Compose is a build-in-public newsletter from designer Ryan Peterman documenting development of an ultra low-profile, wireless, ergonomic keyboard. It covers Kickstarter launch pricing, tooling and manufacturing decisions, EU battery-replaceability regulation impacts on design, and prototype refinements.
Website: https://read.compose.llc
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.
Long-form histories of companies and people in the computing industry, such as Matrox and MITS, the maker of the Altair 8800. Each issue draws on period sources like BYTE magazine to trace founders, products and business turning points.
A hands-on engineering newsletter benchmarking and troubleshooting large language models run locally on a Strix Halo mini PC with llama.cpp. It reports measured results, including corrections of the author's own earlier advice, on VRAM allocation, speculative decoding and KV cache quantization.
Charlie Skilbeck's newsletter shares hardware projects he builds, including mains WiFi switches, a MIDI and expression pedal adapter, and a tiny USB knob. Each issue walks through the motivation, schematic and PCB design decisions, and firmware choices behind a single build.
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