Dialup modems are split into three classes of capability: data, fax, and voice. Data modems exclusively transmit serial data, used for dial-up internet and server access. Fax modems have data capab...

I have been interested in computing history for many years now, and I’m still often surprised how deep the literature on the subject is. I’ve had the good fortune of discovering and being told abou...

I’ve had a bunch of images of raw scans of a book called Computer Lib/Dream Machines sitting around since 2022, and I wanted to mention it in a blog post I’m working on. However, this book is large...

This entire blog refresh was prompted by me wanting to post like, 5 lines of code onto social media and not being able to. So, here is that code. I use X likes mainly as a way to save things for l...

Mastodon is a decentralized social media platform. It is similar to platforms like X, but instead of users connecting to servers run by one organization, users connect to one of hundreds of servers...

Under the “why don’t more people talk about this”, the amount of ML inference that can be done locally on even pedestrian smart phones is truly impressive, and a field that I don’t think enough sof...

Universities are like tiny sovereign countries. And like any country, there are constantly warring factions within the structure vying for space, money, and social capital. One of the notable ones ...

!!Con was a series of conferences held virtually and in New York City. It was focused on lightning talks about novel and fun concepts in computing. I had attended virtually in 2020 and really enjoy...

The XBAND was a third-party modem produced by Catapult Entertainment for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis in the mid-90s. It enabled multi-player support over phone lines by being placed in betw...

This one is going to be tough to explain. In 1996, the American TV show “The Simpsons” aired an episode “22 Short Films about Springfield”. The title is a reference to Thirty Two Short Films About ...