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Rick Carlino | Software Systems, Computing History, and Practical Engineering

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65 from 18 May 1993 to 1 Jan 2026
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2026 1

  1. 2025 Year in Review

2025 1

  1. 2024 Year in Review

2024 3

  1. Exploring Simplex.Chat, A Scriptable, Decentralized Messaging App
  2. Typescript Implementation of FSRS (Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler)
  3. A Distillation of Productivity Tools, Frameworks, and Methodologies

2023 4

  1. 2023 Year in Review
  2. 50-Mile Ultramarathon Packing List
  3. GPT Functions API Quickstart
  4. Creating Paper Templates and Stencils in OpenSCAD

2022 1

  1. 2022 Year in Review

2021 11

  1. 2021 Year in Review
  2. Cura Settings for XYZ DaVinci 1.0
  3. A Script to Convert Gemini Sites to Audio
  4. Resurrecting a 40 Year Old Forth Strategy Game
  5. 'ReactJS Foundations' Book Releases in March 2022
  6. Building Tiny Raspberry Pi Linux Images With Buildroot
  7. Improving RetroForth Comprehensibility with `retro-document`
  8. A Linked List Implementation for RetroForth
  9. An Interactive Memory Dump Utility for RetroForth
  10. TIL How RetroForth Implements Deferred Behavior
  11. 2020 Year in Review

2020 1

  1. 2019 Year in Review

2017 1

  1. A Year of Developer Journals with jrnl.sh

1993 1

  1. What Were Server-Side Image Maps? History 2021

Undated 41

  1. Practices that Make Raspberry Pi Work Easier Hardware 2021
  2. What were CGI scripts? History 2019
  3. Build a Raspberry Pi Linux System the Hard Way Hardware 2021
  4. Keeping an Offline Copy of StackOverflow with Kiwix Productivity 2020
  5. Common Forth Symbols and Idioms Software 2017
  6. Fabulous Text Only Websites, 2018 Edition Software 2018
  7. Writing Ruby Square Bracket Methods Software 2015
  8. The Secret Lives of HTTP Requests Software 2014
  9. Forth Programming as a Learning Experience Software 2017
  10. Problems and Solutions for Spaced Repetition Software Productivity 2019
  11. Tools and Practices I Use In Every Real-World Software Project
  12. Journal Apps with Reminders Help Make and Break Habits
  13. Video Resources for Embedded Linux Learners
  14. RetroTS- Porting the RetroForth VM to Typescript
  15. The Makerspace Journey (Pecha Kucha Talk)
  16. Software Tools for Hobby-Scale Projects
  17. Raspberry Pi Weather Station with Secure Scuttlebutt
  18. Vintage Computer Restoration, Part II
  19. Vintage Computer Restoration, Part I
  20. Midwest Vintage Computing Festival
  21. Really Simple Typescript Builds with Parcel
  22. Browser-Speech: Simplified HTML5 Speech Synthesis
  23. Porting Naivechain to Typescript
  24. Listening to Developer News While Driving
  25. Interesting Finds: io-ts Runtime Type Checker
  26. FlashForth Installation: Arduino UNO on Linux and Mac
  27. Real World Use Case For Typescript Record Types
  28. Authorization with JSON Web Tokens
  29. Volt Framework Lightning Talk at RubyConf
  30. Persistent Key/Value Storage via Ruby Standard Lib
  31. Ruby Websocket Services with Websocketd
  32. OpenFarm: 323% beyond funding goal in one month.
  33. Dokku and Docker for Impatient Rubyists
  34. OpenFarm Kickstarter is Live!
  35. What Are Cookies, Anyway?
  36. Tools for Writing Better Ruby
  37. FarmBot Featured in WIRED Magazine
  38. Bravery: My Micro State Machine Library for Ruby.
  39. Look Ma! No Flash! HTML5 audio recorder with WebRTC
  40. $15.05 of appetizers, please.
  41. So you want to make an observer in Mongoid...