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Posts by quorten

2021

Measuring the value of time outside of work, revisited - quorten

Dirt cheap lossless video editing - quorten

2020

Ensuring systems are remotely accessible with watchdog timers and bootloaders - quorten

EFI Boot Manager tricks - quorten

Convert MBR partitions and legacy BIOS boot to GPT partitions and UEFI boot - quorten

Boot CentOS 8 installer ISO with UEFI to install GPT partitions - quorten

Workaround for minor issues in CentOS network installer - quorten

Philosophical principles of UEFI boot and Linux - quorten

Maximum safe temperature for LCD electronics? - quorten

Interesting Digi-Key article about messy desks in electronics design engineering - quorten

Philosophical and economic considerations for operating a non-trivial home network, with non-engineers involved, explaining engineering to business managers - quorten

Verilog sequential logic timing explained - quorten

Review of open-source programmable FPGAs - quorten

Urban hospitals under strain from COVID-19 - quorten

Lennart Poettering wants to systemd-ize the Unix home directory system? - quorten

Pinebook Pro, a good Open Hardware laptop that actually made it to market - quorten

Random notes, romance novel popularity, religion in U.S. public schools, In God We Trust on U.S. currency - quorten

Simulate your digital logic designs before building - quorten

Amazon book-selling economics, behind the scenes - quorten

Issue on my home network, best first thing to try for future re remediations - quorten

MacTCP programming guide - quorten

Motorola MC68000 CPU as part of an FPGA design - quorten

Great article on history of Apple Ireland, and criminals out to get Apple iPhone - quorten

RTC chip showdown - quorten

Amazon's newer homegrown packaging products - quorten

The winners don't always write the history books - quorten

A different Shine Studios, interesting photographer's approach and women's perspective on beauty - quorten

Old video game info and tools: Saints of Virtue and Lego Island - quorten

Flip phones' comeback - quorten

COVID-19 strikes back hard worldwide this autumn - quorten

Is Ubuntu still relevant? - quorten

Pull-up resistor values in AVR microcontrollers - quorten

Electric Paint is sold at Digi-Key too, and other related products - quorten

Acid in wood, acid-free paper purchase, busting versus edge crush test - quorten

Apple IIc unboxing, one blogger's efforts on Apple IIc Plus, DIY GPU development - quorten

Interesting story behind Graphing Calculator in PPC Mac OS Classic - quorten

N64 Gameshark Linux tools, Everdrive Nintendo cartridge SD card adapters, and more - quorten

Mystery parallel port interface pins solved - quorten

Open Hardware keyboards, USB on AVR, old dual USB PS/2 keyboard controller IC, group buys - quorten

Poor man's SCSI via parallel port revisited - quorten

Getting FreeCAD running on Raspberry Pi 4 - quorten

Yes, info on the SWIM chip, and Macintosh Portable - quorten

Corrections on Raspberry Pi boot-time GPIO behavior - quorten

`box86`, a faster way to emulate x86 on Raspberry Pi - quorten

How to refill my old inkjet printer cartridges - quorten

Parallel port termination explained - quorten

How to configure Raspberry Pi HAT EEPROM to automatically load DT overlay - quorten

Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Model, looking for info on PiZero 3.3 V short circuit - quorten

Warnings on reflow soldering crystal oscillators - quorten

Review on early generation DRAM usage - quorten

Great article on classic Macintosh CRT and analog board - quorten

Bonds, bonds versus loans - quorten

Apple product leaks, working at Apple, Apple's facilities - quorten

Very interesting story about first cloned Macintosh computer - quorten

Interesting article about increasing automation and decline in manufacturing jobs - quorten

Unexpected copyright infringement on pixelated professional photo cover art - quorten

Old laptop LCD deep-dive - quorten

My listing of inventory categories for household objects - quorten

Things that women don't want men to do to them - quorten

Windows XP VBEMP to get 8-bit video modes back? - quorten

The secret to Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth on Windows 9x - quorten

Wi-Fi roaming improvements, Nintendo Switch's lack thereof - quorten

Vintage GPUs, PCI, and AGP - quorten

Commercial 3D printing nickel-plated - quorten

Conductive ink revisited, again - quorten

3D on Windows XP VMs, CUE/BIN disk images for Windows 98 games, VOGONS, the Windows vintage community - quorten

COVID-19 spreading more in rural areas - quorten

OSP PCB finish, classic Macintosh SCSIProbe - quorten

Custom paperboard box makers - quorten

Convert MacPaint to PICT on a classic Macintosh - quorten

Bill Gates famous Mugshot photo - quorten

COVID-19 among Orthodox Jewish communities - quorten

Another custom box making company - quorten

Good COVID-19 chart, and Go dependency injection - quorten

Nice site for showing political support behind products you buy - quorten

Allie Brosh, the one behind the "all the things" meme - quorten

Eagle CAD library for vintage parts - quorten

Supercapacitor UPS for Raspberry Pi - quorten

Finding ebooks in my public library, and interesting article comparing physical books to ebooks - quorten

GPT-3 again, tricking people into thinking a blog was written by a real human - quorten

KEH Camera, and the fate of National Camera Exchange - quorten

Wow, Amiga community argument resulted in unauthorized board clone - quorten

My process to migrate a disk image from hard disk drive to SSD - quorten

Using `gparted` on a loop device disk image file - quorten

My first encounter with wearing down a SLR camera flash tube to the end of its life - quorten

COVID-19 several months into the pandemic - quorten

Embedding fuse bits in compiled AVR output, high-voltage serial programming - quorten

Virtual Game Cube DVD loader - quorten

GitHub switching away from REST API password authentication, why? - quorten

MacSD, another SCSI to SD device, and others - quorten

Determine capacitor values to use with crystal oscillator - quorten

Lesson learned with calculating field of view of DSLR camera lenses - quorten

Jared Mauch's story of becoming his own ISP - quorten

A more elegant way to get Raspberry Pi GPIO interrupts in user-space - quorten

Using a crystal connection to drive a dedicated AVR timer - quorten

Can you read the contents of mask ROM with a microscope photograph? Yes. - quorten

The PIC microcontroller understood in context - quorten

Macintosh hardware projects, RaSCSI, hw. info, X68000 computer, VIA datasheet - quorten

Macintosh SE/30 boxing and packaging - quorten

Jumping into AVR development, what you need to know - quorten

North American NEMA power plugs, and interesting new safety regulations - quorten

How are seniors handling 2020? Very interesting information on how seniors participate online - quorten

Very interesting story of bringing forth a neglected cluster scheduler in waiting - quorten

More information on box certificate size limit, DIM weight, info on pallets - quorten

Info cable modem communications error messages - quorten

Kai Robinson on Twitter, Macintosh SE Reloaded on GitHub, identifying counterfeit ICs - quorten

Inside your cheap broken headphone wiring - quorten

Lead-free soldering iron temperature, bismuth solder, solder! More info about keeping soldering iron tips clean. - quorten

How to setup a flux pen first time after buying - quorten

Researching computer boxing, cardboard and styrofoam, and Macintosh SE original box data - quorten

FluxEngine, a flux disk imager on the cheap - quorten

Amid the pandemic economy, personal finances soar - quorten

Interesting Digi-Key articles, Peltier module cooling, one-pair industrial Ethernet, rotary encoders, port expanders - quorten

Methods to generate output files from KiCad sources - quorten

Raspberry Pi 4 booting, Pi4 PXE boot, and Raspberry Pi HAT ID EEPROMs - quorten

Multi-million dollar banking error and recipient refusing to return the money - quorten

Articles on some open-source software quality problems, lack of maintenance monies, data typematic error in Microsoft Flight Simulator - quorten

Good info on reflow soldering adhesive mounting tape and defects - quorten

Great technique on hand-soldering fine pitch integrated circuits - quorten

Retrobrighting with less chemicals, no chemicals? - quorten

Great website info on a historic Macintosh hardware engineer - quorten

My definition of fair market rates in software, a summary of important sectors of the general business world, and constraints to software employment by a big business - quorten

BJT transistor emitter-collector understood - quorten

IWM, SWIM, and Apple schematic design templates - quorten

NinjaTek, 3D printable synthetic rubber - quorten

Lots of great tech: RaSCSI, Scuznet, MacOS cross compile, and more - quorten

Reverse engineering the Macintosh SE main logic board project, how to digitize a multilayer PCB - quorten

Searching for Open Hardware designs in vintage computing, history of Floppy Emu, and the crux of mass production and Open Hardware - quorten

QEMU now supports PPC Mac emulation! - quorten

Recycling solder waste revisited - quorten

GHS hazard pictograms - quorten

More information on solder flux - quorten

More info on cleaning soldering iron tips, best practices - quorten

GPT-3 Turing Test - quorten

Falsehoods programmers believe about names - quorten

Real estate's brute force scanning methodology for environmental changes - quorten

Trying again to explain stock value calculation - quorten

Potential competitors to `pi-parport`? - quorten

"Totem-pole" means buffered - quorten

A shift register built out of 7400 logic on perfboard - quorten

Arduino parallel port interface for CNC machines - quorten

Interesting history behind the discovery of silicon crystal growing - quorten

Interesting NASA NEOWISE satellite story - quorten

SeeMore old Raspberry Pi supercomputer - quorten

Another Open Hardware CPU and modern computing project - quorten

UTsource, another electronics components distributor - quorten

Pick-and-place files in KiCad, notes on through-hole automated assembly - quorten

SCSI over parallel port, revisited again - quorten

Summary of turnkey PCB manufacturers - quorten

Interesting DSP speaker Instructable - quorten

Does solder flux ever expire? Not really. And, another turnkey PCB assembler. And, how to tell leaded solder boards apart from lead-free solder boards. - quorten

Arduino board source code, more details on DIY chemical PCB etching - quorten

Scratch notes evaluating accuracy of approximate square root - quorten

Coboot API improvements - quorten

RaSCSI, the solution to using your Raspberry Pi as a SCSI device - quorten

Interesting oldest mine by humans - quorten

KiCad rounded traces, interactive graphical HTML BOM - quorten

Simple presentation on GraphQL with Golang - quorten

vtools, a modern proxy on the web for vintage Macintoshes - quorten

Import STEP files directly into Blender? Go through FreeCAD. - quorten

PotatoFi's blog, and NanoPi - quorten

3D printing tips, PETG plastic - quorten

KiCad rectangular drill holes, and CrtYd layer - quorten

Watchdog timer on Raspberry Pi? Yes. - quorten

Ideas on better boot-time watchdog timer behavior - quorten

Interesting Golang vulnerability scanner by JFrog - quorten

Metal plating 3D prints, a close alternative to 3D printing metal - quorten

Raspberry Pi 3A+ is a thing, clock stretching on I2C, and ViewTouch - quorten

Explaining loans and negative bank balances - quorten

My skunkworks attempt at approximate division - quorten

Creating panelized PCB designs in KiCad - quorten

Digi-Key article about safety circuits, and Texas Instruments article a bout power supply ideal diodes - quorten

Other folks on Twitter discussing automatic GPU compilation - quorten

Summary of DIY printed circuit board manufacturing, and tips on solder fume protection - quorten

Exporting 3D board models in old versions of KiCad - quorten

Efficient ways to factor numbers - quorten

Uptick of COVID-19 in America after reopenings, more COVID-19 statistics - quorten

Cirrus with Direct3D 8? No, but there are other good hypervisors to use - quorten

Interesting Direct3D team wall of GPU history in Microsoft - quorten

Better Cirrus Windows drivers for virtual machines - quorten

Searching for the Internet Archive community, a disappointment - quorten

Other things you can do with a Windows XP VM, and connecting physical USB devices to Windows XP - quorten

Actual setup of a Windows XP virtual machine - quorten

Coronavirus underreporting factors may grow in the United States, and economic slowdown continues - quorten

Teamwork versus problem solving - quorten

Lithium-ion battery safety on ships at sea - quorten

Designing a SIMD processor of my own, reflection on many-core communication architectures - quorten

Very interesting discussion on Autodesk Maya, etc. - quorten

Interesting discussion on photorealism and 3D artists - quorten

Marketing tactics galore, own a consumer's habits - quorten

Extending CPU framebuffer graphics rendering subroutines into GPU parallel subroutines - quorten

