Hacking away on the PIC16F88 trying to get it to talk to the NeXT host machine, and I kept getting very long rise or fall times for the signal when twiddling the TRIS bits. I also saw some very unusual signals on the clock line. It finally occurred to me that as an open collector bus, with no keyboard attached, the lines would float without the addition of pullups. I added two 10k resistors, and lo and behold, deterministic timings! With that I was finally able to start sending data to the NeXT machine.

Hugo

I decided to start working on my personal website again, and as an exercise I decided I’d create my own theme etc. as a way to learn Hugo. I am purposefully limiting the styling and use of JavaScript to create a very minimalist look and feel.

Despite it’s popularity, the documentation for Hugo, even though there is a lot of it, isn’t all that great. You actually have to learn the templating language, as well as get a handle on the variables etc. etc. and I am sure there are many, many nooks and crannies to explore. There’s even a diagramming system built into Hugo, which might be interesting to play with, because it converts ASCII art into the following.