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 …
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 …
Apps
I’ve been making some apps recently.  One for the new Windows 8 modern UI and one for iOS using swift.  One was a joy to code, the other was not 😉 Swift is an interesting language and I look forward to writing more code in it.  C# is also a nice language, however writing code …
My boy has died
For those who have been following my blog for a while will know that my son has (had) an incurable disease.  On Wednesday he finally succumbed.
This made me smile
It’s alive!
I spent a little time on my lunch break putting in the last few wires and the board has come up 🙂 The flash from my phone has drowned out the LEDs on the board, but they were blinking as they should. Since I didn’t have another voltage regulator handy I have used the voltage …