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Crap quality USB cables

I think I’ve just had a bit of a revelation…

USB-C is the best thing ever. Not only because the plug isn’t polarised, but because if you want a true USB-C to USB-C cable there doesn’t appear to be any cheap crappy ones. The ones with a USB-A plug on the end are still cheap garbage, but a cable with USB-C on both ends seems to have a basic level of quality and a price to match it.



SMT Soldering and Atari ST Repairs

Yesterday I recapped my ST’s PSU which went well, nothing exploded. However when trying to boot the machine it kept crashing, especially when it went to the desktop.


Updated Website

I’m not a web designer, I find the creative part quite interesting but buggering about with templating languages and having to learn far moreJavaScript and CSS than is healthy really puts me off. I’ve mostly gone about this by going online, finding a Bootstrap template and beating it into some vague shape that looks not too terrible.


Tecknet Mechanical Keyboard Repair

I wanted a mechanical keyboard with Windows keys. I have an IBM Model M keyboard, but its lack of Windows keys makes using Windows 10 more annoying than it should be. I don’t hunt and peck around the start menu, I’ve learnt to press the Windows key and just start typing the program I want to open.




Shadertoy 3 Raymarching

Let’s draw a lit 3D scene without defining any 3D objects. Yeah no it confused me too.


Shadertoy 2 Sinewaves

Today I figured out how to draw a line, and then make it wiggle using some basic maths.


Shadertoy 1 - Mandelbrot

Let’s spend this week learning about GLSL and making fancy images from code. The first one, a nice computationally intensive fractal.


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