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TEXT (2025-12-15) Creativity vs. consumption, again
TEXT (2025-12-08) On the "indie Web", real and fake
TEXT (2025-12-01) My take on cyberdecks
TEXT (2025-11-03) Final break in the year: no-post November
TEXT (2025-10-27) Make computing personal again: return to the roots
TEXT (2025-10-20) Another buzzword debunked: workflow orchestration
TEXT (2025-10-13) A short rant about "democratizing" genAI, hobbyist software etc
TEXT (2025-09-16) Taking yet another two-week break
TEXT (2025-09-08) As long as you are consuming, you are not creating
TEXT (2025-09-01) A month with NixOS
TEXT (2025-08-25) Yet another numeric-only VM from a distant past
TEXT (2025-08-18) A week with Elixir: what I understand now and what still don't
TEXT (2025-08-11) Elixir of freshness
TEXT (2025-08-04) Switched to NixOS: the path of the samurai begins
TEXT (2025-07-28) Two popular external commands can make you a shell REST API king
TEXT (2025-07-21) When buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing
TEXT (2025-07-14) Taming the daemons, the POSIX way
TEXT (2025-07-07) A small digest of what happened in the recent weeks
TEXT (2025-06-16) The hunt for an optimal sine
TEXT (2025-06-09) Addition addiction
TEXT (2025-06-01) A VM so tiny that it even fits on a HP 12C
TEXT (2025-05-26) Herding the cattle better with advanced HP 12C techniques
TEXT (2025-05-19) How I ported Bulls and Cows to HP 12C and why it is important
TEXT (2025-05-12) HP's sole survivor among the touchscreen madness
TEXT (2025-05-05) The anatomy of a tiny VM (and a blackjack game for it)
TEXT (2025-04-28) 808UL was just an exercise. Here's the real deal
TEXT (2025-04-21) A story of ultralight virtual machines designed to run anywhere
TEXT (2025-04-14) What I have learned from porting DRACONDI onto the TI-74S
TEXT (2025-04-07) Old, offline, outstanding
TEXT (2025-03-31) A single "why?" for a thousand "how?": hand cipher threat models
TEXT (2025-03-24) Let it be as simple as it can be... but no simpler
TEXT (2025-03-17) That time when I ordered a watch but got something more
TEXT (2025-03-10) Return of the Pen and Paper
TEXT (2025-03-03) The Graphene Saga: part 3
TEXT (2025-02-11) First break in the year
TEXT (2025-02-03) A message to copycats
TEXT (2025-01-27) Some things no one is focused on regarding genAI
TEXT (2025-01-20) Theory vs. practice, again
TEXT (2025-01-13) Making GenAI less horrible for the rest of us (with llamafile)
TEXT (2025-01-06) Fully Java-less Android development on... Android itself
TEXT (2024-12-30) The end of the year is finally nearing
TEXT (2024-12-23) Fed up with the industry
TEXT (2024-12-16) Two more digital Casios flying under the radar
TEXT (2024-12-09) Probably the best engineer's wristwatch of today
TEXT (2024-12-02) Looks like I've found the most optimal MCU board so far
TEXT (2024-11-25) Boosting the 8-bit skills with AVR microcontrollers
TEXT (2024-11-18) Let's put Nix into a Pubnix (feat. nix-portable)
TEXT (2024-11-11) CAT S22 Flip: a keypad Android flip phone done almost right
TEXT (2024-11-04) A mysterious but extremely cool Orient Eroz from 2007
TEXT (2024-10-28) Meet ii, a new old distributed plaintext communication network
TEXT (2024-10-21) Time to ditch x86: why I have switched to RPi5 as my main desktop
TEXT (2024-10-14) Goodbye Bopher, hello BFG: a practical case of Tcl/Tk's GUI
TEXT (2024-10-07) Omnia mea mecum porto (feat. Tcl/Tk)
TEXT (2024-09-30) It's time to talk about PC input devices
TEXT (2024-09-23) In 2024, desktop GUI development is still pretty wild
TEXT (2024-09-16) GOing in the right direction
TEXT (2024-09-09) Making pure C great again (feat. Mongoose)
TEXT (2024-09-02) Rotary phones are underrated (feat. VEF TA-68)
TEXT (2024-08-26) Helping retro meet modern
TEXT (2024-08-19) It's all about ownership
TEXT (2024-08-12) Sokoban: a case of Occam's Razor in video gaming
TEXT (2024-08-05) Random (vacational) thoughts
TEXT (2024-07-15) I need to take a break again
TEXT (2024-07-08) The future of keypad mobile applications (or lack thereof)
TEXT (2024-07-01) Time needs to be reformed
TEXT (2024-06-24) Cry of a turtle
TEXT (2024-06-17) Wind of change, part 2
TEXT (2024-06-10) Wind of change (recent news)
TEXT (2024-06-03) Greed is bad
TEXT (2024-05-27) A small crypto rant
TEXT (2024-05-20) A look from another side of the spectrum... again
TEXT (2024-05-13) The grand finale watch
TEXT (2024-05-06) On tablet PCs
TEXT (2024-04-29) When an interesting watch is boring... as it should be
TEXT (2024-04-22) I updated my baseline watch requirements, and they sadden me
TEXT (2024-08-15) No news, sorry
TEXT (2024-04-08) A few more words about DOS
TEXT (2024-03-25) I need to take a break (for two weeks)
TEXT (2024-03-18) The Graphene Saga: part 2
TEXT (2024-03-11) The Graphene Saga: part 1
TEXT (2024-03-04) Android and several other things this week
TEXT (2024-02-26) Luxferre's ten commandments
TEXT (2024-02-19) Got into Tron by necessity, staying due to curiosity
TEXT (2024-02-12) Cosa Nostr-a
TEXT (2024-02-05) Busting Stereotypes ep.666: featuring ed and rlwrap
TEXT (2024-01-29) Elite in AWK: the beginning
TEXT (2024-01-22) Let's play some cards... in POSIX AWK
TEXT (2024-01-15) State of my A1370 (so far) and some minor news
TEXT (2024-01-08) Minimalism strikes again: Kindle, Alpine and TUI-first mindset
TEXT (2024-01-01) In 2024, HTML2 still is (almost) everything you really need
TEXT (2023-12-25) Pen and paper cryptography: breaking down what's still worth
TEXT (2023-12-18) On passion
TEXT (2023-12-11) There is something special about Toki Pona, isn't it?
