Kevin Boone
Kevin Boone
Kevin Boone
Musing on computing, math, electronics, de-Googling and the small web, from an old warhorse of the IT industry.
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The Gemini protocol has been around for over five years, but the world-wide web remains broken. This articles reviews what's changed for the better over the last five years -- and what hasn't.
This site now supports webmention, so you can notify me easily if you respond to one of my posts on your own site or blog.
A mostly-forgetten icon of the motor industry.
Select a directory from a list, and play all the music files in that directory. How difficult can that be?
Why are we complaining about the smallness of the proportion of desktop computers that run Linux -- perhaps we should be celebrating instead?
Kagi and DuckDuckGo both provide reasonable alternatives to Google's and Microsoft's search services, without compromising your privacy. How different are they?
What's going on with digital voice assistants? Are they really snooping on us all the time?
If a podcast has an RSS feed, we can download it, parse it, and then download all the content into a single folder, which can then be played by any audio player.
Using a Garmin fitness watch without a smartphone or Garmin's services: how practical is it, and would you want to?
Decorative Christmas lights were better in the past. No, really, they were.
This mostly-forgotten device was the very first commercially-available all-digital music synthesizer. It was also a lot of fun.
We're used to computing devices being electronic. But what can we do with a purely mechanical approach? This article looks at how eclipse prediction might have worked in the Antikythera Mechanism, c.2300 years ago.
Nothing says '80s pop' like a DX7.
Denshi block kits were a unique way to learn about electronics back in the 70s.
These days, there are comparatively few up-to-date smartphones that can run a well-supported, non-vendor firmware. Sony's Xperia range and Google's Pixels are among the better choices.