Software

Beagleboard no-pop hack

When you close the audio playback channel on a beagleboard running Linux (I'm running the Launchpad beagleboard-kernel, but I'm not aware of any version where this has been fixed), you get a really loud "pop" five seconds later when the driver removes power from the playback hardware. Here's a simple hack to prevent that from happening. Read more.

• no-pop (Patch file)

Posted Tuesday 22-Dec-2009 15:52, 6 comments.

Earthworm Quest

Earthworm Quest was my contribution to the ITG programming challenge at Birdie 17. Read more.

• lft-earthwormquest (Source code and compiled linux executable, 645 KB)

Posted Monday 11-Jun-2007 06:57, 1 comment.

Freecell

This is a console (ncurses) version of the popular and addictive solitaire game Freecell. Read more.

• freecell 1.0 (Source code)

Posted Wednesday 26-Sep-2007 16:39, 3 comments.

Pipe Logic

Delightfully useless epiphany: Suppose the null-byte is an electron. Then, /dev/zero provides an infinite supply of electrons and /dev/null has an infinite appetite for them. Let's call these devices Vss and Vdd, respectively. Read more.

Posted Tuesday 2-Aug-2011 09:48, 17 comments.

Plasma

Plasma is a small (637 lines of source code) tool for compiling and concatenating propeller assembly language (PASM) and binary data. It extends PASM with some new features, most notably ARM-like constant pools. Read more.

• plasma-1.0 (Source code, 7 kB)

Posted Monday 11-May-2009 16:47, 0 comments.

UMLseq

UMLseq generates UML sequence diagrams from simple text files. The output is in Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) format, and the input format is documented in the archive. Read more.

• umlseq 1.6 (Source code)

Posted in ancient times, 1 comment.