I am really excited to be speaking about the history of telephone exchange buildings at the Wuthering Bytes festival this August. Come join us in Hebden Bridge!

"No way to create a backdoor that only the good guys can walk through." Signal President Meredith Whittaker says the Online Safety Bill will cause "unprecedented paradigm-shifting surveillance" - in a discussion with Cathy Newman and former UK Tech minister Damian Collins.

Hello.. is this thing still on? It's 2023, so here's a fun new blogpost on how we used Intel's x86 CPU JTAG to dump the infamous "secret bootrom" in Microsoft's original Xbox: blog.ret2.io/2023/08/09/jta…

Ooh 45Drives released the 3D files for their 2.5" to 3.5" SSD adapters! printables.com/model/583544-4… Brb going to print off a few for my #homelab...

For the ninth(!) year in a row, I will be releasing 25 programming puzzles over the first 25 days of December over on adventofcode.com! It's completely free thanks to AoC++ supporters and thanks to sponsors. If you want to check it out early, all past puzzles are still up!

RIP artist, inventor, prop maker, and TV icon of Magpie, Vision On, Eureka and Jigsaw; Wilf Lunn (1942-2023)

My next talk is for the Newcomen Society's Manchester branch on Tuesday 23 January at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. The talk is free, starts at 6.30pm and there is no need to book. newcomen.com/activity/build… The Newcomen Society #TE1940to1981 #TelephoneExchange #Talk

The "Building a copper telephone network at EMF" talk has landed on Youtube! Find out how we got ~500 phone lines in a field for a week. youtube.com/watch?v=gpMaEq…

The Telecommunications Heritage Group TelecomHeritage have kindly offered to host me for an online talk on Tuesday 12 March 2024 at 6:30pm. It is free and open to both members and non-members of the THG, but please note that registration is required via tinyurl.com/exchange-talk

Acorn Archimedes A3000 replica finally available in my tindie store. A LOT of work, testing and money went in to getting this over the line. Enjoy! tindie.com/products/bobsb…

Went to the last day of Novelty Automation Tim Hunkin's "Secret life of the Home" gallery at London Science Museum today. I wonder if any of the other exhibits will last 29 years. His account of what he learned creating it is well worth a read : timhunkin.com/92_museum_desi…

Been a while since I listed something new..... tindie.com/products/bobsb…

nsa.gov/helpful-links/… Worth a watch !

New RPCEmu today, 0.9.5. marutan.net/rpcemu Scroll Wheel, quick blank floppy discs, LBA hard disc support Riscosity RISC OS News 𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐂 𝐎𝐒

On this day 26 years ago Microsoft released SQL Server 7.0. This was 1.0 for many of us and has paved the way for the incredible industry force Microsoft SQL Server is today. news.microsoft.com/1998/11/16/mic…. #sqlserver #sqlhistory #microsoftlife

Rclone is 12 years old today! Happy Birthday! Thank you to the whole rclone community for wonderful support over the years, and here is looking forward to lots of exciting new things coming to a release near you.

GoSDC for the Acorn Atom is now fully on-line (website, Hardware, GoSDC-Atom). Now forward with other things.

This was my tenth(!) year building 25 days of puzzles for #AdventOfCode. You can solve them all for free and in whatever programming language you like. I hope they help people become better programmers. 🌟 The first puzzle comes out in two hours: adventofcode.com

Add Deye inverters to your "never buy" list . Hopefully they get sued to oblivion for this BS, bordering on criminal damage. Also never buy any hardware that depends on an external service to work. solarboi.com/2024/11/17/sol…