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Kasami
@kasami.bsky.social
Programmer, tinkerer, sometimes demoscene things, always technical rambling. Currently working mostly on Casio Loopy and Casio's uPD937-based keyboards.

Website (with not very much on it yet): kasami.net
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I've basically not posted anything online for a little while now and don't really want to actively use twitter anymore so I guess my random technical rambling will continue here.
Not quite what I was going for but I think I can work with this.
December 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Reposted by Kasami
🎁 FIRMWARE UPDATE! A gift to all my Floopy Drivers out there, this update greatly improves flashing speeds, ex.
•Harihari Seal Paradise 59s→18s🔥
•Little Romance 102s→36s🔥
To update, just plug in your Floopy like normal, and click the update notification. Give'r a reload if you don't see.
#CasioLoopy
December 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I keep getting spam emails from a variety of addresses claiming to want to sell me a domain. I'm not sending any money anywhere but decided to play along out of curiosity... They want $800 for it lol. Even if I trusted it to be 100% legit I'd never that much for a personal domain.
December 23, 2025 at 6:16 AM
ebay's search box styling is trying to use helvetica but for some reason the only variant of helvetica on my system is "helvetica ultra compressed extra bold".... so this is how it looks.
December 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Will the conses of my quences ever stop becoming trauma on almost a god damn daily basis
December 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Is there something I can burn or whatever to effectively mask the smell of my neighbors' weed stink? It finds its way into my house even with windows shut and they're not amenable to doing it somewhere else or less of it.
December 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Steam review moderation sucks apparently, and god damn they should be doing better, but it's turning into a "let's all shit on the Valve monopoly" thing again and I can only conclude there's hate on both sides and I want fuck all to do with it
December 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
So the latter has arrived and it's about as garbage as I expected. CH340 directly connected to a DB9, so it's TTL not real RS232. Seems it's pot luck whether a given device / transceiver will be okay with that but first device I tried said no and I'm not comfortable plugging it into anything else.
USB to serial adapters, 2007 vs 2025. The hardware gets worse but the transparent-blue aesthetic never dies.
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
god dammit
December 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The pain of acquiring a device that takes rare memory cards nobody has because they were only used in weird industrial control systems from 20+ years ago... Seriously if someone can help me get a ML-64PC card (or -32) then I'll make cheap clones for the very few people in the world who may need them
December 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
USB to serial adapters, 2007 vs 2025. The hardware gets worse but the transparent-blue aesthetic never dies.
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Woo, weird old card reader for a weird old niche SRAM card... maybe. I think this goes with their ML-64PC and similar cards used in industrial control equipment, but at least one seller in the past has called it a PCMCIA reader so I'm not sure...
December 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
There are multiple cursed things going on here. Two XA sockets, three XH plugs with the locking tab things shaved off. Power going in where power is supposed to come out. I don't even know if this is enough to access the debug console but it should be if they designed it sensibly.
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Anyone used something like an osmo-fl2k to output something like software-defined CVBS? That would be neat for things like test pattern generators on the cheap I think.
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Turns out my new CPU is quite happy at full load with the biggest undervolt I can get on this board. Can't say for certain that it'll be stable long term but it's wild to see temps hanging around 68°C during benchmarks when at stock voltage it was touching the 95 limit.
December 2, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Unusual colored translucent TO-92 packages!

These are current-regulating diodes of various types, made by LED manufacturer OptoSupply. They don't emit light on their own but are used in LED driver circuits.

They likely repurposed a diffused LED production line to make color-coded packages.
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Ebay seems convinced that polyvinyl alcohol is the same thing as isopropyl alcohol
November 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Less than 36 hours left on this, message me if you want to help, even if just grabbing one item you like. Most items on the store are ¥220 each, delivered by email as a secure download link, and need a credit card (use Wise or something if you're worried about conversion fees).
If anyone has a lot of money to spend on archival, there's like ¥190,000 (by my estimate) worth of purchasable downloads on the Kyoani download store that disappears on November 28, seemingly not offered anywhere else. Idk if anyone else has archived it yet. www.kyotoanimation.co.jp/information/...
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www.kyotoanimation.co.jp
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
archive machine broke again
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Heard the term "knock-on effect" again and now I'm trying to work out why I interpreted it so weirdly as a kid. I didn't see it written so missed the hyphen and heard "knock(verb) on effect(noun)" meaning something like "impact on the situation"??? Maybe that's just how my parents (mis)used it idk.
November 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"I wanted to let you know that the domain name kasami‍.com is coming up for sale soon. I thought you might be interested in it since it could be a great addition to your current domains."

kinda wish this wasn't a scam but idk I'm happy with a 6 letter .net I think
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Reposted by Kasami
having a normal one right now
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I should definitely be doing this with baked samples at this point but... SID filters in XM sounding better than expected.
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Trying to reverse engineer [thing that won't be around much longer] and [important step] requires an AWS signature that the backend only gives you if you already successfully authenticated, otherwise it just redirects you to the auth screen.... pain
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM