Collaborate Disseminate
A buckminsterfullerene, also known as a buckyball, is typically a fullerene consisting of sixty carbon atoms (C60) arranged in a way that resembles a football-like sphere. Extending this arrangement to …read more Continue reading Introducing Boron Buckyballs
As straightforward as the concept of taking battery packs out of an old electric or hybrid car and reusing them for home power storage sounds, this thought process skips a …read more Continue reading Safely Using Old EV Batteries in Your Home Solar Setup
The custom APU at the core of Sony’s PlayStation 5 hasn’t just been quietly powering these game consoles, but also made their way onto cryptomining cards around 2023 which are …read more Continue reading Re-Enable all Compute Units on the PS5-like BC-250 Cryptomining Card
For those of us old enough to remember the harrowing days of the early 2020s, alongside another major kerfuffle there was a complete breakdown in global supply chains that led …read more Continue reading How the 2020s Chip Crisis Led to a Buggy Saleae Analyzer in 2026
After recently reviewing a Wattcycle LFP battery sent over by the manufacturer, [Will Prowse] was made aware of some disturbing changes to the internals of batteries received by regular customers. …read more Continue reading The Secret Wattcycle LFP Battery Downgrade
One of the most exciting challenges available to any software developer is that of writing brilliantly working code that’s so obtuse, so indecipherable, and opaque, that even its own author …read more Continue reading The Winners of the 2025 Obfuscated C Code Contest
In that awkward transition phase between electromechanical accounting systems used in the 1940s and the introduction of fully digital computers we find systems such as the IBM 604 Electronic Calculator, …read more Continue reading Powering Up a Pluggable Module from the 1948 IBM 604 Electronic Calculator
One of the fun aspects of astrophysics is that much of it involves phenomena which you cannot exactly study from up close, with the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the …read more Continue reading Discovery of an Active Wind from the Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
Especially in this era of the Internet, the role of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has become increasingly essential as more and more web content vanishes into the ether or …read more Continue reading News Sites are Blocking Internet Archive over AI Scraping Fears
After scathing accusations of skimping on due diligence, as well as other feedback to my article on trying to use an ‘AI coding assistant’ for the first time, the only …read more Continue reading Revisiting Using AI Coding Assistants: You’re Holding It Wrong Edition