Alex White's Blog
Alex White's Blog
Alex White
I'm a tech guy located in Central Ohio in the United States. I've worked in IT, software engineering, product design and currently work as a engineering manager.
Latest Posts
On Palm OS, the interface for picking the start and end time of an event is represented as two columns, hour and minutes. The hours list either sta...
2026-05-11 22:00 There’s a shopping center I sometimes walk to for lunch. It’s been there long enough that it doesn’t have a sidewalk (before city ordinances required sidewalks I imagine). A few years ago, a mixed-use complex was built...
2026-05-11 21:52 Screenshot of JPilot This post is a quick tip for anyone else running into issues installing the Palm Pilot desktop software, JPilot on Arch Linux. If you just try installing via yay -S jpilot, the build will fail as the...
2026-05-11 13:09 David writes about the importance of reaching out to the author of blog posts and starting a conversation, I 100% agree! I love when something I write resonates with somebody, and more often than not it turns into a...
This post is a quick tip for anyone else running into issues installing the Palm Pilot desktop software,JPiloton Arch Linux. If you just try instal...
David writesabout the importance of reaching out to the author of blog posts and starting a conversation, I 100% agree! I love when something I wri...
There’s a shopping center I sometimes walk to for lunch. It’s been there long enough that it doesn’t have a sidewalk (before city ordinances required sidewalks I imagine). A few years ago, a mixed-use complex was built next to it,...
Screenshot of JPilot This post is a quick tip for anyone else running into issues installing the Palm Pilot desktop software, JPilot on Arch Linux. If you just try installing via yay -S jpilot, the build will fail as the dependency...
There’s a shopping center I sometimes walk to for lunch. It’s been there long enough that it doesn’t have a sidewalk (before city ordinances requir...
David writes about the importance of reaching out to the author of blog posts and starting a conversation, I 100% agree! I love when something I write resonates with somebody, and more often than not it turns into a continuing...
2026-05-10 18:58 Today I returned to the park from day 4 armed with a macro lens I remembered I have. It’s for a Nikon camera, and it’s all manual (aperture ring and focus ring), but with an adapter it worked just fine with my Sony. I...
Today I returned to the park from day 4 armed with a macro lens I remembered I have. It’s for a Nikon camera, and it’s all manual (aperture ring and focus ring), but with an adapter it worked just fine with my Sony. I had some trouble...
Today I returned to the park fromday 4armed with a macro lens I remembered I have. It’s for a Nikon camera, and it’s all manual (aperture ring and ...
2026-05-08 17:00 An Analogue Pocket with a Gameboy Camera cartridge next to a ThinkPad Thought I would try something different for this entry! Each of these photos were taken with my Gameboy Camera attached to an Analogue Pocket (since...
2026-05-08 14:47 I created a tiny script for counting per-page visitors on your site. It’s as simple as uploading the PHP file to your server and pointing a <img /> tag to it. Leveraging the script as an image is an attempt to seed out...