Everyone needs a blog these days. Should I ever decide to inflict my existential angst on the world, this is where it'll be.
- POLF: a game for the Commodore PET
- this should never happen
- Fuzix on the Raspberry Pi Pico (update)
- let's call it done
- Fuzix on the Raspberry Pi Pico
- surprisingly non-awful
- Porting Fuzix to the ESP8266... on video
- every tedious minute of it
- Writing 800kB Mac disks with FluxEngine
- technically impossible
- WordGrinder 0.8 released!
- now thirteen years old
- 6303 arithmetic: more dull than you think
- but in a good way
- Cowgol 2.0: this time it's useful
- well. debatably useful
- Jumping ahead with Cowgol 2.0
- that's two days of work wasted
- Colonsay
- insufficiently bleak and miserable
- Building a keyboard from an old portable (electronic) typewriter
- the most hipster writer in the café
- My new book
- Child of the Sea and the Stars
- Interlaken
- the highest tourist trap in Europe
- Writing a lunar lander game for an actual lunar lander
- the oldest of old schools
- Live coding a compiler for CP/M, from scratch
- well, part of one
- Live coding a vi for CP/M, from scratch
- more vi-adjacent, really
- Performing a brain transplant on a Toshiba T1000
- it lives! it lives!
- R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC Basic is now open source
- one of the originals and best
- Resurrecting CP/M, or at least CP/Mish
- clearly this got out of hand
- Live coding an assembler for CP/M
- rewriting software for a 40-year-old OS is clearly a good use of time
- Andros and Tinos
- all the lizards you can eat no wait that came out wrong
- A small, portable and thoroughly evil Forth interpreter
- but evil in a good cause
- Demonstration and teardown of a Canon TypeStar 4 portable typewriter
- the ability to make words wherever you go!
- TypeTalk: smalltalk about Javascript
- the softest of software
- The Brother LW-30: a typewriter, not a computer
- when word processors were things not programs
- FluxEngine demo reel
- short but perfectly formed
- FluxEngine released!
- getting serious about floppy disks
- Christmas in Scotland (again)
- bleak and miserable (as usual)
- Seven CP/M programming languages on one floppy (and a game)
- small but perfectly formed
- WordGrinder 0.7.2 released!
- ten years old --- they grow up so quickly
- 13kg of IBM electric typewriter
- 38 cents a kilo
- Replacing the motherboard on a Psion 3a organiser
- amateur brain transplants are best brain transplants
- How to write a game on a ZX81
- obsolete machines for fun and profit
- Off to see a glacier
- it's big and icy
- Walking the Kumano Kodo in Japan
- too many forests, not enough time
- Rapidly rendering fractals on stupidly unsuitable machines
- actually really, this time!
- On holiday in Crete
- rocks and gorges
- A twelve second Mandelbrot on the BBC Micro
- yes, really! but no, not really
- Adventures in video editing
- with apologies to Johann Strauss
- Cowgol 0.5 released!
- now, an industry standard
- Z80 arithmetic: also surprisingly terrible
- surprising plenitude of awfulness
- Cowgol 0.4 released!
- smaller, better, faster...
- jpegfinder vs. the Hubsan H107D
- and the terrible secret!
- 6502 arithmetic and why it is terrible
- yes, that's what I said
- Cowgol 0.2 released!
- should actually work now (but I said that last time)
- Christmas holiday on Iona
- disappointingly not bleak and miserable
- Running native programs on the Amstrad NC200
- playing with my new laptop
- WordGrinder 0.7 released!
- please don't ask when the previous release was
- Brand new website
- in with the new CMS, out with the old
- Cowgol 0.1.1 released!
- 6502s never die, they just... stop moving...
- Monday walk: Diabeg
- Scotland is made out of swamp. Swamp, I say
- Saturday walk: Sgùman Còinntich and Killilan
- not the right mountain
- Wednesday walk: Fuar Tholl and Sgurr Ruadh
- it's not Sunday!
- Sunday walk: Chäseren to Braunwald
- all the rocks you can eat
- Sunday walk: Zeinenfurggel
- up, up and...
