Piano roll music by the box

Shirt.

Well that year went fast. #wwdc

What’s good to go to in the evenings these days during WWDC week?

Let me tell you it has been a wild year, and the team did an amazing job. I hope y'all love it.

“So what did you do for iOS 13? “I helped change a 1 into a 2”

#protip The line outside the Computer History Museum is for the Computer History Museum, not the Vintage Computer Festival #VCFWest

5 out of 6, maybe 6 out of 6. Not sure about the 8031.

#VCFWest has changed a bit since I last came: no more analog or mechanical computers. Lots more emulation.

The KIM-1, a computer I decided not to buy when it came out.

All is now live in Beta 6! You need to reinstall your apps (restore from iCloud is the easiest way) to get the repackaged app version. Then have fun with 2nd/3rd party apps. And yes, the speed improvement happens on all devices (from the 6s to the Xs, iPads too).

There’s a classic car event happening in downtown Sunnyvale today. An excellent photo opportunity for anyone with a recently acquired ultra-wide camera lens. Regular-wide photo shown taken on a old school XS Max.

The end of an era, and the start of a new one. m.youtube.com/watch?v=raptWP…

Photo storage, organization, and geotagging before computers.

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The exact electronics kit, a Philips EE1050, that got me started in electronics in 1971. youtu.be/gK68iiG1pqc?t=…

The expansion kits were very expensive. Since the base kit had a manual with the projects and component lists for all the kits in the series, we bought the addition parts mail-order and I could keep building at a fraction of the cost.

My dad made me a much larger wooden matrix for construction and I had a power supply so I could ditch the battery holder.

We lived within a few miles of a large AM radio transmitter. This caused all my attempts at amplifiers to become radios. My oscillators had a tendency to amplify and my radios usually oscillated, promoting me to turn to digital electronics as soon as I could.