The volume slider on our virtual desktops is a skeuomorphic callback to the volume sliders on professional audio equipment on ...

Jonathan chats with Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss about KDE’s eco initiative and the End of 10 campaign! Is Open Source really a ...

Do you ever look at the news, and wonder about the process behind the news cycle? I did, and for the last couple of decades ...

If you are a certain age, you probably remember the ads and publicity around Chisanbop — the supposed ancient art of Korean ...

Normally you can’t read out the One Time Programming (OTP) memory in Microchip’s PIC MCUs that have code protection enabled, ...

We always enjoy [FloatHeadPhysics] explaining any math or physics topic. We don’t know if he’s acting or not, but he seems genuinely excited about every topic he covers, and it is ...

It should probably come as no surprise to anyone that the images which we look at every day – whether printed or on a display – are simply illusions. That cat picture isn’t ...

Some people slander retrocomputing as an old man’s game, just because most of those involved are more ancient than the hardware they’re playing with. But there are veritable children ...

The world of custom mechanical keyboards is vibrant, with new designs emerging weekly. However, keyboards are just one way we ...

Sometimes a write-up of a piece of retrocomputing hardware goes way beyond the hardware itself and into the industry that ...

Many people who get analog electronics still struggle a bit to design oscillators. Even common simulators often need a trick ...

Like the rest of us, 8-bit hardware is not getting any newer, and failed ROMs are just a fact of life. Of course you can’t ...