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• Ensuring systems are remotely accessible with watchdog timers and bootloaders
• Pick-and-place files in KiCad, notes on through-hole automated assembly
• Summary of DIY printed circuit board manufacturing, and tips on solder fume protection
• Revisiting the concept of computing platforms and tech evolution
• Review of mitigating secondary reflections in 3D scanning
• Lessons learned with BJT transistor selection and placement
• Lots of lessons learned on switched-mode power supplies, and effective series resistance of capacitors
• Lowdown on glue logic with Raspberry Pi
• Configure remote syslog over UDP
• Reiterate transmission line bus construction, RS-485 line drivers, comparison with LocalTalk, and power over RS-422/485
• BJT, MOSFET, and thyristors compared, discussion on ADCs
• Linux kernel performance still on the decline
• The other side of the television... again
• Lowdown on aging and failure modes of rubber
• Review of Macintosh Classic software development tools, and also evolution of ROM/BIOS programming
• Interesting conversation with another engineer
• Key features and APIs to emulate in a minimal computer system
• Again, statx on Linux to get crtime
• Clever way to copy a disk image of an old Macintosh hard drive
• Kermit and serial communications on a Macintosh Classic
• A very good article on frugality, MMM on time science, and other MMM articles
• More details on the decline of driver's licenses
• Usenet has its impact on today's Internet
• OSH Park, solder mask, and robotic pick and place
• Lowdown on real-time Linux GPIO hardware control on Raspberry Pi
• Digi-Key explorations, and surface-mount device soldering tips
• Reflections on future-proof software
• Pretty print XML on the command line
• Git Town, helper commands for a Git team workflow
• Discussion on GPIO and motor connections with Raspberry Pi
• Home network wiring tips
• Lots of Raspberry Pi info: optical viewfinder, connector information, displays, eccentric peripherals, 2.8 V power trick
• Security, programming, and other random things from Twitter
• Still looking to buy a Li-Fi transceiver, and reflections on Li-Fi
• Restoring literal HTML content from the Wayback Machine
• Updates on ad blocking
• Digital video and serial digital interface (SDI)
• More info on broadcast TV on a computer network
• More on Redis Kubernetes Operators and Golang
• The new Windows, why I hate it, and reflections on single-board computers and home servers
• Scanning your blog for broken links
• Parallel port discussion continued, and some analysis on the history of computer size, capabilities, and market share
• Changing lenses on a DSLR camera in the field? Also notes on sensor cleaning.
• What I learned from Jekyll blogging
• Computer architecture in a nutshell, again
• More house systems
• Natural ventilation and sick building syndrome
• ODROID-C2 notes
• Interesting recent GitHub blog articles, Google Perspectives API
• Keep your blog articles small
• Lens choices and photo quality priorities
• Medium engineering article
• Google marketing to the classroom
• Constructors, destructors, compilers, and standard C library
• Minimal features for text editors
• ARM/MIPS Linux syscall programming notes, and cross-compile information
• The fastest commercial book scanners
• Techno-scientific psychology
• The stages of the scanning process
• Why film negatives?
• Categories of software/user interfaces in modern computing
• Causes and solutions to technical chaos
• Markdown reference
• GitHub Terms and Conditions
• Raspberry Pi file server speeds, power saving, remote push button
• H.264 successor, Raspberry Pi libre boot and Odroid, space garbage trucks, SLS patent expiration
• Comparing persistence versus switching strategies.
• Manufactured 3D objects all have detail limits
• People always try to use shorter numbers
• Nothing will fully replace analog, risks of digital data storage, tech interface layers, small objects
• Limits of object loaning tech
• Why don't more people use a photographic inventory system?
• Reflection on tech education, professions, hobbies, and Oliver Heaviside
• What I don't like about cultures without a maintenance habit
• Reflections on subset archiving
• Why Raspberry Pi production capacity is so low, info on AA battery power and camera
• The costs and advantages of RFID chips