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.
Latest Posts
There are good reasons why these handsets are so popular with de-Googlers, even if we have to grit our teeth and try to ignore the vendor.
Is this a minor irritation, or the end of Android as we know it?
Some guidance, mostly for science and engineering students, on how to write a scientific paper or technical report. I've updated this article slightly since I wrote it thirty years ago, to deal with the rise in web-based publication....
If you can't run an alternative, privacy-sparing firmware on your Android device, you can still assert a measure of control by disabling certain packages. You don't need to root the device to do this, and Canta is an app that sets out to...
If you were worried about tracking cookies, you really don't want to know about browser fingerprinting.
How are these alternative smartphone firmwares similar and different?
Which is the easier way to get to a phone you can feel safe using, without your personal data being sent to goodness-knows-where?
The costs and benefits of this somewhat controversial procedure.
Is it possible? Would you want to do it?
What's changed in the last two years? Would I do it again, knowing what I know now? TL;DR - yes.
Getting a proper dark theme for the e-mail home screen widget is worth spending hours building the app from source. No, really it is.
The terminal stage of de-Googling is to go back to using a 90s-style dumb phone. Devices like the Nokia 105 aren't as old-fashioned as you might think, but can they substitute for a smartphone in day-to-day use?
It looks like the end for Lineage OS on Samsung handsets, at least in the UK. Here's why.
My article on calculus of variations assumed without explanation the basic form of the Euler-Lagrange equation. This article attempts to demonstrate how an Euler-Lagrange equation arises, by solving a variational problem algebraically...
This article describes how AppImage packaging works on Linux. It's based on a simple demonstration that uses nothing but commonplace command-line tools, to create a self-contained, distributable application (albeit a trivial one).