Notes

This is super cool, another neat project from @jcs where he does porting dev cycles on hardware that can brick itself if you mess up and be frustrating to recover, but he is a cyberpal to you and me, providing these neat views into how wizards work!

https://jcs.org/2026/04/09/openbsd-dm250

Ted Fried, aka MicroCore Labs, is back with another Teensy-based drop-in CPU emulator, this time for the 16/32-bit Motorola 68000, as seen here running on an original Macintosh 512K motherboard

https://www.pjrc.com/mcl68-68000-emulator/

I found the perfect USB-C charger for the Pomera DM250XY

Is it wednesday already? Then it's time for the next parts of the #OpenBSD/m88k story.

In these parts, m88k systems get to finally enjoy ELF binaries with shared libraries, hardware support improves, and luna88k gets the best bootloader, ever.

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/m88k4.html

oh cool, the scumbag CEO of stickermule is using the company's (former) customer list to spam his political junk

the unsubscribe link even goes to a stickermule\.com URL

just a reminder that stickermule sucks

Miami airport has these chimes constantly playing which are coming from these autonomous wheelchairs that ride around not carrying anyone?

rip

68k Mac people: I assembled most of the components to build 5 MiniPerformer+ boards (PCB, 68EC030 w/socket, 68882 w/socket, PLCCs, etc.) but I'm lazy

Is anyone interested in buying all of these parts at a discount on the condition you build one for me, and you can keep/sell the rest?

look at this frickin thing

Indie app developers: do you localize your app's strings and if so, what service do you use for translation? They all seem to be using AI or are $999/month.

Also, have you found that having a localized app causes users to expect/demand support in those languages?

OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250(XY)

For #marchintosh I finally put my Macintosh away

I just realized I've committed changes to both /bin and /sbin this week

> Once the telnet connection opens, /bin/login tries to print the localized prompt but gettext [..] calls iconv_open() to parse the gconv-modules file in the directory referenced by the injected path before loading the shared object that turns cash ($) to trash (#).

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/02/24/1

i guess openbsd no longer wins the code golf for echo(1) :(

sry

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3290683/bloated-echo-command

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/d2b25f5d22f25f55c67336d11899675cb1deeadf

https://vladimir.varank.in/notes/2026/02/freebsd-brcmfmac/

Claude taking a month to port a Linux driver was easier than just porting the OpenBSD driver patrick@ wrote like a decade ago?

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commits/master/sys/dev/ic/bwfm.c

moggin'