Category Archives: Programming

AI Coding: 2022 Sci-Fi, Versus March 2026 Reality

Posted on 3 March 2026 by admin

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 →

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Don’t look Behind The Curtains!

Posted on 30 January 2026 by admin

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 →

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My first week with Kubuntu/Linux

Posted on 20 January 2026 by admin

I guess it is early days, but generally I would class the migration as a great success. There are not many caveats in this, I went hard this first week, and it can do all the things I want it … Continue reading →

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Small Blinkenlight Update

Posted on 20 January 2026 by admin

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 →

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Re-Purposing an old Pioneer Amplifier

Posted on 7 January 2026 by admin

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 →

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Do 8051/8031 assembly like its 1984!

Posted on 11 December 2025 by admin

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 →

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At what point do you stop learning new programming languages?

Posted on 1 December 2025 by admin

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 →

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I knew your predecessors before they were murdered.

Posted on 8 May 2025 by admin

Hi, my name is Boz, I run a teeny-tiny technology company in a teeny-tiny country well away from all the excitement of Silicon Valley or Shanghia. We did talk before, well kind-of, as it was actually to the guys who … Continue reading →

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The Utopian and Dystopian Future of Vibe Coding.

Posted on 15 April 2025 by admin

Lets face it, being an expert in a particular programming language is coming to an end. In the past two months I have used my usual languages, C, SQL and Pascal, ones that I guess I am kind of “expert” … Continue reading →

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Continuous Floatation in Wineries

Posted on 10 April 2025 by admin

There are two common methods to clarify juice before it goes into fermentation. Firstly there is cold-settling, where you just leave the juice alone for several days and wait for the clear juice and lees (the juice particulates) to separate. … Continue reading →

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Technology for Everyone.. Are You Sure?

Posted on 8 April 2025 by admin

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 →

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Flip, Flap, Flop! – Solari Fix.

Posted on 1 April 2025 by admin

About 13 years ago, before this web site, and back when I used to be called boznz.com, I put out a simple project to reverse engineer some soft-flap display units (brand-name Solari). My clients CEO had bought 20 of them … Continue reading →

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On-Time and Under-Budget. Where some IT projects are Probably Going Wrong.

Posted on 25 March 2025 by admin

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 →

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