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Blondihacks
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Blondihacks is a personal blog at blondihacks.com about hardware and history. Since 2020, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Furiosa's Cat Feeder (2016)”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Blondihacks, Quinn Dunki's blog, for its Veronica 6502 article series and a pinball restoration series. Commenters call the 6502 series required reading and the pinball series good.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Furiosa's Cat Feeder (2016)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-02-01
- Mockingboard 4c+: Because Interrupts Are Hard2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-23
- Reversing Choplifter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-14
What Hacker News says?
There's a good series of articles on the restoration and maintenance of a pinball machine, which has many of the same characteristics as video games, plus a few more mechanical issues. https://blondihacks.com/johnny/
Comment linking /johnny/
on “Rescuing vintage arcade video games from an abandoned ship (2016)”Submitted Furiosa's Cat Feeder (2016) as a story · 244 points
HN discussionShe is also the one who made that one famous post about armorplating her cat feeder https://blondihacks.com/furiosas-cat-feeder/
Comment linking /furiosas-cat-feeder/
on “Reversing Choplifter”Submitted Reversing Choplifter as a story · 196 points
HN discussionIndeed, it is highly useful for learning projects. See Ben Eater's "Building a 6502 Computer" series[1], and Quinn Dunki's "Veronica"[2], each a from-the-ground-up creation of a system around the 6502. [1] https://eater.net/6502 [2] https://blondihacks.com/veronica-all-articles/
Comment linking /veronica-all-articles/
on “Robot Game: Comparing 6502 C, Assembly, and Forth”Submitted Mockingboard 4c+: Because Interrupts Are Hard as a story · 31 points
HN discussionI'm sure you already saw this, but in case others haven't: https://blondihacks.com/veronica/ is required reading for anyone into 6502. I was trying to rehabilitate a Cocktail Joust arcade cabinet I'd had in storage for years, and instead went off into a 6809 time warp for a while. Quinn's 6502 blog articles were helpful for inspiration while I breadboarded a really basic 6809 computer. I ended up giving away the Jou…
Comment linking /veronica/
on “Z80 Membership Card”Submitted Reversing Choplifter – Blondihacks as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Digital Archaeology, Part II as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Armor-plating a cat feeder (2016) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Johnny – CPU Board Repair as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mockingboard 4c+ as a story · 1 points
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