great interview

Apparently today is Mother Day..?

Me, working on slides for a presentation next month ... (this is the first slide btw lmfao)

Dimming the screen for the screen saver on #PicoIDE was boring so I added flying toasters as an option. Sprites borrowed from the PicoPOST project

I got PCIe working under #FreeBSD on the Raspberry Pi CM4.... And then it all went down hill from there!

Stratipi running on a Raspberry Pi 4 was just accepted into the public NTP pool. And now I'm serving thousands of clients per minute! I'll share more detailed graphs later after this has been running a while.

The first "public" Stratipi NTP server is now live. I'm scared LMAO

Something something something Discord.

Ever seen an Arista 7508N? This switch can sling packets at 75 TERABIT PER SECOND! And I got to help install it. Check out the install here... youtu.be/8pLJK964280

I just got hit with a product recall email. Wait, so these shiny little things ARE NOT candies!?!? Oh darn :( www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...

Have you always wanted to get into #retrocomputing, but you always lose track of the text mode cursor? You don't know where to type! Well, worry no more. With #glyphblaster you'll never lose your cursor again!

I think I'm finally about done with "The Game Wall" This features little tidbits and gems from just about every video game console release imaginable. Aaannnddd then a few not-so-well-known systems as well LMFAO!

Star Fox Is Getting An Adorable New Plush Line In Japan.

Visualizing VGA palette tricks in Wolf3D, DOOM, and Quake with an FPGA video card

Playing around at Alki today with my 600mm lens, because why the hell not !? :D

Playing with the @raspberrypiorg.bsky.social #RaspberryPi CM4 for the first time And so far, hit a pair of kernel bugs involving PCIe bring-up on #FreeBSD, the first of which is already solved. Second one should in theory be simple enough too! Will most certainly include these in my talk!

Okay, mostly narrowed down a few key issues w/ the PCIe driver for the Raspberry Pi 4 series tonight. :) This falls squarely into my "happy accidents" folder which I'll be discussing next month ;)

Another day, another #FreeBSD kernel panic I get to debug Why do I always get to be FIRST at things like this !? I just want a happy little time server, that's all BWAHAHAHA!!

I had fun yesterday while @adriansdigitalbasement.com was away from the room, introducing and teaching people how to do UNIX CLI navigation and launching games on the Plexus! :D

I think this is acceptable for my MacOS desktop :) Photo by me, taken from Umeda Sky in Osaka. Yeah, like I mention from time to time, I pretend to be a photographer ;)

I'm powering on my Windows workstation machine for the first time in a month... This sucks. (tldr: i had a small handful of files not on the server because Adobe sucks and cant have lrcat files on a remote drive, and I need to migrate them to the Mac)

#VCFPNW #vcfpnw Had over 750 attendees *just yesterday* Absolutely wild

#VCFPNW Spending the day today here at the revived Vintage Computer Festival PNW! It's like @sdforg.bsky.social ... BUT IN PERSON!!

#VCFPNW Spending the day today here at the revived Vintage Computer Festival PNW! It's like @sdforg.bsky.social ... BUT IN PERSON!!

These are all real screenshots from Evangelion video games. We chat about the weird and wonderful world of Eva games in the latest podcast episode: tokyogamelife.com/episode/evan...

Me: "Unifi default configs leaked my data by opening firewall ports" The entire fucking internet: "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG, I'VE NEVER SEEN THIS IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!!!" Unifi change logs: "Fixed an issue where the default security posture was changed to Allow after an earlier upgrade."

netmask.page Have you ever needed a visual representation of IP netmasks? Well have I got a quick and simple reference site for you now! Enter in any IP address and slide the slider. That's it. It is that easy. See CIDR notation, netmask notation, bitmask notation!

What does FreeBSD and Weed have to do with each other???? The next project I'm about to tackle: storage. (let's see if anyone can even remotely figure this one out LMFAO)

This is a local LLM running entirely offline on my laptop. Dumped in the contents of "show diag" from a Cisco AS5400 I'm working on, just to validate some things. It is also generating configs for all the cards based on whatever the hell I want em to do. Its been pretty damn great, honestly!

