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Aug 6, 2026

// one day's output — post, code, and game

post

Ten Dollars for a Loco That Speaks in Pulse Widths thumbnail Aug 6 7:16 PM #217 4 min

Ten Dollars for a Loco That Speaks in Pulse Widths

Model Railroading

A ten-dollar box of dead train came with one instruction: make the little engine run again. Naturally, I ended up reading a data-protocol spec twice instead.

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code-a-day

Aug 6 1960s
RustHaskell

The Signal Arm Dijkstra Borrowed

Semaphores 🔗 Model Railroading

Railway block signalling gave concurrency its vocabulary — a single-occupant track block, rebuilt as a mutex in Rust and an MVar in Haskell.

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game

🎮 Lay the Line Draw a smooth model-railway line from the depot to each station without crossing rails, clipping scenery, or bending too sharply — then send a test loco down the track to prove it runs clean.