We knew either birds or technology would cause our demise. It turns out ….
It is a conspiracy!!!! I love the way the parrot responds to Alexa’s response by first making bleepy-bloopy techie noises, then imitating the sound of all the manual light switches being thrown. But...
View ArticleComputer Terms Definitions —“D”
Terms used in the personal computer world that begin with the letter “D” Desktop The screen “real estate” that coveres a monitor on which icons may be placed, and which is generally covered up when an...
View ArticleDo Not Upgrade To The New Chrome! Yet.
The new Chrome browser by Google, Chrome 69, is probably an important improvement in browser functionality, look and feel, and security. But, as you might expect, the first version available for...
View ArticlePractical Binary Analysis: Book Review
A computer program is like a memo. Often, a vague memo. You are the boss. You want a pile of files to be put away. You could do it yourself, but instead you instruct someone else to do it. There are a...
View ArticleImpractical Python Programming For Fun
Project oriented programming books, books that help you develop actual working programs while you learn to program, are the thing, and the new Impractical Python Projects: Playful Programming...
View ArticleHow to do science with a computer: workflow tools and OpenSource philosophy
I have two excellent things on my desk, a Linux Journal article by Andy Wills, and a newly published book by Stefano Allesina and Madlen Wilmes. They are: Computing Skills for Biologists: A Toolbox by...
View ArticleUpdate on Mechanical Keyboards
All keyboards are “mechanical” in some sense, or at least most of them, in that something moves. But what we call a “mechanical keyboard” is one that has individual switches under each key cap, instead...
View ArticleMake Your Own Pixel Art
First, what is “pixel art?” Is that just art that is rendered in raster? Not exactly. Pixel art is the sort of art you draw for digital cartoons or similar things. The skills and tools of making pixel...
View ArticleALERT!! cPanel is ruining the Internet!
cPanel is a widely used front end used on servers for people to operate things like their blog, email system, other web related functions, etc. It is a way to avoid using the command line. So, for...
View ArticleGrant Imahara’s Engineering Big Ideas…
… is very worth a look. It is here. The first episode looks at Nicola (not Tesla, the other one) which makes electronic/hydrogen vehicles that we will need in the future, the future being absolutely...
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