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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 05/10/2026

The tragedy of Hachikō. 😭 He kept going back to that same spot where he used to meet his master at Shibuya Station for nine years after his master passed away. So they built a statue in his honour.

Bronze statue of Hachikō the faithful Akita dog at Shibuya Station, Tokyo

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 03/10/2026

I was seven at the time. It was one spark that eventually led to the overthrow of the dictator three years later.

Today in history: August 21, 1983
Assassination of Ninoy Aquino

A staunch critic of the Marcos dictatorship, former Sen. Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. was assassinated at the Manila International Airport tarmac upon returning to the country from exile in the United States.

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 03/10/2026

I have to wonder what happened to this attempt at making a feature film alluded to in the 1988 Neuromancer adventure game's box blurb (see the cyan sidebar on the right). I suppose it must have been about money as always but more details would be nice.

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 02/10/2026

Kokoro was a deep and tragic story that places Sōseki among the world's masters of literature. Quote with what you're currently reading, here's mine! #booksky 🩸📚💙 The Labyrinth Index by Charles Stross

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 01/10/2026

Alt text is text that is attached to some images, intended to describe images for blind and low-vision users, and give context to images. You can click on the picture of the cover of your novel to see the alt text I added to it, it will be at the bottom.

First Edition Cover of John Shirley's Eclipse Volume One: A Song Called Youth, depicting a man with an electric guitar (Rick Rickenharp) and a woman (Claire Rimpler) seated on rubble beside him. The ruins of the Eiffel Tower are in the background.

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 30/09/2026

Emperor's Tomb gave me way too much whiplash with a rather more convoluted storyline than the other Liv Talbot books but it was alright. Quote with what you're currently reading, here's mine! #booksky 🩸📚💙 Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn

Cover of Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn, featuring a man with a lantern facing an Oni (Japanese ogre)

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 29/09/2026

1922 was classic Stephen King horror, a good early start to the spooky season. Quote with what you're currently reading, here's mine! #booksky 🖋️📚💙 Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 26/09/2026

I remember Olivia Newton-John's grandfather was Max Born (1882-1970), one of the physicists who helped develop quantum mechanics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954. He was Jewish and so fled Germany to England with his family, where his daughter Irene married Brinley Newton-John in 1937.

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 26/09/2026

So the Soviet-era vintage (judging from the СССР markings) ИН-12 #NixieTube finally arrived from Ukraine. They seem to be working. Now need to finish soldering the driver circuits. #retrocomputing

A ИН-12 Nixie tube displaying the number 3

СССР marking on the side of the Nixie tube

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 25/09/2026

I don't think the Gentleman Loser is a real place...yet.

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 24/09/2026

The price of #microSD cards has more than tripled since last year. Many thanks to the Techbros and Broligarchs of the world and their mad rush into genAI! 🤬🤬🤬

SanDisk Ultra 256 GB microSD A1 series at ₱3,243.00 ($51.86) at official SanDisk store on Lazada, September 24, 2026.

SanDisk Ultra 256 GB microSD A1 series at ₱1,037.00 ($17.91) at official SanDisk store on Lazada, February 5, 2025.

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 23/09/2026

California Imperium was as expected, but even if it's getting silly I'm still finding it somewhat enjoyable. Quote with what you're currently reading, here's mine! #booksky 🩸📚💙 1922 by Stephen King

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 21/09/2026

Triple World Score was everything I'd been waiting for with the Faust series. Can hardly wait for the next one! Quote with what you're currently reading, here's mine! #booksky 🪐📚💙 Emperor's Tomb by Skyla Dawn Cameron

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 20/09/2026

Oatmeal the cat is still curious about the flashing lights. #caturday #cats #catsofbluesky

Oatmeal the cat watching my battery charger

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 19/09/2026

The Android's Dream was the kind of tongue in cheek sci fi that's been most of his books I've read this year, but I know he can do more serious stuff too (e.g. Old Man's War, Lock In). Quote with what you're currently reading, here's mine! #booksky 🪐📚💙 California Imperium by Aaron Crash

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 16/09/2026

The Delirium Brief was far more high stakes and high pressure than any of the previous books, can't wait to read the next. Quote with what you're currently reading, here's mine! #booksky The Android's Dream by John Scalzi

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 14/09/2026

So perhaps it's time to make an actual PCB for the #Cyberdeck. I'm too chicken to duplicate the PowerBoost 1000C layout and just leave it as a secondary board that plugs into this one I'm designing. Got some circuitry for a soft-latching power button too. I was writing keyboard firmware for the....

