Massachusetts amateur radio plates look sick. Here’s how to get one: Acquire a ham radio license. There are a few ways of doing this, but hamstudy.org is an invaluable prep tool. Tests are...

Or, Mia’s Adventures in a haunted courthouse

Oh yeah, it’s getting personal

There’s a very specific feeling I get when in a classroom at night. I usually only end up there for some kind of special occasion: the last math team practice of the season, a guest lecturer in col...

This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any int...

Try out the live version, or check out the source on GitHub. Intro “Serverless X11 client” is a term that should strike fear into any self respecting IT practitioner. Marrying X11 (legacy, hardwar...

Dialup modems are split into three classes of capability: data, fax, and voice. Data modems exclusively transmit serial data, used for dial-up internet and server access. Fax modems have data capab...

I have been interested in computing history for many years now, and I’m still often surprised how deep the literature on the subject is. I’ve had the good fortune of discovering and being told abou...

I’ve had a bunch of images of raw scans of a book called Computer Lib/Dream Machines sitting around since 2022, and I wanted to mention it in a blog post I’m working on. However, this book is large...

This entire blog refresh was prompted by me wanting to post like, 5 lines of code onto social media and not being able to. So, here is that code. I use X likes mainly as a way to save things for l...