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Have you ever noticed that your Maps app still works during a flight? It can feel illicit, like someone just forgot to turn off the signal, and that watching yourself crawl along the earth should be done without drawing undue attention. A few months ago I

I made a graphical IRC client that runs in UEFI. It's written in Rust and leverages the GUI toolkit and TrueType renderer that I wrote for axle's userspace. I was able to develop it thanks to the vmnet network backend that I implemented for QEMU. You can

In 2019, I built a work-for-hobby iOS simulator on a strict regimen of weekends and coffee. While the full details of this project will stay in-house, there's enough I can share to hopefully be interesting! First up, here's what this looks like running ag

Text is the medium of digital interaction, and text rendering has an outsized impact on the overall fit and finish of any system. It therefore pains me that axle has for years relied on a low-resolution 8x8 bitmap font. Let's fix it! Take a look at the ch

Imagine you have a compass.Instead of the 4 cardinal directions, mark the compass with 10 evenly-divided indications.Let's play a game together. You're standing on a plane, and in front of you is a ball.I'm going to tell you a number. Push the ball with e

Years ago, I was active in the iOS tweak development scene. I made many products and tools, distributed on Cydia, that modified iOS system behavior and added new functionality to SpringBoard. This was a really fun time, and gave me valuable early career e

I'm currently working on a huge project. Since I'd like to finish it soon, I'm instead going to spend an evening implementing a bespoke newsletter service.A couple of months ago, I added a prominent RSS button to the overview of this blog, acquiescing to

When I'm being first-order productive, I'm programming: creating and interacting with a system.This first-order productivity is great, but it isn't discoverable for others: there's generally a high bar to entry for comprehending another person's work when

Recently, the epic yak shave that is my life dragged me down into oblong pits of page table corruption. I've made it out the other side, with a primary takeaway of "how the hell did this ever work?", followed closely by "what the hell is still hiding?". P

Programming the computer allows you to take something you see and rearrange the pieces a bit to better fit your needs. It's really a delightful and powerful thing.A few weeks ago, Daisy and I were staying in a cottage with poor internet speeds. We were tr