Simone’s Blog

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Lectura y aprendizaje A personal technology blog documenting hands-on experiments with retro hardware, reverse engineering, and local AI projects.

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Editor's Review

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The blog stands out for its unusually specific project write-ups, from reverse engineering a Beyblade launch tracker to running an AI agent on a Raspberry Pi. Posts pair technical detail with a playful tone, and the retro-computing focus (TRS-80, Apple IIGS, PowerBook Duo) gives it a distinct niche.

Site introduction

Simone’s Blog is a personal project journal rather than a tutorial site or news outlet. Each post documents a single experiment from start to finish, often beginning with a small curiosity and ending with a working prototype. The writing assumes technical comfort but stays readable, focusing on the decisions and dead ends that shaped the result.

The core content mixes retro computing with modern tooling. Recent entries cover building a 2FA app for an iPod Nano via Rockbox, writing a custom key mapper for a 1986 Apple ADB keyboard, and recreating a fictional guitar from a TV show on a PowerBook Duo. Other posts explore local AI, such as a Raspberry Pi desk toy running entirely offline and a WebAssembly binding of llama.cpp.

Readers who enjoy reverse engineering, embedded systems, and vintage hardware will find the most value here. The projects are idiosyncratic, so the site works better as inspiration than as a reference manual. Expect long gaps between posts and topics that jump between decades of technology.

A practical approach is to browse the archive by interest rather than chronologically, since older posts on the Bluesky firehose or WebSocket desk lamps remain relevant. The site is free to read with no account required. Overall, it is a well-curated record of curious making.