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Recently I wanted to play Splatoon on PC using a gyro-based game controller rather than the large and awkward Wii U gamepad.

I recently purchased an ultra-cheap HDMI-to-VGA DAC to hook up my Nintendo Switch to my CRT monitor and external speakers.

Cyberduck on macOS normally nags you every time you close the program to purchase a "donation" key.

One of the stranger issues you can encounter on Fedora is when new kernels stop being bootable from the GRUB bootloader.

I dual-boot my desktop between Windows and Linux.

It's well-documented that acquiring a CRT display instantly awakens an instinct to show off photos of game title screens and calibration patterns to every Discord friend and server within earshot, at the expense of actually playing games on the display.

Back in May, I was taking a walk around the neighborhood when I came across an oak tree with dozens of galls hanging from the stem.

I've released a major update to my article, "A deep dive into CRT modelines and EDID editing".

Last year I bought a GBS-Control to upscale and transcode game consoles for a VGA CRT monitor, and have been using and developing for it since.

In the process of setting up CRT TVs and monitors, I've often worked with modelines, the cryptic strings of numbers which define how a GPU should drive a display cable with rows of pixels.

There's a recurring school of thought that the best way to experience the visuals of pre-HD console and PC games is to play them on period-accurate CRT displays.

About a year ago, when loading games onto my Wii's USB hard drive (shhhh), I found the hard drive would not mount on the Wii but only on Linux.

After chip-level-flashing a Ivy Bridge Dell laptop (Inspiron 15R SE 7520) with a corrupted BIOS chip (the BIOS spontaneously corrupted in 2014 then I fried the EC trying to reflash the BIOS, but that's a story for another time), I was disappointed to find…

One of my recent projects was to get my PC to output 480i signals to my recently acquired Trinitron TV for running modern and historical games on a CRT TV.

🔗 Moving away from GitHub Pages and Jekyll I've hosted my blog for a few years on GitHub Pages and Jekyll, sporadically updating it with new content.

Audio output and duplex is actually quite tricky, and even libraries like RtAudio's ALSA backend get it wrong.

Pacman's version comparison algorithm was designed over a decade ago to properly sort many categories of real-world version numbers, and is now set in stone, quirks and all.

For those of you who aren't already aware, ExoTracker is a tracker-like composing tool, based around subdividing beats instead of integer rows.

Rust's concurrency safety is based around the Send and Sync traits.

Trackers have decades of design, with interlocking features and design decisions, many based on the assumption that every event is quantized on a grid: You don't need lines above events, since it's obvious which row the event is in.

I just finished implementing timeline entry editing.

This is a follow-up to my previous post, "The gridline mental model of indexing and slicing".

Republished from my Github gist.