Women CEOs? Business as usual, snakes in suits. - quorten

Great white sharks feat orcas - quorten

Great article about what astronauts feel when they go to space - quorten

Finally, ribbon cables to connect LCDs understood - quorten

Transparently handle both machine integers and bignums in C programming - quorten

Raspberry Pi OpenGL driver development - quorten

Reflection on parallel compute methods - quorten

GPU regular expression matching libraries, and good slides for OpenCL - quorten

OpenModelica revisited - quorten

OpenCL versus OpenGL compute shaders - quorten

Other reflections on math software libraries - quorten

Explaining power series on polynomials - quorten

Revisiting the concept of computing platforms and tech evolution - quorten

Great LetGrow article on silica gel packets - quorten

RPi OpenCL Compute Shaders, CLBlast - quorten

Human live expectancy versus longevity in the past - quorten

The back-end of electronics rare earth metal refining - quorten

Golang Meetup notes continued - quorten

Vulkan on Raspberry Pi 4 is coming - quorten

Micro-plastics in the air, rain, and land - quorten

China experience after pandemic - quorten

Giant dirt sucking ships, land reclamation, and island construction - quorten

The story behind the person who recorded the George Floyd video - quorten

Explaining optimized parallel compute primitives - quorten

Interesting history of police departments and comparison of speed cameras to human police officers - quorten

Insider analysis of what happened during the George Floyd police station arson - quorten

Trials of being a misidentified suspect in a viral video, and the real suspect caught - quorten

More information about the protest situation: National Guard and "defund the police" - quorten

My tribute to the protests - quorten

Giant ancient South American water distribution system - quorten

Some insightful articles about the back-story before the Minneapolis riots - quorten

Wow, 16th century math textbook with pop-up models - quorten

OpenCL on Raspberry Pi is hard - quorten

More information for calculating COVID-19 uncertainties - quorten

Computing roots, logarithms, and exponents, part 2 - quorten

Shingled Magnetic Recording is slow - quorten

Interesting CPU packaging boxes, and custom retail packaging design/manufacturing companies - quorten

Interesting updates on Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi 4 - quorten

Insightful dream reflection on people's attitude toward safety - quorten

Explanation of calculating number e - quorten

Brazil in deep COVID-19 trouble - quorten

Another way to compute carry bit in software - quorten

"Ninja warrior" squirrel obstacle course - quorten

BLAS with GMP? Yes, it was done... - quorten

Interesting observations of a professional house cleaner - quorten

Interesting article about an unusual bank robber - quorten

Great article about general health and the quest to reduce amputations in the Mississippi Delta region - quorten

Learning about the watchdog timer on my TPE-R1100 wireless access points - quorten

Coronavirus precautions for pools, misreporting of active versus past COVID-19 infection - quorten

IndieWebRung and tildeverse - quorten

Status of Trisquel, `sysvinit`, and some reflection on my tech learning path - quorten

Follow the breadcrumb trail, try to find out inner workings of ThinkPenguin Wi-Fi devices - quorten

vcfed, like 68kMLA but bigger - quorten

SNARF, great DOS screen capture utility - quorten

Good tricks for dealing with stubborn through-hole desoldering - quorten

Rochester Electronics, specialist in recreating obsolete integerated circuits - quorten

The methodology that **DOES** consistently impact software quality - quorten

Ice cream truck that plays metal music but no ice cream, and Minnesota State Fair canceled this year - quorten

The original Apple II did **not** have a vertical blanking interrupt - quorten

The Internet Archive buys an old record store for digitization - quorten

The disparate effect of joblessness due to COVID-19, new TSMC fabrication facility in Arizona - quorten

Draw a circle using Bresenham's algorithm starting at an arbitrary point - quorten

My complex project dependencies - quorten

What is the format of XYPixmap in X11? - quorten

Repair an LCD screen with dead segments/pixels on hand-held electronics, and notes on multiplexing schemes for displays - quorten

Great article about main avenues of COVID-19 spread - quorten

Some great lightweight graphics libraries: CPU 2D rendering, JPEG+PNG loading - quorten

Wow! SPARC CPU on an FPGA, and ideas of a classic Macintosh FPGA - quorten

Drag soldering, a technique for those fine-pitch surface-mount chips - quorten

Ideas on creating "vendoring generating" software packages - quorten

Does anyone outside of Inkscape use lib2geom? Not yet... - quorten

Another treasure trove of old computers, but unfortunately inaccessible - quorten

Florida's Coronavirus reopenings were indeed sound - quorten

Another article about a hacker... who turned white-hat and later confessed his crimes - quorten

Good list of electronics tools - quorten

Fast approximate inverse square root for floating point - quorten

No efficient way to multiply by power of two in floating point - quorten

AI algorithms unable to adapt to rapid swings in Coronavirus - quorten

The game theory of job interviewing - quorten

More Coronavirus updates, things look pretty tough - quorten

Another article about the issues of under-reporting in the war in Iraq - quorten

Wow! Digi-Key PCB ordering services - quorten

More COVID-19 updates: conspiracy theories, reopenings - quorten

Large sea mammals, heat, surface area, volume - quorten

Lessons learned from more soldering, do-it-yourself air filters - quorten

Finally, the solution for the cross product in n dimensions - quorten

Coronavirus misinformation issues - quorten

John Conway? - quorten

Mark Gritter, recreational mathematician, and other writings - quorten

Coronavirus mutation more contagious - quorten

Build-a-Bear workshop still using barcode Find-a-Bear, and updates on the company - quorten

utm_source is Urchin Tracking Module - quorten

Interesting review of a letter written during the 1918 pandemic flu during 2020 Coronavirus - quorten

"Dumb" Fourier transform, a simple explanation for frequency analysis - quorten

Some good Golang vector math libraries to look at - quorten

Trying to solve pixel-perfect plotting of a rotated ellipse, and singular value decomposition explained - quorten

Inflating a Bezier curve - quorten

Finally, a better explanation for plotting pixel-perfect Beziers - quorten

Insightful Digi-Key blog article about improvements in robotoic arms for small manufacturers - quorten

Review of mitigating secondary reflections in 3D scanning - quorten

Export a 3D model of a board with components on it in KiCAD - quorten

Why remote GLX is a thing of the past - quorten

Interesting Digi-Key blog article about RFID advancement - quorten

Revisiting building a cheap oscilloscope using PC microphone input - quorten

Coronavirus vaccine? Outlook not so good. - quorten

Interesting article about the risks of the oil prices crash - quorten

Interesting articles about starting a business for beginners - quorten

Interesting story about the Roseau stone and the importance of archiving - quorten

More Digi-Key blog articles on switched-mode power supplies - quorten

Golang in Lua, recompile code automatically, and Golang in a Jupyter notebook - quorten

Lessons learned from trying to search for integer math libraries - quorten

Simple 8-bit CPU revisited - quorten

Compute a carry bit in software, shift right in software, "find first set" instructions - quorten

Digi-Key blog article on long-term IoT sensors, and ithium thionyl chloride batteries revisited - quorten

Build a table of logarithms using integer arithmetic - quorten

Interesting article on Coronavirus transmission path from Europe to the United States - quorten

QEMU shared clipboard - quorten

More info on creating bridged networking with QEMU, and the trick to guest-host communication with NAT - quorten

Great Digi-Key blog article on making programmable logic design easier - quorten

Can you mix leaded and lead-free solder on the same board? No. - quorten

Reflow soldering nylon connectors, and using solder paste with through-hole components - quorten

Simple serial communications, and methods to progressively reduce the pin count requirements - quorten

The real reason why there is a toilet paper shortage during the Coronavirus - quorten

Vacuum tubes can be built without rubber vacuum pumps - quorten

Beware of diode package sizes - quorten

Hot-swapping connector designs, I2C connector design, my own SPI connector design, and "Stop 'N' Swop" - quorten

Insightful article about corporate failure to innovate in cheap ventilators - quorten

Lessons learned on designing physical electronics projects, 3D scanner, page counting device, software dependencies, and bill of materials - quorten

Lessons learned on switched-mode power supplies and battery power for the Raspberry Pi - quorten

Picking a MOSFET with proper support for gate voltage - quorten

Good Wikipedia info on switched-mode power supplies - quorten

Some more good Digi-Key articles - quorten

The trick to directly connecting a magnetic buzzer without flyback diodes - quorten

Field programmable analog arrays and arrays of analog switches - quorten

Can you use a soldering iron to reflow solder paste? Yes. - quorten

Understanding inductance calculation based off of geometry, and enlightenment on the readymade inductor market - quorten

Beware of ground loops when using Schottky diodes to polarity protect multiple power supplies - quorten

Decisions on choosing a supercapacitor - quorten

Explaining n-channel and p-channel MOSFETs - quorten

Raspberry Pi maximum voltage and TVS diode voltage regulator - quorten

Interesting article about the end of Starsky Robotics autonomous trucking company - quorten

Some interesting Digi-Key blog articles - quorten

Raspberry Pi maximum SPI clock speed, parallel ports, LPC bus delays - quorten

Inductors explained - quorten

Capacitors explained - quorten

Golang package management and various module use information - quorten

Moving from Win10 virtual machines to a physical machine - quorten

More articles about the Coronavirus - quorten

Digi-Key blog articles: isolation circuits, Raspberry Pi solar cells, and respect for power engineering - quorten

Blender updates and PBR - quorten

The chemicals of light-emitting diodes - quorten

NASA Social and Fashion Merchandising, rocket countdown cancellation - quorten

Capacitor temperature range codes - quorten

KiCad circuit simulation, unfortunately analog-only - quorten

Coronavirus news and updates - quorten

Debounce a button using a capacitor, and RC filters explained - quorten

Lessons learned with BJT transistor selection and placement - quorten

What happened to the KiCad autorouter in version 5? - quorten

Do not route traces under resistors in PCB designs - quorten

Information on KiCad sponsorship, and another robotic pick-and-place PCB assembler - quorten

Raspberry Pi screw and standoff dimensions - quorten

Temperature resistant insulation materials in pin headers, wave versus reflow soldering, and DNP - quorten

How to create the Raspberry Pi breadboard-style schematics - quorten

Digi-Key KiCad library, and generate a Digi-Key Bill of Materials in KiCad - quorten

Note on resistive voltage dividers, simple way to send a signal down a power connection - quorten

More discussion on motor control ICs, decoupling capacitors, MOSFETs, MOSFET protection circuits - quorten

Lots of lessons learned on switched-mode power supplies, and effective series resistance of capacitors - quorten

Understanding capacitor voltage limits - quorten

Great discussion on proper decoupling capacitors with L293D, and note on cheap ADC with Raspberry Pi - quorten

Hook-up wire jacket insulation materials - quorten

More info on AWG wire ratings, USB, telephone, and Ethernet cables - quorten

Snap-in pin headers? Yes, that's really a thing. - quorten

Still trouble with libre software development FPGAs - quorten

The economic suppliers to airlines that **are** being impacted by Coronavirus - quorten

Use SPI to drive plain old shift registers and HX711 ADC, and easy SPI to asynchronous serial communications conversion circuits - quorten

Generate high speed waveforms with Raspberry Pi, ChibiOS/RT, Raspberry Pi power-on RESET signal, and Raspberry Pi watchdog - quorten

Interesting Hackaday articles about historic subjects - quorten

Faster SPI graphics displays on Raspberry Pi - quorten

Lowdown on glue logic with Raspberry Pi - quorten

Stocks and Coronavirus part II: Working out specific number of shares to invest - quorten

Program an Arduino using SPI on Raspberry Pi, and configuring the stock ATmega 328 chip to run at 3.3 V - quorten

