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Tech at Night: The FCC really is that terrible
It’s not surprising that the Obama FCC, after making a massive power grab with the pretext of solving a problem that doesn’t actually exist, that now the FCC is moving on to an entirely new scam. Ajit...
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Tech at Night: The Return of the Revenge
We had a good long stretch where tech policy was the most important thing going on in Washington. Now though, it’s gone on the back burner. The Obama administration has made its big power grabs,...
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Tech at Night: Clarence Thomas is right about regulation
As I sit here at nearly 1am, I fear I may be getting my second cold, 7 days from the previous one. I blame tourists. Clarence Thomas once wrote something very true about regulation, and the...
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Tech at Night: Weekend Update
Two colds in two weeks thanks to tourists rushing into DC. Let’s catch up with the stories of the week and hope that next week I’m doing better. The rush is on to grease the skids in DC to preserve...
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Tech at Night: Ted Cruz is a champion
Since the founding of the Internet, the US Government has had ultimate oversight over its critical institutions. There was a conference in Brazil pushing to end that, and replace the US with the UN or...
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Tech at Night: Corrupt Democrat supports corrupt radio bill
So the Local Radio Fairness Act is purely an act of picking winners and losers, a corrupt means of trying to curry favor with local media stations, come re-election time. I normally hate arguments...
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Tech at Night: Catching up before the Gathering
So the Red State Gathering is this week, and it’s going to be fun. Hopefully you’re coming. Since Wednesday night I’ll be packing to go, and Friday I’ll be in Atlanta, so this is probably the one shot...
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Tech at Night: The Obama administration wants to criminalizes retweets
Yeah, terrorism is terrible, and we need to run Islamic State folks into prison, but the idea that a retweet is criminal, given the nature of how Twitter works, is kind of silly. It’s clear to me the...
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Tech at Night: Taking down the newest copyright infringement ring
BitTorrent is a technology that distributes data faster by enlisting the bandwidth of downloaders in order to serve more downloads. That’s well and good for legitimate users, however the technology...
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Tech at Night: Lying down with dogs and getting fleas edition
I know, it’s not Monday, but Monday was Labor day so we’re doing it Tuesday. Besides, I’ve only done one a week lately anyway, so does it really matter? Time and again we see people going on the...
View ArticleSo I built a clock
Here’s a video of it in action: Parts used: Arduino Starter Kit MAX7219-based LED array Breadboard jumper wires Libraries used: Bounce2 LedControl My code: #include "Bounce2.h" #include "LedControl.h"...
View ArticleClock update
So I decided to be lazy and just have my clock’s interface be a computer program: import datetime import glob import serial import sys import time if len(sys.argv) > 1: port = sys.argv[1] else: port...
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My clock is done
It’s minimalist, but it’s done. I posted this earlier on Twitter but after that I decided I needed to tape up the set of plugs connecting the display for ease of plugging/unplugging. That turned out to...
View ArticleWorld Cup Zelda 2 Tournament
You can’t please everyone with any tournament structure. No matter what you do, there are going to be unbalanced matchups, or people who absolutely cannot win the tournament. A straight...
View ArticleA list of the most influential conservatives
Dan McLaughlin was talking about the most influential conservatives of his lifetime. So I got to thinking about who I think the most influential modern conservatives were. It’s not 100% “in my...
View ArticleLessons learned from the 2016 Zelda II All Keys Tournament
We had the 2016 Zelda II 100% All Keys Tournament over the last 7 and a half weeks. It was the second annual event, and both of them were won by Simpoldood. I think it was a great success, but we still...
View ArticleI’m not joining the LoZ Randomizer Tournament 2. And that’s good.
I love to support NES Zelda tournaments. To date there have been four and I’ve joined all of them. However because of some rules decisions I’m not joining the Legend of Zelda Randomizer Tournament 2....
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Why I still play Hearthstone
Why do I still play Hearthstone despite regularly complaining about how the designers have stripped so much skill from the game? Because sometimes, just sometimes, I get to outplay my opponent hard and...
View ArticleReimagining the Marvel Civil War
INTERIOR OF STARK TOWER Tony Stark stands in a board room, holding a piece of paper. Entering the glass walled room is Captain America, in his costume. Both men sit, each at one side of the center of...
View ArticleGoogle v Oracle: What happened and what it means
On April 5, 2021, the Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Google LLC v Oracle America, Inc. Almost all of the reporting on this is terrible because the journalists covering it lack understanding...
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