How much time and money do we spend in our lives to make everything convenient? We optimized our lives so much that we had a lot of time to do many things. Yet, we lost the joy in them. Does everything have to be convenient? Some things should be inconvenient. The beauty hides in inconvenience. Writing must be on...

Is it still a Balloon Fiesta if there are no balloons?

Using an RC2014-based retrocomputer with genuine RS232 peripherals requires support for voltage level conversion. Although converter modules are inexpensive and widely available, I wanted to design something that would plug into an RC2014 backplane, just for neatness.

Recently late one evening when I should have been going to sleep, I had an idea. I spent the next 30 minutes building and launching a website from scratch. OK, it's not a brilliant site but the fact I can spin a site up quickly got me thinking. Can I do this even quicker? And yes I can! The move to Eleventy I have...