Project 386 #4: Against all odds, success

I just finished up the first weekend of my vintage computer exhibit for Portland Design Month entitled When Having a Computer Was Weird: A showcase of early personal computers. I had two fun groups of visitors and I plan to run another date on October 18, plus others as time permits and interest demands.

I’ve been meaning for a while to write more about one of my recent projects, Catch the Wave!. Originally it was made for last year’s Oregon Science Festival and since I’m exhibiting again at the festival this year (this weekend, in fact!

I’ve been hacking on and off for a few years on a little open source side project, fari. It’s a terminal-based utility for the Mac for quickly zipping through the tabs that you’ve got open in Safari.

Took a ~4 mile walk in the newly-snowy neighborhood this afternoon. For the first time in years, I grabbed my camera to go along.

Despite not posting stuff as much as I’d like to get around to on this site, I do keep my link blog pretty active. It lets me share publicly some links to things on the web, sometimes with commentary. Here’s an overview of how I use it and how it works.