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2024

Figure Out Firmware Updates First original ↗

21 Jun 2024

2023

The ease of picking up web development is greatly exaggerated original ↗

19 Jun 2023

2022

Things I Wish I'd Done Differently Building a Niche Job Board original ↗

25 May 2022

Ten Lessons from a Decade in Engineering original ↗

9 May 2022

More notes on writing web scrapers original ↗

25 Feb 2022

I Think I Know Why You Can't Hire Engineers Right Now original ↗

12 Jan 2022

2021

Growing Your Mailing List By Being Helpful original ↗

9 Dec 2021

Some guidelines for writing web scrapers original ↗

2 Dec 2021

Creating dynamic mailto: links in Flask original ↗

30 Nov 2021

Improving SFDR in a Python Direct Digital Synthesis Model original ↗

20 Sept 2021

Simulating a Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer in Python original ↗

26 Aug 2021

Fixing Power Supply Noise in Guitar Pedals original ↗

22 Aug 2021

How to Drive LTSpice Simulations with Wav Files original ↗

18 Aug 2021

Why there probably won't be a bFunc Version 2 original ↗

11 Aug 2021

How I Run User Interviews for Report Card Writer original ↗

5 Aug 2021

Report Card Writer: What I've Learned from One Year of User Interviews and Customer Feedback original ↗

27 Jul 2021

Portfolio Project Ideas for the Embedded Developer original ↗

26 Jul 2021

Are you making placement diagrams?original ↗

10 Mar 2021

PCB Verification Trick: Print Your Footprints!original ↗

27 Feb 2021

Keep Your Friends Closer original ↗

21 Jan 2021

2020

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14 Nov 2020

Simulating the MXR Dyna Comp Compressor in LTSpice original ↗

2 Nov 2020

Alexa Seems to Be Getting Worse With Time original ↗

27 Oct 2020

What to Say When They Ask For Your Salary History original ↗

26 Oct 2020

Simulating the Boss GE-7 Graphic Equalizer in LTSpice original ↗

20 Oct 2020

How to do a Prototype Build for a Hardware Product original ↗

16 Oct 2020

Simulating the Schaller Tremolo Pedal in LTSpice original ↗

13 Oct 2020

Software = Agile! Hardware = Waterfall!original ↗

9 Oct 2020

Books I've Learned a Ton From original ↗

7 Oct 2020

Getting git describe into a PyInstaller program original ↗

1 Oct 2020

Simulating the Dunlop Crybaby Wah Pedal in LTSpice original ↗

25 Sept 2020

Simulating the ProCo RAT Distortion Pedal in LTSpice original ↗

17 Sept 2020

Writing Simple Python GUIs for your Command-Line-Phobe Coworkers original ↗

30 Jun 2020

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25 May 2020

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9 May 2020

GDB + OpenOCD Setup - Notes for Later original ↗

4 May 2020

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3 May 2020

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30 Apr 2020

I Designed and Built My Own Function Generator original ↗

26 Apr 2020

Why Should You Choose Writing Over Meeting?original ↗

21 Apr 2020

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20 Apr 2020

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19 Apr 2020

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13 Apr 2020

Why Do People Choose Meetings Over Email?original ↗

13 Apr 2020

bFunc - Project Journal - Week Ten original ↗

11 Apr 2020

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5 Apr 2020

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4 Apr 2020

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3 Apr 2020

bFunc - Quickstart Guide original ↗

31 Mar 2020

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29 Mar 2020

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28 Mar 2020

How Do You Deal With Professional Fear?original ↗

23 Mar 2020

Grist - Week of 3/22/2020 original ↗

22 Mar 2020

bFunc - Project Journal - Week Seven original ↗

21 Mar 2020

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17 Mar 2020

Helping, Power, and Product Management original ↗

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15 Mar 2020

Grist - Week of 3/15/2020 original ↗

15 Mar 2020

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29 Feb 2020

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22 Feb 2020

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21 Feb 2020

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19 Feb 2020

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11 Feb 2020

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9 Feb 2020

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1 Feb 2020

Haters, and Identity original ↗

25 Jan 2020

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19 Jan 2020

I'm on The Amp Hour!original ↗

13 Jan 2020

Email, and RSS original ↗

12 Jan 2020

Circuit Notes: A Budget Function Generator original ↗

11 Jan 2020

On Learning a Second Instrument original ↗

11 Jan 2020

2019

Life Lesson: Call Your Heroes original ↗

24 Dec 2019

Reviewing Bad Schematics as Interview Tactic original ↗

19 Dec 2019

How To Draw Pictures for the Internet original ↗

16 Nov 2019

The One Page Guide to Digital Signal Integrity original ↗

2 Nov 2019

Wanna Impress an Engineer at a Career Fair?original ↗

29 Sept 2019

Reflections on Pre-Tirement original ↗

22 Sept 2019

Who on Earth is hiring these pushy recruiters?!original ↗

2 Sept 2019

Lock-In Amplifiers: Fun With Scientific Instrument Modeling original ↗

22 Aug 2019

Quick Design Guidelines for Emissions Compliance original ↗

28 Apr 2019

A One-Page Guide to Fixing Radiated Emissions original ↗

14 Mar 2019

Back In The Saddle original ↗

19 Feb 2019

2016

Generating Demo Databases Quickly With Faker and Dataset original ↗

6 Sept 2016

2015

Dissecting A Budget Tube Screamer Clone original ↗

13 Dec 2015

Why I Bought Starbucks original ↗

9 Dec 2015

Simulating the TS808 Tube Screamer in LTSpice original ↗

18 Nov 2015

Why You Should Complete Your Engineering Degree In Five Years original ↗

8 Nov 2015

What Incoming ECE Students Need To Know original ↗

17 Oct 2015

Flashing Freescale MCUs Without Kinetis Design Suite original ↗

12 Oct 2015

Circuit Notes: A Simple Pulse Generator original ↗

10 Oct 2015

Inconvenient Truths of NAND Flash original ↗

9 Oct 2015

Easily Add LaTeX Support To Jekyll original ↗

13 Sept 2015

NAND Flash: Dealing With a Flawed Medium original ↗

23 Aug 2015

Another Writing Gig original ↗

12 Aug 2015