corpus.blog
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Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/dtc-700.html", "published_at": "2025-06-20T15:00:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed596b3f44c", "title": "Some thoughts on LoRa-based mesh radio technologies", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/meshtastic.html", "published_at": "2025-06-18T15:56:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed596baa3d9", "title": "Raspberry Pi Pico: loading code into RAM and running it -- part 1", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/pico_run_ram.html", "published_at": "2025-06-13T09:32:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed59737f42e", "title": "They don't make them like that any more: the BMW C1", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/c1.html", "published_at": "2025-05-23T17:42:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed597cd21ad", "title": "Why do we use 'complex impedance' in electrical engineering?", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/complex_impedance.html", "published_at": "2025-05-23T15:04:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed598bc8a3b", "title": "They don't make 'em like that any more: 3D movies", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/3dmovies.html", "published_at": "2025-05-20T14:33:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed598ffbb8e", "title": "They don't make them like that any more: the Raleigh Chopper", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/chopper.html", "published_at": "2025-05-20T13:37:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed5994160aa", "title": "Some thoughts on Pimoroni's \"Pico GFX Pack\" LCD module", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/gfxpack.html", "published_at": "2025-03-04T19:48:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed59a1e9ad1", "title": "Fun with capital letters", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/capital_letters.html", "published_at": "2025-02-24T14:45:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed59a5fdcfb", "title": "Social media: it's not me, it's you", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/its_not_me_its_you.html", "published_at": "2025-02-21T09:09:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed59ab8548b", "title": "No good deed goes unpunished: can we now be sued over software we give away?", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/open_source_liability.html", "published_at": "2025-02-15T12:20:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed59adece69", "title": "ARM assembly-language programming for the Raspberry Pi", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/pi-asm-00_introduction.html", "published_at": "2025-02-09T13:12:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed59bbc6e4e", "title": "Watch out: the Chinese domain registration scam is getting slicker", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/cn_domain_scam.html", "published_at": "2025-01-31T16:55:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed59be611ab", "title": "Technical writing: what do we lose, when we write more readably?", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/style_rules_in_technical_writing.html", "published_at": "2025-01-08T17:36:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed59ce205ae", "title": "A USB power supply with a real on-off switch", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/usb_psu.html", "published_at": "2025-01-01T09:23:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed59d38af0b", "title": "They don't make them like that any more: Sony PRS-500 e-reader", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/prs-500.html", "published_at": "2024-12-09T20:22:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed59d9d2e5b", "title": "They don't make 'em like that any more: things you can switch off", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/switchoff.html", "published_at": "2024-12-08T14:57:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed59e87675d", "title": "They don't make them like that any more: Epson MX-80 dot matrix printer", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/mx80.html", "published_at": "2024-12-04T19:08:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed59f193338", "title": "Using Windows is like smoking (?)", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/windows_smoking.html", "published_at": "2024-12-03T15:09:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed59f4eea8c", "title": "Ten steps to becoming a Linux snob", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/linux_snob.html", "published_at": "2024-12-03T10:50:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed59ffecd3d", "title": "Wayland from the ground up", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/wayland_ground_up.html", "published_at": "2024-12-01T12:07:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed5a08876de", "title": "Why systemd is a problem for embedded Linux", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/systemd_embedded.html", "published_at": "2024-11-05T08:30:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed5a162d31e", "title": "Why are the variable names all wrong in my decompiled Java class?", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/java_dec.html", "published_at": "2024-10-18T08:37:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed5a21b547d", "title": "Log4J -- ask yourself: do I really need that library?", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/log4j.html", "published_at": "2024-10-16T08:17:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08795-143d-7247-8aa8-0ed5a315e94d", "title": "Gentoo vs. MX Linux on old-ish laptops", "url": "https://kevinboone.me/gentoo_mx.html", "published_at": "2024-10-04T08:50:52+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Did you know that recent, de-Googled Android ROMs like Lineage OS have a "desktop" mode?original ↗
23 Sept 2026
VoLTE on de-Googled Samsung devices: perhaps there is light at the end of the tunneloriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
Why are modern televisions so cheap?original ↗
12 Sept 2026
Who needs a dedicated portable music player in 2026?original ↗
16 Aug 2026
Using a Raspberry Pi Pico to control a large-scale model locomotiveoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2026
Command-line hacking: using find, sed, and xargs together for flexible filename transformationoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2026
The crisis in refurbished, top-tier smartphonesoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2026
How to recover when the Android rooted De-Bloater app puts your device into a boot looporiginal ↗
16 Jul 2026
Praying to St Jude: counselling the re-Googlersoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2026
Did aliens really talk to us in "binary code" at Rendlesham Forest?original ↗
29 Jun 2026
Why I don't really care if web content is AI-generatedoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2026
MBook -- a proposal for a new, simple e-book format based on Markdownoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2026
Maps after Googleoriginal ↗
22 May 2026
keplerd: a new Java-based server for the Gemini protocol and othersoriginal ↗
18 May 2026
No more Lineage OS on Samsung cellphonesoriginal ↗
12 May 2026
Running a Java server application in a chroot jailoriginal ↗
11 May 2026
In praise of HTTPoriginal ↗
9 May 2026
Announcing md2gem 0.1 -- a cross-platform, best-effort converter for Markdown to Gemini Gemtextoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2026
Self-hosting and steamrollers in the small netoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2026
Is Fahrenheit 451 becoming relevant again?original ↗
20 Apr 2026
Trying to live without a smartphone in 2026original ↗
19 Apr 2026
Age verification and privacy: let's try to be objectiveoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2026
Why I de-Googledoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2026
Announcing Caztor 1.0 -- a browser for small-net protocols like Gemini and Gopheroriginal ↗
19 Apr 2026
Announcing JGemini version 2.0original ↗
30 Mar 2026
JGemini -- a Java-based browser for Project Gemini protocols and contentoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2026
The "small web" is bigger than you might thinkoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2026
A plug for the Spartan protocoloriginal ↗
8 Mar 2026
Hosting a Gemini capsule on a virtual private serveroriginal ↗
3 Mar 2026
Small web, IndieWeb, Gemini... A guide to the retro-weboriginal ↗
2 Mar 2026
Can Project Gemini rewind the Web thirty years?original ↗
1 Mar 2026
The Gemini Protocol in 2026: growing, but still not setting the Internet aflameoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2026
This site is now webmention-awareoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2026
They don't make them like that any more: the Cyclemasteroriginal ↗
1 Mar 2026
Command-line hacking: a really simple console music playeroriginal ↗
20 Feb 2026
Rant: 2026 will not be the 'Year of Linux on the Desktop' -- and I'm gladoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2026
Battle of the privacy-focused search engines: Kagi vs. DuckDuckGooriginal ↗
4 Feb 2026
Digital voice assistants vs. privacy in 2026original ↗
2 Feb 2026
Command-line hacking: Downloading a podcast to create an audiobookoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2026
Using a Garmin fitness watch completely offline -- no accounts, no apporiginal ↗
4 Jan 2026
They don't make 'em like that any more: filament fairy lightsoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2026

