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
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?
About RSS support on this website
How to use Bash shell arithmetic, along with the 'date' utilty, to calculate the phase of the Moon on a particlar day.
The Bold 9700 was a premium cellphone from a company at the top of its game. Does it merit the fawning reviews it collected in 2009?
This article describes what I think is the simplest possible Kafka Connect on Strimzi -- the Kubernetes implementation of Kafka. If follows from an earlier article about using Kafka Connect on bare metal.
This article describes what I think is the simplest possible Kafka Connect set-up, using a single-node Kafka installation. To ensure that the principles are clear, I use only a text editor and command-line tools to run the Connect...
Attaching high-capacity hard disks has always been a bit of a problem for the Raspberry Pi. In this article I describe a simple modification to a Waveshare USB HAT, that allows it to power both the attached drives and also the Pi itself.