More info on selecting decoupling capacitors - quorten

How to unset "manually installed" on an apt package - quorten

The effect of the Coronavirus outbreak on the stock market - quorten

Warren Buffett's advice for a stock market crash - quorten

Solar powered barges scooping up plastic from rivers - quorten

Vertical video criticism, and its later embrace - quorten

GitHub pages Markdown syntax highlighting - quorten

All my Golang Meetup notes not written - quorten

Path of action for repairing a CRT with jittery vertical deflection - quorten

A coworker's advisor page - quorten

Explaining fundamentals of the stock market in basic terms - quorten

Great Digi-Key article on FPGAs, and reflection on PLD design - quorten

Finally found the tricks of the trade behind crimping Molex PicoBlade - quorten

Technicolor revisited - quorten

Does depression have a heritable advantage? - quorten

GitHub transparency report, and weakening reports from other companies - quorten

Escape sequences in YAML multiline strings - quorten

Useful Puppet check tool - quorten

The end of hginit.com, and updates on Joel Spolspky - quorten

Larry Tesler cut and paste - quorten

Noisy fan inside computer electronics? Try cleaning it. - quorten

ledger command-line accounting utility - quorten

Why Let's Encrypt became popular - quorten

Things the rich do once they have over $1000 in ther bank account, and power law pricing - quorten

All the Music, public domain melodies - quorten

Year 1920 problem on classic Macintoshes, multisync monitor signals, paint removal, soldering - quorten

Lessons learned on repairing my digital wristwatch - quorten

Run DeepRacer Locally - quorten

Interesting article on "home-cooked app" - quorten

Getting into car maintenance, electronics tinkerer perspective - quorten

More info on crimping Molex connectors - quorten

The Gates Foundation does **not** last forever - quorten

Puppet Apache log configuration - quorten

Mac threats on the rise? And Jamf software advertisement. - quorten

Low-code and no-code programming - quorten

"Oh, you 3D printed the save icon" meme - quorten

Interesting article about civil rights history in Wells Fargo bank branch mural - quorten

Database of all public Internet photos, and storing all the words ever spoken - quorten

Why hardware NAT is not in OpenWRT - quorten

Non-commercial isn't a good license clause - quorten

Libre software Windows 7? - quorten

Crows are among the most intelligent animals in a different way - quorten

Interesting Wells Fargo story about efforts of home loan assistant when a family was in need - quorten

Twitter for blog comments, and strengths of blogging over Twitter and Facebook - quorten

pfsense versus openwrt - quorten

Bill Gates does **not** have a GitHub account, other interesting facts about Bill Gates - quorten

Migrate a Windows XP physical machine to a virtual machine - quorten

Interesting bug in the original Adventure game - quorten

GitHub Archiving Project Progress and OpenLibrary - quorten

Windows `.res` file format - quorten

Read NTFS creation date from GNU/Linux - quorten

Lessons learned on cleaning corroded battery contacts - quorten

Good EFF article on why Public Wi-Fi is safe - quorten

Compute square roots with binary integer arithmetic, and discussion of shifting without shift instructions - quorten

Jenkins pipeline result statuses and Inspec exit codes - quorten

Prometheus blackbox exporter - quorten

Puppet JSON handling, strings, and "shell backticks" - quorten

Minneapolis-baseed Jamf company is going for an IPO - quorten

Develop camera RAWs from the command line - quorten

Improving graphics performance in oVirt and QEMU - quorten

Very interesting hack to unlock Arwins in Ocarina of Time N64 cartridge - quorten

Turntable or turn-scanner? - quorten

Another false study trying to link genetics and income, but a great counter-goal at the end of the article - quorten

Prometheus blackbox exporter - quorten

Puppet JSON handling, strings, and "shell backticks" - quorten

LCD screens, the touch of death and the healing touch of life - quorten

Interesting copyright articles from EFF - quorten

Multiple filesystems in the same partition - quorten

Last calls on LibreCMC gigabit routers - quorten

Interesting aricle on Golang tooling strengths - quorten

Suspend on modern Ubuntu - quorten

Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs) on an unmanaged (SOHO) switch? Maybe. - quorten

Java debugging and diagnostic tools - quorten

L1TF vulnerability - quorten

Understanding human recreation and need to sleep, financial calculations - quorten

Samsung 860 EVO V-NAND SSD compatibility issues - quorten

Using an APC UPS with GNU/Linux - quorten

Packer virtual machine image builder - quorten

PayPal security bug, contest cheater, intermittent errors, and timeline of far future events - quorten

Jenkins store empty stash - quorten

Send message to Hipchat using REST API - quorten

Interesting articles on Ruby programming style - quorten

Installing Windows 10 ready for virtual machines - quorten

Fixing broken apt dependencies in Raspbian - quorten

Energy efficiency of PoE splitters - quorten

UPS sizing, Watts versus Volt-Amps - quorten

Reflection on history of Microsoft and tech profession - quorten

Move relative symbolic links - quorten

Security vulnerability in HockeyApp and explanation - quorten

Interesting Twitter posts about the engine of a large container ship - quorten

Configure remote syslog over UDP - quorten

Interesting optimization issues with Java software - quorten

Using an unmanaged (SOHO) network switch with VLANs - quorten

Shadertoy website and quaternion julia set fractal - quorten

Low-power wireless temperature and humidity monitoring using ESP8266 - quorten

Number square that adds to 33, age of Jesus - quorten

Jenkins quiet restart - quorten

Haiku OS **does** work on ARM! - quorten

Difference between smbfs and cifs and Windows 7 vs. 10 - quorten

Raspberry Pi 4 video tearing explained - quorten

2019

Read Wi-Fi password via QR code - quorten

Find which font is used for the default `sans-serif` on Ubuntu - quorten

Great article on proper technique for surface-mount capacitor removal - quorten

Interesting article about Doom engine graphics rendering, and hisory of computing blog articles - quorten

More discussion on Raspberry Pi power button, suspend to disk, suspend to RAM - quorten

Unfortunate record of lies about the Afghanistan War - quorten

Policy interventions on parenting effectiveness and open source programming in schools - quorten

How to setup proper DPMS on Raspberry Pi - quorten

Virtualization on Raspberry Pi - quorten

My setup and first test run using Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop PC - quorten

Rsync a hard disk image - quorten

Additional reflection on amortized cost - quorten

Counting costs paid for by someone else and "sponsorship" - quorten

How to measure inductance - quorten

Weight sensors revisited - quorten

Active low and active high - quorten

Solve a system of 3 linear equations using only integer arithmetic - quorten

Hobby project time spend and investment measures - quorten

A Slack client for Windows 3.1 and useful information on Win3.1 retro development - quorten

Programmable Logic Array versus FPGA - quorten

Responsibly made in China? - quorten

Aluminum foil reflectors can improve your Wi-Fi network - quorten

More sources about body language, by example - quorten

An overdesigned Raspberry Pi Zero system - quorten

SPI is faster than I2C - quorten

TI 84 Plus Calculator I/O port - quorten

Updates on rubber decay and preservation - quorten

Find hidden Wi-Fi networks - quorten

Many useful tips and tricks from 68kMLA - quorten

Thread lock - quorten

How to glue plastics together - quorten

My first steps taking Go Hugo for a spin - quorten

The rise and fall of Playstation 3 Supercomputers - quorten

Different ways to start a program on Unix and Raspberry Pi bootup - quorten

AI Dungeon 2 - quorten

Self-driving cars should be called "cryptocybers" - quorten

Article diagrams, software versus hardware - quorten

Lots of interesting info from 68kMLA - quorten

E911 and VoIP - quorten

Laptop mufflers - quorten

WCAG, the W3C's Accessibility Guidelines - quorten

Good bye jrwhipple.com - quorten

Trojan dependencies in 2 Python packages - quorten

Lessons learned with cable design - quorten

Averting the Y2K crisis at banks and curious prediction of smartphone - quorten

What people are willing to pay for versus what they should want - quorten

Reiterate transmission line bus construction, RS-485 line drivers, comparison with LocalTalk, and power over RS-422/485 - quorten

Finally an update on EOMA 68 - quorten

More information on capacitive force sensors - quorten

`myhostname` and `lmhosts` - quorten

Some good cheap segmented LCD displays, and info on driving an LCD display - quorten

Make your own cheap capacitive pressure sensor, and list of simple sensor technologies - quorten

Fun ways to build improvements to a toybox - quorten

Interesting video about putting together 12-key MIDI controller - quorten

How to build a keyboard controller in pure hardware circuits - quorten

More info on 7-segment LCD display control, flat zebra cables, and beware of PWM LED brightness control - quorten

Silent step stepper motor controllers, make a 3D printer run silent - quorten

Information on DC barrel connectors and and tricks on how to measure DC barrel connectors - quorten

Interesting FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero HAT - quorten

Great reference for PCB board markings - quorten

GitHub Archiving Program, it's here! - quorten

Polyfuse to use with Raspberry Pi Zero - quorten

Great Digi-Key article on diodes, and searching for DC switching power supplies, and inductors revisited - quorten

What is a service mesh? - quorten

You **can** buy a fully automatic SMT assembly prototype online! - quorten

C64 BASIC program found on Christian rock band vinyl record - quorten

`setsid` to run SSH with custom password - quorten

Space or no space between units? - quorten

Interesting Digi-Key blog article and maker.io - quorten

How to implement a Raspberry Pi power button, and using `gpio-keys` for interrupt-driven GPIO key events - quorten

Explaining single-wire earth return, and updates on "magnetic resonance" power distribution - quorten

Mask ROM and PROM - quorten

How to get composite video out of Raspberry Pi audio plug - quorten

Can a leaf blower fly? No. - quorten

Low-speed brushless DC motors - quorten

WeWork did lay off thousands - quorten

Raspberry Pi Zero PC USB GPIO expander, old distributors expansion news - quorten

IEEE Spectrum PCB motors and "dead bug" high-speed circuits article - quorten

Smaller DC motors, computing motor power, and brief review of vehicle steering - quorten

Use a hot glue gun for welding plastic and shrinking heat-shrink - quorten

Rare Apple II jigsaw puzzle - quorten

Output impedance explained, and transmission lines - quorten

Summary of computer I/O connector voltages - quorten

Capacitor plague still affecting us to this day? And notes on "Chinese drywall" - quorten

Minimal components to build a cheap sound toy - quorten

MIDI 2.0 is finally out! - quorten

Tips on repairing squashed wires - quorten

More information on leak-resistant lithium batteries - quorten

Useful eLinux page on the Raspberry Pi - quorten

Reflection and summary of motor control protective circuits - quorten

Many useful parts for building your own motor control circuit - quorten

The IRS tried to take on the ultra-rich, it didn't go well - quorten

Ubiquity networks makes bad firmware that phones home - quorten

Being a pilot isn't great like it is hyped up to be - quorten

SMD to through-hole adapters - quorten

Interesting article on the history of Zork - quorten

Build your own low voltage motor controller out of MOSFETs - quorten

Ceramic resonators alternative to quartz crystals, and Raspberry Pi crystal oscillator - quorten

Current ratings of AWG wire gauges - quorten

BJT, MOSFET, and thyristors compared, discussion on ADCs - quorten

Build your own Pentax CS-205 cable release button - quorten

Linux kernel performance still on the decline - quorten

`systemd` replacement for rc.local - quorten

Determine resistor resistance and power-rating for LEDs - quorten

How 3D printing pushes standards and changes our designs - quorten

Microsoft experiments with 4-day workweek, productivity increases 40% - quorten

No progress on EOMA68, but is Libre RISC-V M-Class moving - quorten

IC "plastic" packaging material and melting - quorten

How to stroke a cat and tree planting can be detrimental - quorten

Attach a serial device as Xorg keyboard - quorten

Polish acrylic plastic to a glass-like shine - quorten

Interesting article on body language - quorten

Burning match temperature and hot temperatures used for various purposes - quorten

Barber's pole history - quorten

Where non-technical people get innovation - quorten

Inventory of 3D printable materials in 2019 - quorten

What happened to Steve Jobs' net worth? - quorten

MMM updates: stock index funds and safety illusion - quorten

Random notes on human health and reflection on "warranty coverage" of the human body - quorten

