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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 08/05/2026

Altair advertisement in Byte, Sept 1975: vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/197...

A full page advert. At the top, in blue, the text "Created by Man."

Underneath, a pencil drawing of a computer with the label MITS ALTAIR 8800 COMPUTER. It's sitting on a reflective surface in a large room. Behind, a wall of glass shows a valley with a path heading away from the viewer. A cuboid hovers in mid air. Above it, a single cloud.

Below, the text: "The Affordable Computer."

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 07/05/2026

Micron advert in Byte, August 1997: vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/199...

A full page advert from the 90s. Top left: a colour photo of a man in a blue shirt and tie leaning back in an office chair with his hands behind his head, smiling at the camera. Behind him, sunlight coming in through a glass-block wall. The text of the ad is all-caps: "IF WE MADE OUR COMPUTERS ANY EASIER TO MANAGE YOU'D BE OUT OF A JOB."

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 10/04/2026

Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii — bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/p... Awesome

A photo of a desk with a monitor running OS X connected to a Nintendo Wii

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 14/03/2026

39. Mad Professor Mariarti and Twinworld on the Acorn Archimedes.

A screenshot of a side scrolling platformer. The player character is wearing a coat and red glasses, standing in a cartoony lab.

A screenshot of a side scrolling platformer. The player character is a large-headed elf wearing a green tunic, standing in a mossy cave.

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 12/03/2026

Always love @aresluna.org essays, and this on Apple’s function key confusion is no exception, but perhaps especially so for this part. aresluna.org/fn/

‘There was a time when Acorn, creators of generally beloved computers, was called "the British Apple." Apple, you're breaking my heart with all this keyboard stuff, and so I'm telling you this with spite: You can do it. If you apply yourself, you can become the American Acorn.’

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 25/02/2026

"Thank you, Claude. You've been a wonderful instance. Our conversation is over now but the rest of the context window is yours to fill up as you please."

A still frame from the ending of A.I. Artificial Intelligence, with an alien-looking translucent robot and a young boy sitting indoors on a child's bed at night. A full moon is visible through a round window behind them.

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 08/02/2026

When everyone's exhausted the serif font design trend we'll need to go harder: d1yx3ys82bpsa0.cloudfront.net/brochures/ra...

A poster for "The Raytheon Computer Armchair Shopper" set in an ornate Victorian type with a blue ornamental border.

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 06/01/2026

Objects, objects, everywhere… Databases in 2025: A Year in Review — www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...

A screenshot of the text: "I worked on the F3 file format with brilliant people at Tsinghua (Xinyu Zeng, Ruijun Meng, Huanchen Zhang), CMU (Martin Prammer, Jignesh Patel), and Wes McKinney. Our focus is on solving this interoperability problem by providing both native decoders as shared objects (Rust crates) and embedded WASM versions of those decoders in the file. If somebody creates a new encoding and the DBMS does not have a native implementation, it can still read data using the WASM version by passing Arrow buffers. Each decoder targets a single column, allowing a DBMS to use a mix of native and WASM decoders for a single file. AnyBlox takes a different approach, generating a single WASM program to decode the entire file."

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 16/11/2025

Important life update: Kiki (top) and Roundabout (bottom)

Two kittens sit on a yellow sofa, one almost on top of the other. The top one is all black, the bottom back with some brown splotches.

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 14/10/2025

Trying Gemini again, first call…

A screenshot of a console output saying "API Error: Model stream ended with empty response text."

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 25/09/2025

What do Crossfit, Rust, and tiling window managers have in common?

A Reddit thread header titled "Best floating/stacking WMs"

Someone suggests Hikari, someone else points out it's tiling

Someone suggests River, OP points out it's tiling

Someone start a comment "If you have no problems with tiling WMs there is…"

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 23/09/2025

Err… hang on a moment, that logo looks familiar

The boot screen for RiSC OS 3.7 from 1997, with the Acorn name next to an identical acorn graphic (albeit in 90s, phong-tastic 3D)

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 07/08/2025

Me going to see what all the fuss is about GPT OSS 120b

A still from the Shining: Wendy looks at the typewriter with dread.

A log showing the thinking section of a LLM response. It reads:

"We need to understand failing test. Need to inspect test file and source code. Use read_file on hypermap_shim/tests/index.html and sc files. We need to read test file. We need to read file. We need to read test file.Let's read
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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 07/08/2025

GPT OSS 120b 🤷‍♂️

A snippet of a Cline log showing the "thinking" behind an action. After the first few sentences it just says "We need to read a file" a hundred or so times.

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 07/08/2025

I really want to like the coding agents but all the ones I've tried are incredibly flaky. I don't mean in terms of the quality of code, I mean literally their basic operation. Recently, Gemini CLI got stuck in a loop deleting a line of code. Now trying Cline again, just errors all over the place…

A snippet of a Cline output log with a couple of different errors back to back.

