Some of my earlier VRAM experiments on real hardware. The browser version came rather later! I’ve spent plenty of time persuading Mega Drives to produce pictures they were never asked to draw. Usually this involved a length of wire and a console that wasn’t especially pleased about it. VRAMpage MD... Continue reading

The real Avtek MegaPlus V.32bis CD950 dialling 8218 3400. Eight digits, two frequencies for each one. There’s a particular sound from the dial-up internet days that’s been stuck in my head for more than twenty-five years. Not the modem handshake itself, although I remember that well enough to know it... Continue reading

I’ve been going through some old messages and notes from 2019 recently. It’s amazing how much you can forget about a particular period of your life, only to have it all come flooding back when you start piecing things together. Some memories are wonderful, others not so much, and this... Continue reading

A true consumer dispute, retold as a cyberpunk quest. Featuring one terrible hotel room, a cancelled flight, several corporate scribes, and the most dangerous weapon in the known universe: arithmetic. Prologue: A Thousand Credits In the rain-soaked megacity, beneath towers bearing the logos of corporations nobody remembered electing, lived a... Continue reading

Chandra OCR 2 running locally in oMLX before I cross-checked the results against AWS Textract. If I’ve been quiet lately, or if I’ve seemed perpetually distracted for the past twelve months, this is why. It’s almost the one-year anniversary of my mother’s death, and I am still drowning in paperwork.... Continue reading