12+ hour, 23+ min ago  (472+ words) Those who stay into the forbidden realm of font rendering quickly learn how convoluted and arcane it can be " LaTeX is a fully Turing-complete programming language, Unicode has over eighty invisib......

15+ hour, 23+ min ago  (333+ words) If you weren't around for the early PC era, or were a little more casual about operating systems, you could perhaps be forgiven for not knowing that DOS is not synonymous with MS-DOS. MS-DOS was just Microsoft's implementation " or rather,…...

18+ hour, 23+ min ago  (497+ words) If you're at all familiar with digital computing, you'll know that computers represent everything in binary values of one and zero. Except that's not technically the only way to do computing! You can ... If you're at all familiar with digital…...

1+ day, 22+ min ago  (252+ words) Reading analog clocks is a pretty straightforward skill to learn. However, if you've already learned to read and don't want to pick up the extra skill, a word clock is a perfect solution for telling t... Reading analog clocks is a…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (443+ words) Retort'Hackaday Cooking with charcoal is a fairly common human activity, as much as others have come to prefer fuels like propane and propane accessories for their outdoor, summertime grilling. Although it's made from wood, it has properties that make it…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (342+ words) On the podcast, [Tom] and I were talking about the new generation of smartphones which are, at least in terms of RAM and CPU speed, on par with a decent laptop computer. If so, why not just add on a…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (578+ words) The physicist William Shockley is perhaps today best known for three things: his role in the invention of the transistor, his calamitous management of Shockley Semiconductor which led to a mass defect... The physicist William Shockley is perhaps today best…...

2+ day, 23+ min ago  (516+ words) {"0":"Porting MS-DOS 2.0 To The Apple IIe'Hackaday Although the Apple II range of computers were based around the 6502 processor, they could still run x86 software using expansion cards that were effectively self-contained computers This way an Apple IIe owner, for example, could…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (748+ words) Join Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi as they cover their favorite hacks and stories from the week. The episode kicks off with some updates about Hackaday Europe and the recently announc... Join Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (471+ words) When Friday the Thirteenth and Patch Tuesday happen on the same week, we're surely in for a good time. Anyone who maintains any sort of Microsoft ecosystem knows by now to brace for impact come Patch Tuesday; March brings the…...