So many times since learning the handful of technical skills I have, I’ve wished that I had been a little more double-plus-extra in my skills, capabilities, knowledge, and focus, so that I could’ve crafted some of the great creativity software that people rely on. I see these packages that people have put together and I’m […]
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No Constrictor
Guys, I hate to say this, but I have a confession. After decades of being a staunch Perl and Ruby zealot, I confess that I… I… I love Python. A year ago, I started my current job at a research lab where Python is the lingua franca next to C. It’s just what the actual […]
Smart Monkey
Second day of my return to work. Back at my old company as a contractor. Once again, I’m a smart monkey. It’s not super-exciting-omg-yes, but it’s work. New lab, new team, new job functions: somewhere in the company, somebody wants to know how the data buses leaving the CPU behave electrically, and it’s the job […]
C Tape
Currently working up a project that I’ve finally gained some momentum on. A year ago I set out to learn C, and my rationale for doing so was to write a program that could take all these computer tapes I have from the various computers I had in the late 80’s and decode their audio […]
Past TI 99/4A, Present Foray
My current project is one of steep learning curves, long memories, and hours of waiting and iterations. Back in high school, I had a TI 99/4A personal computer. We were too poor for the disk drive modules, so I had to store my programs on cassette tapes. I spent a lot of my time working […]