The Rock Paper Shotgun 100: A Quick Analysis

Remember when I said that if you muddle with vintage hardware mixtures, one thing gets fixed but the other has a very big tendency to break? I was trying to save this for the PicoGUS post but that’ll have to wait as debugging the current problem is giving me a headache. You see, I kind of sort of maybe perhaps broke my Vintage Sound Blaster 16. I...

These past few days we’ve been greeted with a damp, cold mist: finally autumn is really here. Last week’s Halloween was celebrated with a local organized stroll through the park obstructed by everything scary that the organizer’s minds could think of. During the day, the walk was supposed to be child-friendly, but the masks managed to evoke...

It took me more than two months to finally unwrap that eBay present containing a Pine Technology PT-428 baby AT Socket 3 motherboard. The original one in the 486 case, a PCChips M602, died on me this summer. Well, died is perhaps a bit exaggerated: the keyboard suddenly refused to be recognized and the HDD controller started getting funky. Since...

As I wrote in last year’s Coping With Loss, just before my wife gave birth to our daughter, my father-in-law passed away. Needless to say, last year has been very hard—and to a certain extend, this year as well. We’re nineteen months later now and the resulting grief still hits us when we least expect it to, as in a sudden wave that brutally...

Here’s a dilemma. As a (freelance) software developer, should you specialize in one development stack or go wide by learning to be proficient in many different technologies? I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and have yet to reach a definitive stance on the matter. I’m a generalist but our society seems to promote specialists. I like...