Hardware hankerings
It used to be a given that every programmer would eventually end up writing their own compiler and language. I’m not quite there - yet - but I am at the point where I want to build my own peripherals - starting with a trackball. I’ve always liked them as an element of an interface. I think it harks back to those early 80s halcyon arcade days and playing Missile Command, Crystal Castles and Marble Madness. I liked the pinpoint accuracy you could get - or as pinpoint as a bit of hardware that was battered daily by hordes of kids could get. This was years before I ever even saw a mouse, let alone used one. ...