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
Camel's IRC support makes it relatively easy to implement an IRC conversation agent, that can process IRC messages and produce responses.
Artix is a low-resource Linux that can be configured to run well on old, low-powered computer hardware. In this article, I describe my first attempts at setting it up.
There are relatively few good reasons for writing C code without using a standard C library. However, doing so provides valuable insights into how compilers and operating systems work, and is worth doing if only for its educational value.
Many of the standard Java APIs make extensive use of anonymous inner classes, to provide features that in other language would be provided using lambda functions or closures. However, anonymous inner classes have limitations that many...
Using Linux date calculations to displaying a running countdown time in the terminal.
Encryption of home directories is out of favour in modern Linux distributions, but it offers some compelling advantages over the alternatives, if used with care.
The first part in a series on concurrency management in multi-threaded Java programs. This article deals with monitor objects and their use for demarcation of non-concurrent sections.
Why half a million people learned to program in Pascal, when you'd think they had no earthly reason to.
Modern portable media players are generally smartphones without an antenna. So why not repurpose a real smartphone as a media player?
Using a Raspberry Pi as a media player is by no means a new idea. However, using one as a self-contained hifi component is not common, and requires a bit of work.
Some thoughts on my first experiments with the design of electronics enclosures for laser cutting.
Following on from my article on the rudiments of the Kafka Streams API, this one introduces stateful operations like counting and aggregation.
Kafka Streams is a Java library and framework for creating applications that consume, process, and return Apache Kafka messages. This article provides a tutorial about implementing a very basic Streams application.
One of the earliest mass-market car satnav units, the Garmin Nuvi 300 still has features that modern devices lack. Why is that?
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