- Sunday walk: Näfels-Mollis to Richisau
- 'Ben Nevises' is totally a real unit
- Sunday walk: Oberblegisee
- suddenly, a restaurant
- Sunday walk: Glärnisch low level
- the bottoms of the mountains are nice too
- Sunday walk: Innerthal to (near) Niederurnen
- apparently I'm fit now
- Minix QD
- I'm sure it'll be useful to someone?
- Fuzix port for the MSP430
- a possible record for the smallest Unix ever
- WordGrinder 0.6 released!
- a word processor for processing words
- Cyprus
- haven't been on holiday for... weeks
- Narcissus 0.1 released!
- chording keyboards the easy way
- Ancient BBC Micro software
- relics from my childhood
- A Random Walk Through Ada
- the language everyone's heard of but never used
- Flooded Moon
- the wettest moon pictures around
- PiFace v0.3
- a bare-metal boot loader for the Raspberry Pi's VideoCore IV GPU
- Conway's Game of Life (as a GNU Make macro)
- exactly what it says on the tin
- Return of the comments
- but now they're evil
- Just found some Cybiko software
- in a cupboard out back
- Luje 0.1 released!
- a Java VM written in pure Lua
- PiFace: a bare metal boot loader for the Raspberry Pi
- no ARMs need apply
- WordGrinder 0.4 released!
- a word processor for processing words
- Calculon 0.1 released!
- a very small programming language
- The Water Horse's Fireplace
- a Scottish Halloween folk story, sort of
- Iceland
- finally
- Cowjac
- a Java bytecode to C++ transpiler
- Cowbel 0.2 released!
- a programming language
- Cowbel 0.1 released!
- a programming language
- Cowj 0.2 out now
- now with extra evil
- Cowj released
- cruel and unusual things with Javascript
- Prime Mover, spey updates
- yes, they are related
- Hacking the Kindle
- just can't leave things alone
- Twiny
- for when you just need that one extra character
- Anstruther in winter
- out-of-season holidaying FTW
- Susan Cooper's Wales page update
- digitally remastered!
- Giveaway gallery
- the great hardware giveaway
- Transflector 0.1
- a simple WebSocket to socket service proxy
- LBW 0.1: Linux Binaries on Windows
- run your Linux software on Windows
- Prime Mover 0.1.5
- a Lua-based build tool that doesn't require Lua
- Scotland, snowbound
- unaccustomed scenes of picturesque whiteness
- Ruins
- a short story
- Objective Lua 0.1
- an OO extension for Lua
- WordGrinder 0.3.3
- the wheels of software grind slow, but they grind exceedingly fine
- HershTrans 0.1
- a Hershey font manipulation tool
- Go, going forward
- I have a dream
- On Go
- oh, go on
- By appointment only
- destroy your problems before they destroy you!
- Return to Korea
- and once again I escape from the hotel
- Objective Lua 0.0.1
- an OO extension for Lua
- Cowlark 2.0
- we can has comments
- Melissa 0.3
- an instant messenger chatbot
- A short guide to building a gcc cross-compiler
- while still remaining nominally sane
- Welcome to Korea
- Seoul food
- Dallas photos, unclassifiable
- quote artistic unquote
- A first look at the SheevaPlug
- small, white, powerful
- Hjal's explorations
- mysterious ruins a sign of foul play?
- Special Effect
- a short story
- Winter in Lochcarron
- some photos of Lochcarron
- Dallas gallery
- some photos of Dallas
- Ulysses 31
- the ancient gods of Olympus are angry!
- Clue 0.5
- things that compilers were not meant to wot of
- R2 0.1
- my name is David and I own a RISC PC
- Spey 0.5.pre1
- the wheels of spam grind slow
- WordGrinder 0.3.2
- or, sod's law strikes again
- Bryan Krubb
- a character background
- Melissa 0.2
- an instant messenger chatbot
- Rozzie Potatoes
- how to cheat with potatoes
- Illegal Music Downloads
- MP3s are bad, mmmkay