Ubiquiti Networks and the DC lead-acid UPS I was looking for - quorten

Interesting how to make friends as an adult article - quorten

Raspberry Pi AppleTalk bridge - quorten

Why aren't vintage televisions valued like vintage computers? - quorten

The other side of the television... again - quorten

Interesting survey on demographic salary expectations - quorten

Computer and television video signal standards - quorten

Vintage Computer Festival Mid-west - quorten

Wikipedia Refurbished - quorten

Woz.org - quorten

Capacitor repair info on vintage Macintoshes - quorten

Imagewriter emulator! - quorten

More insightful vintage Macintosh knowledge - quorten

Disk imaging software info - quorten

Very interesting tiny development board packing a punch! - quorten

Useful server for vintage Apple II and Macintosh - quorten

Interesting articles on the economics of open-source - quorten

Some interesting threads on Twitter - quorten

Stickers history, and the decline of stickers - quorten

Interesting history of SS Great Eastern - quorten

Rationale for vintage computing vs. single board computing - quorten

Very interesting modern 8-bit computer design - quorten

Lots of interesting articles from PetaPixels - quorten

Lots of useful vintage computing and vintage Macintosh information - quorten

List and remove installed software via Powershell - quorten

Windows Powershell assign manual IP and enable PSRemoting - quorten

Ken Thompson's historic password now cracked - quorten

Software that has changed the world - quorten

Mystery MacSE expansion card identity solved, still figuring out how to use it, misc. information on vintage computing - quorten

Lowdown on aging and failure modes of rubber - quorten

macOS Catalina has dropped 32-bit support - quorten

Info on removing Macintosh SE logic board - quorten

POWER instruction set architecture is now open source - quorten

Interesting story about restoring Macintosh Classic and hard disk drive - quorten

Scans of various vintage Macintosh manuals - quorten

Recap capacitors in a Macintosh 20SC Hard Disk power supply - quorten

Interesting story about Wells Fargo shotgun messenger - quorten

Underscores in numbers and "atomic" Unicode operator in Perl - quorten

The story behind SourceForge, and some personal reflection - quorten

Why do businesses fail to innovate? - quorten

Humans are creatures of habit - quorten

Get hard disk metadata on GNU/Linux - quorten

Great interview iwth Eben Upton on Raspberry Pi 4 - quorten

Bargain bin, inferior good, and shovelware - quorten

Mystery of the lost hard drive company - quorten

Clever tricks with electronics and EOMA68 - quorten

Lessons learned on house logs, a tour of common human weaknesses and limitations on human ability to attain ideals - quorten

Run Jenkins build step in a subdirectory - quorten

Ruby `map` is now preferred over Ruby `collect` - quorten

`Mermaid.js`, like `graphviz` but more modern - quorten

Long distance communication before electricity - quorten

Disk Copy 4.2 file format and file tags - quorten

Clearing up some misconceptions on how Jenkins handles Git credentials - quorten

Delete a Git branch and tag of the same name - quorten

What's this? Magnetic flux disk images? - quorten

Miscellaneous Jenkins tips and tricks - quorten

Gather report on Windows like `sosreport` - quorten

Ruby VCR package and Cheap Writing Services sponsor? - quorten

Great article about software licenses by Bruce Perens - quorten

Oak game engine - quorten

Create an empty Git branch - quorten

Important info updates on Macintosh hard drive imaging - quorten

Run Jenkins only on particular slave nodes - quorten

CRC-32 is reasonably easy to compute - quorten

MacBinary and BinHex are reasonably easy to process - quorten

Plans on developing my classic Macintosh serial disk imager software - quorten

Get branch name of commit hash in Git - quorten

Interesting monitoring software - quorten

Why MacTerminal had limited handshaking support - quorten

Review of Macintosh Classic software development tools, and also evolution of ROM/BIOS programming - quorten

The trick to understanding MacBinary - quorten

Good Reads website and social cataloging - quorten

Trigger a Jenkins job whenever a branch is pushed to GitHub - quorten

Details on how to develop a Macintosh dd - quorten

Interesting article about heart structure from different exercise - quorten

Wikipedia article on risks of blue light - quorten

Interesting article on the disadvantages of DIY - quorten

Interesting spacesuit moisture control mechanism - quorten

Git's antiquated contributor process and nedmalloc - quorten

Esoteric login software used in large institutions - quorten

Running Ruby rake with parameters - quorten

Tricks on using Chef Inspec - quorten

Reflection on the trouble of bloat in popular software - quorten

Are button cell batteries wired directly without voltage regulators? Most likely, yes. - quorten

COBOL is still in use after 60 years - quorten

Interesting articles from Programming is Terrible - quorten

The fate of the gHacks website - quorten

Costs of IPv4 are going up due to exhaustion - quorten

Automatic Differentiation proposal for Swift - quorten

Being likeable when saying very little - quorten

Explaining fast and efficient factorization - quorten

Some poetic statements about human time and organizational skills - quorten

Interesting article about Commercial Motor Vehicle roadside inspections - quorten

Interesting article about former Mormon missionaries in tech - quorten

New houses do not have new networks - quorten

Fun with generics programming in C - quorten

Install Python on Windows without Admin privileges - quorten

Other writings of Ulrich Drepper - quorten

Another article on the history of Unix - quorten

Long way to delete a file with a lock on it in Windows, without restarting - quorten

Advantages of dialup Internet - quorten

Mysteries of the Nile and obelisks - quorten

Documentation in new software projects is hard - quorten

Moving fast and being organized go together - quorten

Interesting conversation with another engineer - quorten

Key features and APIs to emulate in a minimal computer system - quorten

Some geek endeavors clearly put to good use for non-techies - quorten

PuppetLabs Beaker - quorten

Windows 10 development virtual machine - quorten

Public domain day is January 1st, and 2019 was a boon to public domain - quorten

Avoid Contributor License Agreements in your projects - quorten

Some interesting history on Tandy Corporation - quorten

Wall stud spacing and doorways - quorten

`SendInput()` for Windows PowerShell - quorten

Lessons learned from large scale paper scanning - quorten

Bresenham's line plotting algorithm explained - quorten

Polygonal mirrors - quorten

More Raspberry Pi 4 reviews - quorten

Why don't we play around more often? - quorten

3D printing with PayPal, and other useful 3D printing links - quorten

The end of Windows Phone - quorten

Run remote Powershell commands and copy files - quorten

Defunct peer-to-peer software of times past - quorten

CentOS hostnamectl and NetworkManager static IP - quorten

Inaccurate birth certificates and pension fraud correlated with longer life expectancy - quorten

iPhone security vulnerabilities - quorten

Windows equivalent of Linux system calls? No. - quorten

Type-in arbitrary binary files on various operating systems - quorten

Print queue software - quorten

Do not use zip codes for geospatial analysis - quorten

Exciting progress on RISC-V and how to donate - quorten

SSDs are poised to render hard drives totally obsolete - quorten

Modern Microsoft Office on Windows 10 ARM? No. - quorten

Raspberry Pi 4 reviews - quorten

Modern books still echoing old fashioned vibes - quorten

Federal Reserve interest rate cut - quorten

Hazmat suits - quorten

Conductive inks revisited - quorten

Gaming systems, complexity, and who is willing to play - quorten

Lego Quatro - quorten

How remote syslog works, and how to use it with Docker - quorten

Earth's rotation is speeding up - quorten

To those who are leaving the vintage computing community... - quorten

The final fate of XEmacs - quorten

Interesting venture capital funding and one project - quorten

Unit testing in Ansible - quorten

Raspberry Pi 4 is here! - quorten

Get Raspberry Pi serial number - quorten

Linus kills the floppy disk driver from Linux - quorten

What DevOps is about - quorten

Code golf - quorten

Missing subjects from my blog - quorten

Two randoms: Beauty and the Geek, Bail Bonds - quorten

POE splitters, injectors, and 12-volt lead-acid UPS power - quorten

Mechanical television revisited - quorten

More on how car culture affects how people get to know new people in - quorten

Register allocation considerations in a compiler - quorten

Plans on constructing a simple pipe implementation, and other ideas for a simple operating system - quorten

Interesting StackExchange questions on upgrading your DSLR camera body - quorten

Get information about area in program where signal occurred - quorten

GNU Health -- Wow, a full health information system and hospital management software suite - quorten

Hooray! Trisquel 9 development version is available - quorten

Good guidance on setting up multiple Wi-Fi access points on the same network - quorten

Workaround for trouble installing sosreport - quorten

VirtualBox does allow you to hide the VM GUI - quorten

Looking for options for a modern GUI widget toolkit - quorten

`vmpooler` and `hiera-eyaml` - quorten

Interesting DuckDuckGo privacy articles - quorten

Install custom gem into Bundler environment - quorten

"Big green button," interesting software project a coworker worked on - quorten

Raspberry Pi does **not** have 64-bit time - quorten

Explaining libre software in a whole-world of users perspective - quorten

Discussion on implementing hardware parallel arithmetic - quorten

The old Windows Compatibility Mode that used a virtual machine - quorten

OneDrive on GNU/Linux? - quorten

When was the National Science Foundation formed? - quorten

Some very useful Wikipedia articles on circuits - quorten

Updates on MPEG-2 hardware decoding on Raspberry Pi - quorten

Ansible, cowsay, and figlet - quorten

Lessons learned from a first major home cabling project - quorten

The story behind `tuxcall` in Linux? - quorten

Libre bridges to modern chat and messaging software - quorten

Simplistic gate array simulation discussion - quorten

Reflection on the "dark saber", light, and the fate of the Universe - quorten

Reflection on Alan Kay's vision of every child doing computer programming - quorten

Demise of the Apple AirPort series routers - quorten

Comparing new Gigabit routers and Wi-Fi access points - quorten

Two different kinds of "Inspec" and New Relic monitoring - quorten

Looking for QEMU PC Gameport support - quorten

pip proxy and certificates - quorten

Bi-directional communication on a parallel port - quorten

AX.25 and the node package is for amateur radio packet networking - quorten

SLIP and TFTP are really easy to implement and use - quorten

Run Linux on an Xbox 360 - quorten

Some random mutterings on how to recreate a toy version of the hodgepodge of technology I used at one workplace - quorten

Installing new electrical boxes on an existing finished drywall? - quorten

Office Wi-Fi access points - quorten

Libre RISC-V M-Class -- Competitive Progress - quorten

Front panel control switch discussion, and TV Typewriter - quorten

What "MII" in `mii-tool` stands for - quorten

Raster video display over a serial connection - quorten

Adventures in creating a bridge between eth0 and wlan0, and how to use wpa_supplicant manually - quorten

