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| | tomscii.sig7.se
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| | [AI summary] This is a detailed account of the development and construction of a DCF77-controlled clock with additional features like temperature and humidity sensing. The author describes the design process, hardware components, and software implementation, including the use of a simulator for development. The project includes a bill of materials, cost analysis, and future improvements. The source code and hardware design are shared under an open license.
| | ajxs.me
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| | A gentle introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synthesiser ROMs using the Ghidra disassembler.
| | drossbucket.com
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| | I'm a fairly frequent Hacker News lurker, especially when I have some other important task that I'm avoiding. I normally head to the Active page (lots of comments, good for procrastination) and pick a nice long discussion thread to browse. So over time I've ended up with a good sense of what topics come up...
| | mrcat.au
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| I've started learning Zig, a new programming language in the same problem space as C, and it has some features I really like. While it's not memory-safe in the Rust way, it has a lot of compile time and runtime checks to prevent common footguns. It has packed structs and variable-width integers to allow for easy parsing of bitpacked binary formats. Its comptime metaprogramming capabilities are spectacular. And it even interoperates seamlessly with C!