Hi, I'm Seth Polsley! The Polsley Pulse is my low-frequency signal to the web—short notes on tech, computer history, or whatever may be the current focus of my tinkering. Older papers and school projects live here too.

I'm also a Computer Science professor at the Raikes School in the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, and you can find more about me at polsley.com.

Recent Posts

Apple Intelligence and Industry Standards: A Microcosmic Perspective

As much as I’ve appreciated Apple’s tiered architecture for their Apple Intelligence (on-device, then private cloud, and finally third party), it’s no secret that the rollout has been...

Upscaling from BluRay to 4K but What of DVD?

As an avid Star Trek fan, I was recently re-watching some of the TNG, DS9, and VOY series. Comparing the BluRay release of TNG to something like the...

Announcing Cordical and AccessiRep 1.1!

For the past couple of years, I’ve been working with my sister on the tech startup Cordical, which is centered around promoting fitness that is accessible to everyone....

FrameFixer - Reducing Dropped Frames when Downsampling Video

I was recording an emulated game the other day, and I noticed that Quicktime captures at 60fps, even though the game only ran at 30fps. Half of the...

C++ Code Analysis with Python

I was using Mimir in C++ labs last semester, and it was a great tool to check code correctness. I still found myself spending a lot of time...

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