Before the Shadow Play

I got a mail in early September from Alex Crabb, who had downloaded the sd1diskutil code from GitHub, and was trying to image some 35-year-old disks from his dad’s SD-1.

In 2024, we took our first return trip to Malaysia since the 1990’s.

I subscribe to Recommendo, a mailing list from Kevin Kelly and Mark Frauenfelder.

A quick summary of a bunch of stuff I’ve done lately.

The last few days have been devoted to other things like dental emergencies, but the app continues to shape up.

I’ve gotten to a decent beta at this point, and I’m eating my own dogfood: my urologist put me on bladder training with a two-hour interval, so the app is set up with that as the default interval.

So one of the things that can happen after prostate cancer radiation treatment (and I note that I don’t think I’ve written a post about that — I suppose I was a bit distracted at the time) is that you can develop what’s called a stricture, ot narrowing, of

A little history The Ensoniq SD-1 is a synthesizer from the 1990s — a ROMpler with a Motorola 68000 at its heart.

Earlier in the year, I had LDR (low-dose) brachytherapy treatment for prostate cancer.

A quick way to build, enhance, and repair your podcast episodes Introduction This all started when I was repairing a screwed-up Azuracast installation.

Recently, we’ve been working on trying to build some tooling to make our Azuracast experience for our DJs and listeners a little better.