TEXT (2023-12-04) I am a dreamer. Sort of
TEXT (2023-11-27) Got a Tristar... What now?
TEXT (2023-11-20) Is this the true end of the epoch for Nokia phones? Not sure yet
TEXT (2023-11-13) Small events, big impact
TEXT (2023-11-06) The myth and the curse of "entry-level" products
TEXT (2023-10-30) On EDC, one of the greatest fads of our time and place
TEXT (2023-10-23) Several new things and my first impressions about them
TEXT (2023-10-16) Docker, Gopher and analogue lifestyle
TEXT (2023-10-09) Calming down
TEXT (2023-10-02) Can a hacker's watch be... mechanical?
TEXT (2023-09-25) How I started learning OCaml... and paused it
TEXT (2023-09-18) A bit more on mechs
TEXT (2023-09-11) Where to move on from C?
TEXT (2023-09-04) When marketing beats common sense... again
TEXT (2023-08-28) Another basic but iconic analogue watch movement
TEXT (2023-08-22) Old chips, new perspectives
TEXT (2023-08-17) The future of nntrac
TEXT (2023-08-10) The world we live in: the maxim of Arkham
TEXT (2023-08-05) Saving the oldest embedded scripting language from extinction
TEXT (2023-07-29) Switching from (Neo)Vim to... my own text editor
TEXT (2023-07-24) Turn off syntax highlighting and start living the full life
TEXT (2023-07-17) A week of exploration
TEXT (2023-07-10) So, you only have $100 for a watch... What to choose?
TEXT (2023-07-03) When will you learn to... learn?
TEXT (2023-06-30) Why cassette tapes are still relevant
TEXT (2023-06-23) On "user-friendliness", part 2: input methods
TEXT (2023-06-16) When unpopularity is a good thing
TEXT (2023-06-12) On watches in 2023
TEXT (2023-06-05) On the perception of minimalism
TEXT (2023-05-31) Why I consider danmaku the best (graphic-based) game genre ever
TEXT (2023-05-25) Domain-specific languages as a mindset
TEXT (2023-05-21) Pix64 in the browser: it was boring but necessary
TEXT (2023-05-17) Fixing the only serious flaw in the only good "fantasy console"
TEXT (2023-05-13) Changing the pace
TEXT (2023-05-12) cp != mv, or the 9001th post about copyright and copyleft
TEXT (2023-05-11) Impossible solutions just take longer
TEXT (2023-05-10) The perfection of imperfection
TEXT (2023-05-09) CHIP-8 revisited
TEXT (2023-05-08) Making POSIX AWK great again: introducing The Great Library
TEXT (2023-05-07) Choose freedom
TEXT (2023-05-06) "User-friendly" is wrong
TEXT (2023-05-05) An attempt to standardize memory-mapped I/O in M/OISC machines
TEXT (2023-05-04) If stuck with Busybox but need to run Forth, use... Subleq
TEXT (2023-05-03) Ode to 64K virtual machines
TEXT (2023-05-02) On semicolons in those C-like languages where they are optional
TEXT (2023-05-01) Thoughts about stream compression, part 2
TEXT (2023-04-30) The problem with "XY problem": why it might not be a problem
TEXT (2023-04-29) AWK is underrated, even in the POSIX variant
TEXT (2023-04-28) Giving ASCII art the third dimension
TEXT (2023-04-27) Brainfuck running in VTL-2 running in AWK. Why not?
TEXT (2023-04-26) Making VTL more AWKward
TEXT (2023-04-25) I wore an automatic watch for 30 days
TEXT (2023-04-24) (L)VTL as the starting point for LPC-oriented applications
TEXT (2023-04-23) "Yes - extensible is the key"
TEXT (2023-04-22) LVTL is out
TEXT (2023-04-21) Why VTL/VTL-2 is still relevant
TEXT (2023-04-20) A few words about DOS
TEXT (2023-04-19) Human-scale programming languages and the problem with them
TEXT (2023-04-18) ShellBeat is possible too, but...
TEXT (2023-04-17) Wait, what ecosystem?
TEXT (2023-04-16) AwkBeat is now a thing. Now what?
TEXT (2023-04-15) On sound in the world of minimalist computing
TEXT (2023-04-14) Some thoughts about simple stream compression
TEXT (2023-04-13) On serialization of binary chunks
TEXT (2023-04-12) On structured text data formats
TEXT (2023-04-11) Sharballs > Tarballs
TEXT (2023-04-10) ReThyncing DevOps
TEXT (2023-04-10) Why HTTP/0.9 sucks but still matters
TEXT (2023-04-09) On reliable timekeeping on slow networks
TEXT (2023-04-08) On permacomputing, frugal computing and other buzzwords
TEXT (2023-04-07) Modern instant messaging solves non-existing problems
TEXT (2023-04-06) Why I have patched Pocket Gopher
TEXT (2023-04-05) Why is Gopher important to me?
TEXT (2023-04-04) To wrap or not to wrap? (just my opinion)
TEXT (2023-04-03) Finally here