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Modern Perl

Perl

Last year, I wrote an article detailing my experience re-creating a Python script in Perl. This was a pretty cumbersome exercise, but I didn’t use many of Perl’s newer…

6502 Programming in C

Retro

C

Assembly

Would you like to learn about programming on a very old microprocessor?

Think Async

.NET

Usually, when writing asynchronous code, benefits are incremental. It can be difficult to see significant results at the micro level, unless you’re willing to dig in with…

DuckDuckGo AI Chat

AI

As impressed as I’ve been with Google Gemini, I can’t help but be concerned about the privacy issues. So, I was pleased when I recently discovered DuckDuckGo’s new AI Chat…

Practical Astronomy Algorithms in Various Languages

Astronomy

For several years, I’ve worked off-and-on to implement astronomical algorithms from the Practical Astronomy book in various languages. I’ve just completed a JavaScript version…

My AI Chatbot Experience

AI

You can’t escape AI these days. Various industries and domains have incorporated AI to varying degrees of effectiveness. I think that the strangest AI experience I’ve had so…

Modern .NET Tooling in VS Code

.NET

Visual Studio Code

.NET / VS Code session incoming! I’ve covered this topic before, but now there are some interesting newer features in the “C# Dev Kit” extension. Come to the Innovation Hub…

.NET IoT and Terminal GUI

.NET

Embedded and IoT

I gave this talk for the Dayton .NET Developers Group at the Innovation Hub (in Dayton, Ohio) on August 8th. I’m really happy with how this one turned out! We were able to…

Perl: Is It Really That Bad?

Perl

I have a simple Python script I wrote years ago that simplifies using rsync to maintain a copy of important data on a second hard drive. I decided to refactor the script and…

Sci-Fi Recommendations

My son-in-law recently asked me for science fiction recommendations. I read quite a bit of sci-fi when I was a teenager (mostly pulp), but once I started working I switched…

James Webb Space Telescope

Astronomy

Primary source: “JWST: NASA’s Amazing Next Generation Observatory” by Simon Steel (Senior Director of Education and Outreach, SETI Institute), designed by Jasmin Arriaga…

Rust In the Linux Kernel

Rust

Update: It looks like Rust won’t make it for 6.0. Hopefully we’ll still see it fairly soon!

Program Like It’s 1982

Retro

Grab your parachute pants and hair spray. We’re headed back to the 80’s!

Supporting Material for ‘.NET and Linux’ tech talk

.NET

On December 9th, I gave a talk about cross-platform development in .NET for the Dayton .NET Developers Group. These are the links and the sample code I referenced during the…

The Upcoming Lunar Eclipse: Real-World Application of the Practical Astronomy .NET Library (+ Python!)

Astronomy

.NET

Python

Over the past few years, I’ve been porting the algorithms from “Practical Astronomy with your Calculator or Spreadsheet” to various languages.

Early .NET 6 Observations

.NET

Not meant as a comprehensive review of .NET 6. Just a few items I’ve encountered so far. I’ll update this article as needed.

Create Extension for Visual Studio Code

(This is a follow-up to a question asked during my recent Visual Studio Code talk)

‘Visual Studio Code: The Swiss Army Knife of Editors’ (tech talk)

Visual Studio Code

My talk covering Visual Studio Code, for the Dayton Web Developers group. Big thanks to Allen May for organizing, and for his fine work editing the end result.

Speak with Elegance (or not)

Python

When we’re speaking, we have an overwhelming compulsion to fill ‘dead air’ with words. So, we tend to inject lots of ‘ums’ and ‘uhs’.

Running a Mainframe Emulator on a Raspberry Pi Zero (Lunch-n-Learn)

Retro

Mainframe

Embedded and IoT

I led a lunch-n-learn session detailing mainframe emulation on a Raspberry Pi Zero. Topics covered:

Enumeration Scoping in C++

C++

I spent way too much time trying to figure out what was wrong with this code:

Python and XML

Python

A friend shared this:

Fossil Hunting in Central Kentucky

Paleontology

I made a trip to Tennessee a few days ago, and on my way I checked out a few new fossil-hunting locations in Kentucky.

Traditional Programming on Hobbyist Microcontroller Boards

Embedded and IoT

If you’re looking for a friendly path to using microcontrollers, there are plenty of boards available that offer an easy path to get started.