Last name NOT NULL... but what if it is? - quorten

Offshoring on Wikipedia - quorten

Editing curves with constant length - quorten

Windows 9? - quorten

gcc-ia16 is the successor to bcc - quorten

Again, statx on Linux to get crtime - quorten

PowerShell core for Linux and VBscript - quorten

Is there any such thing as a recession proof job? - quorten

The fading Apple II and Macintosh Classic user groups - quorten

Demographic changes with jobs, economics, motor vehicle ownership - quorten

Reflections on the awesome innovation of the 1980s and 1990s - quorten

Good Python data science, math, and statistics packages - quorten

Other miniature libc implementations - quorten

Interesting discussion on the modern use of ND filters - quorten

Docker symlink processing bug allows root filesystem access - quorten

StackOverflow Documentation and how StackOverflow makes money - quorten

Inspec, another server configuration testing framework - quorten

String hashing algorithms and psychology - quorten

Some of my first notes on Groovy Jenkins programming - quorten

Trouble with Git for Windows, Rsync, and MSYS - quorten

Connect a classic Macintosh to the Windows SMB network - quorten

Clever way to copy a disk image of an old Macintosh hard drive - quorten

Best way to bootstrap a classic Macintosh - quorten

Compile-time hashes - quorten

Reflection on monetary abstractions - quorten

Macintosh Classic disk interface - quorten

Comparing options for long focal length lenses - quorten

Review of some different Macintosh Classic emulators - quorten

The forgotten Silicon Beach Software company - quorten

Apple Older Software Downloads Archive - quorten

Kermit and serial communications on a Macintosh Classic - quorten

Ghostscript ps2pdf force landscape rotation - quorten

Cat6A Cabling Speed Test Tool? No. - quorten

Splice Ethernet cables and trunking - quorten

Physical placement of logical sectors on removable media - quorten

How hot is too hot for non-stick pan coatings? - quorten

I haven't found a good use of Twitter yet - quorten

Remove heatshrink tubing from wiring - quorten

Reflection on non-computerized technology - quorten

Disadvantages of an open floor plan office - quorten

Is real estate really a good investment? - quorten

Lawson software, so old it is hard to find information about - quorten

Vitamin B12 and very interesting history of breakfast cereals - quorten

Random discussion on advice improving mental focus from Twitter - quorten

Miscellaneous notes on culture, software abstractions, and EOMA 68 - quorten

How polluted air affects behavior in many ways - quorten

Loop mount a partition from a full disk image - quorten

What happened to VirtualBox on Trisquel? - quorten

Long discussion on why I like vintage computing - quorten

Armored combat? What exactly is warfare? - quorten

Lossless embed JPEG images inside PDF, revisited - quorten

Copy a Windows 9x disk image over the network - quorten

DuckDuckGo and content farms - quorten

Interesting viewpoint on privacy not being abstractable - quorten

Effects of exercise on your brain - quorten

Where to find Windows 98 online - quorten

Copy a Macintosh Classic hard disk image over the network - quorten

Copy a disk image over the network - quorten

OpenCL acceleration in ImageMagick - quorten

Computer Color Mixing: From Zero to Hero - quorten

Ceramic repair with water glass? - quorten

Some interesting articles and random things today - quorten

Other people's methods of scanning books by photoographing the pages - quorten

The successor of literate programming - quorten

Cue marks and security printing in the media - quorten

PubMed Identifier (PMID) - quorten

Looking for info on predicted recession - quorten

Articles on impending recession - quorten

Trial notes on trying to solve slow VNC problem - quorten

Looking for causes of slow VNC performance - quorten

Troubleshooting Linux webcam issues - quorten

Trouble using a webcam on Linux with Cheese webcam booth? - quorten

Young versus old in modern American politics - quorten

Trouble with Google ReCAPTCHA - quorten

American politics: Not black versus white, young versus old - quorten

Reflection on my bad experience with Google customer support - quorten

HackMyResume, awesome resume generator - quorten

Awesome resume generator - quorten

Generate UUID using Linux procfs - quorten

Generate a UUID on the command line in Linux - quorten

Some more great economics articles by Lynn Parramore - quorten

Jellyswitch, another interesting coworking company - quorten

Coworking and 3D scanner business - quorten

Zeroth world countries? - quorten

Silicon-based lifeforms? Material Science lowdown. - quorten

The theory behind software test - quorten

Flexible glass and ancient inventions - quorten

Red List Building Materials -- great start - quorten

More fire-resistant materials for electronics cases - quorten

What is Guardian tempered safety glass? - quorten

Foldable smartphones, unwanted smart home rollouts, and genetically modified chicken egg hatcheries - quorten

Flying cars and a lesson against testing self-driving vehicles without permission from the public - quorten

Distance to Proxima Centauri and the Rare Earth Hypothesis - quorten

Exciting progress on the custom RISC-V project - quorten

Interesting article about a journalist who received a "Top Doctors" award - quorten

Video capture on Linux mapped out - quorten

Clay electronic cases, the chemistry of rocks and minerals, and sodium silicate glue - quorten

More ways to build your own keyboards and buttons - quorten

Uber releases open-source autonomous vehicle visualization toolkit - quorten

Some articles from Mr. Money Mustache - quorten

The end of public Java updates for developers - quorten

Mount FTP filesystem on GNU/Linux - quorten

Visit libregraphicsworld, discuss some interesting articles - quorten

Work-life balance leads to more diversity at workplaces - quorten

Two question programming interview - quorten

Audit on Minnesota Vehicle Registration system failure - quorten

"Living off the land" virus evades detection, and unknown Google Nest microphone - quorten

Inkscape is on GitLab, not GitHub - quorten

The MS-DOS Encyclopedia's availability online - quorten

New AI to continue stories where you left off, and continuous partial attention - quorten

Interesting blog I found from Let Grow website - quorten

Protective equipment for soldering and welding - quorten

How to remove various glues from circuit boards, and about chip-on-board modules - quorten

A process that I used to migrate a big CVS repository to Git - quorten

Updates on EOMA68 - quorten

Cheap Raspberry Pi viewfinders inspired by... gun sights? - quorten

A very good article on frugality, MMM on time science, and other MMM articles - quorten

S-Video explained - quorten

Interesting home inspection blog - quorten

More info on controlling uneven foundation settling - quorten

Antigens that cause latex allergies, info about Spandex - quorten

Let Grow article relatable to my blog - quorten

Reflections on 3D scanning, WeWork, and newer ways of doing things - quorten

Random ad against cauliflower - quorten

Some interesting articles on personal finance - quorten

Wikipedia article on "steal the land"? No. - quorten

Looking for switches and devices resistant to static electricity - quorten

WeWork, rental office space company - quorten

Dead letter office - quorten

Good Doxygen and gtk-doc solution - quorten

Relearning the XDG standard for dot-files - quorten

Does sunscreen contain endocrine disruptors, and reflections on chemicals that are good or bad for our planet - quorten

Chemical properties of ABS plastic, synthetic rubber, pencil erasers, and the "Bissell" company name - quorten

Ex-US-spies spying on US and Uber's driver map interface - quorten

Can a Caesium atomic clock be made in an integrated circuit? - quorten

The chemical elements of plastic, paper, cloth, and endocrine disruptors - quorten

ACL Perl modules - quorten

Smart thermostat dual MCU and SoC design - quorten

The other Jessi Lang - quorten

Another Tesla fatal Autopilot crash - quorten

Apple saying you can't sue them for software updates that slow down, Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+, RPi PoE woes, and multi-terabyte disk drives more reliable - quorten

Article on "code smells" for refactoring - quorten

Why I hate the new Microsoft flat UI designs - quorten

Static electricity IS causing the hanging on my smart switch - quorten

3 common foods surgeons are now calling death foods - quorten

What is autovivication - quorten

Updates on board support in LibreCMC - quorten

NeverSSL, a site committed to not using SSL so you can sign on through public Wi-Fi networks - quorten

Internet Archive versus Project Gutenberg books? - quorten

Tradable quality hypothesis - quorten

AI research on Starcraft video game - quorten

More articles revisiting Mr. Money Mustache website - quorten

Colony of bats protects books in 18th century Mediterranean library - quorten

Spinal stenosis? Poor office posture can be a cause - quorten

Paper mache works well for Raspberry Pi cases, and notes on plastic health hazards pertaining to 3D printing - quorten

When your "rubber eraser" is not rubber, plastic is "synthetic rubber" - quorten

Materials with endocrine disruptors and hazardous chemical evaluations - quorten

Notes on some things I've learned about Perl - quorten

Interesting review of different print-on-demand services - quorten

Yelp's neural network eliminated all bugs, entire codebase - quorten

SSD capacities and longevity for video camera recording - quorten

Interesting blog posts from GitHub blog - quorten

GPL Cooperation Commitment - quorten

What does an interplanetary spaceport look like? - quorten

More details on the decline of driver's licenses - quorten

Measure surface area and volume of regions - quorten

Reusable linked list code algorithms - quorten

Tips on home-grown electronic push buttons and wire shaping - quorten

Coverity cloud service provider sudden discontinuation - quorten

How to repair a window screen - quorten

Repair aluminum mini blinds - quorten

Usenet has its impact on today's Internet - quorten

Articles on computer ergonomics and eye health - quorten

Interesting SparkFun article discussing discontinued chips - quorten

Soldering onto cardboard circuit boards - quorten

Graduated ordering of electronics project tools - quorten

When don't I feel inclined to write blog articles? - quorten

Reflection on abandoned small software projects in a company network - quorten

OSH Park, solder mask, and robotic pick and place - quorten

Revisiting the Zero Phone - quorten

Some interesting things I've learned from another Twitter - quorten

Origin of SparkFun name, and interesting multimeter trademark affair - quorten

Diagramming web app draw.io - quorten

DirtyPCBs website also sports SLA 3D printing - quorten

Crazy circuits, third party Lego electronics - quorten

Viewpoints on assessment and exams - quorten

Electronic curriculum developers - quorten

Sources of old schoolwork papers - quorten

TechShop goes bankrupt, and reflections on the economics of research projects - quorten

Evaluation of the Gertboard - quorten

Discussion on soldering surface-mount devices - quorten

More improvements and tradeoffs to my GPIO pin layouts - quorten

More methods to setup a 3.3 V motor control circuit - quorten

Random articles discovered during Raspberry Pi research - quorten

How to strip wires with only a pair of scissors - quorten

2018

Why PWM motor speed control works - quorten

Supplies to construct a classic Macintosh serial cable - quorten

Lowdown on real-time Linux GPIO hardware control on Raspberry Pi - quorten

Digi-Key explorations, and surface-mount device soldering tips - quorten

Easily turn a plush toy into an electronic marionette - quorten

The ideal dimensions for hand-handled objects - quorten

Methods for having a server computer go to sleep when unused, and a very interesting blog by a blogger covering some of the same subjects in my blog too - quorten

Programmatically check if a URL is archived on the Wayback Machine - quorten

SQLite vulnerability - quorten

Another interesting movie... showcasing 1990s era U.S. government surveillance - quorten

Building keyboard with shift registers instead of a matrix - quorten

Reflections on the joy of photography, even in places that may be considred "ugly" - quorten

3D scanner motor vibrations control - quorten

Wave soldering and reflow soldering compared - quorten

The solution to blog photo storage... sort of - quorten

Saying "no" to enterprise customers who want to pay to keep an obsolete feature going - quorten

Smartphones not made in China - quorten

The universality of surveying across many endeavors - quorten

Article development levels on my blog - quorten

Emacs macro to generate Jekyll preamble - quorten

Reflections on future-proof software - quorten

The few computing platforms that have changed our lives the most from a software developer's standpoint - quorten

Lego train motors and Lego train history - quorten

What is the current status of VML? - quorten

Advent of Code, interesting convolution problem - quorten

Solaris interface stability levels - quorten

Peculiarities of SVG images, Jekyll permalinks in blogging, and Jekyll syntax highlighting - quorten

Construction equipment rental companies - quorten

Revisiting Mr. Money Mustache blog - quorten

Breakthrough! Washington DC is officially using GitHub for publishing the DC legal code - quorten

Fisheye lens Wikipedia article revisited... and a surprise Pentax K-1 cameo appearance - quorten

Open-source land surveying software - quorten

Notes on telephone jacks, and what a PBX is - quorten

Digestive system microbes and immigrants - quorten

Pollinator decline, prairies, wetlands, bobcat, golden toad - quorten

Different ways to indicate web page language - quorten

Automatic smartphone test lab? - quorten

CCN is yet another stalled new network protocol project - quorten

Time-keeping with Arduino and Raspberry Pi - quorten

TCP connection establishment - quorten

Updates on EOMA68 Earth Friendly Computing Device and RISC-V - quorten

An interesting movie that portrayed 3D printing a person... sort of - quorten

More info on virtual machines, kernel same-page merging, row hammer, and Google Project Zero - quorten

Kubernetes's first major security vulnerability, and SplitSpectre - quorten

Least concern endangerment status, extinction, great Pacific garbage patch - quorten

GPIO pin distance - quorten

Thermal mass - quorten

ATmega microcontrollers - quorten

Diode as a cheap temperature sensor - quorten

Background information on humidity - quorten

Solving some Golang package management troubles - quorten

Pretty print XML on the command line - quorten

Git Town, helper commands for a Git team workflow - quorten

Lazy download a file and access it like a local file, via the Linux FUSE module HTTPFS - quorten

