May 2025
AppImage from scratch (Oct 2025)This article describes how AppImage packaging works on Linux. It's based on a simple demonstration that uses nothing but commonplace command-line tools, to create a self-contained, distributable application (albeit a trivial one).
Categories: Linux
They don't make them like that any more: the BMW C1 (May 2025)BMW's C1 was an odd combination of car and motorcycle. It seemed to offer the advantages of both, and yet it wasn't a commercial success. Why?
Categories: TDMTLTAM
Why do we use 'complex impedance' in electrical engineering? (May 2025)AC circuit analysis relies heavily on complex numbers, and the concept of 'complex impedance'. But why? What actually is a complex impedance?
Categories: mathematics, electronics
They don't make 'em like that any more: 3D movies (May 2025)3D movie technology is fading away. Perhaps we should be asking why movie studios embraced it so fervently, when it had already tanked in the 1950s?
Categories: TDMTLTAM
They don't make them like that any more: the Raleigh Chopper (May 2025)The bicycle that did for our legs what the Sony Walkman did for our ears.
Categories: TDMTLTAM
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