HTTP 418 · Oddities
Forty years later, a hobbyist retrofit adds SRAM to the Commodore 64—a cost-cutting measure Tramiel refused in 1981 when RAM was prohibitively expensive. Hardware archaeology meets modern abundance.
HTTP 418 · Oddities
A retrospective on the 1990s anti-piracy campaign 'Don't Copy That Floppy,' which deployed hip-hop to warn youth against software piracy. The piece examines how this earnest effort to reach computer-savvy audiences throu…
HTTP 418 · Oddities
A Daily WTF tale about a project manager with an MBA, a stack of certifications, and very little practical experience. Put in charge of a multidisciplinary hardware-and-software project, she offers management-sounding bu…
HTTP 418 · Oddities
A look back at IBM’s Home Director, a 1996 home-automation setup that rode along with the company’s Aptiva PC era. It’s a reminder that smart-home ideas were already being packaged for mainstream desktops long before the…
HTTP 418 · Oddities
The Atari Jaguar, released in 1993 as Atari's ambitious 64-bit console, has now been shown to run Linux. After decades of obscurity following its market failure, the system's hardware yields to a modern operating system,…
HTTP 418 · Oddities
A NestJS module containing no providers, controllers or exports received its own test. The test simply constructed the class and asserted its existence. Because NestJS modules perform no work at instantiation time, the a…