It was a weird feeling having had to explain the XFree86 drama to someone the other day. In my brain it still feels like one of those foundational bits of free software history everyone knows but, in fact, it's been 20 years and so many people weren't even in the free software community at the time
Got my iFlash! Once the battery arrives, I’ll be able to update my old iPod 5th generation with a fresh battery and lots of fast flash storage in place of the old spinning rust drive.
Success! I now have 128GB of flash storage and a gargantuan battery - something like four and a half times the original battery capacity.
I reformatted the SD card before starting. I've heard that modern exFAT cards sometimes come preformatted with a partition layout that confuses the iPod, so I did a full reformat and then recreated it as HFS+ since I'm going to be using it on a Mac.
Getting the iPod open's a bit of a chore, but I'm getting good at it now. The plastic iFlash tools help.
Accidentally typoed an email filtering rule, so it ended up sending all incoming mail to trash. For maybe a week I sat basking in inbox zero before I realized what I'd done
FFmpeg multithreading has landed in the dev branch! This is going to be a really big deal once it lands in a stable release; looks like it should mean substantial performance improvements. https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-CLI-MT-Merged
Attention Lucasarts fans: just noticed one of the devs on Sam & Max: Freelance Police uploaded high-quality renders of work she'd made for it. I've never seen this before!
OK, figured out why DOSBox/DOSBox-X are still failing with a real early-model MT-32 sometimes. Got a PR up to fix this, and it's working perfectly in local testing.
I haven't seen anyone else talk about this, so I figured I'd put this out there: I finally got to try a Roland MT-32 via wireless MIDI, and it works perfectly. My wife gave me a Yamaha MD-BT01 for my birthday, and it's working flawlessly. Gets all the power it needs from the MT-32's MIDI ports, and it's able to play to it seamlessly via macOS's builtin support with zero lag. If you, like me, are tired of wired cables and just want to be able to play without hooking anything up I can recommend it
Runs digipres.club. Writes software, works on digital preservation on the side. Current gig: devtools at @axodotdev. Previously worked at Artefactual, plus non-digipres companies.