A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. You don’t know Norbert D. Larky and David D. Holmes, but you’ve definitely seen ...

Before streaming and 24/7 programming, there was a time when TV stations actually signed off for the night. Yeah, unbelievable. You'd be watching a late movie or dozing through infomercials, and then, ...

[Nicholas Murray]’s Composite Test Pattern Generator is a beautifully-made, palm-sized tool that uses an ESP32-based development board to output different test patterns in PAL/NTSC. If one is checking ...