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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

I’ve been doing some retooling of my blog (while I’ve been on furlough from my day job because of COVID-19). I’m now using cryogen, a Clojure-based static site generator, rather than the Python-based Pelican site generator that previously powered it.

I’ll be honest …

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 …

Welcome, and pardon the dust. More to come as soon as I finish migrating from WordPress.

Over on the Adafruit blog, they asked “what do you want from CircuitPython in 2020. For those that aren’t familiar with it, CircuitPython is a project to allow programming of embedded microcontrollers in Python. It’s pretty much wonderful, and I’ve been using it for almost all of …

My newest project is fw_neopxiel_pride, and it’s a simple piece of wearable jewelry for LGBTQ Pride month, built with a microcontroller and CircuitPython. The project guide is being migrated soon, but you can find the code on GitHub. Check it out, and Happy Pride!