Paper Bits

Digital, Paper, Notes, Bits.

Posts tagged hacks

Nov 14

iamdanw:

Ritornell for Musicbox (by Ritornell)

If it isn’t clear from the video, this is a business card. Lovely.


Aug 15
jstn:


  This is a VT220 serial console (circa 1983) set up as a terminal for my Mac Pro (circa 2010), a nerdy dream I’ve had for a long time that I finally made a reality yesterday.


[…]


  …the final result is quite satisfying, a soft amber glow and one less window on my desktop. It’s also a nice reminder that we didn’t get to where we are overnight, user interfaces and software development have been evolving in an unbroken chain for a long time and some of the old ideas are so solid that they persist 30 years later. Why not use the proper hardware?

jstn:

This is a VT220 serial console (circa 1983) set up as a terminal for my Mac Pro (circa 2010), a nerdy dream I’ve had for a long time that I finally made a reality yesterday.

[…]

…the final result is quite satisfying, a soft amber glow and one less window on my desktop. It’s also a nice reminder that we didn’t get to where we are overnight, user interfaces and software development have been evolving in an unbroken chain for a long time and some of the old ideas are so solid that they persist 30 years later. Why not use the proper hardware?


Oct 22

Niklas Roy: My little piece of Privacy

Robotic video curtain tracks people and keeps them from looking inside. (Which draws huge amounts of attention, defeating the purpose, as the creator notes)