So, I’ve done it - I’ve gone and joined the legion of those who are live-streaming. Yes, yes, I know. Everyone is doing it, it’s the hip and cool thing right now, why are you jumping on the bandwagon? You’re not young, conventionally attractive, and playing video …
Tammy’s CircuitPython 2022 Thoughts
Over on the Adafruit Blog, there’s a call for thoughts about the state of CircuitPython, a recap of 2021, and our thoughts about 2022. Although my 2021 got sort of blown out of the water by the pandemic and my Major Health Crisis(tm), I’m renewing my focus …
Yes, Yes, Another Reboot…
Yes, yes, I know…another year, another blog reboot. So, where have I been, and what’s been going on?
Suffice it to say that 2021 was a wiiiiiiild ride for me. Aside from the continuing aftermath of the pandemic (which included a layoff from my employer of nearly seven …
On New Years and New Beginnings
As you might have noticed, this blog has been quiet for a while. I had lots of good stuff happening last year, and lots of ideas planned. But then…well, life happened. The COVID-19 pandemic hit, I was laid of from my job (after nearly seven years), I started …
Why Clojure?
This is going to be the first post in a series about Clojure and how to get started with it. In this post, I’ll talk about what Clojure is, why it’s interesting to learn, and how to get a Clojure environment set up on your system. In subsequent …
The Fibonacci Sequence in Clojure
I was playing around this morning, and I decided to see what I could find about implementing the Fibonacci sequence in Clojure. For those unfamiliar with the Fibonacci sequence, which is named for a 13th-century Italian mathematician, it is a deceptively simple mathematical sequence where each term is constructed by …
A Simple Portable Prototyping Station
On twitter recently, I posted some photos of a little portable prototyping station I threw together.
Henry Moore asked for some details and a parts list, so I thought I’d throw together a quick blog post about it.
Design Goals
My goals for designing this little prototyping station were …
Literate Emacs Configuration in org-mode
If you use emacs at all, you’ll quickly discover that it’s much more than just a text editor. Emacs is a software development platform, too, and as such it’s nearly endlessly customizable. One result of this extensibility is that, if you use emacs very much, your customization …
Everything Old Is New Again
Of Emacs and Tools
For those who aren’t familiar, Emacs is a text eeditor - and much more. First created in 1976, Emacs is built - and extensible - in the Lisp programming language. And this gives it an enormous amount of power. People have extended Emacs to include e-mail and newsgroup functionality, full-featured IDEs for …