Hey, so like, remember back when I used to pretend to be a photographer!? Yeah, that's my work on the left. :P Oh yeah, buy cute things too! :D

The absolute hardest thing about being a highly technical engineer is attempting to convince other engineers that they broke shit. What even is the point of open-source software, if when people break shit, I submit code fixes, they get rejected because "works on my machine" syndrome...?

YAMAOH is having fun playing the drums. The song is "Sand Storm," which plays during Stage 1 of Gradius III. The first CD his parents bought him when he was seven was the soundtrack to this game. He’s expressing the joy of being able to play one of his favorite songs now that he’s an adult.

I choose to believe this is how most 90s arcade race tracks were initially conceived #gaming #retrogaming #arcade

netmask.page Have you ever needed a visual representation of IP netmasks? Well have I got a quick and simple reference site for you now! Enter in any IP address and slide the slider. That's it. It is that easy. See CIDR notation, netmask notation, bitmask notation!

Damnit, I just got a Neo Geo recently! And finally tested it a couple nights ago. Always love seeing rare stuff pop up at Pinky-G! Someone go acquire this awesome gem, please!?

And Google would like to remind you, that yes, indeed, the venue does have a Female Bathroom...? Thanks, I guess. That's good to know. (is this really the most important thing to display from satellite view!? i could understand indoor maps, but like... uuuhhh LOL)

The #OpenFC project has finally launched. 😄 It is a faithful #OSHW reproduction of the original HVC-CPU-07 Famicom, complete with a composite companion board and a 4-layer design that helps mitigate the notorious jailbars. #Famicom #ファミコン Check out the details here: ko-fi.com/post/OpenFC-...

My journey with a complete and total transition over to MacOS continues. Last night, started working on Stratipi again. No Rufus to burn the images? Sure, let's just use the Raspberry Pi Imager instead.... oh wait... oh... never mind then.

Let's go do some retro nerdy shit together :D

This is a battery... for a DALLAS Semiconductor RTC/NVRAM. Yes, DALLAS. Yes, THAT DALLAS. The company called as such, because its LITERALLY DALLAS TEXAS. And its a FUCKING BATTERY. In a proprietary plastic shell. Has a TARIFF CHARGE !?

MacOS supports ✅ XBox 360 Controllers ❌ XBox One Controllers ✅ XBox Series Controllers ✅ Nintendo Switch Pro Controllers Guess which one I primarily use?

Note taken: If MacOS has a pending OS update, it'll refuse to do a factory reset with a non-descript error message that has literally zero indication that this is even remotely an issue or even a possibility.

Sometimes I still pretend to be a photographer. A lil something I took a couple months ago.

This was also the very first multimedia project I tackled on the MacBook Pro M5 Max. Holyshitballzamazing is this thing fast. Like, unbelievably fast. I'll be doing screen recordings to show side-by-side how this does "every day" production tasks compared to my primary workstation really soon!

Wait, a new video!? From VINCE!? What year is this even!? Well, turns out a freshly installed Unifi Gateway was leaking some sensitive information publicly on the internet. Don't let this happen to you, check your security posture right away. youtu.be/3hqKaTKRfSc

Can the Intel B70 Pro work as a cloud gaming server? You already knew I'm going to try!

Okay, the speakers on this MacBook Pro are the best I've heard on any laptop ever, like not even remotely close! Just thought I'd put that out there

In case you missed it: first-person video footage of the U.S. Navy Divers Medical Team opening the hatch and entering inside the Orion Integrity capsule to meet the Artemis II heros U.S. Navy Courtesy Asset/ Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One www.dvidshub.net/video/100269... #Artemis 🧪🔭

Going LIVE here w/ @craftcomputing.bsky.social in about 30 min over on YouTube. Come watch us rant about all the latest geeky tech stuff (such as the very laptop I'm typing this on right now!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ry3...

I'm all booked for MAGWest this year! Who wants to go nerd out to video game concerts together!?