effluvia of a scattered mind

Saturday, March 19, 2022

Sometimes you just need a quick machine

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 This contraption winds wires.  I just took a scavenged 12v geared motor epoxied to a mounting plate and soldered up 12v barrel jack.  Then ...
Friday, November 19, 2021

ESP32-C3 RISC-V SBCs!

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    I am getting pretty excited about the new ESPC3 processor!   It is an open source module that is built around an open source CPU, the RI...
Thursday, July 9, 2020

On platforms and masks

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Here's a message to my fellow libertarians and other conservatives:  Never let your opposition define your platform or culture.  Instead...
Sunday, March 10, 2019

Resting your Mind in a Problem

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Resting your mind in a problem is a technique I use to enhance my creativity -- to find solutions to problems and to invent new ideas.  The ...
Saturday, August 27, 2016

My take on the Bitcoin Testnet Fork

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Bitcoin Unlimited signals compatibility with BIP109 because it accepts a superset of what BIP109 allows.  It accepts larger blocks and more...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

The Bitcoin On-Chain Scaling Landscape

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This post summarizes the proposed options for scaling Bitcoin on-chain.  While a simple block size increase to 2, 8 or even 20MB has been cl...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

The Open Source Appliance (a 2002 retrospective)

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Today the library of congress adopted exemptions (or here ) that recognize consumer's rights to modify (jailbreak) their owned dev...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

Orange PI Plus Ubuntu 14.04 FAQ

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The OrangePI Plus is a RaspberryPI-like piece of hardware that has awesome features at a great price point .  I bought a few of them to crea...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Network Neutrality and Bitcoin

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Allowing the internet to provide different services for different applications is a more efficient use of existing resources and will res...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Advanced Software Language Design Concepts

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Minimal Specification A minimally specified program is the idea of describing exactly what is needed to accomplish an algorithm and nothi...
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