Looking for an actual 3.3 V motor driver IC for sale - quorten

Measure the air flow through a room continuously? No, it's tough. - quorten

Decisions on Raspberry Pi GPIO connections - quorten

Open office plans, real-time collaborative chat at work - quorten

Opinions on Golang's error handling and third-party libraries - quorten

Emulator and virtual machine options, audio CD emulation - quorten

OpenCL versus Vulkan for parallel compute API - quorten

Microsoft's newer Office license agreement - quorten

The future of GTK+ - quorten

More info on Raspberry Pi battery power monitoring - quorten

More about motor control ICs, looking for 3.3 V IC, and optical gyros - quorten

3D scanner laser rotation motor gearing - quorten

The question of heat shrink tubing - quorten

Discussion on GPIO and motor connections with Raspberry Pi - quorten

The connector mystery solved, Molex PicoBlade - quorten

Interesting articles I've found on Hackaday - quorten

How to 3D print a plastic magnifying lens - quorten

Developing your own film, don't use old chemicals - quorten

Final verdict on Raspberry Pi optical viewfinder - quorten

More ways to display Markdown in Confluence - quorten

More discussion on video coding formats - quorten

What is a balun? - quorten

ESP8266 links and notes - quorten

Home network wiring tips - quorten

Network middleware still breaks encrpytion - quorten

Solutions to the web UI computational efficiency problem - quorten

Searching for methods to add a keypad to a Raspberry Pi - quorten

FreeSWITCH - quorten

Looking for laser rangefinder modules, getting more specific - quorten

Bad assumptions programmers make about time - quorten

Caveats with URL access under Python - quorten

More info about IBM acquiring Red Hat? - quorten

Weird things with `/dev/null` - quorten

Quarry? - quorten

What is a Thyristor? - quorten

oVirt blog, checking if there are updates on oVirt - quorten

Diversity does improve financial performance - quorten

Xilinx selling FPGAs to Microsoft for AI cloud - quorten

Markdown to Confluence converters - quorten

Serial versus parallel execution in Ansible - quorten

Explaining dust control via fluid flow and building a box to control it - quorten

Interesting Wikipedia info on LED lamp - quorten

Set up Windows for SSH-style access - quorten

The lowdown on JST connectors - quorten

Lots of Raspberry Pi info: optical viewfinder, connector information, displays, eccentric peripherals, 2.8 V power trick - quorten

Small desktop PC alternatives to Raspberry Pi - quorten

Looking for one-dimensional CMOS image sensors - quorten

Practicing soldering and perf-boards - quorten

Raspberry Pi peripheral classifications - quorten

Does consuming alcohol really help you recover from a cold? - quorten

How far away is the sewage treatment plant on average? - quorten

Convert a VMDK disk image to an ESXi disk image - quorten

Fastest measurement techniques for indoor surveys - quorten

Error measurements and classification in house logs - quorten

How to use oVirt for virtualization like VMware ESXi/vSphere - quorten

Sinking garage foundation treatment, insulated slab, and more links from Mr. Money website - quorten

Mr. Money website about personal finance - quorten

Make-like build system for Golang - quorten

Generating a Table of Contents for Markdown - quorten

Document scanning underway, speeding the staple removal bottleneck - quorten

More notes on home improvements - quorten

Hardware supply chain malicious spy bug, for real - quorten

Aspects of computing that haven't changed in a long time - quorten

Interesting article on cost-benefit analysis of grad school - quorten

My Little Pony Movie, updates on box office and reception - quorten

Publicity stunts and viral marketing - quorten

Interesting book, _The Story About Ping_ - quorten

Interesting article about Northrup field at University of Minnesota - quorten

Deception of color brain scan images in research publications - quorten

Getting Docker/Kubernetes setup on a Raspberry Pi - quorten

DuckDuckGo donations - quorten

More on Wi-Fi mesh networking in small spaces - quorten

Learning more about Cloudflare hosting - quorten

Updates on the current state of iRacing in 2018 - quorten

Success opening old DSL router, now time to figure out JTAG wiring - quorten

Motor vehicle info on Wikipedia and bike boom - quorten

Cloud hosting on Raspberry Pi computers - quorten

Spiders propelling themselves with electrostatic fields? - quorten

False study on low-carb diet - quorten

The 5 hour rule that makes entrepreneurs great - quorten

Security, programming, and other random things from Twitter - quorten

Raspberry Pi One-Time Programmable (OTP) documentation - quorten

Browsix, for Unix-like operating systems in-browser - quorten

Large Raspberry Pi clusters at Los Alamos National Laboratory - quorten

HTML 5 video vertical sync issues - quorten

The screwdriver to open up the old DSL router/modem - quorten

Evolution of text editors for programmers and multiple cursors - quorten

Zooniverse, Galaxy Zoo, Raspberry Pi, and unmotivated teens - quorten

Things I learned about new Trisquel and Raspberry Pi firmware flashing - quorten

Interesting idea for a new icon to represent myself - quorten

More info on DSLR anti-static sensor brush cleaning - quorten

Null pointers - quorten

Interesting software for testing Ansible roles, Docker-in-Docker - quorten

i3 Window Manager - quorten

Everything I need to know about DVD video encoding and HTML 5 video migration - quorten

Still looking to buy a Li-Fi transceiver, and reflections on Li-Fi - quorten

As of 2018, better hardware for Linux than Windows - quorten

Router with an internal MicroSD card? No, here's why. - quorten

Low-power cable modem and battery backup - quorten

Chart for student motivation-intelligence - quorten

Interesting bike accessories and gadgets - quorten

Smaller Wi-Fi cell sizes - quorten

Curved TV doesn't live up to the hype - quorten

Updates on (Windows) PC game controller APIs, their future, and Linux support - quorten

Dedicated Kiwix server on a Raspberry Pi - quorten

VMware `ovftool` and special characters in passwords - quorten

Technical specifications for my ideal home router - quorten

Measuring the CPU/GPU temperature on a Raspberry Pi - quorten

Ethernet over Copper - quorten

Auto article briefs in social media - quorten

Other cultures views on Internet privacy - quorten

Raspberry Pi VidCore API - quorten

Random notes today, 09-06 - quorten

Still looking for Li-Fi products - quorten

New, more precise technique for genetic modification - quorten

Changes in usage of PCs, laptops, smartphones, and tablets - quorten

Some really interesting article on ads - quorten

Facebook owns Instagram, and notes on the history of the Internet - quorten

Restoring literal HTML content from the Wayback Machine - quorten

Updates on ad blocking - quorten

Raspbian `debian-installer` command line or network installer - quorten

Testing my new MicroSD card for fakes - quorten

Popular Mechanics and Home insulation - quorten

Whiteboarding and other notes on interviews - quorten

Battle of the giants, competition between Amazon and Google - quorten

"Donut rings" no longer on modern motherboards, and other interesting hardware notes - quorten

Libre 802.11ac 5 GHz Wi-Fi? - quorten

Info on GnuBee and `switchdev` - quorten

Get files of installed CentOS package - quorten

Windows vShadow - quorten

Solid-state memory - quorten

Sources of information in your daily life - quorten

Why do mushrooms have caps? - quorten

Is "being on TV" no longer a great thing anymore? - quorten

"Concentrate" - quorten

Image hosting on GitHub pages? Also, comparing Hugo and Jekyll. - quorten

Digital video and serial digital interface (SDI) - quorten

Libre software friendly hardware on 802.11ac? - quorten

More info on broadcast TV on a computer network - quorten

Repair broken tab on Ethernet jack - quorten

Raspberry Pi B+ with SDXC cards? - quorten

Configuring Rocket.Chat chat server - quorten

Fake Apple power supplies, Raspberry Pi, and Raspberry Pi 3 B+ PoE Ethernet inside - quorten

Fire sprinklers - quorten

Multi-licensing on GitHub, and how to increase the polling rate of your mouse, and TiVo - quorten

More on Redis Kubernetes Operators and Golang - quorten

Generate command lines in Ansible, read YAML data from `kubectl` - quorten

Lunch with Mitchell Hashimoto - quorten

How long is too long for a build? - quorten

Python package management tips and tricks - quorten

Opto-isolated Ethernet - quorten

Darktable camera support for Raspberry Pi? - quorten

RAW photos with Raspberry Pi camera? - quorten

MKDocs: Python documentation in Markdown - quorten

More on Microsoft's new update policy - quorten

Metallica brand trademark? - quorten

The new Windows, why I hate it, and reflections on single-board computers and home servers - quorten

Architect marketing -- Architects are facing a silent war? - quorten

Raspberry Pi 3 B+ on-board power supply tech in detail - quorten

More on 24-hour analog clocks - quorten

Wizards of the Coast and the D & D Open Game License - quorten

Updates on the Free Software Foundation - quorten

Android is the new Windows - quorten

Interesting articles on GitHub blog - quorten

Ethernet over RS-485? - quorten

Parallel port discussion continued, and some analysis on the history of computer size, capabilities, and market share - quorten

How do you spell "guerrilla"? - quorten

USB to parallel port adapters - quorten

Notes on Darktable and super-resolution support - quorten

Built-in lazy loading for Chrome - quorten

Questionnaire form for determining whether someone really needs a DSLR to take their photos - quorten

Video input through the MIPI CSI-2 camera connector on Raspberry Pi? - quorten

Changing lenses on a DSLR camera in the field? Also notes on sensor cleaning. - quorten

Persistent volumes in Kubernetes - quorten

Diagnosing/debugging Kubernetes deployments using Ansible - quorten

Redis versus Memcached - quorten

Sensors on the 35W bridge and ideas for structural sensors in the home - quorten

The solution to footnotes in Markdown/Jekyll - quorten

Why purpose-built fluorescent lighting fixtures in the home are obsolete - quorten

Redis clusters on Kubernetes - quorten

High tension wires - quorten

What I learned from Jekyll blogging - quorten

Height and life expectancy correlation - quorten

Updates on Minifree Leah - quorten

Single board computer energy consumption - quorten

Lessons learned from the house logs and cable detection methods - quorten

Computer architecture in a nutshell, again - quorten

Fake GPS tracking claims - quorten

Plumbing, a consistent quality problem - quorten

Fake SD cards from Amazon! - quorten

More house systems - quorten

Natural ventilation and sick building syndrome - quorten

Still more comparisons on single-board computers - quorten

Back-side illuminated sensors? - quorten

Docker blog on monitoring microservices - quorten

ODROID-C2 notes - quorten

Lowe's, Home Depot, Menards, Hendrick Motorsports - quorten

Branded vulnerability and bug bounties - quorten

Review of random sites - quorten

Better umbrellas - quorten

Tips for removing sticky adhesive residue from paper - quorten

Network equipment power consumption considerations for battery backup, and connecting broadcast television to the home network - quorten

Comparisons and plans for getting my next-up better single-board computer - quorten

Intellectual property, photography, and 3D scanning - quorten

Problems with limited data retention policies - quorten

24-hour format is the worldwide mainstream time format - quorten

Target Dojo - quorten

Highly pure Quartz minerals used in semiconductor manufacturing - quorten

Updates to GitHub Wikipedia article? - quorten

Computer possessed by demons? - quorten

Creating containers in Kubernetes - quorten

Helm Tiller - quorten

Spitballs? - quorten

HyperLogLog - quorten

Fallout shelters and blast doors - quorten

Rational integers, fixed point, fast graphics numerical techniques, Allegro library still doing well - quorten

360 degree cameras - quorten

Tool-assisted speedrun - quorten

In-game economics - quorten

Redis security - quorten

Multiple UARTs on Raspberry Pi? - quorten

Smartphone versus DSLR, and fisheye lens - quorten

Wikipedia article on DJGPP - quorten

You **can** find 1990s era computers on Ebay - quorten

GitHub article on empathy and other interesting psychology - quorten

Red Robin and barbershop music - quorten

SteamOS, a packaged GNU/Linux, and cross-platform play - quorten

Kernel Virtualization (KVM) control from command line - quorten

Horoscopes - quorten

An article about Star Wars movie and engineering - quorten

Interesting recent GitHub blog articles, Google Perspectives API - quorten

Discussion on letter of recommendation - quorten

Studless home building method and adding lignin to plastic - quorten

Alexander's Star - quorten

Laser pointer safety - quorten

Google wardrivers - quorten

Keep your blog articles small - quorten

Who prefers paper maps? - quorten

HTML 5, WHATWG, and W3C - quorten

Diagnosing Raspberry Pi HDMI signal communication problems - quorten

Cannon LCR-5001? DCU? - quorten

How to ensure web clients get latest page updates - quorten

Garage door torsion springs - quorten

Atlassian pulling out of the chat business, reflections on product development and adoption speed - quorten

Smoke detector network communication protocols - quorten

Does Mylar contain metal? - quorten

Reflecting on WebAssembly industry-wide adoption and containers in the browser - quorten

Colemak keyboard layout and other keyboard layout ideas - quorten

Can aluminum foil be recycled? - quorten

ReFS and reflections on engineering - quorten

Swimsuit preferences - quorten

Materials classification on objects - quorten

Lens choices and photo quality priorities - quorten

Smart home design criteria - quorten

Smart home water metering - quorten

Tracking cookies - quorten

"Blueprint" organization - quorten

Explaining modern web development to someone from 10 years ago - quorten

CGI/FastCGI and modern web programming - quorten

Cannot really weather seal old lens after the fact, fly stuck inside weather sealed rented lens - quorten

