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    • 2007
      • Fake Science Makes Me Angry
      • Genetic Material from T-Rex Decoded
      • Vacuum and the Nature of Mass
    • 2011
      • Unhitched
    • 2012
      • Chick-fil-A
      • Choosing a First Telescope
      • Interesting Fossil
      • Rigorous Logic and Amelia
      • Pale Blue Dot
      • Science and Youth
      • Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview
      • Theism and the Thinking Mind
    • 2013
      • Duck and Cover
      • Duct Tape
      • Firefox OS
      • Idiocracy is Upon Us
      • It’s Just a Theory
      • Ken Feder and the Myth of the Ancient Astronauts
      • Martian Exopaleontology
      • …from the Moon and Mars
      • SunWatch Video Podcast
      • Tech Generation… not?
    • 2014
      • ‘Andean Gold’ lecture at SunWatch
      • Chelyabinsk Meteor
      • Lunar Eclipse
      • A New Meteor Shower Is Coming
      • Sleep Well, Philae
      • Why do I not believe?
    • 2015
      • Early Humans in the Americas
      • SETI@Home
      • What is a fossil?
    • 2017
      • Cleaning Fossils
      • The Dating Game
      • How Firefox Got Its Groove Back
      • March For Science
      • Printing the Past
      • Who Ya Gonna Call?
    • 2018
      • 2018 AIA/SunWatch Lecture Series: Science vs. Pseudoscience
      • Coordinate Systems: Finding Your Way Around the Sky
      • Natural Selection At Work
      • Like Water For Gravity
    • 2019
      • ‘Astronomy for Beginners’ Program
      • Homeopathy
      • Scientific and Critical Thinking Omnibus
      • Show Me What You’re Made Of
      • Visitors From Space
    • 2020
      • A Dim View of Betelgeuse
      • Cleveland Archaeological Society Lecture Series
      • Going Viral
      • The Trinity Mineral
      • Venusians, Perchance
    • 2021
      • Create Extension for Visual Studio Code
      • Early .NET 6 Observations
      • The Upcoming Lunar Eclipse: Real-World Application of the Practical Astronomy .NET Library (+ Python!)
      • Enumeration Scoping in C++
      • Fossil Hunting in Central Kentucky
      • Fossil Sites Map in Leaflet.js
      • Geology of Jezero
      • Python and XML
      • Running a Mainframe Emulator on a Raspberry Pi Zero (Lunch-n-Learn)
      • Rust in the Android Platform
      • Rust Foundation
      • Speak with Elegance (or not)
      • Supporting Material for ‘.NET and Linux’ tech talk
      • Traditional Programming on Hobbyist Microcontroller Boards
      • ‘Visual Studio Code: The Swiss Army Knife of Editors’ (tech talk)
    • 2022
      • James Webb Space Telescope
      • Program Like It’s 1982
      • Rust In the Linux Kernel
    • 2023
      • .NET IoT and Terminal GUI
      • Modern .NET Tooling in VS Code
      • Perl: Is It Really That Bad?
      • Sci-Fi Recommendations
    • 2024
      • 6502 Programming in C
      • DuckDuckGo AI Chat
      • Observing Plan for the November Astronomy Program at Garber Forest
      • Modern Perl
      • Practical Astronomy Algorithms in Various Languages
      • Total Dissolved Solids Measurements Using Arduino
      • Think Async
      • Detecting the Voyager Spacecraft in Green Bank Telescope Data
    • 2025
      • ESP8266 MicroPython Project with OLED
      • Using UV To Manage a ESP8266 MicroPython Project
      • Observing Plan for the April Astronomy Program at Garber Forest
      • Learning Fortran
      • Implement a REST Service on a Nano RP2040
      • Single-File Dependency Management in Python Script Using UV

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About Me

My name is Jim Carr. I’m a software engineer living near Dayton, Ohio.

I’ve been an IT professional since 1988, working in multiple industries, using a wide variety of languages and tools.

I also have an amateur’s interest in astronomy, and science in general. I embrace skepticism, and reject pseudoscience.

If you’d like to contact me, you can email me: jfcarr(at)gmail.com

My Sites and Profiles

Site Description
Facebook My personal Facebook page. (I don’t use Facebook regularly)
LinkedIn My LinkedIn profile.
GitHub Lots of code!
Knowledge Base A bunch of articles I’ve compiled, mostly technical.
Twitter/X I deleted my Twitter account after the takeover.
Mastodon Like Twitter, but no algorithms, and a lot less toxic. My favorite social media right now.
 

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