🦞🌯 Lobster Roll

Stories by peter_d_sherman

LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio" (chainlift.io)
MdBook – a command line tool to create books with Markdown (rust-lang.github.io)
Golden Ratio using an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle (geometrycode.com)
Ham Radio 101: What is WSPR? (onallbands.com)
OpenSERDES – Open Hardware Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) in Verilog (2020) (github.com)
Jacqueline – A minimal i386 kernel written in Pascal (2019) (github.com)
Pyscripter – Open-source Python IDE written in Delphi (github.com)
LibNSFB – Framebuffer (bitmap on screen) abstraction library, written in C (netsurf-browser.org)
Delivering 15TB of 4K video with Cloudflare R2 for $2.18 (screencasting.com)
A Guide to Magnetizing N48 Magnets in Ansys Maxwell (blog.ozeninc.com)
SPhotonix – 360TB into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser (tomshardware.com)
Corundum – open-source FPGA-based NIC and platform for in-network compute (github.com)
Barrelfish OS Architecture Overview (2013) [pdf] (barrelfish.org)
OpenPOWER Foundation – Open-Source / Open Hardware PowerPC CPU ISA (openpowerfoundation.org)
EasyOS – An experimental Linux distribution (2025) (easyos.org)
Compact (8KB) embedded x86 BIOS for FPGA/emulators/386EX (github.com)
DIY Open Source Single Photon Generator and Detector (gaudi.ch)
The Shape That Could Replace Space-Time –- Maybe [Amplituhedron] [video] (youtube.com)
Virtual ARchaeological Computer EMulator – cycle exact old x86 PC emulator (github.com)
BuildPad – A platform that helps founders go from idea to successful product (buildpad.io)
Jonesforth – A sometimes minimal FORTH compiler and tutorial for Linux / i386 (github.com)
OpenVINO – open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference (github.com)
KiTTY Terminal Graphics Protocol (sw.kovidgoyal.net)
ESP – Open-source SoC platform (esp.cs.columbia.edu)
Automata_theory.svg (commons.wikimedia.org)
AI-Free-Forever – 1000 free AI tools with no signup, no login (aifreeforever.com)
The Angry Path to Zen: AMD Zen Microcode Tools and Insights [video] (media.ccc.de)
D7VK – Vulkan Direct3D 7 translation layer – Run old games on Linux in Wine (github.com)
The LPU (Language Processing Unit) (groq.com)
Free-for-dev – A curated list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS that have free tiers (github.com)