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When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default, it can never be recovered. - Dorothy Thompson.
Category Archives: Other Programming
AI Coding: 2022 Sci-Fi, Versus March 2026 Reality
I was researching some bare-metal assembly code for a 2D shooter RP2350 arcade board I am developing as a personal project, and got to a segue where things were going a bit too well on the coding front; so I … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Other Programming, Philosophy, RP2350, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Holy Shit!
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Don’t look Behind The Curtains!
My recent goals to work with and learn some newer, more popular, micro-controllers, and to try some different programming languages, has made me also take another look at the ways things have progressed since I started my career. My programming … Continue reading
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, ESP32-C3, Other Programming, Pascal Programming, Philosophy, PicoMite, Programming, Retro, RP2040, RP2350, Speculation
Tagged Ramblings of an old man, The Stack
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Small Blinkenlight Update
I loaded the MM Edit program onto my new Linux/Kubuntu desktop and wanted to test it out with a Raspberry Pi Pico development board to ensure everything was working. As my Pico board was all the way over in my … Continue reading
Posted in blinkenlights, Other Programming, PicoMite, Programming, Retro, RP2040
Tagged MMBasic
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Re-Purposing an old Pioneer Amplifier
A mate gave me a broken Pioneer VSX-520 surround sound amplifier to fix about 5 years ago, and despite the extremely good service manual that came with it I could not figure out the problem. I went through all the … Continue reading
Posted in Electronics, Other Programming, Repair, Retro, RP2350
Tagged MMBasic, MP3 Jukebox, PCM5102, pico2, PicoMite, pioneer stereo, PT2259, SC16315, VFD, VSX-520K, vsx520, XMAS Fun!
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Do 8051/8031 assembly like its 1984!
After my recent trip to the UK, my friend Tony, who I worked with as a electronics technician in Q4 division at GCHQ from 1984 to 1989, sent me an email. Apparently in the late nineties, a few years after … Continue reading
Posted in boz, Other Programming, Pascal Programming, Programming, Retro, Uncategorized
Tagged 8031, 8051, assembler, GCHQ, nostalgia, Turbo Pascal 3
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At what point do you stop learning new programming languages?
Like everyone in the 70’s I started with BASIC and I guess Machine Code (not really assembler as you had to hand-write the 6502/Z80 op-codes and POKE them into lines in the code) BASIC did its job perfectly for me … Continue reading
Posted in AI, C Programming, Electronics, Funny, MRP, MySQL, Other Programming, Pascal Programming, Programming, Speculation, SQL, The Future
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Technology for Everyone.. Are You Sure?
Seriously! Does everyone at your company really need a computer or a mobile phone? Giving a computer or phone to any member of staff should always be thought through very carefully and is not the cut-and-dried decision you think it … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Management, Efficiency, Funny, IT Failures, Management, MRP, Office Politics, Other Programming, Politics, Project Management, Speculation, Uncategorized
Tagged cell-phones, Factory MRP, mobile platforms, Touchscreens, we-enabled
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On-Time and Under-Budget. Where some IT projects are Probably Going Wrong.
This will be a short post, and not technical like my usual ones, it is about many of the seemingly hundreds of failed IT projects out there, where companies have been let down by the big IT companies and consultants. … Continue reading
Posted in boz, Boz NZ, C Programming, Electronics, ESP32-C3, IT Failures, LoRa, Motor Controllers, MySQL, New Zealand, NZ, Other Programming, Pascal Programming, Project Management
Tagged boz, boz nz, boznz, C Programmer, Delphi Developer NZ, Delphi programmer, Delphi Programmer NZ, Electronics Design, Electronics Design NZ, Pascal Programmer, SQL administrator, SQL Developer NZ
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2025, My Final Vintage and Open For New Business
Fran, Allison and Me by the Wineries Continuous Floatation System March 2025 I developed the original Bulls-i winery management program for Indevin Ltd back in 2008 when they were just a small winery based in a single site in Blenheim, … Continue reading
Posted in Boz NZ, Bulls-i, C Programming, Electronics, Indevin, MRP, MySQL, New Zealand, NZ, Other Programming, Pascal Programming, Programming, Project Management, SQL, Villa Maria
Tagged C Programmer, contract work, Delphi Developer, Delphi programmer, Electronics Design, end of project, full-time, indevin, New Zealand, part-time, SQL administration, SQL Development
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Encryption for very low data rate embedded systems
If your latest IOT project needs to run on batteries for a few years and you need to send some important data over the airwaves or across a serial line then you are in a bit of a poor situation … Continue reading
