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Meyrin: CERN Terminal Font

As part of the lime-mode browser hack day at CERN, we tried to simulate the original command line browser. As part of that task, we recreated the original terminal screen font.

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Week #161-162

Our weeknotes tend to drift to fortnightlynotes, but we’re trying to reign that in a bit.

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Semi-Spimed Bananas

You got spimes in my banana! A really simple way to track and see where your food originated and the beginnings of something much larger.

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Week #158-159-160

The Alfa Romeo 158/159 shares its names with our fortnightly week note. The World Chess Federation (FIDE), currently has 158 member nations. 158 Kronois is a ~35km asteroid in the astroid belt. 159 on the other hand is CLIX in Roman Numerals. Strangly there is a disambiguation page on Wikipedia for CLIX. 160 is the number […]

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Smart Devices, Smart Defaults

The internet of things and smart devices are all the rage right now, but we tend to forget about the simple ways to interact with our daily lives. We need to flush out the spectrum of devices from dumb to smart with interesting things in-between. These will be all shapes, sizes, prices and intelligences.

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