The Meditative Coder

Ever since I was *very* young, I've been interested in science and technology.  At some point in my teens, maybe 40 years ago, I wanted ...

UPDATE: C.H.I.P. is dead Or rather, the company is dead.  I will keep my CHIP content laying around, but I won't be doing much with it...

We just discovered that under a somewhat unlikely set of circumstances, Microsoft's Windows 7 (SP 1) will corrupt outgoing UDP datagram...

Ok, these things are not the end of the world.  During a code inspection, I might not even bring them up.  Or maybe I would - it would depen...

Remember RS-232?  It is rare now-a-days to find a need for RS-232, but it can come up.  In my case, a couple of machines in our lab have the...

In my distant past, I dabbled in a bit of Unix system administration.  (How distantly in the past?  SunOS 4.2.  Yeah, I'm old.) This y...

I'm a little embarrassed to admit that in my entire 35-year career, I've never really learned anything about international character...

I've been a C programmer for some 20 years now, and I learned something new about the language just a few days ago. A less-experienced...

I discovered the convenience of rapid cycle testing in Clojure with "midje" and liked it.  I then re-created it while learning so...

As one who lived through the final throes " Go To Statement Considered Harmful " debate (I still feel like I need a shower on the ...

Have an extra $2194 and would prefer to give it to greedy liars instead of worthy charities?  Then buy yourself one of these 10-foot Etherne...

I'm still experimenting with TDD , and the   jury   is   still    out .  As with so many religious wars , I suspect the best advice is ...

A woman named Margaret. https://medium.com/@3fingeredfox/margaret-hamilton-lead-software-engineer-project-apollo-158754170da8 More info...

In my previous blog post , I talked about different data representations for recording a game of 10-pin bowling.  I started with an obvious ...

Why Aardvarks?  Because in the 80s I knew somebody who made up the fictitious game show as a quintessentially absurdist entertainment.  He i...