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The Book That Nearly Killed Me

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OKAY, I said, taking a deep breath: after thirty-two years, it’s about time.  Hell, it’s way past time.  Maybe.

The short version is this: Long ago, in a parallel universe that for lack of a better term we’ll call radical lesbian separatism, [...]

Bandwidth via Parallelism, or Composability via Concurrency?

(In an interesting article, Paul Graham remarked:  “It would be great if a startup could give us something of the old Moore’s Law back, by writing software that could make a large number of CPUs look to the developer like one very fast CPU. There are several ways to approach this problem. The most ambitious [...]

The Beginning is Near

After five years of essentially non-stop development on the Mythryl programming language, I can finally say we’re approaching the possibility of a real paradigm shift that will change the entire way we think about programming.

I’m going to get a bit technical here; this is not a publicity release, it’s meant for the bitheads in [...]

Flying the Modded XTC-100 Video Camera

I finished the modded XTC-100 this evening, having lopped off the case and batteries and reconfigured the optical block and circuit board. By virtue of the 3 volt regulator, it now gets its DC power by plugging into any unused socket on the receiver. I expected noise on the power bus to be visible in [...]

Model Aircraft Videos

We’ve wanted to fly a video camera for a long time, but we settled for watching our friend Knut’s excellent video work. Then we were in Fry’s the other day on a general parts run, and saw what looked like a great camera for initial experiments: the Midland XTC-100. It’s tiny, light, relatively inexpensive, and [...]

Squishable Plane

Cynbe has been thinking about learning to fly r/c (radio control) model planes again. He started some years ago, but at that time he gave it up in favor of other more pressing things on his plate. While we’re in Santa Cruz, things are feeling stable enough that he wants to try again — plus, [...]