No Java/openjdk dev room at Fosdem (for the first time in 20 years or something?)

Let’s do something great today

(Maybe)

I'm out of touch with 3d printing developments. Looked at the price of printers now and truly shocked to see the Prusa Mini+ is more than twice the price of the Bambu equivalent, and ~30% more than I paid for it a few years ago. What's going on?

I submitted my PhD thesis corrections yesterday afternoon. I am (probably) finally done!

Down to my last chapter for PhD corrections. Quite close to the wire to graduate this December. Pushing on...

@pndc oof if the SoC was 2017 vintage that would be bad even for me (I can cope on relatively low powered environments). I hadn't thought to check Ali Express. I've just seen another one on there claiming Alder Lake (2021?) for ~$333 which doesn't seem quite as bad for a toy. Thanks for your input!

There’s a whole load of these tiny 7” Celeron laptops on Amazon and other places from random-name-generator vendors. Has anyone tried Linux on them?

New blog post: Franken-Keyboard! https://jmtd.net/log/franken_keyboard/
#hardware

So yeah various blog stuff broke, some is still broken, my new SSLLabs score is only a B, etc.: all this will be addressed eventually.

I recently migrated my blog to a new VM. In times gone by, I would have taken pride in doing a professional job of that, but in recent times I’ve increasingly wanted to do stuff *less professionally* when it’s hobby versus day job. The same principle applies to hobby coding, not that I get much of that done at the moment, but that has more interesting consequences.

@mart_brooks @slp that’s a good point. Despite all its other shortcomings, it’s the narrative elements of ffe that make it compelling to me

@mart_brooks @slp one of them that I’ve really never got on with (and iirc you did) is elite: dangerous

@ross @slp oh i forgot I blogged about this (ten years ago!) https://jmtd.net/log/ffe/ maybe it’s time I fire it up again

@ross @slp i’d add that the sequel has a lot of merit: there are some decompile/recompile projects for Linux for that as well (jjffe, glffe, etc): they’re all quite janky but there’s still fun to be had

@ross @slp me too! Someone disassembled the Atari version and made a Linux build that used GL: https://github.com/pcercuei/glfrontier . I haven’t played even *that* for over ten years but from what I recall it’s a blast

@fraggle I hadn’t, thank you!

Introduction to Reverse-Engineering Vintage Synth Firmware

https://ajxs.me/blog/Introduction_to_Reverse-Engineering_Vintage_Synth_Firmware.html

Catnip!

anyone got a spare £500? https://www.8bitdo.com/retro-68-keyboard-nes-40th/