(Partially) Repairing a Super NES Classic
My friend’s SNES Classic stopped responding to controller inputs. He reset it to factory settings but couldn’t even get through the language selection menu without being able to push buttons.
Chad Austin
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Unsafe Rust Is Harder Than C
Or: The Most Expensive Linked List I’ve Ever Written
Terminal Latency on Windows
UPDATE 2024-04-15: Windows Terminal 1.19 contains a fix that reduces latency by half! It’s now competitive with WSLtty on my machine. Details in the GitHub Issue.
My Minimal tmux Config
If you spend any significant time in a terminal, you’ve probably used tmux.
I Just Wanted Emacs to Look Nice — Using 24-Bit Color in Terminals
Thanks to some coworkers and David Wilson’s Emacs from Scratch playlist, I’ve been getting back into Emacs. The community is more vibrant than the last time I looked, and LSP brings modern completion and inline type checking.
Reference Counting Things
Reference counting is cheap and easy. An integer starts at one, increments on every new reference, and whoever decrements it to zero is responsible for deallocation.
Microsoft Sculpt Wired Conversion Mod
I made a control board for the Microsoft Sculpt wireless keyboard that converts it to wired USB, and now my favorite keyboard is even better.
Measuring and Coping with Indoor CO2
I have two home offices. The one in the garage has lots of natural light, is separate from the family, but is only usable when the weather is sufficiently cool. The one in the house is in a tiny 100 sq. ft. bedroom. During this particularly hot summer, I mostly stayed indoors, and I noticed I’d get dizzy and sometimes nauseous in the afternoons.
Measuring Storage Closet Temperature and Humidity with a Raspberry Pi
We live in Silicon Valley, which means our house is too expensive and too small. So, unlike my parents’ old house in the midwest, we don’t have the luxury of a basement with consistent year-round temperature and humidity for long-term storage.
Two Years at Dropbox
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