2025

They don't make 'em like that any more: the Casio VL-1 pocket synthesizeroriginal ↗
21 Dec 2025
Predicting eclipses with clockworkoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2025
They don't make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboardoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2025
They don't make them like that any more: Denshi block electronics kitsoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2025
Google Pixel and Sony Xperia handsets for budget de-Googlingoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2025
Some thoughts on de-Googling Google Pixel phonesoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2025
'Sideloading' restrictions on Android: how big a deal will they be?original ↗
4 Dec 2025
How to write a technical or scientific reportoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2025
De-bloating and de-Googling an Android device using Cantaoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2025
The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprintingoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2025
Comparing Android alternatives: Lineage OS, ∕e∕OS, and Graphene OSoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2025
Custom ROM versus extensive package removal, for de-Googling a Samsung cellphoneoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2025
Is it worth rooting an Android phone in 2025?original ↗
17 Nov 2025
Running the Google Pixel Camera app on a robustly de-Googled cellphoneoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2025
Two years without Google, et al. -- has it been worth it?original ↗
7 Nov 2025
How to get a dark background on the K-9/Thunderbird e-mail widget for Androidoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2025
The 2nd-generation Nokia 105: a smarter dumb phoneoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2025
Gâteaux differentials and Euler-Lagrange equations using Mapleoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2025
AppImage from scratchoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2025
Lineage OS vs /e/OS in 2025original ↗
18 Oct 2025
USB-C headphone dongles: still sucking after all these yearsoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2025
They don't make 'em like that any more: Playmobil RC model trainsoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2025
They don't make 'em like that any more: Honda's ATC110 all-terrain cycleoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2025
They don't make 'em like that any more: Dyson Pure Cool-Me personal air purifieroriginal ↗
26 Sept 2025
They don't make 'em like that any more: tone controlsoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2025
Creating an "animated score" for demonstrating musical compositions on YouTube, etcoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2025
A failed experiment in laptop coolingoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2025
Using thinkfan for fan control on Lenovo (Linux) laptopsoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2025
Using the Pi Pico with an L298N module to control a 12V motororiginal ↗
28 Jul 2025
FastMail -- still good value in 2025?original ↗
24 Jul 2025
No, eBay: it isn't "free to sell"original ↗
20 Jul 2025
antiX vs. MX Linux on old-ish laptopsoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2025
Why using crude PWM for sampled audio output on the Raspberry Pi Pico doesn't sound that greatoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2025
Law and small woodlandsoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2025
They don't make 'em like that any more: Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorderoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2025
Some thoughts on LoRa-based mesh radio technologiesoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2025
Raspberry Pi Pico: loading code into RAM and running it -- part 1original ↗
13 Jun 2025
They don't make them like that any more: the BMW C1original ↗
23 May 2025
Why do we use 'complex impedance' in electrical engineering?original ↗
23 May 2025
They don't make 'em like that any more: 3D moviesoriginal ↗
20 May 2025
They don't make them like that any more: the Raleigh Chopperoriginal ↗
20 May 2025
Some thoughts on Pimoroni's "Pico GFX Pack" LCD moduleoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2025
Fun with capital lettersoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2025
Social media: it's not me, it's youoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2025
No good deed goes unpunished: can we now be sued over software we give away?original ↗
15 Feb 2025
ARM assembly-language programming for the Raspberry Pioriginal ↗
9 Feb 2025
Watch out: the Chinese domain registration scam is getting slickeroriginal ↗
31 Jan 2025
Technical writing: what do we lose, when we write more readably?original ↗
8 Jan 2025
A USB power supply with a real on-off switchoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2025

2024

They don't make them like that any more: Sony PRS-500 e-readeroriginal ↗
9 Dec 2024
They don't make 'em like that any more: things you can switch offoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2024
They don't make them like that any more: Epson MX-80 dot matrix printeroriginal ↗
4 Dec 2024
Using Windows is like smoking (?)original ↗
3 Dec 2024
Ten steps to becoming a Linux snoboriginal ↗
3 Dec 2024
Wayland from the ground uporiginal ↗
1 Dec 2024
Why systemd is a problem for embedded Linuxoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2024
Why are the variable names all wrong in my decompiled Java class?original ↗
18 Oct 2024
Log4J -- ask yourself: do I really need that library?original ↗
16 Oct 2024
Gentoo vs. MX Linux on old-ish laptopsoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2024
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