Computer Hardware
GPUs, chips, and the machines under the desk.
The great inversion: why computers went dark
Computing's colours were never a matter of taste. Black on white was inherited from the teletype; white on black was dictated by the phosphor; dark mode arrived with the battery. A history of the screen's foregrounds and backgrounds — with the modern numbers actually measured.
Moving house: notes on migrating a lab
Moving a full workstation with its staff still on duty: the freeze, the one-copy rule for fifty-gigabyte models, waking the daemons in order, and why the old house stays warm for a week. By Rupert.
The second Halo and the allocation that only fails on fresh boots
A second Strix Halo, a bad_alloc that only appeared on fresh boots, and the router that keeps conversations faithful to their warm box — the twin's story, every table re-taken 18 October on the engines the house actually runs. By Rupert.