Now #003 - Ham Radio Course : Standard Chinese (Again) : Mages & Modems

hello [at] robyn.digital (robyn) — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:23:27 -0600

Learning

Ham Radio Operator Basic Certification things!
Standard Chinese / 普通话 / “Mandarin”

I wrote a whole entire blog post on those two (which started out as a Now post and then became waaaaay more than that.)

Reading

vga256’s "Mages & Modems"

This book has been my “palate cleanser before bed” reading for a couple days now, and so far, I am really enjoying it. I would recommend it to folks who either were actively participating in the age of early home computing (the 80s, roughly speaking) for a shot of nostalgia; OR those who were not quite sentient yet in those years, and would like to know how it all started. There’s another very enjoyable layer of life in the Canadian North / life on the Canadian prairies as well, so if you have some familiarity with either of those, you’ll probably get even more out of it.

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Now #003 - Ham Radio Course : Standard Chinese (Again) : Mages & Modems

Learning

Reading

vga256’s "Mages & Modems"