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 13/09/2026

I don't think I got into Gravity's Rainbow with the right mindset. It's the most bizarre thing I've ever read, even more than Ballard's novels. Quote with what you're currently reading, here's mine! #booksky 🩸📚💙 The Delirium Brief by Charles Stross

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 13/09/2026

Same reason I build my own gadgets like this.

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 12/09/2026

#Cordwood #electronics is even harder to build than I thought it would be! When this is done I'm going to have to thread all the resistor and diode leads through the holes on the other circuit board, solder, and then connect the resistors to the bases of the transistors over the grounded emitters.

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 12/09/2026

I have to wonder why #GForth is no longer in the regular #Debian repositories since Bookworm/Trixie. I've been trying to learn #Forth and it would be nice if it were on the #Cyberdeck. I had to add a third party repo for it.

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 10/09/2026

It seems that I didn't have to rewire the #Arduino shield to make an SRAM tester, as the SRAM pinouts were close enough to the flash chips so it was all done in software. Now it looks like an old-fashioned PC BIOS power-on self-test. #Cyberdeck is acting as a serial console. #electronics

My cyberdeck hooked up to an Arduino Mega acting as a RAM tester.

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 09/09/2026

I've been meaning to learn #Forth for a while. It's a lot like an RPN calculator. Probably won't be too hard to write an interpreter for it that can run on small microcontrollers. Best way to learn a programming language is to invent a simple problem to solve. So I try to write a Forth program...

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 09/09/2026

I wonder if there's some kind of memory converter chip that can bridge the SPI used by these kinds of serial PSRAMs to parallel address and data buses. I could probably make one out of a CPLD but...

APS6404 PSRAM chip in a SOP8 to DIP8 converter gadget.

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 08/09/2026

From Triple World Score by Craig Schaefer. #booksky 🪐📚💙 More true than most people appreciate. Few sciences are "exact", most of them are incredibly messy. Especially such things like biology and particle physics. But they're still the best hope we have for understanding the universe.

“Science,” Bran MacDermott said, fanning his hand over the smoking nozzle of the projector, “is not an exact science.”

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 07/09/2026

Cyberselfish is, as I've been so repeatedly struck that I kept on posting about it, even more relevant today than it was back when it came out. Quote with what you're currently reading, here's mine! #booksky 🪐📚💙 Triple World Score by Craig Schaefer

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 06/09/2026

And the following paragraph is even more to the point. Some things never change, and now this bleak vision is slowly becoming reality.

From Cyberselfish by Paulina Borsook.

In 1994, I attended a presentation at the San Francisco Exploratorium (a wonderful hands-on science museum, the brainchild of Frank Oppenheimer, J. Robert’s brother) where videos from several high tech companies depicting the future were screened, among them, the famous The Knowledge Navigator, starring John Scully during his glory days at Apple. Other videos put together by Sun Microsystems, AT&T, and LSI Logic mapped out their vision of the good life and the promised land that technology would bring. Strangely enough, it was a boring world: A world where technology in general and software in particular has taken over all higher human brain functions (never mind that this won’t be possible for generations to come, for a multiplicity of reasons) is one where people don’t get to be creative, act on hunches, or, ultimately, get to use their instrumental intelligence. At best, people were reduced to cyber-kindergartners, cutting and pasting bits of information, collage-like, with their computers supplying the virtual equivalent of library paste. And what is really sad and strange, and shows how imaginatively impoverished high tech can be, is that many of those videos are now more than fifteen years old—yet they are the same visions of tomorrow that the rank-and-filers in the Valley trot out in 2000.

