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rebelmike.bsky.social
Electronics tinkerer, narrowboater, puzzle hunter, board gamer and occasional geocacher. Also on fedi @[email protected]
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How Red Hat just quietly, radically transformed enterprise server Linux www.zdnet.com/article/how-... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social RHEL 10 becomes the first major enterprise #Linux distro to discard traditional packaging and embrace immutable. See how we got here.

This is the moment Rej's open source Z80 woke up and said hello! After Zilog’s April 2024 announcement, ReJ quickly taped out a drop-in replacement to preserve retrocomputing and legacy systems. Taped out on TT07, it's a landmark in democratizing chip design.

Happy birthday to me 🥳🎉 Please check out our gay fox girl Mario 3 game people like it a lot and you might too

I went to the park to film some water textures with a fancy ultra slomo camera, but got distracted by ducks, so here is some very wholesome content of ducklings having a great time chasing lil bugs in extreme 900fps slow motion:

This method is fundamental to how modern displays, including computer monitors, TVs, and smartphone screens, produce color images. By varying the intensity of these three primary colors, screens can create millions of different colors.

Discovered Hard Chip, a Zachlike game where you design logic chips from MOSFETs to fix your spaceship. The 3D editor isn’t perfect, but much better than Magic or KLayout 😆 store.steampowered.com/app/2844290/...

As part of our mission to join the 21st century, all of the Gigspanner Big Band albums are now available to buy as downloads/streaming for users of Bandcamp. Downloads are also available direct from the Gigspanner website (where we get to keep all the money!) gigspanner.bandcamp.com

NEW! 📢 NVMe Base Case is here! A sleek, folded aluminium case that will accommodate a Raspberry Pi 5 plus an NVMe Base or NVMe Base Duo. Super sturdy, super cool 🥶, and super cool 😎. shop.pimoroni.com/products/nvm...

An old-school demo for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2. Written in RISC-V assembly. Incredible. youtu.be/KhhLoVBpg48?...

MicroPython v1.25.0 has been released! github.com/micropython/... A *huge* update, particularly for the ROMFS feature, and the new Alif port. However, as with all MicroPython releases, there are hundreds of improvements and fixes. Such focus on refinement!

Well done Microsoft on making notepad not work in safe mode. That’s really not helpful…

Feel like shark attacks may be imminent.. Somehow while attempting to fix a Pi that had died due to a failed SD card my Windows laptop has stopped booting :(

@blackbeardstp.bsky.social spotted in Scotland! We’ve headed to Kinross for their gig. Looking forward to it!

Finished the Teammate Puzzle Hunt a couple of hours ago, just a few hours before the deadline. Phew! It's been a good one, perfect length and difficulty for us. The story was good, trying to save a ship with failing life support, and the puzzles were all layed out in a comic.

youtu.be/0RCIdOp5GHg?...

I know the right wing media finds it all very difficult so, in an attempt to be helpful, this is what an actual interference with free speech looks like.

Been having lots of fun with @charlie.daft.games‘s Red Alert port for RP2350. I’ve got it working with my HSTX driver and just got PWM sound working as well!

Using both PSRAMs together we can get enough bandwidth for 720p. Can’t easily write to a back buffer while displaying though as the PSRAM is constantly busy, but can do an image slide show! The RP2350 decodes the next jpeg from flash during the time the monitor is blank.

Got the double buffer, one in each PSRAM, up and running. This is 800x600, RGB565, which is fairly close to maxing out the available bandwidth.

My Tiny Tapeout 9 project running on the FPGA board. Got to have some Bad Apple when testing new hardware!

Well this is right on the border line of working, but it does seem to be working! 1080p48 output, running the RP2350 at 1.5V

Boards arrived, let’s see if they work!

But also: read the whole thread.

Playing Our Childhood Mac on the Fruit Jam 🍏💾 youtu.be/3Xvj-o0h3Lo #retrocomputing #marchintosh

Oof, customs charge. Let’s hope these boards work when they arrive!

Spent the evening making my potato more stabby...