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some scribbles about things and stuff

ElectronicsEmbedded / microcontrollersSoftware / engineering practice

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113 from 1 Jan 2001 to 16 May 2026
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2026 2

  1. The Joy of Being a Novice Again
  2. Amateurs discuss Prototypes. Professionals talk Process.

2024 1

  1. Figure Out Firmware Updates First

2023 1

  1. The ease of picking up web development is greatly exaggerated

2022 4

  1. Things I Wish I'd Done Differently Building a Niche Job Board
  2. Ten Lessons from a Decade in Engineering
  3. More notes on writing web scrapers
  4. I Think I Know Why You Can't Hire Engineers Right Now

2021 14

  1. Growing Your Mailing List By Being Helpful
  2. Some guidelines for writing web scrapers
  3. Creating dynamic mailto: links in Flask
  4. Improving SFDR in a Python Direct Digital Synthesis Model
  5. Simulating a Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer in Python
  6. Fixing Power Supply Noise in Guitar Pedals
  7. How to Drive LTSpice Simulations with Wav Files
  8. Why there probably won't be a bFunc Version 2
  9. How I Run User Interviews for Report Card Writer
  10. Report Card Writer: What I've Learned from One Year of User Interviews and Customer Feedback
  11. Portfolio Project Ideas for the Embedded Developer
  12. Are you making placement diagrams?
  13. PCB Verification Trick: Print Your Footprints!
  14. Keep Your Friends Closer

2020 55

  1. Dave Chappelle's SNL Monologue is Awesome
  2. Simulating the MXR Dyna Comp Compressor in LTSpice
  3. Alexa Seems to Be Getting Worse With Time
  4. What to Say When They Ask For Your Salary History
  5. Simulating the Boss GE-7 Graphic Equalizer in LTSpice
  6. How to do a Prototype Build for a Hardware Product
  7. Simulating the Schaller Tremolo Pedal in LTSpice
  8. Software = Agile! Hardware = Waterfall!
  9. Books I've Learned a Ton From
  10. Getting git describe into a PyInstaller program
  11. Simulating the Dunlop Crybaby Wah Pedal in LTSpice
  12. Simulating the ProCo RAT Distortion Pedal in LTSpice
  13. Writing Simple Python GUIs for your Command-Line-Phobe Coworkers
  14. bFunc - Project Journal - May 22 2020
  15. bFunc - Project Journal - May 9 2020
  16. GDB + OpenOCD Setup - Notes for Later
  17. bFunc - Project Journal - May 3 2020
  18. Sometimes You Just Need a New Linux Box
  19. I Designed and Built My Own Function Generator
  20. Why Should You Choose Writing Over Meeting?
  21. bFunc - Project Journal - Week Eleven
  22. Grist - Week of 4/17/2020
  23. Grist - Week of 4/10/2020
  24. Why Do People Choose Meetings Over Email?
  25. bFunc - Project Journal - Week Ten
  26. Grist - Week of 4/05/2020
  27. bFunc - Project Journal - Week Nine
  28. Write More, Dammit
  29. bFunc - Quickstart Guide
  30. Grist - Week of 3/29/2020
  31. bFunc - Project Journal - Week Eight
  32. How Do You Deal With Professional Fear?
  33. Grist - Week of 3/22/2020
  34. bFunc - Project Journal - Week Seven
  35. bFunc - Call for Users
  36. Helping, Power, and Product Management
  37. bFunc - Project Journal - Week Six
  38. Grist - Week of 3/15/2020
  39. Grist - Week of 3/08/2020
  40. bFunc - Project Journal - Week Five
  41. bFunc - Project Journal - Week Four
  42. Grist - Week of 2/29/2020
  43. bFunc - Project Journal - Week Three
  44. Coronavirus, Explained, For Folks Who Don't Have Chinese Colleagues
  45. bFunc - Project Journal - Week Two
  46. Start Sooner
  47. bFunc - Project Journal - Week One (and a Half)
  48. Introducing bFunc - a Design Document for an Open Source Function Generator
  49. Insane OSHWA Goals
  50. Haters, and Identity
  51. Keep an Engineering Case File
  52. I'm on The Amp Hour!
  53. Email, and RSS
  54. Circuit Notes: A Budget Function Generator
  55. On Learning a Second Instrument

2019 11

  1. Life Lesson: Call Your Heroes
  2. Reviewing Bad Schematics as Interview Tactic
  3. How To Draw Pictures for the Internet
  4. The One Page Guide to Digital Signal Integrity
  5. Wanna Impress an Engineer at a Career Fair?
  6. Reflections on Pre-Tirement
  7. Who on Earth is hiring these pushy recruiters?!
  8. Lock-In Amplifiers: Fun With Scientific Instrument Modeling
  9. Quick Design Guidelines for Emissions Compliance
  10. A One-Page Guide to Fixing Radiated Emissions
  11. Back In The Saddle

2016 1

  1. Generating Demo Databases Quickly With Faker and Dataset

2015 18

  1. Dissecting A Budget Tube Screamer Clone
  2. Why I Bought Starbucks
  3. Simulating the TS808 Tube Screamer in LTSpice
  4. Why You Should Complete Your Engineering Degree In Five Years
  5. What Incoming ECE Students Need To Know
  6. Flashing Freescale MCUs Without Kinetis Design Suite
  7. Circuit Notes: A Simple Pulse Generator
  8. Inconvenient Truths of NAND Flash
  9. Easily Add LaTeX Support To Jekyll
  10. NAND Flash: Dealing With a Flawed Medium
  11. Another Writing Gig
  12. Quite Possibly The Biggest NAND Flash Experiment Ever
  13. NAND Flash: How It Breaks
  14. A Genius Passes: RIP Buddy Emmons
  15. NAND Flash: Device Architecture, Pt. 2
  16. NAND Flash: Device Architecture, Pt. 1
  17. NAND Flash: Floating Gates
  18. NAND Flash: An Introduction

2014 5

  1. Scraping Pedal Steel tablature in Python
  2. Boston Python Meetup - RPi Talk
  3. Getting Things Done + Evernote
  4. A Teaching Moment
  5. Grabbing Agilent Scope Screenshots in 10 Lines of Python

2001 1

  1. Thanks