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70 from 1 Jan 2018 to 19 Feb 2026
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now and then (1 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog

2026 1

  1. back issues

2022 1

  1. Why I Decided to Start a Blog

2021 5

  1. On USB v. Bench Scopes
  2. On N-Version Programming
  3. Fun With Transmission Lines
  4. Review of SUNBURST and LUMINARY: An Apollo Memoir
  5. My Toothbrush has Modes

2020 15

  1. On Evil
  2. Thoughts on Firmware Seminars
  3. Low Power Mischief
  4. What I Learned About Successful Consulting
  5. A Review of The Overstory
  6. A Review of First Man, the Movie
  7. The Cost of Firmware - A Scary Story!
  8. NASA's Lost Software Engineering Lessons
  9. Voice of the Crystal
  10. A New, Low-Tech, Use for Computers
  11. Engineer or Scientist?
  12. R vs D
  13. Remembering Circuit Theory
  14. A Retrospective on 2018
  15. Medical Device Lawsuits

2019 26

  1. 50 Years of Ham Radio
  2. On Software Process Improvement
  3. Why Did You Become an Engineer?
  4. LIDAR in Cars - Really?
  5. GPS Will Fail
  6. Goto Considered Necessary
  7. Apollo 11, The Movie
  8. Will We Ever Get Quantum Computers?
  9. Married to the Team
  10. On Expert Witness Work
  11. We Shoot For The Moon
  12. Learn to Code in 3 Weeks!
  13. Customer non-Support
  14. Can AI Replace Firmware?
  15. On Cataracts
  16. Tech and Us
  17. Crappy Tech Journalism
  18. Millennials and Tools
  19. On Meta-Politics
  20. Definitions
  21. Definitions Part 2
  22. Apollo 11 and Navigation
  23. Data Seems to Have No Value
  24. On Discipline
  25. On Retiring
  26. How Projects Get Out of Control

2018 22

  1. Life in the Time of Coronavirus
  2. Lessons From a Failure
  3. Problems in Ramping Up Ventilator Production
  4. Will Coronavirus Spell the End of Open Offices?
  5. Is the Future All Linux and Raspberry Pi?
  6. Why Does Software Cost So Much?
  7. On Checklists
  8. Humility
  9. The GP-8E
  10. In-Circuit Emulators
  11. Networking Did Not Start With The IoT!
  12. Is a Heart Rate of 72123 Beats Per Minute Possible?
  13. A Canticle for Leibowitz
  14. Spies in Our Email
  15. Over-Reliance on GPS
  16. Marvelous Magnetic Machines
  17. The WIRECARE AC Circuit Tester
  18. A Solution to the Automotive Chip Shortage
  19. Non Compos Mentis
  20. 2019's Most Important Lesson
  21. A Lack of Forethought
  22. Superintelligence