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In a previous blog entry I had talked about an instance where I failed an interview for the first time, in the very first round, no less.

Jay Carlson blogged about the 3 cent microcontroller all the way back in 2019.

Matt Godbolt's recent blog entry about using the population count instruction to count bits made the rounds on HN recently and I was reminded of an interview where I was asked to write the code to count bits and I didn't quite flunk it but failed anyway.

romforth is a dialect of Forth which is meant to be easily portable.

TLDR{ Add the ubuntu user to the dialout group when connecting to an Arduino }TLDR My kid was learning to blink leds using an Arduino at a summer camp that he attended recently.

The romforth project leverages binutils to assemble/link/disassemble code for various architectures.

I stay in an old home built in the 40's (probably remodeled in the 00's) and some of the electrical outlets don't work and so I thought I'd document the layout of the house and the locations of the outlets prior to calling in the electricians.

For the Indian "e-visa" application, the consulate wanted photos to be: uploaded as a pdf the pdf needed to be smaller than 300KB in size More recently, they have started accepting jpg/png as well but since I had to do all this research to figure this stu…

The steps required are roughly these: Connect your Android phone to your laptop using a USB cable.

I've been using ChatGPT (and some of the other instantiations of the current crop of AI that are available for free, without a login) more and more recently, and one of the problems that I run into, with all of them, is what I'd classify as a lack of self…

In the romforth project I've created a "gradually implementable Forth" where you can follow a step wise approach to port Forth to any architecture of your choice.

In a previous blog entry I had gone into gory detail about selecting a distro to run on my ancient Toshiba laptop (which has just 256MB of memory).

In a previous blog entry I had discussed building a tiny linux distro and ended up with ~1 MB kernel + ~1.5 MB busybox initrd which worked fine for my purposes.

In a previous blog entry, I talked about booting the Gentoo ISO image directly from the disk, without using a CD/DVD or even copying the image to a USB stick.

To boot an ISO image, in many cases you don't really need a CD/DVD or even a USB stick.

TLDR{ A USB stick that I used for backup suddenly turned readonly and failed to mount If it is still readable, make a backup first If it is an ext[2,3,4] fs, use the ro,noload options to mount it }TLDR I've been using a SanDisk 128GB USB stick as a backup…

I wanted to run a bunch of VM's over the terminal (serial console) with minimal resource usage and decided to build a version of linux from scratch along with a build of busybox for the userland shell.

DAT prep notes Links to official / info sites: https://www.ada.org/education/testing/exams/dental-admission-test-dat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_Admission_Test Wikipedia entry https://www.prometric.com/sites/default/files/ada/DAT/ Sample test htt…

Vavanty1 did a huge amount of research to collect a vast amount of data about our family tree (starting from ~200 families to ~double that now).

This is just a test of the markdown support on this website test automatic links <mataroa.blog> : doesn't seem to work test lists : works test italics : works test bold : doesn't seem to work - same as italics test bold italics : doesn't seem to work - it…

All of my laptops are probably vintage items now.

Pretty much everyone has drawn family trees - most children do it, probably as early as their kindergarten years and in most cases, for most people, it never progresses beyond that kindergarten level - usually, with just 3 layers in the tree : grandparent…