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1y ago
I've sent this post to some folks at Cloudflare.
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Yes, as did I! When I did POPFile (which is 100% Perl) I was really, really careful to make it readable and maintainable.
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In "An Evening Waster With Tom Lehrer" he chats a little between songs and tells a short story about someone who becomes a doctor: "He soon became a specialist, specializing in diseases of the rich. He was therefore able to r
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And there's the infamous DB-19: https://www.bigmessowires.com/2025/06/30/bulk-lots-of-db-19s...
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Getting the KIM-1 to talk to my Mac
(blog.jgc.org)
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It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)
(news.sparkfun.com)
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I do also like calculators: https://blog.jgc.org/2025/04/just-one-more-calculator-bro-ju...
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This is a really simple "project" because someone else did all the work! I just had to install the thing and make some tiny code modifications for my taste.
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The key to doing things when you're very busy is to do them slowly and not drive yourself crazy with a deadline. When I did the ThinkPad 701c restoration it took me a year!
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Windows, macOS and Linux instructions here: https://www.sensorwatch.net/docs/movement/building/
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1y ago
Argh. Motherducking autocorrect!
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Thanks! Glad you enjoy https://behind-the-screens.tv . Those videos were an enormous amount of work because of all the original research behind them. I do have one more I'd like to do about this film: https://www.
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Typically I wear this watch instead: https://blog.jgc.org/2025/06/the-discreet-charm-of-infrastru...
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See: https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/sensor-wa... Answer: 1 to 2 years. My previous watch from the original blog post is still running on the original battery.
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There are details on the sensor part here: https://www.sensorwatch.net/docs/sensorboards/ and reference designs here: https://github.com/joeycastillo/Sensor-Watch/tree/main/PCB&
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Pimping My Casio: Part Deux
(blog.jgc.org)
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Do it! To be fair, it was a ton of work to get it working again but I'm happy-ish with the result.
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I owned one of these back in the day and loved it. Not long ago I did a total restoration of one: https://blog.jgc.org/2023/12/restoration-of-ibm-thinkpad-701...
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Novell Netware used to have a feature like this: cd .. cd ... cd .... etc.
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This is a cool project that inspired me to make: https://blog.jgc.org/2022/12/the-rogers-watch-retro-display-...
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Cloudflare has not used CAPTCHAs since 2023: https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-ga/
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https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/cloudflare-launches-a-mark... "Several large publishers, including Conde Nast, TIME, The Associated Press, The Atlantic, ADWEEK, and Fortune, have signed on with Cloudfl
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Yes, well, I do have a bit of a HN obsession.
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Nothing, nothing at all! I retired from Cloudflare in part so that I could just stop (at least for a while).
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This would make a good poll.
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The Discreet Charm of the Infrastructureless
(blog.jgc.org)
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I mean, at least they didn't give us a free U2 album. I used that event as the starting point for a talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvjb1H_j8D8
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23rd anniversary of "Kelly Rowland tries to text Nelly with a spreadsheet"
(hollawhenyougetthis.com)
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POPFile was doing something incredibly simple (if enabled). Imagine there are two classes of email (ham and spam) (POPFile was actually built to do classification for arbitrary categories but often used as a spam filter). When a message was
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Thanks for being a POPFile user back then! The site is still alive if you need some nostalgia in your life: https://getpopfile.org/docs/welcome
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