Notes

If you find yourself browsing the world wide web one day for a replacement Hosiden HLR1021-101182 for your PowerBook 180 and come across an LCD shop selling some that claim to be refurbished with new backlight lamps and tested working but think, gosh, that's more money than I paid for the PowerBook but it might be worth it to have a good screen that works for a long time... don't bother, they have the same stupid tunnel vision problem out of the box

How does a .NET framework suddenly go missing

I'll be at Vintage Computer Festival Midwest this September 9th and 10th with some Macintosh stuff, so stop by and say hello cyberpal

That is a huge hand

EtherTalk over Wi-Fi works now so you can use AppleShare over it

I'm going to Boston soon, what nerdy things should I see or do while I'm there?

Apparently I've offended the PowerBook by adding WiFi to it. Last night it started getting these black splotches on the screen (even when powered off) and overnight they multiplied into many horizontal lines.

I swapped in a top cover from another PowerBook 180 but this one suffers from tunnel vision :(

To make this weirder

RIP :(

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/kevin-mitnick-11371668

I had no idea Sierra made non-game software

https://www.ebay.com/itm/294527864803

My advice for running a public-facing API, coming from 11 years of operating the Pushover (@pushover) API:

- Host the API on its own hostname
- Don't be too liberal in what you accept
- Avoid OAuth if you can
- Log a unique id with every request
- Be descriptive in your error responses
- Use prefixed tokens
- Stay on top of failures

https://jcs.org/2023/07/12/api

I hardwired a WiFiStation so it is powered by the MailStation's batteries or AC power, and shuts off when the MailStation does

I might try removing the DB25 port of the MailStation and wiring something up to fit the WiFiStation guts entirely inside the MailStation

Just like DNS, every time you think it's not the compiler and it can't possibly be the compiler, it's the gosh darn compiler

Did you ever waste a whole day tearing apart hardware and rewriting your drivers to figure out why your firmware was getting corrupted when transferring it to your hardware device, only to discover it was a broken compiler on the host generating garbage and everything was transferring that garbage just fine all along...

Whenever I break down a shipping box and have to stab all these sealed bags of air, I feel like Joe Pesci in Casino where he stabs that guy in the throat with a pen

I saw a newer Porsche 911 with the license plate "GIT PULL" but I couldn't get a picture.

I kinda want to get "CVS UP" now for my 87.

I discovered by accident that Thunderbolt 3 magically works in OpenBSD on my X1 Nano.

I plugged in a Thunderbolt NVMe enclosure to check whether it would fall back to USB attachment, but ppb, pci, and nvme devices attached. I verified with an Apple Thunderbolt 2 ethernet device (through a Thunderbolt 2 to 3 adapter) and it also attached as bge0 as expected, and detached properly when unplugging.

My previous tests with Thunderbolt on other OpenBSD laptops only worked when the devices were plugged in at boot time, since the firmware had to setup the device. I'm not sure whether something changed in OpenBSD or the EFI firmware that makes hotplugging work now without a Thunderbolt NHI driver, but I'll take it.

The best kind of drivers are the ones that don't have to be written :)