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
How Java's "container awareness" feature works with simple (Docker/Podman) containers, and OpenShift pods.
This article provides a very simple example of setting up the Apache Artemis message broker to authenticate against a Keycloak server.
What happens when we have to make real-world construction match unrealistic mathematical models, that we happen to know how to simulate?
The Vectrex used an entirely novel display technology that was superior to the TV-based displays of the time. Why didnt it catch on?
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.