A personal tech and hobbyist blog mixing detailed maker project write-ups with occasional music reviews. Readers get first-person accounts of building hardware, including failures and lessons learned, plus enthusiastic album commentary.
Website: https://blog.michaelworks.io/
A personal tech blog about retro computing and hardware tinkering, covering KIM-1-compatible 6502 builds, CP/M-65, and troubleshooting vintage and cheap modern electronics. Readers get detailed first-person debugging stories with specific technical findings.
Vendor-neutral audits of electronic component obsolescence, covering end-of-life status, replacement cross-references and whether a given board can still be built. Each issue documents the evidence used, the confidence level and what remains unverified.
Nikita Tokarchuk writes detailed, hands-on technical posts about niche engineering problems: packaging the official Claude desktop app as a Flatpak on Linux, booting Alpine Linux via direct kernel boot on an old macOS Monterey machine, and limiting charge current for a small LiPo battery in an old phone. Readers get concrete commands, file layouts, manifests and circuit reasoning they can reproduce.
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