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Monthly Archives July 2006

Retro Beauty: Nixie Tubes and Nixie Clocks

Retro stuff is cool. I’m convinced that if we lived in Artzybasheff ’s future, zeppelins would still roam the skies and all of our “business machines” would be Nixie tube based.
Wikipedia has a pretty good explanation of what Nixie tubes are. Basically, nixie tube consists of a conductor suspended in some gas in a glass [...]

Posted 10 July 2006 † Dmitry § funky § geek § misc ‡ Comments (0) °

Why (my) personal software projects fail

Over the years that I’ve been coding, I’ve tried to contribute back to the open source community in the form of software (heh, obviously). Anyway, I’ve started a bunch of things but have never finished. Over the last few weeks I’ve restarted one of my semi-dead projects. I’ve been thinking why I couldn’t finish it [...]

Posted 10 July 2006 † Dmitry § coding § ideas § software development ‡ Comments (0) °