Notes

Slowly making my way through turning these 30 battery packs into PowerBook 140-180c batteries

https://www.tindie.com/products/jcs/powerbook-1xx-battery/

Isn't this kind of a ridiculous number of expansion slots?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/296098141133

Street Fighter II: Ultrasonic Cleaner

Why is it that Apple can set up an API and leave it running for a decade but Google has to change their way of doing the same thing every 2 years and every consumer of it suddenly has to migrate to the Next Thing?

I've had to migrate Pushover to a different Google thing (push notifications, billing library, etc.) half a dozen times now and it always goes like this:

1. Receive e-mail that I have to migrate to some new version of a thing
2. Ignore it
3. Login to one of Google's dozen dashboards for something unrelated and see warnings that I have to migrate by such-and-such date
4. Read the documentation and see it's now much harder to do the same thing I was doing before with no benefit to me or my users
5. Nope out of it
6. Receive more dire e-mails from Google as the migration date gets closer
7. Read on Stack Overflow how to do it in a succinct way that condenses Google's awful documentation into a few steps, pointing out all the gotchas
8. Finally do the migration and hate Google just a little bit more

do you think in the future mechanical keyboards will be silent like EVs and you'll have to play the thonk sound from your speakers

I guess my car is Intel powered

The Brother SuperPowerNote, CP/M, and you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYo0fhXl754

I had to get a copy after reading about it on @WillFlux's SystemTalk

Anyone have a recommendation for a decent quality ultrasonic cleaner for PCBs?

Not looking for a huge one, but something that can clean maybe an 8x4" board at max.

Something I really like about working on my Macintosh Plus is that event loops in the system and applications often respond to the mouse and keyboard before window redrawing, so as I remember where things will appear in a window I'm familiar with, I can click or use a keyboard command to do something before the window is even fully redrawn. When I'm closing a dialog or an old window that was just brought forward, it saves time not having to wait for it to draw just so it can be dismissed.

It makes me feel like I'm able to think faster than the machine which seems like it would be a negative but it's rewarding.

On a modern machine, I'm so often frustrated at web pages that are mostly drawn but blocking on some stupid Javascript or font download that won't let me interact with it yet, even though I'm just trying to click something to get off of that page anyway.

Experience in programming comes not only from building things at lower layers, but also from the betrayal of trusting things someone else built at the layers beneath your things.

https://xuanwo.io/2023/04-rust-std-fs-slower-than-python/

Today I realized that my car had "Hey Google" turned on when my son in the back seat said something and it responded.

I couldn't figure out how to turn it off so I told Google to do it. It started responding but then stopped to listen to itself say "Hey Google".

My PowerBook 170 has been Siliconinsider'd