Ken Shirriff's blog

Computer history, restoring vintage computers, IC reverse engineering, and whatever

Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did

The new biography Steve Jobs contains a remarkable claim about the power supply of the Apple II and its designer Rod Holt: [1] Instead o...

JavaScript secrets of Bret Victor's homepage

I recently came across the site worrydream.com , which implements an amazing navigation experience through JavaScript and HTML5. The page d...

A new multi-branch algorithm to render rational-exponent Mandelbrot fractals: Part I

If you came here from Hacker News, thanks for visiting. You might want to check out the Hacker News comment thread too. The Mandelbrot fr...

Cells are very fast and crowded places

I recently learned that cells are extremely crowded and busy places. I knew there's a lot of activity in cells, but I didn't realiz...

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