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LinuxJedi's /dev/null
Personal blog · linuxjedi.co.ukhardwaresystems
LinuxJedi's /dev/null is a personal blog at linuxjedi.co.uk about hardware and systems. Since 2011, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “Four new Amiga products for September 2024”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Four new Amiga products for September 20242 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-26
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-28
- Drizzle - The Icing on the Cake - Part 22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-16
What Hacker News says?
In a similar vein, I love this blog: https://linuxjedi.co.uk/ He fixes Amigas, BBC Micros, Archimedes etc...
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on “A story about restoring and upgrading a Commodore Amiga 1000”Submitted My WordPress Slack Ban as a story · 134 points
HN discussionYou can already get that by replacing the cpu with a pistorm: https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2021/12/27/800mips-amiga-with-emu68-...
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on “Tachyum’s Prodigy CPU Specs”Submitted Teletext on a BBC Computer in 2024 as a story · 109 points
HN discussion>Amiga uses a variable drive speed Amiga uses standard PC drives with slight tweaked pinout https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2020/12/05/converting-a-pc-floppy-dr...
Comment linking /2020/12/05/converting-a-pc-floppy-drive-to-amiga/comment-page-1/
on “Emulating the Early Macintosh Floppy Drive”Submitted Drizzle7, a Rackspace backed MySQL fork - The icing on the cake as a story · 82 points
HN discussionThe second part is already online although not linked form the first one: http://www.linuxjedi.co.uk/?p=152 Edit: Actually it is linked ("Next post") but I was looking for it on the text itself, sorry! Also, my link was from a Google search, edited to the correct link.
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on “Drizzle7, a Rackspace backed MySQL fork - The icing on the cake”Submitted The Australian Commodore 64 as a story · 74 points
HN discussionYea, I was erring on the side of that being OK. U27 was also a suspect so I tried that first. Update here: https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2022/08/23/australian-commodore-64-m...
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on “The Australian Commodore 64”Submitted Amiga 1200 PiStorm Development as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSome more * Chris Wellons - C and all sorts of stuff - https://nullprogram.com/ * Raymond Chen - low-level Windows-centric, really good - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ * Robert Elder - Linux systems - https://blog.robertelder.org/ * Andrew Hutchings - old computer restoration - https://linuxjedi.co.uk/
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on “Some programming blogs to consider reading”Submitted Fake chips, I got stung as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSome super interesting posts on the site[1][2], but the linked one seems to be more like a teaser announcement. Am I missing something? [1] https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2021/04/02/designing-the-amiga-2000-... [2] https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2021/03/23/repair-of-another-amiga-t...
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on “Amiga 1200 PiStorm Development”Submitted Emulating PPC32 Linux in x86_64 Linux as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Didn't Destroy Your Company, Your Processes Did as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Restoration of a barn find Amiga 2000: part 2 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Recapping Isn't Always the Cure: and Amiga 1200 Repair Story as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making a Can Bus Module Work with a Raspberry Pi as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Four new Amiga products for September 2024 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modifying a PC floppy drive to work inside an Amiga 500 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted PC keyboard hides an interesting secret as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Last Week in Drizzle - Summary of the previous week of Drizzle development as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted WolfSSL on Amiga as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Four new Amiga products for September 2024 – LinuxJedi's /dev/null as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Year of Amiga as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Drizzle7, a Rackspace backed MySQL fork - The icing on the cake part 3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Drizzle - The Icing on the Cake - Part 2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ditching the Debug Probe: Using a Segger J-Link with a Raspberry Pi Pico as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reviving an Amiga 600: From Dead Video to a Clean Boot as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Acorn ANF03 Data Recorder: Retro Restoration – LinuxJedi's /Dev/Null as a story · 1 points
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