rhyal.com is website hosted on a Macintosh SE/30
In an era of solid-state drives and cloud computing, rhyal.com is a relic of the past. But the website tells an important story.
T2 the Tea Bot makes the perfect brew in the perfect time
No two cups of tea are ever the same but T2 the Tea Bot brews your cuppa for the optimum length and taste. How do you like your tea? How long should you brew it for? These questions have conjured up different answers for centuries. But now we have a robot to answer them for …
The power of hyperlinks and how they changed everything
Facebook’s UX master Margaret Gould Stewart spoke about hyperlinks and their symbolic status on the Web.
Robots like Pluribus are now beating people at poker
Facebook plays its part in creating an AI bot capable of beating millionaire poker players at their own game.
My new favourite blog post is about hypertext from 1998
Hypertext still makes the world wide web go round but things were really spinning back in the 90s.
Could we get a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM?
Was the mention of 8GB on the Raspberry Pi 4 manual a typo or a sign of things to come?
1MB - the service offering affordable web hosting
No longer free but still cost-effective.
Federica Fragapane's Periodic Table of Elements in Danger
If elements were animals, some would be on the vulnerable list. This periodic table shows the ones at risk.
What is Sailfish OS? Huawei might use it to replace Android
The operating system is open-source and could see its biggest consumer application on Huawei devices.
It's A Raspberry Pi Zero Handheld Computer!
It’s like a PiDA but way cooler. Remember Palm Pilots? Those personal digital assistants that you could put all your meetings into. I was way too young to own or even need one before they died out. Then came more sophisticated mobile phones which I wasn’t too young to own or need. And now we …
Fugaku: Japan's new next-gen supercomputer
The government aim to start using Fugaku in 2021. Back in 2009, I started working at Fujitsu in Stevenage, UK. 10 years later and they’re helping to make a supercomputer for Japan. Together with the RIKEN research institute, they are developing a new supercomputer for the nation. The name Fugaku was announced on 23rd May …
South Korea to migrate government systems to Linux
It looks like the republic is one of many nations to switch to the open source OS.