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 06/09/2026

From Cyberselfish by Paulina Borsook. This was written 26 years ago and it's still exactly what we are seeing today with genAI. #booksky 💡📚💙

From Cyberselfish (2000) by Paulina Borsook

Perhaps it’s the specific discomfort with people that makes intelligent agents and interactive entertainment such desired products-to-be in Silicon Valley. Intelligent agents are software organisms that filter and seek out information, doing their owners’ bidding. The latest incarnation of this idea is an intelligent agent that will comparison shop for you on the Web, at e-commerce sites or auction sites. With interactive entertainment, consumers can choose one of several canned outcomes, instead of leaving the decision about what to leave in and what to leave out in a narrative up to the skills of a storyteller whose talents and gifts lie precisely in those areas.

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 06/09/2026

So I got an APS6404 PSRAM chip and tested it with my #BusPirate (yeah it has the Straw Hat sticker). The #cyberdeck runs this thing. It seems to work just fine

PSRAM chip on a SOP8 to DIP8 adapter on a breadboard, hooked up to my Bus Pirate and cyberdeck.

Commands sent to PSRAM chip via SPI on the cyberdeck screen. Write and read commands shown.

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 01/09/2026

I made this parallel flash programmer a while back out of an Arduino Mega. Maybe I can add a few wires and a jumper and modify the firmware to also test the AS6C4008 SRAM chips still I have lying around. Like all RAM new ones have gotten crazy expensive.

A parallel flash programmer made from an Arduino Mega

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 01/09/2026

Danmachi Vol. 20 ended on a rather unsettling cliffhanger. There's again some drips and drabs of world building...maybe time to pick up Sword Oratoria too. Quote with what you're currently reading, here's mine! #booksky 💡📚💙 Cyberselfish by Paulina Borsook

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 29/08/2026

Endurance was a classic Western, with the titular frontier town under siege by ruthless outlaws and a reluctant hero who steps up to the challenge. Quote with what you're currently reading, here's mine! #booksky 🪐📚💙 Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon Vol. 20 by Fujino Ōmori

Cover of Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon vol. 20 by Fujino Ōmori, artwork by Suzuhito Yasuda. Depicts Bell Cranel, a white-haired boy with red eyes, with an open palm up glowing red and a grim expression on his face, with a blond man with sinister eyes looking on in the background

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 28/08/2026

Texas Showdown is more of the power fantasy that is the premise and so far the lore is engaging and the characterisation passable. Quote with what you're currently reading, here's mine! #booksky ⏳📚💙 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Cover of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, with rocket blueprints

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 25/08/2026

The Kaiju Preservation Society is I think the most over the top of Scalzi's informal trilogy of bizarre comedy SF, but again as with Moon he somehow makes it work. Quote with what you're currently reading, here's mine! #booksky 🪐📚💙 Texas Showdown by Aaron Crash

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 24/08/2026

Nexus I think was a victim of the fast pace of tech evolution (parts of it were already obsolete as it came to press) and the failure of journalism to see beyond tech hype. Quote with what you're currently reading, here's mine! #booksky ⏳📚💙 Endurance by John Shirley

Cover of Endurance by John Shirley, with three mounted cowboys with a house burning in the background.

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 22/08/2026

The Nightmare Stacks was again the unique blend of spy thriller, cosmic horror, tech satire, and British humour of the series, this time with an invasion of the fae/elves. Quote with what you're currently reading, here's mine! #booksky 🪐📚💙 The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

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蛟龍Stormwyrm ⛈️🐉🔞🩵💙 @stormwyrm.org · 22/08/2026

So this kitteh boy blue actually used the cat bed. 😭 We had him bathed and fur trimmed so he isn't so scruffy. #cats #catsofbluesky #caturday

Tofu the sealpoint Himalayan cat on the cat bed.

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