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2026

Relativity Park: taming the speed of light original ↗

13 Sept 2026

Return to Zork: now moddable!original ↗

4 Sept 2026

Claude × retrocomputing: emulating a QIC-117 tape drive original ↗

23 Aug 2026

Claude × retrocomputing: emulating the TC2000 supercomputer original ↗

16 Aug 2026

Brain dump, May 2026 original ↗

31 May 2026

Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle original ↗

1 Feb 2026

2025

Brain dump, October 2025 original ↗

11 Oct 2025

Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver original ↗

7 Sept 2025

DiskDigger + Avalonia UI: a success story original ↗

27 Jun 2025

Brain dump, June 2025 original ↗

26 Jun 2025

Software update roundup, February 2025 original ↗

9 Feb 2025

Brain dump, January 2025 original ↗

8 Feb 2025

2024

Brain dump, October 2024 original ↗

15 Nov 2024

Brain dump, September 2024 original ↗

28 Sept 2024

Brain dump, August 2024 original ↗

29 Aug 2024

Homeowner’s log, July 2024 original ↗

30 Jul 2024

Programming a chip programmer with another chip programmer original ↗

3 Mar 2024

2023

More huge updates to DiskDigger and FileSystemAnalyzer original ↗

17 Dec 2023

Brain dump, October 2023 original ↗

19 Oct 2023

Updates to DiskDigger and FileSystemAnalyzer, October 2023 original ↗

11 Oct 2023

Brain dump, September 2023 original ↗

30 Sept 2023

LK-99: an unintentional social experiment original ↗

27 Aug 2023

Thoughts on UFOs original ↗

30 Jul 2023

Brain dump, April 2023 original ↗

30 Apr 2023

Homeowner’s log, March 2023 original ↗

28 Mar 2023

Artificial stupidity original ↗

25 Mar 2023

Brain dump, February 2023 original ↗

18 Mar 2023

ECC RAM should be a human right original ↗

21 Jan 2023

2022

Brain dump, December 2022 original ↗

11 Dec 2022

Brain dump, October 2022 original ↗

23 Oct 2022

Brain dump, September 2022 original ↗

30 Sept 2022

A few guidelines for navigating social media original ↗

18 Sept 2022

Brain dump, July 2022 original ↗

24 Jul 2022

Brain dump, June 2022 original ↗

24 Jun 2022

Brain dump, April 2022 original ↗

16 Apr 2022

A retro laptop like no other original ↗

20 Feb 2022

Brain dump, January 2022 original ↗

23 Jan 2022

2021

Software update round-up original ↗

5 Sept 2021

In praise of Windows Forms original ↗

2 Sept 2021

Minimalist programming, Android edition original ↗

6 Jul 2021

Homeowner’s log, February 2021 original ↗

5 Mar 2021

Brain dump, January 2021 original ↗

13 Jan 2021

2020

The lost art of system-level thinking original ↗

15 Dec 2020

How to recover data from QIC tapes original ↗

1 Nov 2020

Discovering little worlds original ↗

2 Aug 2020

Thoughts on the new Star Trek original ↗

26 Jul 2020

The problem of recovering data from SSD drives original ↗

17 Jun 2020

Reverse engineering a 25-year-old Visual Basic app original ↗

10 May 2020

Homeowner’s log, May 2020 original ↗

5 May 2020

Confirmation dialogs original ↗

27 Apr 2020

Recovering data from QIC-80 tapes: another case study original ↗

9 Mar 2020

Where did we go wrong?original ↗

12 Jan 2020

Home security with Raspberry Pi original ↗

8 Jan 2020

2019

Homeowner’s log, November 2019 original ↗

28 Nov 2019

Homeowner’s log, October 2019 original ↗

20 Oct 2019

Homeowner’s log, September 2019 original ↗

17 Sept 2019

Proper wiping of free space on your Android device original ↗

14 Jul 2019

NTFS compression minutiae original ↗

13 Jul 2019

Euler walks original ↗

10 Jul 2019

Pi walk original ↗

9 Jul 2019

Ulam’s spiral in your browser original ↗

7 Jul 2019

Send me all your floppies! They nourish me.original ↗

9 Jun 2019

Reverse-engineering the QICStream tape backup format original ↗

17 May 2019

More data recovery war stories: recovering QIC-80 tape backups original ↗

11 May 2019

There are people alive today…original ↗

4 May 2019

Chinese intellectual property theft hits home original ↗

3 May 2019

When you need some perspective original ↗

13 Apr 2019

A deep dive into optical disk file systems original ↗

3 Mar 2019

Misrepresentations of evolution in popular media original ↗

23 Feb 2019

FAT12 is alive and well!original ↗

10 Feb 2019

2018

Rewatching Star Trek: Voyager original ↗

23 Dec 2018

Ray tracing black holes original ↗

12 Dec 2018

Dear Pittsburgh, please drive better!original ↗

24 Nov 2018

Simple ray tracing in pure Javascript original ↗

10 Nov 2018

Long-form podcasts: a hope for political discourse original ↗

4 Nov 2018

Knock-off apps: the sincerest form of flattery original ↗

2 Nov 2018

The age of instant nostalgia original ↗

23 Sept 2018

Premature optimization of Android View hierarchies original ↗

27 Aug 2018

Higher-level illusions original ↗

19 Aug 2018

Digital hoarding original ↗

3 Aug 2018

FileSystemAnalyzer: a tool that does what it says original ↗

27 Jun 2018

Hard hack: reading Soviet magnetic reel tapes original ↗

29 Apr 2018

Revisiting the Windows 10 thumbnail cache original ↗

19 Feb 2018

The dead dream of chatbots original ↗

11 Feb 2018

A quick utility for SQLite forensics original ↗

7 Feb 2018

New tool for analysis of Outlook PST files original ↗

7 Jan 2018

A simple 3D model viewer for your Android device original ↗

5 Jan 2018

2017

The steel pig original ↗

7 Nov 2017

MushroomHuntr original ↗

5 Nov 2017

But do they believe it themselves?original ↗

15 Oct 2017

Love what you do, and show it in what you make.original ↗

5 Sept 2017

Stop it, Stephen Hawking!original ↗

22 Jun 2017

VR needs several more generations to succeed original ↗

29 Apr 2017

RJ11 to RJ45 original ↗

10 Mar 2017

Homeownership original ↗

15 Feb 2017

Disabling comments original ↗

12 Feb 2017

2016

Big updates to DiskDigger!original ↗

10 Dec 2016

A quick (but useful) update to an oldie-but-a-goodie original ↗

16 Oct 2016

No Man’s Sky: All Breadth, No Depth original ↗

16 Aug 2016

Data recovery war stories: more fun with QIC-150 backup tapes original ↗

24 Jul 2016