taw's blog

My CPU got fried again. It was pretty old, and I have replacement hardware lying around, so it's not a big loss. The last time it happen...

I just uploaded a new release of iPod-last.fm bridge . Changes are a README file, copyright notice ( MIT-style "do whatever you want...

Non-computer art is fun. Unless someone's committed to spending rest of their life getting better at it, it's best just to accept th...

When I started to think about electronics , I didn't spare much thought for the wires. The ICs (integrated circuits), the diodes - they ...

Parallel port seems to be the right way to go, but it wasn't my only idea. As a short detour of the real story, here's a bit about ...

I'm in a love-hate relationship with Apple products. They are usually cool. But most of the time, they have really stupid design issues ...

It's been a long time since the revolution in Ruby documentation that magic/help was . And today there's a big new release. magic/...

In two days, I'm going to the Chaos Computing Congress. CCC is about two things - computer security, and blinkenlights. I didn't w...

Good news for all iPod-owning last.fmers (doesn't it sound cool to be an "iPod-owning last.fmer" ...). New version of iPod-las...

I don't consciously "troll" on reddit (in this post by "reddit" I mean programming reddit , I rarely use main or jo...