Oakfield GazetteEssays and notes by David Kirby on software, mathematics, machinery, research, publishing, teaching, and early online culture.https://ooc.run/How I Workhttps://ooc.run/articles/how-i-work/https://ooc.run/articles/how-i-work/A practical, experimental approach to problems that connect software, mathematics, machinery, and the people who use them.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTOn the Construction of a Tape Transporthttps://ooc.run/articles/on-the-construction-of-a-tape-transport/https://ooc.run/articles/on-the-construction-of-a-tape-transport/An investigation into the mechanisms, materials, and manufacturing needed to build a durable, serviceable tape recorder today.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhen a Model Crosses a Borderhttps://ooc.run/articles/when-a-model-crosses-a-border/https://ooc.run/articles/when-a-model-crosses-a-border/What happens when financial and technical systems encounter a different set of assumptions.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWho Builds a Geran-4?https://ooc.run/articles/who-builds-a-geran-4/https://ooc.run/articles/who-builds-a-geran-4/A circuit-board investigation becomes a question about industrial ecosystems and communities of practical knowledge.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Message to the Mediumhttps://ooc.run/articles/the-message-to-the-medium/https://ooc.run/articles/the-message-to-the-medium/The intentions behind Channels of Communication: engineering, authorship, and the systems through which ideas circulate.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTFrom the record counter to a digital labelhttps://ooc.run/articles/from-the-record-counter-to-a-digital-label/https://ooc.run/articles/from-the-record-counter-to-a-digital-label/How years in an Atlanta record shop led to HOMOPHONI and the possibilities of an independent digital label.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow Instruction Workshttps://ooc.run/articles/how-instruction-works/https://ooc.run/articles/how-instruction-works/Teaching through real software projects, with the ambition of helping their operators become progressively independent.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTMy life as a 13-year-old on IRC in 1993https://ooc.run/articles/my-life-as-a-13-year-old-on-irc-in-1993/https://ooc.run/articles/my-life-as-a-13-year-old-on-irc-in-1993/David Kirby recalls IRC, dial-up bulletin boards, ANSI art, and the communities that shaped his teenage years.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT