I've said this a million times before but it bears repeating.
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I've said this a million times before but it bears repeating.
If you've got a complex but working highly available distributed system and you're trying to replace it with something new that's "simpler", you'll spend 6 weeks on designing the replacement, 6 months on implementing a working prototype, and 6 years on fixing all your edge and corner cases that the old system had already addressed that you were too dumb or arrogant to even consider.
And sometimes the number isn't 6, but 10.
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@ifixcoinops «but how do you monetize this?» :-(
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TULIP: The Ultimate Intelligent Peripheral for the HP-41 Handheld Calculator
[Andrew Menadue] wrote in to let us know about the TULIP-DevBoard and TULIP-Module being developed on GitHub.
TULIP is short for “The Ultimate Intelligent Peripheral” and it’s an everything expansion board for the HP-41 line of handheld calculators sold by HP from 1979 to 1990. These particular calculators support Reverse Polish notation which seems to be one of those things, like the Dvorak keyboard, where once you get used to it you can never go back.
In doing the research for this article we came across the fan site hpcalc.org which has been online since 1997, although the Way Back Machine can only go back to late 1998. Still, we were impressed. It’s fun that the site still looks very much like it did 28 years ago!
The TULIP4041 is based around the RP2350 microcontroller which you might know as the heart of a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 board. The video below the break is a talk about the present and future of the TULIP project, and the slides are here: TULIP4041 – The Next Chapter.pdf (PDF).
Thanks to [Andrew] for writing in. If you’re interested in hacking the HP-41 check out HP-41C, The Forth Edition and Nonpareil RPN HP-41 Calculator Build.
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This is impossibly cute. I'm spooning the dog on the couch, and he reaches out to hold my arm with his paw.
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Remember that tomorrow is your last day to apply for the 2026 Gem Fellowship! https://gem.coop/fellowship/ We will announce winners in Jan/Feb.
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@SteveBellovin @adafruit maybe NYC is in the pocket of Big Arduino.
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