at Palm when the iPhone launched, and one note from this analysis summed up Apple's new power in the market and how they really changed the landscape. "Cingular has allowed A…

and also its Voja4, not Voya (my mistake in remembering name spellings)

At Hackaday Supercon in 2002, the badge for attendees ( https://hackaday.com/2022/10/12/the-2022-supercon-badge-is-a... ) implemented a fictional 4-bit CPU along with control panel…

That's often a recently launched StarLink formation -- the bunch up in a line when deployed, and have to be maneuvered over several weeks to spread out and take different orbits.

a visit to the research reactor in Hamilton, Canada

I grew up reading his "Ask the Guru" columns in Computer Shopper and loves all the creative ways he came up to use PostScript. His hardware hacker articles were also great. He will…

Jerry Pournelle isn't up to much anymore, as he died in 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle

I've got USB-powered desk fans at home and the office. I've tried a fair number, and typically get ones that have a couple of different speed settings and good bearing that are mos…

As soon as it prompted for number, I was out of there. Kinda reminded me of the Dianetics commercials, though.

Cobalt is the primary engine that's used for running YouTube and YouTube TV on set-top boxes and smart TVs. If you notice that it looks the same on a Roku device or a Fire TV stick…

Effectively an ATM-style interface?

The CPU isn't the only user of power. The CPU may be 20% more efficient, but the screen and radio probably aren't.

Here in Austin, Texas, there's a cooperatively-owned software development and design business called Vulk Coop. They've hosted a series of meetups and happy hours for people to tal…

I worked at Palm during the development of webOS, both before the Pre was launched, then again in developer relations and framework development after it came out. I'm very happy to…

It was coming... the WindsorNot design was just a slab with no keyboard, IIRC. https://www.webosnation.com/windsornot-webos-slate-smartphon...