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MLB LED Scoreboard in the Cloud

06 March 2026

Deploying a cluster of MLB LED Scoreboard instances using RGBMatrixEmulator, just in time for the World Baseball Classic.

Game Boy Coding Adventure - A Review

05 January 2026

Revisiting Game Boy homebrew in 2026 with Maximilien Dagois' new book.

Bridging Python and C++ in LED Matrices

08 November 2025

A dive into Python's C interfaces and gluing together Python and C++ for fast image drawing.

JSON as Configuration is Hell

08 August 2025

Managing distributed user-editable JSON configuration files is an interesting problem.

How to Test Your Emulator

04 February 2025

Writing automated tests for someone else's code is kinda hard.

Advent of Code... in SQL

16 December 2024

SQL worked a lot better than I expected for AoC 2024.

Interesting Browser Engine Bugs, Part 3: <select> Tags Crash Chrome

16 August 2024

Part 3 on yet another browser bug.

Interesting Browser Engine Bugs, Part 2: On Video Conferencing

10 August 2024

Part 2 on bugs that are out of our control.

Interesting Browser Engine Bugs, Part 1: Test Timeouts

13 June 2024

A look into a few incident reports caused by Chromium.

Is WGU the New Bootcamp?

06 February 2024

Acceleration is good, but you can go too fast.