The car radio in the floppy drive bay
An old car radio, the computer's twelve-volt supply and a basement stereo gave me FM music while I worked at the computer.
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Project Stories
The stories behind completed projects—from idea to implementation.
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Printing invoices with PostScript and plain text
How a Business Basic customer's invoice forms led to a PostScript program that laid out pages and calculated bills from CSV records.
Blinking fireflies on an FPGA
Five flashing LEDs, independent phase counters and the timing problem that appeared when their updates began sharing a pipeline.
Building a Code Evolution Analyzer in a Weekend
A quick script turned into two days of yak-shaving through collection speed, chart performance, and an audio bug that took hours to find and one line to fix.