Firefox Quantum release? - quorten

Style a HTML form for smartphone screens with ease - quorten

Toothpaste tube materials and recycling, and other recycling notes - quorten

Guido van Rossum steps down from Python - quorten

Interesting articles from Medium, etc. - quorten

McDonald's, battery cages - quorten

Internet of Things sensors for Raspberry Pi - quorten

Plastic ban in Maharashtra, India - quorten

Globoforce updated terms and conditions - quorten

Video hosting on Facebook - quorten

Medium engineering article - quorten

Chrome extension to reformat paragraphs? - quorten

Is YouTube still loosing money? Amazon Echo and competitors. - quorten

Nested comments and C compilers - quorten

Vim in WebAssembly - quorten

Born digital - quorten

winswitch - quorten

Google marketing to the classroom - quorten

Constructors, destructors, compilers, and standard C library - quorten

Golang versus Python in containers - quorten

Finally, more info from game devs - quorten

Tiny C libraries and programs - quorten

Cloud APIs and Gloo - quorten

TensorFlow on Kubernetes and DocToc - quorten

Searching for a better tripod of my choice, other good general information on tripods, and some cool accessories - quorten

Looking for Wikipedia article on early NSFNET and exponential backoff - quorten

Source-to-source translator that can translate target updates to source updates? - quorten

Discussion on memory buffer implementation and network updates - quorten

Explaining how a B-tree stays balanced - quorten

Minimal features for text editors - quorten

Acid-free paper recycling and testing - quorten

More websites on old terminals - quorten

Current status of SourceForge.net? - quorten

What is a deep cycle battery? - quorten

Motor, engine, tractors, traction engines - quorten

Weird Unix things, software bugs, and programming "must-haves" - quorten

Random notes, fireflies, soap notes - quorten

Interesting details about the MIPS architecture - quorten

118.69 million Game Boy units sold worldwide - quorten

ARM syscall interface details, more cross compiling, and connect NTP to your Raspberry Pi Zero via USB gadgets mode - quorten

More memory allocation algorithms - quorten

Other hardware with more processor architectures for me to program - quorten

Python package dependencies from Git repositories - quorten

Interesting article on Blaise Pascal - quorten

WANEM server? - quorten

Solar power to charge network equipment battery backup system - quorten

Discussion on interrupts for I/O - quorten

Interesting computer history questions: Monitor colors, Unix pipes - quorten

Interesting behavior questions from StackExchange - quorten

Example of reinvention and popularity - quorten

When was OS/360 introduced? - quorten

Raspberry Pi Zero with PoE? - quorten

More notes on a minimal C standard library - quorten

ARM in the datacenter? - quorten

Updated Linux adoption rates - quorten

Ansible in place of Docker Compose - quorten

W3C editing software Amaya - quorten

Can you see shoe prints anytime, anywhere? - quorten

U.S. National Debt - quorten

More ARM/MIPS Linux syscall programming notes, and more on cross-compiling - quorten

ARM/MIPS Linux syscall programming notes, and cross-compile information - quorten

Better ideas for tiny computer architectures - quorten

Linux system calls, sbrk() - quorten

Updated reflections/analysis on licensing - quorten

Can GCC inline specific function calls? - quorten

Hugo, a faster alternative to Jekyll - quorten

Trusses - quorten

Reflections on the lack of popularity of DSLR cameras and 3D printers - quorten

GitHub evacuation repository overloaded - quorten

Misc. software notes, libre software, GitHub, remote disable - quorten

Fraudulent social websites - quorten

Multithreading in Emscripten - quorten

User Voice Terms of Service - quorten

LibreSSL not working with latest Python - quorten

Solid ink printers for photographs, and Pentax K-1 Mark II - quorten

Tweaking getaddrinfo to prefer IPv4 over IPv6 - quorten

Fraudulent NPM packages - quorten

EOMA68 updates? - quorten

Why do birds lay eggs? - quorten

Battle of Los Angeles was fake! - quorten

What's after Moore's Law? - quorten

The steam is heating up on the GitHub acquisition - quorten

Polyester and plastic recycling - quorten

Random notes today, 06-06 - quorten

Burgers and White Castle - quorten

Model-View-Culture site - quorten

Still trying to figure out screw type on old DSL router - quorten

Poor man's JTAG programmer - quorten

The iron law of oligarchy in communications - quorten

In-browser terminal emulator - quorten

Reflections on Microsoft acquiring GitHub - quorten

Installing GNU/Linux, starting at beginner and moving up - quorten

More optimized array looping in C - quorten

Learning low-level hardware using an old ADSL modem-router - quorten

What exactly is the stack? - quorten

Apple II monitor as a modern application - quorten

In-browser terminal window in WebAssembly programs - quorten

Contributor convenant and interesting articles on tech diversity - quorten

Banana Pi evaluation continued - quorten

Getting categories and tags to display nicely - quorten

Communication technology history and video - quorten

3D print design hosting options - quorten

Automatically generate links for GitHub pages - quorten

Getting your GitHub pages site visible by Google - quorten

The story of book development, and why you shouldn't write your own - quorten

Wikipedia's next new replacement? - quorten

History of the chickenpox vaccine - quorten

The fastest commercial book scanners - quorten

Ideas for improving GPLv3 on choosealicense.com - quorten

Components of a full public domain operating system - quorten

CC0 or Unlicense? - quorten

The impact of locking down blog publishing - quorten

History of math typesetting on the web up to 2018 - quorten

Auto URL link generation in Jekyll - quorten

Techno-scientific psychology - quorten

Atom/RSS Feeds on Jekyll - quorten

Do people use GNOME 3 anymore? - quorten

The stages of the scanning process - quorten

The solution to huge numbers of tiny files - quorten

Single-board computer comparison in 2018 - quorten

Why LibreCMC doesn't use GitHub - quorten

Does Raspberry Pi Zero support SDXC? - quorten

Relating to modern-day web computing security - quorten

Newer GitHub DDoS - quorten

Why film negatives? - quorten

Local development with Jekyll - quorten

Photo mapping sheets of paper - quorten

What is the fastest camera of 2018? - quorten

Cool things you can do with a Raspberry Pi - quorten

Terabit bus? - quorten

You are the product - quorten

Categories of software/user interfaces in modern computing - quorten

Golang package manager - quorten

Reuse old laptop display for Raspberry Pi - quorten

Northern African white rhinoceros - quorten

Amusement park height limits - quorten

Search indexing on GitHub pages - quorten

Porcelain - quorten

UPC barcode and credit card history - quorten

Potato cleaning on electric contacts - quorten

Great Slack Outage T-shirts - quorten

Hard disk drive TB limit - quorten

Pentax K-1 DSLR SDK is released! - quorten

WannaCry still out and about? - quorten

Yanny or Laurel part III - quorten

Golang package manager evolution like Ruby - quorten

More info on compilers - quorten

Document scanning with a DSLR camera - quorten

Introduction to Web programming, version 2.0 - quorten

Yanny or Laurel part II - quorten

Watchman - quorten

LinkedIn - quorten

Reflections on scanning speed - quorten

Home network cabling part II - quorten

Home network cabling - quorten

Ambiguous sound clip - quorten

rtfd.io - quorten

Plenum versus riser cable - quorten

Causes and solutions to technical chaos - quorten

Relections on big notes, part II - quorten

Markdown reference - quorten

GitHub Terms and Conditions - quorten

Random security notes - quorten

Reflections on why my notes have grown to be so big - quorten

Why Internet of Things will not be a commercial revolution - quorten

Applications pertinent to networked computer access - quorten

History of Quorten Blog 1 - quorten

First post! - quorten

Info on PC ATX power supplies and "lab bench supply" conversion - quorten

Home network rules, observations, survey, tech plans - quorten

Can you power multiple 12 V devices with a single power supply? - quorten

Wire-OR gate, DTL, RTL, etymology of pull up/down in GPIO - quorten

Raspberry Pi JST connectors option - quorten

Looking for information on price trends of MicroSD cards - quorten

Raspberry Pi file server speeds, power saving, remote push button - quorten

Raspberry Pi USB gadget mode, remember as means to copy - quorten

H.264 successor, Raspberry Pi libre boot and Odroid, space garbage trucks, SLS patent expiration - quorten

3D scanning file formats, failure of 3D PDF, 3D scanning users - quorten

U.S. government Congress composition - quorten

Web design to avoid causing epilepsy - quorten

Water fluoridation and negative effects of too much - quorten

CentOS or Debian? And MHVTL. - quorten

Docker original founder steps down - quorten

Calculating negative sleeves archival storage requirements - quorten

DKMS on CentOS? Unfortunately, no. - quorten

Grainy film from Caffenol, number of rolls a batch can develop, and gelatin film emulsion - quorten

Info on Macintosh serial cables and I/O port connectors - quorten

Create your own DSLR camera macro light ring - quorten

Storage considerations for getting more SLR camera gear - quorten

Comparing persistence versus switching strategies. - quorten

Hot add CPU and RAM in VMware - quorten

Use a Git repository as a `pip` package - quorten

Manufactured 3D objects all have detail limits - quorten

People always try to use shorter numbers - quorten

Still trying to get at Minolta camera digital interface pins - quorten

HP Multi-Jet Fusion (MJF) similar to High-Speed Sintering (HSS) - quorten

Powering the Raspberry Pi Zero on 3.3 V - quorten

How to solder small connections - quorten

Nothing will fully replace analog, risks of digital data storage, tech interface layers, small objects - quorten

3D scanning segmented processing - quorten

Microfilm printing as-a-service - quorten

Delta backups design - quorten

"Synthetic aperture" and 3D scanning - quorten

Clarification on rechargeable battery technology, switched mode power supplies - quorten

Handling 3D scanning camera distortion - quorten

3D scanner Raspberry Pi design, power supply, cost equations, the Zero Phone - quorten

Linear regression algorithm implementation - quorten

GPU accelerated video decode on Raspberry Pi? - quorten

EOMA68 updates and the Raspberry Pi Zero Phone - quorten

Install CentOS 7 development tools - quorten

Assign a static IP address on CentOS - quorten

Updates on Spectre and Meltdown, Raspberry Pi not vulnerable, RISC-V, and updates on EOMA 68 - quorten

What is the advantage of a traditional DSLR camera over a light field camera - quorten

Specification of FastCGI, and the demise of the FastCGI website - quorten

Raspberry Pi 1-bit speaker wiring, CodePlex to be shut down, and the "Medium" website - quorten

Importance of thumbnaiils in an inventory system - quorten

Tiny microphone and sound card for Raspberry Pi Zero? - quorten

Reflection on 3D printing, control over the world - quorten

Get myself started on 3D printing - quorten

Send to Slack from Ansible playbook - quorten

2017

Important info and lessons learned from the black and white Macintosh family - quorten

Bootloaders and Device Tree - quorten

Do-it-yourself battery backup system summary and components - quorten

Raspberry Pi Zero powered from sun, still limited sale per customer - quorten

Macintosh SE second monitor, battery replacement info - quorten

Security training links - quorten

Random articles on Hollywood and discrimination/diversity - quorten

More searching on the Caffenol organic film developing process, and more info on materials and technology of film in general - quorten

Pinhole camera and binoculars sun projection - quorten

Make your own film developer from coffee - quorten

Raspberry Pi weather balloon in space - quorten

Any news on Raspberry Pi Zero? Nope. - quorten

Get profiling and timestamps in Ansible, and disable host key checking - quorten

More Ansible notes: `delegate_to`, local playbook run, gather facts, `when`, `lineinfile`, `vmware_guest`, and more - quorten

What is SDXC versus UHS and why high-capacity cards typically aren't used with Raspberry Pi - quorten

Control VMware vCenter using Ansible - quorten

Find out which branches are owned by you in Git - quorten

What is Jinja2? - quorten

Battery backup system alternatives to lithium-ion batteries - quorten

Find when Git commit was merged into a branch - quorten

Notes on weird things about multi-hostname macvlan configs - quorten

Use a generator to create a `dict` in Python, bool, and more Python documentation - quorten