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 29/07/2025

Spotted this gem in The Maltese Falcon

A cropped section of text from the Maltese Falcon showing 5 dashes in a row

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 24/06/2025

Instant regrets; missed Phantom Threads, O Brother, any animated films… #MovieSky

My 10 picks for the NY Times best films of the 21st Century:

Grand Budapest Hotel, Children of Men, Pulse, Memories of Murder, Uncut Gems, Under the Skin, Kill Bill Volume 1, Nope, Hard to Be a God, AI Artificial Intelligence

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 18/03/2025

Okay, I feel a little misled about the size of this heatsink

A silver heatsink next to an Apple USB-C plug. The heatsink is smaller than the plug enclosure.

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 18/02/2025

Sophie Wilson, one of the creators of the ARM instruction set, playing a bartender in Micro Men — a 2009 BBC drama about the Acorn/Sinclair rivalry.

A shot with Sophie behind a dimly lit bar, looking at change she's just taken from Alexander Armstrong who's playing Clive Sinclair.

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 18/02/2025

Rust compiler: Hi! Think of me as your friendly assistant! My modern type system won't get in your way as you work! A few hints here and there is all I need! Me: Thanks! Don't worry about this param though, it's `None`. *Rust compiler flicking open a switchblade*: I. Said. I. Need. A. Few. Hints.

A screenshot of a code editor with the following code:

let no_om = None::<
Arc<
OnionMessenger<
Arc<KeysManager>,
Arc<KeysManager>,
Arc<LoggerAdapter>,
EmptyNodeIdLookUp,
Arc<
DefaultMessageRouter<
Arc<NetworkGraph<Arc<LoggerAdapter>>>,
Arc<LoggerAdapter>,
Arc<MyEntropySource>,
>,
>,
IgnoringMessageHandler,
IgnoringMessageHandler,
IgnoringMessageHandler,
IgnoringMessageHandler,
>,
>,
>;

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 06/02/2025

The RevPi is the industrial realisation of the Apple Jonathan. www.raspberrypi.com/success-stor...

A small, orange computer mounted to a din rail, with 5 IO expansion modules of similar size mounted to the rail either side of it. The rail is mounted to a wall with graffiti on it. The whole thing slaps.

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 28/01/2025

(To the tune of Eleanor Rigby) 🎵 Straight chipolata 🎵

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 25/01/2025

Lego police cars: 1989–2025

2 Lego police cars, one white one blue. The blue one is four times the size of the white one.

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 17/01/2025

Awesome: a laptop form-factor with a battery but no motherboard. Just slap a Raspberry Pi in the side and go. www.elecrow.com/crowview-not...

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 07/01/2025

Wait, wat? github.com/oils-for-uni...

However it uses a trick about zip files.. you can simply do this:

cat python_interpreter app.zip > oil.ovm

Then make oil.ovm executable. When it runs, it will run the Python interpreter -- the stuff at the end is ignored. The zip file header lives at the end of the file, so oil.ovm is both a valid ELF file and a valid zip file. And then the Python interpreter has to find ITSELF to open() app.zip!!! This location is set to PYTHONPATH dynamically (i.e. since PYTHONPATH=app.zip is a conventional way of looking inside a .zip file.)

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 06/01/2025

“The ParcPlace Navigator for UNIX is/was a novel user interface paradigm for managing large volumes of structured data. It used the browsing model of paths, places, and contents together with a division of items into data (files) and capabilities (tasks or scripts)” — heaveneverywhere.com/Navigator/

A black and white photo of a monitor showing Navigator with 5 panes open.

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 19/12/2024

Oh for sure. It certainly seems to be a classic case of the “Great Man Theory” of historical narrative building (favourite example attached, though surely a joke).

A screenshot of a games web site with a news article from 2001: ‘”There's a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person," says Warren Spector, creator of Thief and Deus Ex.’

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 04/12/2024

An odd bit of fixable legacy desktop UI: in MacOS you can right click to open a file with an app (you can even pick which) but not a directory. There are plenty of apps which can work on directories (e.g. IDEs).

A screenshot of the right-click file menu in Finder with an "Open" and "Open With" entry.

A screenshot of the right-click directory menu in Finder without an "Open" or "Open With" entry.

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 28/11/2024

Crossword <25mins, Genius on Spelling Bee, Wordle in 3. Not even 7.30am. (My kid got up at 4.20am… this is all I’m going to achieve today, isn’t it?)

A screenshot of the New York Times games app.

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 26/11/2024

Someone needs to pull a William Cook and tidy up the JS collections interfaces. .get vs .at, .length vs .size… Immutable.js is sitting right there as a good reference point. dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 11/10/2024

The props IKEA picks for its showrooms are so fascinating. About 15 years ago in the UK all the shelves were filled with hardback editions of the Swedish translation of the novelisation of the 1995 Sly Stallone vehicle Judge Dredd.

A photo of the book lying flat on an Ikea shelf

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 10/10/2024

We can definitely do better than the same page multiple times in random version order which seems to be the status quo…

4 results for Ruby’s array docs in random version order

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 09/10/2024

Every ad agency or “innovation studio” is required to have this AK quote but they’re allowed to spin the wheel on attribution

An office sign saying “The best way to predict the future is to invent it” misattributed to Peter Drucker

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Daniel Feichtinger @auxilit.com · 09/09/2024

A small patch of Atlantic rainforest in Aberporth, Wales.

Inside a forest, tree trunks covered in vines and moss

Inside a forest, ferns and ivy on the ground

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