micheal@ecliptik.com

Everything after this paragraph was written with AI.

Everything after this paragraph was written with AI.

While I’ve discussed the origins of my Macintosh 512Ke and the enhancements I’ve done over the past year.

As I mentioned in my Enhancing my Macintosh 512Ke post, I use the Basilisk II Macintosh 68k emulator alongside my Macintosh Plus to facilitate downloading software, sharing files with AppleShare, playing Myst and many other things.

This is the second in a series of posts on my Macintosh 512Ke.

This is the first post in what I am hoping a series of how I took my 512Ke “Fat Mac” and enhanched it to the state it is today.

Ghostty 👻 In December 2024 the new terminal emulator ghostty created by mitchellh (founder of Hashicorp) was released.

Intro Over the holidays we got our two younger children HP laptops for them to do their school work on and to have a proper computer.

Intro Recently I assembled a ClockworkPi DevTerm R-01, a cyberdeck-like terminal with a RISC-V compute module.

Intro A couple of weeks ago I saw Superhighway84 on HackerNews and started to check it out, but didn’t get very far.

Intro While I’m a heavy user of RSS with Newsblur, I’ve never had a coherent bookmarking solution.

Intro In the past few months there has been a lot of chatter about web3 and what it means and doesn’t mean for the future of the web.

Intro Basic notes from setting up gpg-agent forwarding between a MacOS and Debian Linux system.

Intro With the recent release of FreeBSD 13, I wanted to test it out on a spare RaspberryPi 3 that was part of my old Kubernetes cluster.

Intro When I first got my Pocket C.H.I.P. one of the first thoughts I had was to use it as sort of a mini-desktop terminal to display things like weather, new mail, etc.

Intro In the ever expanding ways to hack my Pocket C.H.I.P., and my recent discovery of Vaporwave, I couldn’t help but combine the two and have a looping music video device on my desktop.

Intro A couple of weeks ago I took a spare RaspberryPi 3 leftover from my old k3s cluster and installed OpenBSD on it using my Pocket C.H.I.P..

Intro Since getting a Pocket C.H.I.P, I’m looking for more ways to use it outside the original configuration, and came across a Hackernoon post on using a CHIP as a serial console.

Intro Recently I got a Pocket C.H.I.P. with the idea of making it mini terminal on my desk, displaying things like weather, new email, new mastodon toots, etc.

Intro Working in the tech industry and having geeky hobbies; I’ve always taken my tools, both hardware and software, seriously.

Gemawhat?

But Why?

Intro One week ago I posted my first toot on Mastodon and I want to document my first weeks experience since it was much more eventful than I was expecting.

Intro When running a Raspberry Pi cluster, sometimes there’s just not enough power to build native armhf Docker images in a reasonable amount of time.

Intro Running the Azure Container Instances Connector for Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi Cluster.