Control a 150-year-old teletype with a Raspberry Pi - quorten

Configure Python to always install into virtualenv - quorten

Automate VMware vCenter VM creation and snapshotting via Ansible - quorten

Quickly and cheaply scan a book, using 3D data - quorten

Limits of object loaning tech - quorten

My experience using the 2D environment mapping technology - quorten

Why you should not make your hobby projects proprietary - quorten

Reflection on 3D printing, inventory system, human lack of logical reasoning - quorten

Thumbnail generation, ImageMagick tips and tricks, `exiftool`, Apache configuration - quorten

Privacy from an analytical standpoint - quorten

Why don't more people use a photographic inventory system? - quorten

Discussion on Ansible strengths and weaknesses, documentation links - quorten

Cannot easily create PDF hyperlinks in old Microsoft Word, and stay away from CutePDF - quorten

Reflection on tech education, professions, hobbies, and Oliver Heaviside - quorten

Reflections on 3D technology - quorten

3D printer design with DC motors, powder bed, high-speed cameras - quorten

Setup a Docker container using Ansible - quorten

Raspberry Pi libre UV metering system, and another singla board computer - quorten

3D scanner improvements, explaining "reconstruction" from Stanford 3D scanner papers - quorten

Trying out my visual inventory system, reflection on biased data converge - quorten

Reflection on languages, internationalization, Emoji, source code - quorten

Smart phones need "front-view mirrors" - quorten

Inventory system, 3D scanning, and Google Street View - quorten

What I don't like about cultures without a maintenance habit - quorten

Visualize a single perspective 3D scan - quorten

Info on getting HP ScanJet 5300C working, USB reset code - quorten

Raspberry Pi camera stream processing, HTML 5 webcam, 3D scanning armature, windup springs, motors as generators, power supplies sharing motors and logic - quorten

What is 3DNow! - quorten

`perl -c` to check syntax in Perl - quorten

More on GPIO port expanders, level shifters, AstroPrint, and RACHEL - quorten

Python Minnesota Twin Cities user group - quorten

Search index information in PDF, HTML, etc. - quorten

Pull-up versus pull-down, voltage level shifters, GPIO port expander, 1-wire - quorten

Digital multimeter to disambiguate servo motor connections? - quorten

New Raspberry Pi Zero W with Wi-Fi - quorten

Interesting Raspberry Pi projects - quorten

Raspberry Pi Zero GPIO "snap together," sound output, PWM, realtime, Pine64 computer - quorten

Etymology of "The brick you save might be your own" - quorten

Distracting black lines, Rockettes discrimination, history of asylum - quorten

Discussion about running commands in Docker container - quorten

Setup `systemd` in a Docker container - quorten

Find listening ports with `netstat -l` - quorten

Getting available versions of a particular package on CentOS - quorten

Symlink driver for Windows XP - quorten

Importance of standard file formats for 3D machine learning, and processing barcodes on 3D scans - quorten

Last resort way around 3D file format problem - quorten

Alternatives to L293D motor controller? Info on CMOS. - quorten

Many 3D objects differ only in surface coloring - quorten

Lots of useful 3D information resources - quorten

Easily turn a mobile phone into a video projector - quorten

Reflection on 3D reconstruction - quorten

Methods for hosting 3D files with compactness and format flexibility - quorten

Recording video from Raspberry Pi camera - quorten

Criticism of downloading to service a Raspberry Pi - quorten

NTFS filesystem on CentOS - quorten

Raspberry Pi Zero in my hands, getting started - quorten

Lossy 3D model data compression and surface fractures - quorten

Startup.com documentary and stock market stuff - quorten

2016

DreamWorks Animation history - quorten

Raspberry Pi GPIO info, HATs, camera, UART, lithium-ion battery, USB gadgets mode, schematics, anti-static paper - quorten

CNC milling versus 3D printing - quorten

Info on USB, PoweredUSB, and Nokia Pop-Port - quorten

More information on IR and UV pass/cut filters - quorten

On computer user growth, and Raspberry Pi's competitors - quorten

Finally found ideal filter for Raspberry Pi NoIR camera - quorten

Raspberry Pi remote monitoring, Raspberry Pi Zero - quorten

The perils of working with film - quorten

More news and methods of 3D scanning - quorten

More reviews and info on Pentax K-1, and lots other info on photography - quorten

airbnb discrimination and hoverboards battery safety certification - quorten

DSLR cameras with 4K video available? And other camera information - quorten

Choice of 3D scanning technology continued - quorten

Still looking for Raspberry Pi NoIR camera filter - quorten

Pentax K-1 and infrared photography - quorten

Looking for infrared filters for Raspberry Pi - quorten

UV photography, history of DSLR cameras, camcorders, M-DISC - quorten

Raspberry Pi camera lens - quorten

Uses for a low-cost 3D scanner - quorten

3D scanning spectral analysis, and Raspberry Pi NoIR - quorten

Finding the center of a 3D scan model - quorten

3D scanning, visible light versus infrared light - quorten

A basic HTML page for displaying a color on any monitor from any computer - quorten

checkup, Golang status page - quorten

More notes on Darwin cross compiler - quorten

Weather modification, cloud seeding, hail - quorten

Interesting links on Humble Bundle, Docker, CoreOS, Docker on ARM, Pine64 - quorten

envsubst utility, part of Gettext - quorten

Sad closure of Lavabit - quorten

DSLR camera compatible with my old lenses - quorten

More ideas on processing methods for 3D scanning - quorten

Why clay modeling persists in a digital 3D world - quorten

Notes on using `cpio` - quorten

Playing around with Marathi language typing - quorten

Compiling Emacs 23.1 on RHEL 6 - quorten

`hdiutil` on Darwin is missing in action - quorten

128 GB SD card with Raspberry Pi 3? - quorten

Reflection on mainstream media, entertainment industry, fiction - quorten

3D scanner equipment setup, computations, and more - quorten

Set up a Darwin cross compiler, to target Mac OS X - quorten

Learning about Django Python - quorten

Notes on Docker - quorten

Highest resolution smartphone cameras? - quorten

Reflection on where I am in my blogging - quorten

Hard drive stiction - quorten

How can you make something boring like system administration fun? - quorten

Still searching for diagnostic pin doucmentation on my Minolta camera - quorten

Solutions to 3D data storage problem - quorten

Exploring CopyingMock in Python - quorten

What is Serverspec? - quorten

Build a CentOS SRPM package into binary package - quorten

Python mock documentation and Sphinx - quorten

Find missed lines with the Python code coverage tool - quorten

Barista - quorten

Questionable documentation - quorten

Professional microphone shock absorption mount - quorten

You're holding your coffee mug wrong - quorten

Processor interrupts preventing useful progress - quorten

Library insurance, tool lending, CPSC, food safety, etc. - quorten

Robots - quorten

FabScan thesis papers revisited, more 3D scanner analysis, MakerScanner - quorten

Better ideas for 3D scanner deisgn - quorten

Configuring Mattermost chat server - quorten

Setup Vim indent without tabs - quorten

Wireless mice - quorten

More important software notes for web development - quorten

Unwinding film canisters, disposable cameras, camera flash capacitors - quorten

Convert WebEx recordings to MP4 - quorten

Working around a buggy X11 Emacs problem - quorten

Good article on creating pull requests - quorten

Close a file descriptor on a process through `gdb` - quorten

Notes on catching and reraising Python exceptions - quorten

Explanation for weird Python Flask license - quorten

Find what handlers are available on logger object - quorten

Emacs Daemon mode - quorten

Setup your own Python Ansible dev machine - quorten

Prune local Git tags that are no longer upstream - quorten

Cheap 3D scanner designs, moving parts, camera selection - quorten

Python click library, create command lines - quorten

Local cache of PyPI? - quorten

Extract Red Hat/CentOS package manually without installing it - quorten

Why Raspberry Pi Zero uses more than 3V - quorten

Using `py.test` - quorten

The future of 3D data - quorten

Quick and easy way to update branch - quorten

Great info on using Raspberry Pi Zero and why there is a shortage of them - quorten

SCSI on Macintosh Classic? - quorten

Python Flask REST listen IPv6 - quorten

Convert JSON to XML for debugging REST server? - quorten

Get numeric IPv6 address with `curl` - quorten

Listen on both IPv4 and IPv6 with Python Flask - quorten

Important features that are missing from Ansible - quorten

Visual Git history with `gitk` - quorten

Git notes - quorten

Servo motors, Raspberry Pi oscilloscope, and Raspberry Pi composite video input - quorten

ImageMagick 16 bits per channel - quorten

Reflections on subset archiving - quorten

Research paper and info on 3D scanners - quorten

Reflections on alternate ways to transfer data - quorten

The size of my text notes and speech to text - quorten

`version_compare` in Ansible - quorten

`pip` config file name on Windows - quorten

Raven Python `setRelease()` HOWTO - quorten

Running Python scripts on Windows - quorten

Beware of counterfeit mobile gadgets - quorten

Windows Python SSH client, color in the Windows Python console - quorten

Demolition, deconstruction, reusability, and similar thoughts - quorten

Abestos - quorten

Challenge of keeping natural language consistent over only a few years - quorten

Inventory system hierarchical organization, 3D and 3D digital media for objects - quorten

Pipe dream and Yoko Ono - quorten

More useful resources on 3D scanning - quorten

Cost evaluations for Raspberry Pi projects - quorten

Why Raspberry Pi production capacity is so low, info on AA battery power and camera - quorten

Great Raspberry Pi camera and great cost - quorten

"Daubert process" used in Sleuthkit - quorten

Great open-source 3D scanners, including advanced Raspberry Pi use, filesystem information and tools - quorten

Install Ansible via `pip` - quorten

More tricks to do with Python - quorten

Python interactive history files - quorten

Pull updates from upstream to your branch in Git - quorten

Set up Rudel in newer Emacs and `paint.el` in older Emacs - quorten

Python 3 virtualenv - quorten

Software names poem - quorten

Some useful packages to install for Python development - quorten

Using `virtualenv` - quorten

Serial numbers assigned by central authority - quorten

The costs and advantages of RFID chips - quorten

Debian versions and Ubuntu package sources - quorten

See older versions of a particular file in Git - quorten

Download all Git LFS objects - quorten

Is the Raspberry Pi Zero really too expensive? Not necessarily - quorten

Reflection on IDs, uniqueness, and rich object information - quorten

Ignore SSL certificates when Git cloning over HTTPS - quorten

Interesting resources on book scanning, and 3D scan the world - quorten

DevOps tools - quorten

Various useful information on Apple II and Macintosh vintage computing - quorten

Lots of useful information for my classic Macintosh SE - quorten

Reflection on Wikipedia computer descriptions too easy - quorten

Non-technical people's thought process on using computers - quorten

Is USB VGA a hoax? - quorten

Apple II and IBM PC 5.25 inch disks are **not** compatible - quorten

Terminal margin questions answered - quorten

T-Flash = MicroSD - quorten

Antennas and capacitor discharge pattern - quorten

Raspberry Pi Zero still sold out, powered USB hubs - quorten

2015

Raspberry Pi boot caveats - quorten

More Raspberry Pi power and connector information - quorten

Raspberry Pi power, boot, DMA, USB, Ethernet, phone connectors discussion - quorten

How VidFIRE changes the frame rate - quorten

Why photogrammetry takes so many resources, and fallacy of photographic memory - quorten

Differences between humans and computers - quorten

Discussion on technical capabilities of human eye versus digital camera/display systems - quorten

Camera media technology, expense of human eye quality - quorten

Languages, and UCLA's Open Compute Facility - quorten

Imaging systems, moire patterns, sampling - quorten

Photograph series 3D scanning - quorten

How film is developed and scanned - quorten

Interesting info on cameras, rangefinders, and the like - quorten

Lies and lies to children - quorten

Java restricted local filesystem access for security - quorten

Typewriters, mainframes, thoughts on our efforts to build computers - quorten

Exact locations in archaeology - quorten

Installing operating systems, communities, languages - quorten

Why is it so hard to get a Libre smartphone? - quorten

Short descriptions on why you got an object - quorten

What is inventory? - quorten

This nice HTML snippet to attempt to communicate with remote desktop admin spoofers - quorten