It’s amazing what a few million tokens can do. I had to give my agent access to a webcam so it could debug the screen driver and after about 30 minutes of flickering screens and garbled updates it got something that is pretty much usable
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Lilygo T-Deck Pro – Newton Phone
It boots but, is currently too slow to be useful. The keyboard works as does the touch interface.
IT LIVES!
Newton OS 2.x running natively without emulation on a Remarkable Paper Pro! It still needs a lot of work, but it is coming along
Claude and the Apple Newton
I have been playing around with Claude and last week set it the task of fully reverse engineering the Apple Newton 2100 ROM with the eventual goal of re-targeting it to run on any other host operating system. The results have been nothing short of miraculous. I have it running happily on my desktop machine …
Debugging Applications in Production
This evening, I noticed that an application running in a cluster of machines I look after was behaving oddly. It was using huge amounts of RAM and then crashing. What made this even more unusual was the fact that the code was written in Elixir and had been in production use for several years without …
ESP32 Nabaztag
My poor little Nabaztag rabbit is feeling the heavy weight of years. Modern WiFi means it is having trouble connecting to newer access points so I need another solution. With that in mind I decided to have a go at replacing the guts with something a little more modern and the ESP32 sounded perfect. I’ve …
Roomba running on a Makita 18v cordless drill battery
I just got myself a nice new Makita 18v drill. It’s really nice 🙂 On thing about my battery operated tools I’ve noticed is that I tend to have one battery in the device and another charging. Since I don’t used them very often they batteries tend to degrade after a while, so I was …
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Windows
I’ve been running Macintosh machines for quite some time as my primary development environment. Recently I’ve been having to spend a lot of my time running Windows for my work and I’m finding it a lot less painful than I thought I would. Windows 10 has vastly improved over Windows 8 (although the bar was …
Common Lisp, ASDF, Quicklisp and Windows
Today I spent quite a bit of time trying to get ASDF to find my local packages on my Windows development machine. It turns out that since ASDF 3.1.5 the place to put the config files has moved. Now the config file needs to be placed in $HOME/AppData/Local/config/common-lisp/source-registry.conf.d/ There’s a couple of hours of my …
Common Lisp, OpenGL and CEPL
Yesterday I spent a couple of hours playing with Common Lisp and OpenGL. It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to play like this and I had a good time. I really need to do it more often 😉 I’ve been watching the CEPL videos on youtube for a while and wanted to …